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Chris Hsiang at io9 reviews Madness of Flowers [ Night Shade Books ] - He liked it a lot.

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Thursday's morning hymn, courtesy of kenscholes and me.

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Thanks to lillypond, a/k/a my sister.

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There's a new podcast up today. This is a recording of me reading my short story "The Angel's Daughter". At 1,200 words, this originally appeared in the August, 2004 issue of Realms of Fantasy, then reprinted in Fantasy: The Best of 2004 [ Amazon ]. It was also recently featured as a free reprint here on my blog. If you like the story, please ( Read more... )

There's a new podcast up today. This is a recording of me interviewing Fairwood Press publisher Patrick Swenson (a/k/a tbclone47) about Fairwood Press, his work and his life. The interview was conducted Saturday, February 16th, at Radcon 5.

Direct link is here. RSS feed is here or here, depending on which one your reader likes better. The iTunes feed ( Read more... )

There's a new podcast up today, a special out of sequence with the usual editorial calendar. This is a recording of me reading my short story "The Lizard of Ooze", a New Weird piece that first ran in Flytrap issue 4, and has recently been reprinted in The New Weird, edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer. See here for an interview with me about "The ( Read more... )

There's a new podcast up today. This is a recording of a reading I did at Potlatch 17 in Seattle, Washington. The story is "The Sky that Wraps the World Round, Past the Blue and Into the Black", a science fiction short story that appears in the current (March, 2008) issue of Clarkesworld Magazine [ story ]. If you like this piece, please ( Read more... )

Yes, the dateline is early. There's a new podcast up today, post-dated to this coming Sunday. I'm putting it up early due to my upcoming travel schedule.

This is a recording of me interviewing Dr. Harry Turtledove about his life, his work and the Alternate History genre. The interview was conducted Saturday, February 16th, at Radcon 5Direct link ( Read more... )

There's a new podcast up today. This is a recording of me interviewing Ann VanderMeer and jeffvandermeer about Weird Tales, Ministry of Whimsy Press, the New Weird (both the movement and their recent anthology of the same title), and steampunk (ditto the above). The interview was conducted Friday, February 22nd, at the South Carolina Book FestivalDirect link ( Read more... )

There's a new podcast up today. This is a recording of me reading my story "Arrange the Bones." At 1,000 words, this originally appeared in Say...Was that a Kiss? back in 2002, then reprinted by Prime Books in my 2004 collection, Dogs in the Moonlight [ Powell's | Amazon ]. If you like the story, please consider supporting Fortress of Words and ( Read more... )