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Christmas Wedding is reprinted at GigaNotoSaurus. This story is secretly one of my favorites. Okay, not so secret since I’m telling you.
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Woot! My story “Ordinary Things” will appear in Kaleidoscope, a new YA anthology dedicated to YA fantasy from diverse perspectives. It’ll have stories showing diverse races, classes, gender identities, and many more.

I think this is awesome because a young adult antho has the ( Read more... )

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My short story “Spellsketching” will appear in Daily Science Fiction. Hooray!

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Here’s my schedule for Worldcon programming! I think in particular that the alternate history panel and the short story writing panel are going to be amazing. And a full hour for reading! That is going to ROCK.
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I got this from @amberdine and this describes my life!

http://www.buzzfeed.com/jessicamisener/frustrating-things-about-being-an-extrovert

I know, in the wider world there are more extroverts. But in the writing world, I’m a weirdo. This might help describe my alien mind for all ( Read more... )

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In a holding pattern of sorts, waiting. At least three different home improvement projects have dragged out all summer. The windows that were supposed to be done in May will be done in September. The shower which broke last Thanksgiving will be done in September. (You wouldn’t ( Read more... )

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You know how you commit to doing something (say, regular postings on a blog), and then you slip off schedule? And you feel bad, so you resolve that whenever you do make a post, you’ll make it a really good one? And then you get so worried about making the new blog post awesome ( Read more... )

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Hey folks! It’s almost time for FOGcon 3!

FOGcon is an annual sf/f convention in the San Francisco Bay Area. It takes place from Mar 8-10. Our honored guests are Terry Bisson and Susan R. Matthews. Our theme is Law, Order, and Crime.

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I’ll be finalizing my nominations this week for the Nebula awards. All nominations have to be in by Friday, by the way. If you’re reading for the awards, I hope you’ll consider my short story Lion Dance, which was published in Asimov’s Oct/Nov 2012 and then podcast on Escape Pod ( Read more... )

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185 The Body of the Future Otis Literature Sat 2:30 PM Duration: 01:15
SF gives us a view of various future possibilities for human bodies. Whether through evolution, body modification, or genetic manipulation, the SF future holds a lot of possibilities. How do those ( Read more... )