{"id":38260,"date":"2025-12-22T16:23:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T21:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=38260"},"modified":"2025-12-22T22:44:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T03:44:24","slug":"what-do-you-have-to-be-sorry-about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/writing\/short-fiction\/what-do-you-have-to-be-sorry-about\/","title":{"rendered":"What Do You Have to Be Sorry About?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t written many crime stories in my life, at least not ones without supernatural elements. And that&#8217;s not by choice, because I&#8217;m not in control. I merely explore the next idea which comes to mind, and those are usually spread among science fiction, fantasy and horror.<\/p>\n<p>I guess that&#8217;s why John Clute wrote of me in the <a href=\"https:\/\/sf-encyclopedia.com\/entry\/edelman_scott\"><em>Science Fiction Encyclopedia<\/em><\/a> &#8212;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>US editor and author, his fiction having had perhaps unduly little recognition, almost certainly because his work shifts from horror to fantasy to sf without any marketing consistency<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Without any marketing consistency&#8221; is my brand!<\/p>\n<p>The latest of my few crime stories, &#8220;What Do You Have to Be Sorry About?,&#8221; was published in early 2025 in <a href=\"https:\/\/blackcatweekly.com\/b\/1a357\"><em>Black Cat Weekly<\/em><\/a> #190.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t written many crime stories in my life, at least not ones without supernatural elements. And that&#8217;s not by choice, because I&#8217;m not in control. I merely explore the next idea which comes to mind, and those are usually spread among science fiction, fantasy and horror. I guess that&#8217;s why John Clute wrote of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38264,"parent":13,"menu_order":123,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-38260","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38260"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38283,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38260\/revisions\/38283"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}