Snippets, a kids’ magazine run by the non-profit organization I volunteer at, needs only $344 $264 $129 by Sunday night to be funded! http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/whatcomyoungwriters/publish-talented-young-writers-in-whatcom-county Snippets provides kids with a chance to see what it’s like being a real writer. Some are given revision requests, and many are published. There’s even a reading & signing at [...]
Registration is still open for the 2013 Cascade Writers Workshop (July 25-28), a 4-day event in scenic Portland, OR, specializing in science fiction and fantasy writing. Guest speakers include agent Cameron McClure, editor Claire Eddy, publisher Patrick Swenson, editor and author Jennifer Brozek, publicist Jaym Gates and authors including Ken Scholes, J.A. Pitts, Nisi Shawl, [...]
Don’t even say it. I KNOW. I have a LOT of novels that I should go polish and send out before I write a new one. But it’s so shiny! And I’ll let you look at some of the sketchy, unfinished eyecandy, because since I can’t show you the other things I drew tonight (SEKRIT!), [...]
Thursday, February 28, 2013
And the fourth of my contracts is in, so I may shriek merrily: Steve Berman accepted my story, “Midnight at the Feet of the Caryatides,” for the anthology Where Thy Dark Eye Glances: Queering Edgar Allan Poe. “Midnight at the Feet of the Caryatides” is about courage, love, and revenge at a Victorian-ish boarding school [...]
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
So far, 2013 has been good for me in the realm of short fiction: Podcastle accepted “My Dignity in Scars” (first seen in Strange Horizons, March 2012) for their fine podcast “Sinking Among Lilies” (first seen in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Issue #92) was included in The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2013 by Paula [...]
Last year, Beneath Ceaseless Skies published my story “Sinking Among Lilies” in Issue #92. Recently, the 2012 Locus Recommended Reading List came out, with this story included! Since the rights have reverted to me, I thought this was a good time to experiment with the process of formatting and publishing something on my own at [...]
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
One of my favorite writers (and yes I’m biased, because he has attacked me with a pair of oversized novelty scissors, which I found strangely endearing) released a tiny collection of his work called Four, just for the experience of making an e-book. Keffy drew the cover himself, and commissioned interior illustrations from four other [...]
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Sale: On Sunday, the story I wrote for my sixth week at Clarion West was accepted for publication at Lightspeed Magazine. HOORAY! I love this story, currently titled “Breathless in the Deep,” because I can spot much of what I learned at the workshop–even though I decided that last week not to “try,” but instead [...]
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Here is my second post this year about Thanksgiving. (If you missed it, here’s the first.) Sorry this one is late; it was harder to write than I expected. Don’t feel obligated to read this–it does have more text than photos, and no cute animal videos. But these posts are going here for me, because [...]
Friday, September 21, 2012
…is a real thing. There’s finally a paying market for that erotic unicorn spy thriller you wrote when you were twelve. Of course, I had to go digging through my old work and see what horrible things I had written. When I was twenty, I came up with this idea for a novel about vampirates, [...]
