My story "Lehr, Rex" is reprinted at Apex Magazine - You can score the whole March issue at most ebook stores.

A review of The Modern Fae's Guide to Surviving Humanity - Including a short story from ( Read more... )

In case you missed it, Mark Bourne's eulogy: [ jlake.com | LiveJournal ] - Also, the photo montage displayed at his funeral.

My Sunspin short, "To Raise a Mutiny Betwixt Yourselves", is reprinted online at BEst SF

Black Steampunk / Negra Vaporpunko - Interesting. (Via ( Read more... )

Yesterday I took a day off from Sunspin to let the book steep a bit in my writing subconscious before diving back in. (Though late in the day I did get back to it.) Instead I worked on revisions to my steampunk fairy tale novelette, "You Will Attend Until Beauty Awakens". A combination of wise first reader feedback and my own confirming judgment ( Read more... )

Sigh. An excerpt from a now-deleted scene in Calamity of So Long a Life...

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I've mentioned a couple of times that working through Sunspin in this revision process has been an exercise in killing my darlings. Just for fun, here's a snippet that got excised yesterday, for being heavy on tangential world-building and getting in the way of the plot. I don't know if it will ever re-appear, either in this book or in a related ( Read more... )

Here for the holiday is my Christmas story that ran at Strange Horizons back in 2002, for you to enjoy once more.

"Christmas Season"

The voting poll for the Endurance caption contest will be open for another day or two

A reviewer talks about swords and sorcery in sub-Sahara Africa - Holds up Mainspring as a negative example of 19th century attitudes. Except Mainspring is in large part about 19th century attitudes, so from my perspective, it's an odd critique. And though it's ( Read more... )

So Many Names for the Same Things - Paul Jessup is interesting about genre labels.

Technology Review Goes From Fact to (Science) Fiction - By gummies, I wish I was a cool enough kid to have been invited to that party.

The Bilingual Advantage - A cognitive neuroscientist, Ellen Bialystok has spent almost 40 years learning about how bilingualism ( Read more... )

The Necessity of Blindness - Urban fantasy author J.A. Pitts on how writers see themselves and their drafting process.

Goodnight Dune - (Snurched from ( Read more... )

My flash piece "In the Green Jungles of Envy" is live at 10Flash Quarterly - Go check it out.

The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities - A curious book, in which I have a curious piece of fiction, along with many literary and artistic luminaries.

Best Fantasy Magazine Story of 2010 - A poll, in which calendula_witch and I have a story for consideration ( Read more... )