Why yes, I do make use of Google Alerts 🙂
Fellow Aurealis #44 contributor Adam Ford has posted a blog entry about his long years of subbing to the magazine (he sent in a story to issue #1!) and his long-awaited success in selling them a story. Well done mate, persistence is king.
He’s starting to read the other stories in the issue, and of mine he says:
‘I’ve been loving the stuff I’ve read so far, including Jason Fischer’s batshit insane post-apocalyptic Mad-Max-meets-Gilgamesh “gunning for a tinkerman”.’
BEST QUOTE EVER. This seriously belongs on a t-shirt, made my flipping day that. He’s summed the story up better than I ever could.
http://theotheradamford.wordpress.com/2010/11/17/published-a-billion-tiny-lights/#more-2465
EDIT: It sure does belong on a t-shirt, behold.
Definitely not something you hear everday!
This is true 🙂 that’s why it belongs on a t-shirt.
Is that, like, a real T-shirt for purchasing and stuff?
In the perfect world, yes, with proceeds to go to the Adam Ford Drinking Fund 🙂 in reality, it was something I knocked together on one of those t-shirt creation sites.
does that mean we can vote for it and make it a post-apocalyptic batshit reality?
No vote required, it really exists and can now be bought online:
http://www.zazzle.com.au/mad_max_meets_gilgamesh_tshirt-235569234829500332
bwahahaah!
Scratch that, the t-shirt has been removed from the site due to (get this) infringement of copyright. Warner Bros were apparently unhappy with me putting the words “Mad Max” on a tshirt. They are the ultimate killjoys.