Hey look! The Triangulation: End of the Rainbow anthology is out, and includes my story "Haole"! So if you've got a hankering for a vision of an island-themed post-apocalypse, this is your chance to slide on some coral knuckles, slip into your swim skin, and go out for a dip in the blood read ocean.

But check out the ToC: So many kick ass authors ( Read more... )

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


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This morning I was pleasantly surprised to open my email and find a sneak peak of Vinny Chong's cover art for Murky Depths #11, which is a fold-around illustration of my short story "Heart of Clay." HOLY GOD is it cool ( Read more... )

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... )

Artist extraordinaire Vinny Chong's been redecorating his website, making it easier to navigate all those lovely, lovely images. There's several new illustrations for Richard Morgan's The Steel Remains (Must. Get.), Joe Hill's Gunpowder (huh-wha? I want it!), Triangulation: Taking Flight, and, of course, "Saint Darwin's Spirituals." Personally, I ( Read more... )

Vincent Chong, badass artist extraordinare, has made the BSFA short list for his cover illustration of Murky Depths #4.


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Then with these two illustrations, I guess my story still has a balance of 3,000.  Murky Depths showed up at my doorstep today, cheering me up immensely!  Geez, does it look cool.  Here's the Vincent Chong cover you're probably sick of seeing now.  I'm seriously going to have to order a print of it.

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Almost a year ago, I got an email from Matt Wallace asking me to send him a story.  Now, if you've read this blog, you probably know I absolutely love Matt Wallace.  I love his writing, I love how funny his blog is, and I love that he's a tough guy who wants to be Claire's bodyguard.  But all the stories I had written were out, and I had nothing to ( Read more... )