1. Yesterday my friend Ginger Weil and I both had stories in the new issue of Apex. Mine is called The New Girl and is in the same universe as some other stories you’ve seen from me-most recently “The Salt Path,” also in Apex. Ginger’s is The Stagman’s Song and happens to be her professional fiction debut. Go, read, enjoy. (There’s also the ( Read more... )

1. With the Reader: War for the Oaks Kickstarter closing at 4 Central Time, I hear that it now has a Pamela Dean essay included in the photo book. Very, very cool. Go, little Kickstarter, go!

2. You can add to the pool of dragons in my friend Marie Brennan’s Memoirs of Lady Trent series if you want to design your own. Write up a description of ( Read more... )

1. I sold a story, “A House of Gold and Steel,” to Beneath Ceaseless Skies. It’s not actually very much like “Minnie the Moocher,” although that’s where the title comes from. When I announced this on shorter social media, I linked to Cab Calloway singing in Blues Brothers, which is classic, but I also always do get Stephen Fry in my head saying ( Read more... )

Today is Monday, and Tim’s Kickstarter is over 75% funded. The funding is the point at which it can happen, though; going over “funded” is still quite a good idea and gives more room for him to develop awesome projects in future.

Saturday is my mother’s sixtieth birthday. Don’t you think my mother should have nice things? I do. Like beautiful ( Read more... )

The Kickstarter is up for The Reader: War for the Oaks, and Tim has done a beautiful job. You can see some of how gorgeous the photos are on the page for it, but they’re even better in person. There’ll also be essays in appreciation of War for the Oaks in the photo book (possibly one from me-we’ll see what he thinks!). And if you’re so moved, ( Read more... )

Over at Tim’s blog, he’s got his top photos of 2013 on sale until February 7. There’s some really cool stuff going on there-panoramas, the dragon from the Montreal lantern festival, snow, tapirs, and more-so check it out while the sale is still going.

Originally published at Novel Gazing Redux

This morning I sold a story, “The Stuff We Don’t Do,” to the Futures department at Nature Physics. I am always pleased to be in Nature Physics because it reaches the professors who did so much for me in college.

This story has two positive inspirations and one negative one, among authors whose work I enjoyed in my teens and early twenties. We’ll ( Read more... )

Another awesome photo project that you, Twin Cities people or people who are visiting the Twin Cities soon, can help with! War for the Oaks Reader Photos. Awesome, or awesome? Yes. Awesome. Check it out. Be a WFTO reader. It will be good.

Snowy, gorgeous, and on sale now.

Book post to follow when my neck allows me more typing.

timprov is having a print sale! Gorgeous vivid color--go look, but honestly, it's even better in person. Here. $30 for refreshing art in a grey time. Hard to beat that.