
I’m excited to receive my copies of A Monster Told Me Bedtime Stories! I wrote about “The Perfect Doll,” my story in this collection, here. I reread it today, and I really like the way it combines humor, horror, and my sense of the magic of ancient Northern European paganism. I look forward to discovering the monsters in the other stories editors Gabriel Grobler and R. C. Bowman have selected, and I encourage you to pick up a copy.
Unfortunately, the monsters of the volume are not the only monsters I am dealing with. I am not a fan of Gutenberg. What this new WordPress editor thinks of as “clutter” and eliminates is what I think of as useful information. It’s like having someone clean up your house, and afterwards you can’t find anything. Or that’s how I imagine it, anyway. I never let anyone clean up my house.
An additional annoyance, though a less monstrous one, emerged from my bootless attempt to purge the Gutenberg. If you have commented and I didn’t get back to you, I am sorry. I only discovered today that I had all kinds of comments awaiting approval about which I had never been informed. I will be checking there more often and also responding to the comments belatedly.
This post has already cost me much more time than it should have, thanks to the uninvited Gutenberg, so I will take my leave because I have a lot of reading to catch up on in the various publications that have been kind enough to accept my writing. As we continue our lab experiment of sending children to school here in the USA, I hope all of you are healthy, careful, and busy reading. If you read my story, please leave a comment and tell me how you liked it. I promise to look for it, no matter what obstacles WordPress and Gutenberg put in my way.