Comments

• Date:

  Thursday, 07 Aug ust 2008 - 20:04 UTC

  Jennifer Rohn said:

  Congratulations!

• Date:

  Thursday, 07 Aug ust 2008 - 20:05 UTC

  Henry Gee said:

  My lawyer has advised me to say nothing.

• Date:

  Thursday, 07 Aug ust 2008 - 20:14 UTC

  Anna Kushnir said:

  That’s wonderful, Richard! Congratulations. It’s a great story. Out of curiosity, why did you decide not to use your full name in the by-line?

• Date:

  Thursday, 07 Aug ust 2008 - 20:20 UTC

  Åsa Karlström said:

  :) That is a nice piece. Like the way you wrote the sentences. it was…. hmm… I can’t explain, but I like it!

• Date:

  Thursday, 07 Aug ust 2008 - 23:35 UTC

  Richard Grant said:

  Thanks peeps.

  Anna, it’s a branding exercise. All the other fiction I’ve got out there is under ‘rpg’ (at least, the stuff that’s not on my own website). “Richard Grant” is an over-loaded name, Richard P. Grant might work, but is a bit close to the ‘E.’ joke and I’d like to separate it from my non-fiction (cough. Shut up, Brooks).

  Besides, I like ‘rpg’ — why shouldn’t I use the left-hand side of my email address as a nom-de-plume?

  That’s my story and I’m sticking to it :) I actually made the decision when I needed a tag for my first story at lablit.com.

  Åsa, interesting comment. Would you like to try to explain, in an email?

• Date:

  Thursday, 07 Aug ust 2008 - 23:58 UTC

  Boris Cvek said:

  Congratulation, Richard!

• Date:

  Friday, 08 Aug ust 2008 - 00:33 UTC

  Cath Ennis said:

  Congratulations – nice work!

• Date:

  Friday, 08 Aug ust 2008 - 13:24 UTC

  Åsa Karlström said:

  Richard> I think I did that now. I was a little stressed when I commented here.

  Hopefully it made more sense? Short, consice sentences and clear discriptions :) And congrats! Should’ve written that the first time around!

• Date:

  Friday, 08 Aug ust 2008 - 13:25 UTC

  Richard Grant said:

  Hee hee — it’s fine Åsa, it was a very nice email :)

• Date:

  Friday, 08 Aug ust 2008 - 13:54 UTC

  Heather Etchevers said:

  Ooops – found the answer to my comment there, here. Sorry. Way to go. Looking forward to shaking hands with all the illustrious authors published in Futures and LabLit. Maybe I should crack down and work on something, now that I’ve got so much time on my hands :-)

• Date:

  Friday, 08 Aug ust 2008 - 21:08 UTC

  Richard Grant said:

  good thing I checked in here before responding there, then…

  I don’t know about time on my hands, but it gets a little confusing.

• Date:

  Monday, 11 Aug ust 2008 - 12:48 UTC

  Åsa Karlström said:

  Richard> I’m happy it made more sense ;)