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  • Guest essay for NaNoWriMo

    As the clock strikes midnight on Halloween, 2009, Penultimate kicks off NaNoWriMo with a guest essay. By me.

    At a few minutes after midnight, it will be my wedding anniversary. Yes, exactly a few minutes.

    Coincidentally, today my husband discovered the most extraordinary interactive site in the world—a comparative illustration of the sizes of the tiniest objects from a coffee bean down to a carbon atom.

    And yesterday a glossy black half-grown kitten with gold eyes wandered out of the woods, took one look at my son, and adopted us. My son’s named him Jack—Panther Jack O’Lantern.

    Happy Halloween!

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2 Responses to “Guest essay for NaNoWriMo”

  1. Lady Glamis said on November 1st, 2009 at 2:51 pm

    Congrats on your anniversary!

    I discovered that fun site a few days ago. I am totally fascinated!

  2. Victoria said on November 1st, 2009 at 3:17 pm

    Thanks! Thirteen years. I guess it’s a good year to get a Halloween cat.

    Can you believe how small viruses are? My husband, who is a complete tech-head, already knew, but I had no idea. The world of quantum physics just blows me away.

    Victoria

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Scott Warrender
Short story author Scott Warrender is a Mentoring Program client. I have done full Copy, Line, & Developmental Editing on a number of short stories for him, the first of which was his poignant fictional memoir of Africa, ''The Boy With the Newsprint Kite,'' now published in the Foundling Review.

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Bhaichand Patel is the author of two nonfiction books: Chasing the Good Life (Penguin Books India, October, 2006), and Happy Hours (Penguin Books India, October, 2009). I edited Patel's debut novel, When the Streets Were Cold and Dark.

I've edited a number of nonfiction essays for my friend Lucia Orth. (Many years ago, my contribution to Baby Jesus Pawn Shop was simply a peer critique and participation in a standing ovation.)

The poet Chris Ryan is the author of The Bible of Animal Feet (Farfalla Press, 2007). He has recent stories in Pank, Anemone Sidecar, and A Cappella Zoo. I edited Ryan's novel The Ishmael Blade and worked with him on his debut novel Heliophobia and WIP Pogue.