Escape Pod has gone pro!!! They're doing a trial run of paying authors 5 cents per word, posting reviews and other content on their blog, and also, ePublishing! And "Saint Darwin's Spirituals" is in the premiere ePub, along with matthewsrotundo's story "Fuel" (which I had the pleasure of narrating for EP). There's also a couple of spiffy reviews included, and a ( Read more... )

Neil Gaiman's been talking about giving a scary book to someone you love this Halloween. An idea I think is fantastic, and completely support. In addition, I'm giving a few things free to all of you - Escape Pod bought my story "Saint Darwin's Spirituals" and just published it in time for Halloween! Spiritualized steampunk with golems and ( Read more... )

Evidence here. I mean, it doesn't say anything more than he liked my story (as well as lonfiction's and abtreadwell's) but still. Bragging rights, right? (Thanks to orogeny for the heads-up!)

If you want a more meaty review of "Saint Darwin's Spirituals", there's this one from The Future Fire which might be my personal favorite of St. D. An excerpt says:

"Love and pain hide in ( Read more... )

Look! It's my name on the cover of a magazine!!!


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There's a groovy little review of the Triangulation: Dark Glass anthology here, in which "Saint Darwin's Spirituals" gets a nice little shout-out. Or, maybe I should say an "interesting" shout-out? Either way, I'm pleased my story was picked out in the review.

I really need to write the next story...

Last night when I came home I found a package on my doorstep. Inside the package was a book. Inside the book was my story.

The book was the Triangulation: Dark Glass anthology. There was the kindest note inside the cover from editor Pete Butler, which made me grin really big. I stared at the thing for a little while, feeling its weight. I posted the ( Read more... )

I found out today that "Saint Darwin's Spirituals" is a finalist for the best speculative fiction story (short form) in the Parsec Awards!  Also extremely cool to note is that the story's in the finals with two other Variant Frequencies stories: Jonathan C. Gillespie's "Best in Class" and Michael Natale's "Under the Bed." Rick Stringer is simply ( Read more... )

It's out on the Murky Depths subscriber's email, so I guess that makes it official: "Heart of Clay," a sequel of sorts to "Saint Darwin's Spirituals" has sold and will be featured in issue 11 of their magazine. Not only sold, but will also be doing the one-two punch of Murky Depths/Variant Frequencies! That's right, you'll be able to listen to Rick ( Read more... )

Some new sales news, some old:

"Last Respects" sold yet again to the Biblical Horror anthology She Nailed a Stake Through His Head. I really thought I was going to sell In the Belly of the Whale to him, but I had a Jesus paragraph in there, so it got rejected (I don't remember that warning being in the guidelines before I subbed the story, but it ( Read more... )

Got the email from Pete Butler and the Triangulation crew -- "Saint Darwin's Spirituals" has been accepted for the Triangulation: Dark Glass anthology!

I am really, really psyched about this. Rewriting this story has been an incredible experience for me. I put everything I had into the rewrite and I am very stoked Triangulation picked it up.

Thanks ( Read more... )