Yes, this is the one with my new story, "The Duke of Riverside," in it!

My thanks to editor Ellen Datlow for putting up with my story's length, tardiness and subsequent revisions.  It's a pleasure and an honor to be in such esteemed company, and I can't wait to get home to get my author copy and read all the rest.

If you're in the Boston area, a ( Read more... )

My one piece of published official erotica, a short story called "The House of 9 Doors," has just been translated into Czech for Topzine.cz. I wrote it originally for Datlow/Windling's SIRENS AND OTHER DAEMON LOVERS: Magical Tales of Love and Seduction.   Not sure it's what I would have chosen for translation, but they wanted something under 4,000 ( Read more... )

The Datlow/Windling teen vampires that are profound & have literary value & can be genuinely scary YA anthology  TEETH is coming this March - and already advance reviews are popping up and torturing me.  Because I hate spoilers, that's why:  I want to come all brain-virginal & pristine to new work by personal heroes like Suzy Charnas & Jeff Ford & ( Read more... )

 I've been sitting on this til the ToC was full and the anthology formally announced, which it now is & has been, by co-editor ellen_datlow :  I sold a story to TEETH.

It is a most excellent story, quite short, but full of subtlety.  That seems to be what I'm writing these days:  If you blink, you'll miss something important.  Very annoying to read, I'm sure.   ( Read more... )