... you can find my steampunk flash fic "Frail Men of Metal and Bone." I wrote the rough draft of this at Cascade Writers last year.

This is also the release date for Chicken Soup for the Soul: Just Us Girls.

First of all, time is running out to buy Metastasis using a 25% off coupon at CreateSpace or Smashwords. The offer is good through the 31st. A big chunk of proceeds go to cancer research!

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I'm very happy that OOMPH: A Little Super Goes a Long Way is out from the folks at Crossed Genres. This anthology is all about not-so-super superpowers. My ( Read more... )

The publishing process grinds away at a writer's soul. You submit, you wait, you get rejected time and again. It's hard to deal with the constant onslaught of negativity with short stories, but the agent querying process is a special sort of hell. Novels are hard work, and rejections are that much more piercing. Even if logic tells you, "It's not ( Read more... )

I mentioned last week that my story "We Love Vermont" is in the new Chicken Soup for the Soul: Raising Kids on the Spectrum.

Well, I was surprised this morning to find it's Chicken Soup's featured story for the day! You can read "We Love Vermont" online ( Read more... )

Whew! The first week of April brought a crazy little flood of publications.

April is Autism Awareness Month, and as some of you know, my just-turned eight-year-old is very much on the spectrum. My story "We Love Vermont" is in the brand new Chicken Soup for the Soul: Raising Kids on the Spectrum. It's about how at age two, Critter couldn't speak ( Read more... )

Are you up for a sappy read? Chicken Soup has posted the story of how I met how husband, and how we stuck together against the odds. Also contains fun trivia, like how the Final Fantasy theme was my wedding music, and that we're total Scrabble-playing dorks.

"Long Distance Love" can be read here.

As I noted a few weeks ago, my poetry has been doing pretty well. (Well, by the math, if I keep 30-40 poems out, some are bound to get accepted!) Some of them have also had quick turn-over to publication.

The new zombie-themed issue of Penumbra is out today featuring my poem, "What Remains." I can also add that I'll have a poem in next month's ( Read more... )

My flash fic "The Vulgarity of Flowers" can be read for free in the brand new second issue of Plasma Frequency. It's available on Kindle, Nook, PDF, or can be bought in print.

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Hooked on Hockey came out this Tuesday. On page 317, you'll find my story, "Numbers Game." This publication is really special for my hockey- ( Read more... )

Since I am not currently working on any novels, that's given me a surprising amount of free time. As in, time for me to go crazy because I don't feel like I have enough to do. I've had to resort to... cleaning.However, it's also meant that I've been writing a lot more short stories. In August, I sent out five, with one already accepted. In ( Read more... )

I had a pleasant surprise in my email yesterday--my own story ( Read more... )