I've had a flurry of them this month. Lots of Pack Dynamics shorts coming out in the near future, even! It's taken those stories a long time to move, but moving they are.

Pack Dynamics stories:
"A Particular Skill Set" (Chambliss's origin story) will be forthcoming at the end of this year/beginning of next from The Worlds of Science Fiction, ( Read more... )

The Ways of Magic anthology is out today, featuring my story "Of Were-Critters, Widow Women, and Water Rights." It's a weird western with a werewolf protagonist (because I am That Werewolf Writer, after all). You all know it as the "Steampunk Werewolf Western," and now you can actually read it ( Read more... )

It will be coming out March 31. My first Steampunk Werewolf Western, "Of Were-Critters, Widow Women, and Water Rights," appears in it, and I'm excited to see it in print.

This means I have release dates for three of the remaining five stories that have acceptances. "Bear Essentials" is coming out on April 29, and "War of the Were-Mice" is coming ( Read more... )

GUYS. The steampunk werewolf western has found a home in the Ways of Magic antho!

DO THE DANCE OF JOY WITH ME.

I got in the last bits of edits on the Janni story (unless and until I hear more from the folks who have it) and re-read Ghost Ship. I didn't outline it, but I re-read it. Yeah, it doesn't know what kind of story it wants to be and I'm almost afraid to ask. There's no dramatic tension, not really, it doesn't pop like it should, and neither the ( Read more... )

NanoPals on Twitter today asked, "How does religion play into your worlds? Do you allow your personal beliefs to flavour your work? Wha do your characters believe? What kind of book do you prefer to read - one that heavily includes personal faith or one that shies away from a characters viewpoints. Do pious characters bother you if they stray too ( Read more... )

The steampunk werewolf western is done. Not only that, but in an excess of efficiency, it's got its own folder, its own space on the spreadsheet, and it's off to Writers of the Future two days before deadline.

*collapses into a puddle of goo*

This means I can actually rest for a couple of days before tackling the NaNo Project o'Doom.

Whew.

So, yeah, the 7th outline is not coming and... may never. I have no idea what to do with that idea and so it's being back-burnered, although "Alex tries to cure brain cancer and causes the zombie apocalypse instead" would be... horrifyingly apropos. I may go with that, but honestly, I don't think I'll need it for my NaNo project, so I'm not too ( Read more... )

Yes. I realize that the NaNo Project o'Doom is starting in just over a week and that I really need to work up the last outline for that ( Read more... )

On the steampunk werewolf western. I realized last night that I hadn't described my protag's love interest at all, other than the fact that she's tiny and tough. So I put a dress on her and added some hair, and now we've at least got some idea of what she looks like ( Read more... )