On his fiction review page Quick Sip Reviews, Charles Payseur posts a flattering and thought-provoking review of my story “Laws of Impermanence” in Uncanny Magazine. There are things about this review that I like even better than the story. 😉
Announcing a SCAVENGER HUNT for Anthems Outside Time and Other Strange Voices! The questions below can mostly be answered by reading the stories in the collection plus the author’s notes – although some might require a few minutes’ search-engine research too, unless you’ve a head stuffed full of trivia. The […]
If your Kindle order of #AnthemsOutsideTime was “canceled by the publisher,” it’s a glitch. See the Fairwood Press web site for details. You will definitely be able to re-order it on Amazon, although it doesn’t look available yet (i.e., at 12:40 p.m. Eastern Time on Monday). The hardcopy version *is* […]
Here’s the cover for Anthems Outside Time & Other Strange Voices, to be released by Fairwood Press in July! Many thanks to Patrick Swenson & the other friends who helped to choose the best one. I’m including a link to the pre-order page on the publisher’s web site, just, in […]
Because my ability to edit my Writertopia page seems to have vanished, I am now "transferring my flag," as it were, to LJ. From now on, my bibliography will appear here (until and unless I get a web site of my own): Collections: Anthems Outside Time and Other Strange Voices […]
I have only a few stories eligible for awards for 2015 (or, you know, for 2016, but published in 2015…), all in the Short Story category. The one I'm singling out is "The Plausibility of Dragons", Lightspeed Magazine #66 (November 2015). There are a number of reasons that I'm foregrounding this […]
Since posting my list of recommended stories for 2013, I’ve added quite a few items to it. Go take a look!
Since posting my list of recommended stories for 2013, I’ve added quite a few items to it. Go take a look!
I’ve posted an online survey to test certain hypotheses about SFFH readers and their reading habits. Once the survey is complete, I plan to make the data set available to anyone who wants to analyze it. I’d very much appreciate it if, in addition to taking the survey, you’d repost […]
time-shark has put my story “Selected Program Notes from the Retrospective Exhibition of Theresa Rosenberg Latimer” online at the Mythic Delirium Web site. If you’ve been curious, now’s your chance. (And of course Mike hopes that this will inspire you to go out and buy your own copy of Clockwork […]
For those of you who are SFWA members, here are my 2012 stories that are eligible for the Nebula Awards: Novelette: "Serkers and Sleep", Beneath Ceaseless Skies #96 (May 31, 2012). Short Stories: "Financial Strategies for Innovative Researchers", Mad Scientist Journal (October, 2012). "Confinement", SQ Mag #2 (May 2012) (Finalist […]
I’m very pleased to report that Strange Horizons has bought my story, “Hear the Enemy, My Daughter”. SH is just about the perfect market for this piece. The first draft was written with the support of my Kickstarter project. (Yes, it takes me a long time to move from first […]
Two pieces of publishing-related news: My hypertext story “Neural Net” is now available on Ideomancer. Unlike most hypertext stories I’ve seen, I’m convinced that this one couldn’t have been told any other way except through hypertext. I must say, it gives me an appreciation of Woolf/Joyce/Faulkner that I never had […]
I am inordinately fond of time travel stories. I’ve published a few of my own, (see, e.g., (“Liza’s Home”, “Conflagration” and “The Never Fair”), and long argued that their juxtaposition and confusion of memory and expectation allow for a kind of emotional resonance you can’t achieve anywhere else. Tell me […]
Here is my review of Timepiece by Heather Albano. Jane Austen Characters in an H. G. Wells Situation If Elizabeth Bennett or Eleanor Dashwood had been given the choice of living the privileged, restricted Regency life into which they were born, on the one hand, or hurtling into the future […]
My story "Keeping Tabs" is now online at Abyss & Apex. "Keeping Tabs" was both my Week 2 and Week 5 story at Clarion. I did a second draft based on the Week 2 comments on the first draft. A&A keeps stories available for free for only about three months, […]
First Contact – Digital Science Fiction Anthology 1 is now available on Kindle. Expect other formats on Smashwords by the end of the week, and a print edition by the end of the month. First Contact includes my story "The Tortoise Parliament", along with stories by Ian Creasey, Ed Greenwood, […]
Stories by some of my friends that are now available for your reading pleasure: by Heather Albano: "The Dark Season" in More Scary Kisses (edited by Liz Grzyb) By Liz Argall: "A Study in Flesh and Mind" in Daily Science Fiction by Grady Hendrix: Satan Loves You (digital […]
My story “Keeping Tabs” will appear in the Fourth Quarter 2011 (October) issue of Abyss & Apex magazine. This was my Week 2 Clarion story, a real stretch for me in voicing. I’m thrilled.
I’m pleased to say that Digital Science Fiction, a new online anthology, just bought my short story "The Tortoise Parliament".
I wonder sometimes if I’m too much of a lawyer. I had a story accepted about a year ago. The publisher sent me the contract, which I expected to sign, but, having spent all that money on law school, I thought I’d actually read the thing. I hated it. It wasn’t […]
Here is my personal fiction report for 2010: I wrote 80,700 words of new fiction this year. This figure is a little misleading, because it doesn’t include rewrite work. Still, it’s worse than either 2009 or 2008. I completed: 10 first drafts 4 second drafts 4 third drafts […]
Since I don’t think anything more of mine will be released before the end of the year, here are my stories from 2010 that would be eligible for the Nebula Award: "Tenure Track", Cosmos Online (November 23, 2010). "Six Drabbles of Separation", part of Trifecta XIII, "Stories from the […]
Mishell Baker‘s weird, sexy and thought-provoking story "Throwing Stones" is now up on Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Highly recommended.
In her blog Nicola Griffith explains, skillfully and convincingly, why she often (usually) portrays sex as an ecstatic, mind-blowing experience, rather than as embarrassing, awkward or disappointing, which is frequently the case in literature. I’ll leave you to read her argument for yourselves, but I think it can be summarized […]
I saw several other writers do this, and it looked like fun. First Lines Meme Below are the first lines from each story on which I am currently working. Not included on this list are stories I have submitted for publication. The stories are in alphabetical order by title. And, […]
I recently got into a conversation with Stan Robinson about the efficacy of depressing fiction. I then began chatting about it with some of my Clarion classmates, and I thought I’d open up the discussion to y’all.
In fiction, the problem with the hot-button topics — politics, religion, sex — is that they have a higher resting volume level. The reader will hear what you say about any one of those things much more loudly and clearly than what you say about beauty, sorrow, the exploration of […]
I like to start debates, when I can get people to play. I’ve been thinking about the issue of "quality" in literature, or heck, even in SFF by itself.
Here are my monthly stats for September 2,705 new words of fiction written this month. 1 16 first drafts currently in progress. 2 1 first draft currently "ripening" before second draft. 3 0 second drafts currently in progress 0 second drafts currently in the hands of […]
Answers.com has sponsored a Creative Writing Challenge, in which one is to write a story, 750 words or less, containing specific words named in the Challenge. Each word is to be linked to the corresponding Answers.com dictionary entry. As you can see, they didn’t choose everyday words. My very short […]
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