There’s a little over three days left to contribute to the 2012 Strange Horizons fund drive.  Strange Horizons has been online for 12 years, pays professional rates, publishes all matter of fiction, poetry, reviews and essays and is dependent on reader donations. If you’ve enjoyed what they offer, please consider donation any amount whatsoever - ( Read more... )

My flying beast story, “Beside Calais,” is up at Strange Horizons.

The inspiration for “Beside Calais” came a few years ago when during a visit to Oregon my cousin took us to the wonderful Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum, which along with a lovingly-cared for Spruce Goose and an impressive collection of aircraft had a working reproduction of a ( Read more... )

You wipe off the muck, polish up the leather, buff it, then give it a crack with the rag, that solid confidence-building crack that tells a man he's done, he's ready to go-like the smack a valet gives the back of a cab after a rich man's inside.

I got tangled in this story for the pure sentence-level pleasure of it, read through to the end, ( Read more... )

Shawna at the Phoenix-like Realms of Fantasy will be buying "Escaping Salvation," a short story co-written with the lovely and talented joshrountree !

"The Red Bride," first published at Strange Horizons and podcast at Drabblecast, will be reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, edited by Rich Horton.
And now for some pimpage:

SFWA's 2010 ( Read more... )

If you're in the Glendale area this afternoon, come to the Strange Horizons reading at Mystery and Imagination Bookstore! There will be tea and goodies! Bring something to read if you like!

Speaking of Strange Horizons, my story "The Red Bride" (which I'll be reading this afternoon) is up for discussion at Torque Control's Short Story Club.  I ( Read more... )

On October 3 at 1:30 PM, come celebrate the 10th anniversary of of the online Science Fiction/Fantasy webzine Strange Horizons with a multi-author reading and Tea Party at Mystery and Imagination/Bookfellows in Glendale!

Scheduled authors include Gwynne Garfinkle, Kendall Evans, Karen Romanko, Kaolin Fire, Deborah Kolodji and Samantha Henderson ( Read more... )