The first episode of Gooseberry Bluff comes out today!!!Just as a point of clarification, as some have asked: the pricing for the serial is a flat $1.99, NOT $1.99 per episode. That's two bucks for the entire book, and every three weeks you get a new episode. Seriously, it's a steal ( Read more... )

Some good news to report: my story "Today's Friends" will be appearing in a future issue of Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine! This is likely my biggest short fiction sale to date, and I'm very excited about it.

My twisted little fantasy story has been PodCasted. Give it a listen!

My story Bear in Contradicting Landscape is live as part of Apex Magazine's Issue 33. An excerpt:

L’s full name, Logos Agape Varvara, was her father’s way of protesting Vatican II. It meant something like “the wandering word of divine love.” She’d put up with playground taunts until she was twelve, then started using her initials, LAV, as her name ( Read more... )

My new short story is over at Strange Horizons. If you like it, you should consider donating to their fund drive! (I promise I won't bring that up again. Probably.)

Some good news to share: I've just sold my Patricia-Highsmith-meets-epic-fantasy short story "Destiny, With a Blackberry Sauce" to Strange Horizons. Word is it may be appearing in just a few weeks; I will be letting you all know when that happens.

Polyphony 7 is happening, just barely, thus making some sort of statement about crowd-sourcing and the power of the small press. I'm not sure what that statement is exactly, but I think it has something to do with scraping and fingernails.

Please pre-order a copy if you haven't yet.

Yay!!

A brief announcement: as mentioned in my entry on Avilion, I read it in part to review for Strange Horizons; that review is now live.

(NOTE: My story "Bear In Contradicting Landscape" is scheduled to appear in Polyphony 7, but due to economic constraints detailed below the anthology has yet to appear. I'm posting the following at Deborah's request and with my full endorsement)

In 2002, the Polyphony anthology series debuted. Conceived as a short fiction venue for stories that ( Read more... )

Yesterday I received my lovely contributor's copies of the Interfictions 2 anthology. That would be the one that made Amazon's List of the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of 2009. Reviews are popping up: Charles A. Tan says nice things about my story "The 121," while Strange Horizons reviewer T.S. Miller can't help wondering if the whole ( Read more... )