Just found out this evening that my short story "Sustain Nothing" sold to the Warrior Wisewoman 3 anthology! So stoked about that. It's about Informants and knowing too much and breaking hearts, and it formed in my mind from this one hazy childhood memory I have where my father and I are at some show with planes flying about in the air, doing crazy ( Read more... )

"Art Deco and the Infestation of New America" has sold to the Retro Spec: Tales of Fantasy and Nostalgia anthology, which is edited by Karen A. Romanko (ravenelectrick ). There was a minor rewrite request, which was to just make the title less Frenchy. Okay with me because there's still some French in the story itself. Bugs, art, and French. Ultimately, it's a ( Read more... )

Before heading off to sleepyland last night, I checked my email and learned that I sold another short story. So, "Hearts Will Never Be Practical" is now forthcoming from Every Day Fiction. One of the editor's comments said this: "Unsettling. I like it." It's about, as usual in my writing, trying to find a place in a world that's all about the cold ( Read more... )

This is the kind of medicine I'd like to OD on:

56-day SALE to Farrago's Wainscot!

This is for my "bird sex" story called "In a Windless Calm," which I owe lots of thanks to many LJers for critiquing it some many months back. Y'all know who you are and your free Internet cookie is in the mail. Just be patient.

My first piece of fiction to appear in ( Read more... )

1. Rich Horton is doing his yearly summaries of print and online magazines, and I got a nice lil shoutout in the Farrago's Wainscot one for my short story "Pigment," the bolding below of my doing:

I counted a total of 23 new stories, one novelette, the rest shorts (3 short-shorts), for over 86,000 words of fiction, a vast increase over last year. ( Read more... )

Waking up to good news is the only way I want to wake up from now on...

11-day SALE to Cinema Spec: Tales of Hollywood and Fantasy edited by Karen A. Romanko (aka
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I was going to post about some of the ridiculousness in my life (and by that I mean one outcome of said ridiculousness is that I've been BANNED from an online book forum, oh nooooooooooooooes!), but I'd much rather let y'all know that yesterday I found out that I'll have a piece of short fiction published in an upcoming issue of Behind the Wainscot ( Read more... )