Fun. Hectic. Just like it's meant to be. Today was parties more than panels, but I did attend two: one one self-publishing, one on rape.

[ETA: Here's a link to my Day Two post. And here's a link to my Day One post.]

SELF-PUBLISHING

The panel, "Before Self-publishing, I wish I..." was excellent. Allison Moon, Kater Cheek, and Jennifer Stevenson all had ( Read more... )

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Strange Horizons this week carries a short poem, "Spacekill" by Robert Borski.

Read it, it's fun, with a clever premise and cool images.

It assures you that you won't find anything much that's splatterable in space, warns you of the dangers of what you actually might find, cautions you to "keep your scrapeware activated"; and ends by recommending ( Read more... )

My short story (flash, actually) is up in the debut issue of Ruthless Peoples Magazine, a new webzine out of the UK. It's downloadable as a PDF, and it's free.

Several of my pieces now seem to be about gender-change: When You Left Your Body Lying Around in Strange Horizons; Spoiling Veena in Expanded Horizons; and this one.

Wonder what my ( Read more... )

Let me clarify. As a reader, I don't care for post-apocalyptic fiction. (Disclaimer: This doesn't mean I'll never write any.) I've trying to figure out why not.

Firstly, of course, it tends to be depressing. It gets old reading about the world going to hell (or gone to hell) in the latest fashionable way. It used to be nuclear warfare; then world- ( Read more... )

Once in a while, I encounter a spec-fic story I absolutely love. This evening, browsing through my downloaded issue of Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #34, I found one such. It's called the Flying Woman, by RJ Astruc: A rather ordinary title for a cool story.

The protag is a djinn called Zeem, who lives in a London tenement. and works as a ( Read more... )