Mindy Idea

Taking a page from the "Book of Ideas" by Orson Scott Card, my next short story will be based on the novel I wrote last year. Card's "Ender's Game" originally appeared as a short story in a science fiction magazine. So I figure I could adapt an idea from "Mindy Lightbearer" into a short story and get that published. Then I could tell a publisher at some later date, "Here is a novel I wrote, based on a short story that appeared in Clarence McFranklin's Magazine of Tremendous Nostril Stories" or whatever.

So thank you, Mr. Card, for your ideas and your fabulous new cologne fragrance (available at finer Macy's and Piggly Wiggly stores near you).

Also, the term "Lightbearer" will be going the way of the dodo. I'm not sure what to replace it with, as of yet, but it will be something based on the Greek word for light, "phos." We shall see.