Woo. Boo woo.

I am enjoying this witch shit more than is strictly necessary. So far we have actual Devil-fucking witches and Spanish Inquisition witches and creepy old ladies and Baba Yaga and the witch who got squashed by the house in The Wizard of Oz and tonight, I finally wrote a Wiccan witch.

I’m a little aggravated at being behind schedule. You know I like to write early, be rewriting now, and scheduling them in August. But we do what we can do when we can do it.

I look forward so much to telling you guys stories.

Birmingham

Go here and just click play on “Birmingham.” The thing I like best about it is how it reminds me of church bells. There’s a kind of echoing longing to it, like church bells.

It fills my heart so much to know such talented people who just keep on keeping on.

When Did B37 Get an Agent?

I woke up this morning to news that Zimmerman Juror B37 has been dropped by her book agent/decided not to write a book, thanks to the hard work of @moreandagain on Twitter, who lead efforts to stop this.

Here’s the thing I can’t let go of, though. The verdict came out late Saturday night. The first I heard of the agent’s deal was Monday afternoon. And, yes, B37 has a lawyer husband, but the timeline is, let’s be generous, very tight. I’ve signed a few short story contracts now and it takes a few  hours to get those deals done, and those are a couple pages, simply written, with pretty standardized language, just because there’s some back and forth. The idea that B37 send out queries on Sunday and had an agent by Monday? Or even that an agent approached her on Sunday and they had everything worked out by Monday?

It could happen. Just like you could and probably have, on occasion, hit every green light on your way into work. But when you factor in that B37 is in Florida and the agent is in Washington, red lights seem more likely than straight-green.

But then take this from the Juror’s statement about why she decided not to go forward with the book:

I realize it was necessary for our jury to be sequestered in order to protest [sic] our verdict from unfair outside influences, but that isolation shielded me from the depth of pain that exists among the general public over every aspect of this case. The potential book was always…

See what I’m getting at? Just when, exactly, did she decide to write this book? Her own statement makes it sound like it was while she was sequestered. You know, while the trial was ongoing. I mean, just how long is “was always” anyway?

If I were the Justice Department, I’d be very interested to know when she got her agent and whether she got on the jury because of the potential for money at the end of things.

And, if I were a more deeply suspicious Justice Department, I might wonder about her calling Zimmerman, “George” during her interview with Anderson Cooper. I might, in fact, be rewatching the parts where she appears to call him “Georgie.” Because I’d be incredibly curious if she’s the kind of person who comes to think they know someone just by being in the same room as him for days without actually interacting with him–and she certainly seems like the type who might–or whether something else was going on.

I’d be curious just how vested an interest she had in the trial’s outcome.