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Where did 2011 go?  A few blinks of the eye and *poof*!

●   I’ll never forget 2011 because it was the year I was nominated for my first major award, the World Fantasy Award, for my Black Static story “Tu Sufrimiento Shall Protect Us.” I traveled to San Diego for the award ceremonies, did a reading, and got to lose to the amazing Joyce Carol Oates ( Read more... )

I haven’t posted the good news here because it’s been a week and I’m still walking around in a daze.  I’ve been nominated for a World Fantasy Award! (I just reread that sentence and I still can’t quite get my head around it.)  I was in Bethany Beach, Delaware last Thursday lounging on a beach when I received a text message from Raj Khanna and an ( Read more... )

I really love this illustration by Ben Baldwin for my short story “For Love’s Delirium Haunts the Fractured Mind,” which will be appearing in Interzone #235 in early July.  It depicts one of my aliens, the Wergens, and as N.K. Jemisin recently told me, it captures “both its humanity and quintessential creepiness.”  Indeed!


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The latest issue of Interzone (#234) contains the results of the magazine’s annual readers’ poll.  I found out that my stories “Dance of the Kawkawroons” and “In the Harsh Glow of its Incandescent Beauty” placed at #6 and #7 in the list of favorites.  It’s always an honor to be acknowledged by my British readers.  Interestingly, this year three ( Read more... )

A couple of reviews of note:

♦  A thoughtful review of the StarShipSofa podcast of “Snatch Me Another” calls my story “dark and thoughtful and terrible, in the best possible way. Snatch me another story from Mercurio Rivera. 4.5 out of 5.”

♦  And Pete Tennant provides an in-depth analysis of “Tu Sufrimiento Shall Protect Us” and makes the following ( Read more... )


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Overall, 2010 was a good year for me writing-wise.

I began the year with a bit of a bang - with stories in back-to-back issues of Interzone.  “In the Harsh Glow of its Incandescent Beauty” appeared in the January/February issue (#226).  It features my lovestruck aliens, the Wergens, who are assisting a man on a quest across the solar system to ( Read more... )

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