Excited to announce that I've already knocked out one of the To-Dos on my New Year's Accomplishments ... 

5) Write a story, submit it somewhere for publication and get my first real rejection letter out of the way.  

So I wrote a list for McSweeney's Internet Tendency.  

I've been listening to librivox's free recordings of books in the public domain, specifically the third collection of Sherlock Holmes stories The Return of Sherlock Holmes; it was the inspiration for

 Twelve Suppressed Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

After about two weeks, I received word back from McSweeney's.

Yay me!  2010's is off to a great start.  Seriously.  This was a big step for me. Who knows where this will lead?  

What I'd like to do is keep submitting, though I wonder how often one submits before one's emails get summarily routed to the Trash rather than getting read and considered?

I'll make a point to post the rejected ones here once I receive word that they've been rejected so you'll get to watch.  Lucky you, right?