This has been a really, really hard week because of the move and various issues that have come up with that...but some really good things have happened, too, and I wanted to make sure I talked about them here ( Read more... )

Happy Halloween, everyone! Over here, we're dealing with a bit of a horror story with our new house (wahhh - oh, the stress), but for a much more fun approach to the holiday, I thought I'd post a quick reminder: you can still find my very Halloween-y story "Clasp Hands" (written last Halloween, in the spirit of the season!) free online at Daily ( Read more... )

Oof. It's been a slightly frantic few days between one thing and another - most of them having to do with MrD's school year coming to an end and me trying to do All The Things beforehand! Er, as you might be able to guess...that attempt really isn't working out so well. Oh well! At least, by the time he's finished with school, I really should have ( Read more... )

Our weekend away in London turned out to be fabulous - see Patrick's blog entry for the exact, roaring reasons why (Mr D was in heaven!) - and in a really lovely surprise, my story "Clasp Hands" was published at Daily Science Fiction a week earlier than I'd expected. You can read it here. I hope you enjoy it!

And I've been tagged by the fabulous ( Read more... )

This morning I was woken by the sound of MrD and Patrick singing "Happy birthday" as Patrick carried my breakfast into the room and MrD carried his carefully wrapped gift for me. I opened up the whole pile of presents with MrD and Baby X both bouncing excitedly on my lap (and both trying their best to HELP!), and while I can't say their help made ( Read more... )

Woot! I have two pieces of news, both of which have made me really happy.

First, my YA Victorian romance/fantasy story, "The Unladylike Education of Agatha Tremain", has just been republished in Inscription Magazine - so you can now read it free online!

Here's a quick snippet from the opening:

At the age of sixteen, Agatha Tremain let down her ( Read more... )

Today Stolen Magic is finally out in paperback in the U.S. and Canada! If you've been waiting to read it until it was in a cheaper edition (and oh, would I understand that!), now is your chance. And if you've already read it, I would SO appreciate any online signal-boosting, shout-outs, or reviews left on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or elsewhere! ( ( Read more... )

Woot! The new issue of Flytrap Magazine is online now, and it includes my short story "Lighting Candles"!

There are also a whole bunch of other stories by fabulous authors like Jenn Reese, Greg van Eekhout, Melissa Marr, and many more.

Here's a quick excerpt from my story:

"Oh, I’ve never seen his real face," my youngest sister says. "He only ( Read more... )

It's amazing just how much better I felt the moment I hit "Post" on yesterday's entry ( A Note on Awards and Self-Rejecting), after all my agonizing about it over the past month. I was actually surprised, at first, by just HOW good it felt...until it finally hit me: finally, for the first time since I'd first told myself No, don't post anything ( Read more... )

I've been reading all the online debate this year about whether or not authors ought to publicly mention the stories and books of theirs that are eligible for awards, and I nodded along with a lot of it, especially this piece by Amal El-Mohtar about why it really is important for authors and useful for voters ( Read more... )