2009 Writing Summary

[wistling]

I didn't get around to posting a year's end summary for 2008 until the first day of 2009, so I'm going to post early this time like I did in 2007, partly in hopes that it will help me figure out my 2010 resolutions (in a later post).

New stories published in 2009: 6

• "The Shadow-Witch", Cinema Spec, Raven Electrick Ink (print, short story/fantasy)
  
• "Come-From-Aways", On Spec #76 (print & PDF, short story/science fiction)
  
• "Stilts and Straw", Flashing Swords #12 (print, short story/fantasy)
  
• "Sphinx!", Ages of Wonder, DAW Books (print, short story/fantasy)
  
• "Tekkai Exhales His Avatar", Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show #11 (online, short story/science fiction)
  
• "Silk and Shadow", Beneath Ceaseless Skies #11 (2009, online, short story/fantasy)
  

Reprints published in 2009: 2

• "Metamorphoses in Amber", The Best of Abyss & Apex, Vol. 1, Hadley Rille Books (print, novelette/fantasy)
  
• "Dynamics of a Hanging", The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Night Shade Books (print & online, short story/mystery)
  

To be published in 2010: 3

• "The Character of the Hound", The Dragon and the Stars, DAW (TBD, print, short story/fantasy)
  
• "The Paragon Lure", Alembical II, Paper Golem LLC (TBD, print, novella/fantasy)
  
• "Cygnet's Shadow", On Spec (TBD, short story/print)
  

Awaiting editorial response: 3

• "Night of the Manticore" (novelette/fantasy)
  
• "The Curse of Chimere" (short story/fantasy)
  
• "The Spirit of Wine" (short story/fantasy)
  

In the hands of my writer's group: 1

• "Stilts and Sorcery" (short story/fantasy)
  

Firsts

• nominated for the 2009 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer
  
• attended my first WorldCon
  
• started a a neo-pro writer's group in Toronto (the Stop-Watch Gang)
  
• third pro sale, qualifying me for full membership in the SFWA
  
• about to join Crime Writers of Canada
  

Plus a handful of works-in-progress. Overall, a great year! I hope it finishes on a high note.