I have a new story out today at Daily Science Fiction: Vervain, Grasshopper, Sun. Like all of DSF’s offerings, it’s quite short, so it won’t take you long to go, read, and enjoy!

Originally published at Novel Gazing Redux

Or maybe you weren’t looking, but-you’ve found it anyway! The Hand of Loki is out today in New Myths. Go, read, enjoy!

Originally published at Novel Gazing Redux

Today you can read my latest story with Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Out of the Woods. Or, and for once I am keeping track of this appropriately, you can listen to the podcast of the same story, narrated by Folly Blaine.

This is my post-Robin Hood story that is informed by growing up with Astrid Lindgren’s Ronia the Robber’s Daughter. Go, read, enjoy!

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Your vocabulary word for the day is psittaculture: the care and raising of parrots and parrot-related species.

This is relevant because my short story The Psittaculturist’s Lesson is now live at Daily Science Fiction. Go, read, enjoy!

Originally published at Novel Gazing Redux

My essay How Far Are We From Minneapolis? is live at Reckoning. This is very personal for me, talking about nature and disability. I hope you enjoy it.

I was also interviewed by another Reckoning author, Johannes Punkt, about this piece. The interview went live today, and you can read it here.

Originally published at Novel Gazing Redux

I have a story out in the Jan/Feb issue of Analog, my first short story of the year. It’s called “Drifting Like Leaves, Falling Like Acorns,” and it’s got companion frogs and genetically engineered flying squirrel people and much weirder stuff than I’ve had in Analog before.

Also it goes with “Uncle Flower’s Homecoming Waltz” and “The Ministry of ( Read more... )

I have seen years before, and this was one.  Yep.

I wrote seventeen stories this year. No complete novels but serious revisions on an earlier novel and serious progress toward the next one. My new agent (Kurestin Armada) and I found each other in January, and I have learned a lot about doing revisions from working with her-it’s shaping the new ( Read more... )

Some years I take a notion, and this is one of them.

I like the idea of giving fiction as a present, but I’m not embedded enough in the fanfiction community-or, let us be honest, committed or organized enough-to commit to doing Yuletide. Instead, some years I decide it’s time to give a story away for free for Christmas, to whoever wants to read it ( Read more... )

And another new story available for you to read: The Sockdolager has published The Dust Gate. I really should come up with a name for the sequence of stories this is part of-they’ve been in Tor.com, Apex, Lightspeed. Soon Analog. Anyway, hope you enjoy!

Originally published at Novel Gazing Redux

I have a new story out in Nature, and you can go read it: The Most Important Thing. I also did a guest blog post for their blog, about how I wrote it, why, what for: here. It doesn’t actually pertain to Arlo Guthrie performing the pic. I just went on a minor autopilot for that part.

Originally published at Novel Gazing Redux