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Dang, I really love this book.

“No one has ever written truly immortal poetry about how good their dog looks in knitted garments.”

Amen, brother.

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So, the awesome Eden Robins (co-editor of Brain Harvest) has a story, “The Empire Builder” in Fantasy Magazine’s final three flash-fiction Halloween stories. Readers get to pick their favorite, and I think you’d really love her piece. You can go read it and vote here.

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I was really happy to find out that my vampire alt history/vampire academia story-one I really like, but am aware was a weirdly hard sell for most places-was snapped up by Daikaijuzine today, and will appear in an issue at the end of December.

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My winning “worst cover letter” is now live in Poor Mojo’s Almanac(k). This was super fun to write.

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On Monday, John Howell posted an excellent article about the ridiculousness of the SFF “ghetto”:

“For a genre that produces some of the most intelligent, thought provoking, creatively challenging works imaginable, it’s hard to understand how they could be overlooked so ( Read more... )

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Miles Klee’s “Nurse on Terror Island.” Not your mom’s Little Mermaid.

Trivia point of great interest: you can read another great piece by Miles in Birkensnake 2-we are ToC mates. It’s a weird, cool feeling when you publish someone and are published alongside them.

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Come join me at this show.  It’ll be good stuff, pinky swear.

Blackbird Orchestra, your next new favorite band, will be performing with Portland’s own  The Red King. Also on hand will be Nathaniel Johnstone (of Abney Park), Finn Von Claret, and other local Seattle artists.


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Potlatch, the convention, is coming March 5-7, 2010 to Seattle, WA.

Potlatch, an all-volunteer, non-profit, literary event for the readers and writers of speculative fiction. Proceeds from Potlatch benefit Clarion West. And this year, I will be acting as the workshop ( Read more... )

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…you can skip past my story, “Correspondence” at Birkensnake, and instead hit “Basic Biology,” my retell of Rapunzel, at Cabinet des Fées-which is also, now, live.

Or better yet, read both.

I’m evvvvvverrrrrywhere. W00!

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is now live at Birkensnake.

I wrote this story at Clarion West (in week 5), after a joking dare from Connie Willis on whether I could write a hard SF space opera in less than 2000 words. “Correspondence” weighs in at just over 1500 words, and was inspired by an idea seeded to ( Read more... )