snailmail submissions and n'MC sketches

Sadly, Urban Tapestry practice had to be cancelled last night; freezing rain made road conditions pretty hairy. I worked on sketches of n'Early Music Consort instead (see below) and finished all sixteen cartoon portraits. Now I have to assemble them into a t-shirt design with other text.

I'm finding Flickr and Livejournal immensely useful for this kind of project. Not only have n'MC members been posting reference photos on Flickr, but I can post my sketches online for them to correct typos and point out any major feature problems ("Hey, I don't have a third eye in the middle of my forehead!"). I can't imagine the hassles involved in trying to do this without the Internet.

Speaking of offline stuff, I'm starting to send out queries and submissions to print publications again; I've been spoiled by pubs which accept e-mail submissions. Fortunately I remembered that U.S. postage rates had increased before putting together my SASEs. I still have a pile of U.S. stamps from previous visits (specifically for SASEs).

I don't blame some editors for preferring snailmail submissions, with the increase in e-mail spam as well as writers who think that the convenience of e-mail means they can get away with sloppier queries and e-mail letters. I'll be ranting more about this in an upcoming Will Write For Chocolate column.

Oh dear. Lights just flickered again...probably there's some hydro wire out there, heavy with ice from last night. I'd better get back to work in case we lose power later on.

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