From: brendawriter@yahoo.com

On 4/14/2016 12:31 PM, John W Kennedy wrote:
> On 2016-04-14 02:27:34 +0000, Brenda said:
>
>> Four or five years ago I went to a sushi lunch with Madeleine Robins
>> in San Francisco, and we rapidly sketched out a fascinating story set
>> in 1865. We agreed to co-author it. Volleys of email flew. An Excel
>> time line was generated. Some epistolatory ms flew back and forth. But
>> it refused to take off and fly, and eventually we both moved on to
>> other, less recalcitrant projects.
>>
>> Fast forward to this February. A slot in an anthology appeared. I went
>> to the tangle of story idea and turned the heap over and over with a
>> hay fork. There was an end sticking out. I grabbed it and pulled, and
>> it didn't break off. I tied a slip knot in it and cast on, and it
>> still didn't break off. so I knitted it as fast as I could. In three
>> days it was a short story, four thousand words. It is a little, but
>> not much like, the original story as Mad and I sketched out. I sent it
>> to her and asked her if she wanted to tinker with it, but she agreed
>> that it was perfect as it was. So! "Mr. Lincoln's Elephant" will
>> appear in July, at Westercon.
>>
>> Brneda
>
> Is Rama IV of Siam involved?
>


Anna Leonowens and King Mongkut of Siam were going to actually appear,
but in the re-do they have moved off stage. One of the things that had
to happen was to drastically focus and tighten the story. It'll be out
in July.

Brenda

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