So, you know how sometimes your heroine will fall in love with a cad? A hustler, a deadbeat, a no-good, low-down playa? And you know how betrayed she feels when she finds out what we, the long-suffering audience, have known since episode/chapter two? She has several choices of how to behave, but generally, the reaction falls into two categories:

( Take it from Dolly Parton? )

Hello friends! Yes, I know this is one of those rare-as-unicorns posts of mine, but I have something exciting to share! First, Moonshine officially has a sequel, which is called Wicked City. It will be out in April, and I have just gotten the official cover and permission to share it with you from the publisher. I am SO EXCITED about this one, I ( Read more... )

Maybe it's just me, but when mainstream, popular jerkwads like Scott Adams go off about what a shame it is that men have to suppress their "natural" urges to, uh, RAPE WOMEN, because really, the victims here are the round pegs of men who are forced to conform to the horrifying square holes of women (ya know, I hadn't realized that aspect of my ( Read more... )

(I'm doing an experiment with posting my thoughts. Apologies if this gets as tedious as I'm afraid it might ( Read more... )

Color me surprised, but I'm back for more shameless begging. You might remember that I posted a few months ago about nominations for an award for best online fiction, called the Million Writers Award. Well, a few kind souls among you did in fact nominate me for that award, which I was really grateful for. And then, even more surprisingly, both of ( Read more... )

I wrote a post that addresses cover issues and whitewashing on Justine Larbalestier's blog. The cover reference, should you need it, can be found here.

An excerpt:

“Alaya,” he said, “the art is lovely. The image and everything is great. But are you sure you want to limit yourself like that with this cover?”

“Limit myself?” I asked.

But I never do this, so why not? Basically, there is this pretty cool award for online fiction called the Million Writers Award, run by writer Jason Sanford. The nomination period is open both to editors are readers. Readers (that's you) can nominate one story published online in 2009. I have two stories that are eligible. Brilliantly enough, they ( Read more... )

So, the Interstitial Arts Foundation is hosting a pretty amazing art auction to benefit the organization, in particular their efforts to put out an anthology of interstitial fiction each year (my story "The Score" is in the current edition, Interfictions 2All the art they've had up so far has been pretty amazing, but I admit that this week's ( Read more... )

So, the most awesome reading ever was...completely awesome. I'm not sure how much you can see of my own presentation in this, but at least you can get a flavor of how interesting--dare I say "interstitial"-- it was to have the live band improvising behind the readers. Everyone else was much cooler than I, and I was still pretty cool ;)

(Also, I am ( Read more... )

so long as the poem has an imaginary author. Like this one:

Will her brothers mourn
the loss of their jeweled seed?
Her mother has baked all night
dead silent in the kitchen.
The ashes are bitter as cacaotl grounds
But give no liminal visions.
Sunrise: the bread is dense, each slab gray as evening moss.
The father will not eat his slice-
It’s salted with ( Read more... )