Angelia's Just Learned This!

I just sent a short story off to a publisher.  This is the first time I’ve actually sent fiction to a publisher since college.  I need all the luck and good wishes I can get.

I have to say, that it’s soooo much easier to submit these days.  I remember having to type up my story (in the time before computer word processing) and then mail it with a self-addressed stamped envelope, waiting days and sometimes weeks for an acknowledgement that my story had arrived via the postal service.

Now I simply format, attach to an email, and push send.  In fact, I’ve already gotten an acknowledgement that my submission has arrived and that it will be read by the editor once the submission deadline has been reached.

Wow.

A cabinet of curiosities also known as a cabinet of wonders (Wunderkammer) was not actually a piece of furniture.  It was an entire room of oddities, extraordinaries, and sometimes beauty. A precursor to the museums we have today, these chambers were in the homes of the wealthy and powerful.  They might contain paintings, sculpture, taxidermied animals, tusks, casts of medical deformities — basically anything that the owner thought intriguing.  Of course, some of the contents were mislabeled since the owners were often not trained scientists or doctors.  John Tradescent had a cabinet which included a mermaid’s hand, a dragon’s egg, two feathers of a phoenix’s tail, a piece of the True Cross, and a vial of blood that rained down on the Isle of Wight.

I feel a little like this today. (Taken with instagram)

I love reading books, even when it’s just the dictionary.