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My strange little story "Some Pebbles in the Palm" is now available in both text and audio formats on Lightspeed Magazine.

http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/some-pebbles-in-the-palm/

My story, "I Wrung It in a Weary Land" is now part of the well liquored fiction extravaganza Drink Me on Podcastle, read by the excellent krylyr.

Also in that segment are "The Wine" by M. C. Wagner, "The Forgetting Shiraz" by E. Lily Yu, "The Rag-Man Mulls Down the Day" by tithenai, and “Behemoth Brewing and Distribution Company,” by Tim Pratt. What a pleasure ( Read more... )

I was honored (and a more than a little surprised) to see "Serkers and Sleep" on this list today.

To be on the same roster as all the wonderful names I see there, well, I'm stunned.

I've heard many expressions of disappointment, frustration, and sometimes despair about story rejections. As a veteran of many story rejections myself, I totally get it. But sometimes I think new writers (or maybe I should say newer writers, since I'm relatively new myself) have an unrealistic notion of how long it takes a story to finally get ( Read more... )

You can now read my story "Hear the Enemy, My Daughter" on Strange Horizons.

It's also available on their podcast, read by Anaea Lay.

Enjoy!

My story "Keeping Tabs", originally published in Abyss & Apex in 2011, is now available on Escape Pod, read by Dani Cutler.

Rated PG-13 for violence, sexual situations, and vulgar language.

I've been tagged by the marvelous Heather Albano (author of the e-novels Timepiece and Timekeeper, and famous writer for Choice of Games) for The Next Big Thing Blog Hop. This sort of thing is normally aimed at novelists, but I adapted it to fit one of my upcoming stories:

What is the working title of your story?
"Hear the Enemy, My Daughter"

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My odd little story, "Financial Strategies for Innovative Researchers" is now available at Mad Scientist Journal.  Enjoy!

I'm very pleased to report that Strange Horizons has bought my story, "Hear the Enemy, My Daughter". SH is just about the perfect market for this piece.

The first draft was written with the support of my Kickstarter project. (Yes, it takes me a long time to move from first draft to final draft.)