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... )

1. Feral Cell by Richard Bowes.
2. Orlando by Virginia Woolf.
3. Fractured by Karin Slaughter.

4. Orsinian Tales by Ursula K. Le Guin. I wish I had a name more like Ursula, because if I was to create a fictional country and name it after myself I think the results would be less elegant and more obvious. Davidia? Doesn't work. I really like what Le ( Read more... )

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101. Liar by Justine Larbalestier.
102. King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard.
103. Range of Ghosts by Elizabeth Bear.
104. The Amateur Cracksman by E.W. Hornung.
105. American Vampire by Scott Snyder, Rafael ( 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.)

Choosing just three stories from the amazingness that is Strange Horizons was not easy. They have published many many many of my talented friends and peers over the past eleven (!!!!) years, as well as myself, and they have paid us all pro rates. They are in the midst of their annual fund drive, so I wanted to highlight some of the stories you may ( Read more... )

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81. Blindsighted by Karin Slaughter.
82. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams.
83. Acacia: Book One: The War With the Mein by David Anthony Durham.
84. Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences by Ursula K. Le Guin.

85. ( Read more... )

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.

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Books 51-60.
61. Red Dragon by Thomas Harris.
62. Rules for Radicals by Saul D. Alinsky.
63. Lavinia by Ursula K. Le Guin.
64. Redemption In Indigo by Karen Lord.
65. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens.
66. James J. Hill: Empire Builder of the Northwest by Michael P. Malone.
67. Meeks: A ( Read more... )