it is time to advertise my story-collection, BED, on this site

this is the right time because the village voice put me there; soon i will be blogging about james frey's uncle's toad collection

if you are an editor, please read my query letter; this is my query letter for my story-collection, BED:

BED is nine stories, eight of which have been published or are forthcoming in the Cincinnati Review, the Mississippi Review, Other Voices, Opium Print, Bullfight Review (nominated for the next Pushcart), Spork, Dirt Press, and the Portland Review; and one of which won One Story's Annual Short Story Contest (2004), judged by novelist Joanna Hershon, and New York University's undergraduate creative writing award (Seth Barkas Prize, 2004/2005).

BED is set in post-9/11 New York City and suburban Florida; the World Trade Center attacks and the subsequent War on Terror are featured in two of the stories, the first and the fifth, and in the others there's the feeling of them—a tone and mood of recent and drastic change, doom, and uncertainty. The characters in BED are mostly in their early twenties, college students or recent graduates—disillusioned, lonely, playful, and in constant but passive yearning for love, a better sort of love, or something better than love. The stories are told in the third-person and the narrator is the same throughout—amused, wry, bored, and sympathetic.

Other stories (and poems) of mine—not included in BED—have been published or are forthcoming in print in Punk Planet Magazine, Kitchen Sink Magazine, Pindeldyboz, and Hobart; and online at 42opus, Elimae, Eyeshot, Monkeybicycle, Surgery of Modern Warfare, and more than two dozen other sites and magazines; and will be collected in a chapbook by Kevin Sampsell for Future Tense Books in 2006, Summer.

Also I was the winner of Action Books' first poetry contest, and they will publish my collection, You Are A Little Bit Happier Than I Am, in 2006, Fall.

I graduated this past May from New York University with a B.A. in journalism.

My parents were born in Taiwan; I was born in Virginia, in 1983, and now live in New York City.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

email me at reader.of.depressing.books [at] gmail.com

if you are worried that you will lose money if you take a chance on this, don't worry; you will make money and get a promotion; your publisher will love you