In reverse-chronological order:
- Robert L. McLaughlin: The Review of Contemporary Fiction
- Jonah Vorspan-Stein: NOÖ Journal
- Jess Stoner: Necessary Fiction
- Paul Kincaid: SF Site
- Jeff Bursey: The Quarterly Conversation
- Peter Fontaine: The Collagist
- Matt Dube: H_NGM_N
Special offer reminder: If you buy my novel Giant Slugs before 13 April, I’ll mail a copy of Amazing Adult Fantasy to the North America address of your choice.
I’ll also include a letter and a drawing of your favorite animal.
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Having reviewed _Amazing Adult Fantasy_, and already the happy possessor of _Giant Slugs_, can I still get a drawing?
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Sure thing! Which animal most enjoys your favor?
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The platypus. Oh, there’s a story behind that, if you indeed want it.
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I do!
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One day in grade four we were all asked to name animals. I said “the duck-billed platypus,” and the teacher told me if I couldn’t think of a real animal I shouldn’t make one up. I’d not been called a liar before by someone in authority. At home over lunch I got out the How & Why book with marsupials in it and returned to school. Showed it to the teacher. She apologized to me in front of the class, and handed the book around so all could see it. The impression the animal made got bigger because of that.
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That’s really great, Jeff. (I’m replying here because I can’t reply directly to your comment.) Good on your teacher for admitting her mistake, and good on you for standing up to her.
I had a similar encounter in the 6th grade, when my science teacher started talking about the spotted eagle. She’d misread “spotted eel” in our textbook. No one, including me, dared point out her error, though.
Although I did later write a short novel called “The Spotted Eagle.” (I never really finished it.)
OK, one platypus, coming up!
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Looking forward to it. Signed, please, Adam!
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Nut of course!
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