Thanks so much for the lovely feedback I've gotten for "Flying Magic" on Facebook, email and elsewhere! It really, really means a lot to me ( Read more... )

Many years ago, Patrick and I put together a website called "December Lights" and published one story a day all through the month of December. Each story was donated by a different fabulous author, and each had just one thing in common: every story had a happy ending.

We need lights in the darkness in December - even in years that aren't like this ( Read more... )

Hooray! Editor (and writer!) Heather Shaw has just launched a fabulous new magazine, Persistent Visions, and the very first short story they're publishing is my funny werewolves-in-Pittsburgh story, "Pack Dynamics"! This is a Meet the Parents story gone wrong...with werewolves! It's set in a neighborhood where I used to live (Squirrel Hill, ( Read more... )

The event at Schuler Books last night went so well - hooray! It was wonderful to get to hang out with Jim and Merrie and Patrick, listen to their (wonderful) readings and chat about our books - and it was also really wonderful to see all the people who had come for the talk! I so appreciated how many people came for the event (even one all the way ( Read more... )

Wooot! My YA Victorian gothic fantasy novelette, House of Secrets, is out today!


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It's been a really nice half-term break so far. The kids are off school/childcare for a week, and I had a wonderful birthday with them. They took me to a nearby butterfly zoo, and I loved it! I may not be used to being 39 yet (why is this number so disconcerting to me? I don't know!), but I had a great time becoming it.


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Have you guys all already heard of the Con or Bust auction? Con or Bust is a nonprofit organization that helps fans of color attend f/sf conventions around the world, and right now they're raising money with a fabulous auction. If you look through, you'll find all sorts of amazing offerings, from the chance to name a character in a Naomi Novik book ( Read more... )

Wooot - my (very) short story "Marking Time" was just published at Daily Science Fiction! This one is aimed at adults, and it's about regrets, choices, the unexpected ways that our lives sometimes turn out, and what would happen with the possibility of real magic.

I really hope that you guys will like it! You can read it for free online, and if ( Read more... )

A few years ago, Patrick and I set up a website and invited a whole bunch of other authors to join in with our December Lights Project, where every story had a happy ending, many of them were funny, and all of them were intended to light up the darkness. This year, to be honest, I was just way too tired to try to organize all of that...but between ( Read more... )

Since it's mid-November, now, writers all around the internet are putting together lists of their award-eligible stories published in 2014. In a similar vein, I thought it would be nice to do a sum-up here of all the stories of mine that were published this year, for my own sake (because it's a lovely reminder to me that yes, I really did get stuff ( Read more... )