I always get a really deep sinking feeling when I get my SASE's back—my gut drops out. Today I got two, one from a spec fiction magazine, and another from a speculative literature agent. But, to my surprise, both were requests—not acceptances, of course, but requests to see more work! The latter is actually from the literary agent's assistant, who passed the query along to another agent who wants the full ms. No more sinking feelings after all!

On an unrelated note, why is it that no matter what, it always takes 2 or 3 attempts for me to get my mailing labels to print correctly? And speaking of, what happened to plain old shipping-style mailing label templates in Word? Now the only templates they have for that size have festive themes on them.

But I digress.