I’m nearly done with A Player’s Heart, the f/f romance game I’ve been writing for Choice of Games - and that’s a good thing, because I’m starting to ramp up my summer schedule.

First off, I’ll be at Balticon May 24-27. I’m not on a lot of panels, but I will be doing a reading and an autographing, and Doug Warden has asked me to be part of his ( Read more... )

A couple of lovely links to share today, first to the Locus review of Finders and then to my editor’s excellent fancast for Finders.

The fancast is particularly fun because (a) I do it myself and (b) I’m an intensely visual person anyway. In my old office, half of one wall was covered, floor to ceiling, with pictures I’d collected for various ( Read more... )

I’m tremendously excited to announce that I’ve sold a novel, Finders, to Athena Andreadis at Candlemark & Gleam. It’s expanded from the short story of the same name, which first appeared in Andreadis’s The Other Half of the Sky (and subsequently in Year’s Best Science Fiction X) and from a second story, “Firstborn, Lastborn,” which appeared in ( Read more... )

I love books that have as a central conflict the disjunction of law and justice. Unsurprisingly, you'll find that as a theme in many of my novels, along with the question "who gets to count as people?" and that's certainly true of my contributions to the Pride Storybundle. Of course, both Point of Hopes and Death By Silver are fantasies structured ( Read more... )

There is a lot of queer SF/F set in what is at least nominally the Victorian/Edwardian period (three very different novels in the current LGBT Storybundle alone), and of course that raises the question of what makes this period so appealing. For me, at least, the period from the mid-19th century through the start of the First World War is ( Read more... )

The Historical Fantasy Storybundle has entered its last week, so I thought I’d take the chance to share a couple of comments from two of our authors.  When I put the bundle together, I asked people what had motivated them to write these novels - why historical fantasy, what they loved about the stories, what got them started, and I’m delighted to ( Read more... )

As its curator, I'm delighted to announce the launch of the Historical Fantasy StorybundleMy favorite fantasy novels are the ones that ground the fantastic in the historical - that use pieces of our known past to build their fantasy worlds. Partly, of course, that’s because I was trained as a historian, but even when a novel is based on an ( Read more... )

My Patreon is live!After a bunch more talking and tweaking, I’ve decided to concentrate on Astreiant for now. I’m doing a simple monthly appeal: if enough people sign up to bring in $100 a month, I’ll post a sketch from Astreiant. It can be anything - a bit of drama, a character’s background, daily life, one of Old Steen’s sea-stories as Rathe ( Read more... )

I’ve been following Judith Tarr’s re-read of the Deryni books over on Tor.com, and it sent me searching for a photograph that seems to have disappeared in my most recent move. It showed me and Lisa, sometime in the 1980s, indulging in cosplay from the Deryni books. I had made us both lovely medieval gowns (roughly twelfth century, though the ( Read more... )

I’m currently re-reading one of the formative books from my teenage years, which has just become available in ebook, Patrick Carleton’s Under the Hog. (If you’re not already interested in the novel’s subject, the English king Richard III, you are saying “what a bizarre title.” If you are, you’ve probably already read the book.)* I hadn’t read it in ( Read more... )