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I’m delighted to have a story included in Artemis Rising II, a month-long celebration of female and non-binary authors in genre fiction across all three Escape Artists podcasts. My story is in PodCastle, and it’s one of my favorite stories I wrote last year: “Beat Softly, My Wings ( Read more... )

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I have my first-ever holiday story posted over at Every Day Fiction: “Rootless.” It’s a peculiar sort of love story between a dryad and its tree, and when that tree ends up being chopped down for Christmas purposes, well, that’s bad.

One of my wintery stories has just been ( Read more... )

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Two of my older stories just debuted in audio. “Bless This House” was first published at Daily Science Fiction in 2010; it’s now on Far-Fetched Fables alongside a story by Seanan McGuire!

Next, I have “A Lonesome Speck of Home” at StarShipSofa. My space opera crossover of Mighty ( Read more... )

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I turned in my Breath of Earth edits to my editor last week. That took a huge burden off of me, but I haven’t been able to take it easy. Revisions ate my brain and my time, so I fell behind on everything else: short story and poetry re-submissions, story edits for myself and for ( Read more... )

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I had a big ol’ pile of links the other day and today I return with even more. I mean, whoa. The attention this week. My mind is all…


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I will always think of October 17th as earthquake day.

1989. I was nine, at home in Hanford. I was watching the 5 o’clock news on KSEE 24 out of Fresno with my mom and brother. We felt the earth move. We all looked at the hanging lamps; their sway confirmed that an earthquake had ( Read more... )

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ZOMG it’s here! The Clockwork Dagger is out! There is much rejoicing!


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ZOMG it’s here! The Clockwork Dagger is out! There is much rejoicing!


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