Woot! Escape Pod has accepted Jaiden’s Weaver for their podcast. I love Escape Pod. It’s my go-to audio fiction source when I’m building puppets so I’m delighted that “Jaiden’s Weaver” is going to appear there. Originally, this story appeared in Mike Brotherton’s Diamonds in the Sky anthology and you can read the entire story there. […]
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I’m over the moon about this sale and it also marks a couple of interesting firsts for me that I thought were worth sharing “Kiss Me Twice” is my first novella sale It began life as my first NaNoWriMo effort It’s my first story with a recurring character Way back in 2004, I was living
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(I actually wrote this post in August but saved it as a draft instead of publishing. Whoops!) Way back in 2005, I attended OSC’s Literary BootCamp with Rick Novy. He and I had known each other online, but this was the first time we met in person. We’ve stayed in touch over the years and
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During my lunch break from recording today, I checked email and had an acceptance from Daily Science Fiction for my story “American Changeling.” I’ll tell you, a short story sale makes lunch seem a whole lot tastier. There are two things about this sale that make me giggle. 1) I’m in the middle of recording
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I am very pleased to report that my first foray into the Lovecraftian mythos has sold to Innsmouth Free Press. Innsmouth Free Press is a fictional newspaper publishing faux news pieces in a Lovecraftian/Cthulhu Mythos universe, as well as original short fiction stories. Since “Prayer at Dark River” is flash fiction, I’m only going to
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I’m very pleased to announce the sale of my short story “Body Language” to Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show. This is an important sale for me for three reasons. This is the first story I wrote after attending OSC’s Literary Boot Camp and was one of the hardest things I’ve written because I was
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Life on the road doesn’t completely suck. I sold a short story today! Maurice Broaddus is editing an anthology of horror titled Dark Faith for Apex that will come out next May and he just let me know that he’d like to include my story “Ring Road” in it. Actually… there’s a certain irony to
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I call this my time-traveling Grandma story, which isn’t a spoiler, since the story opens with her standing in a time machine. I based the main character on my own grandmother. When Patrick Nielsen Hayden bought it for Tor.com, he asked me to change the character’s name. Why? Because her name was Elois, just like
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I’m thrilled because my short story “The Shocking Affair of the Dutch Steamship Friesland” will appear in John Joseph Adams’s anthology, The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. I’ve been wanting to make a sale to him for a while now because I’ve really liked the anthologies he’s put together. It’s a reprint anthology and this
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10:43 You can tell you’ve been gone for a week when breakfast = birthday cake. # 12:01 Heading out for lunch with @scalzi now. Truly, the fun, it never ends. # 13:22 Novel + sold = Best Birthday present EVER. Short form: to @2muchexposition of Tor by @arcaedia Long form: tinyurl.com/bnkenp # 17:22 Thank you
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I’m stunned. “Evil Robot Monkey” will be appearing in Gardner Dozois’s Year’s Best Science Fiction. You know, there were anthologies that I regularly bought before I started writing seriously. This is one of them, because the selections were always thought-provoking and that’s what I loved about SF. And to have one of my stories in
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I’m delighted to announce that my short story “At the Edge of Dying” will appear in the anthology Clockwork Phoenix 2, edited by Mike Allen. The first anthology was full of amazing stories and I’m thrilled to be in the second incarnation. Here’s a teaser: Kahe peeked over the edge of the earthen trench as
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I’m delighted that “Evil Robot Monkey” will be appearing in Mr. Horton’s anthology, Science Fiction: The Best of the Year 2009. This is the second of my stories that he’s taken and I’m thrilled that he continues to enjoy what I do. Here’s a snippet of Evil Robot Monkey, as a teaser. Sliding his hands
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I think this post should probably consist of nothing but exclamation points. Growing up, I subscribed to Asimov’s and had a shelf full of back issues until I went to college. It was one of my favorite tickets to other worlds but I never imagined, back then, of actually appearing in its pages. But my
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I’m delighted that “Ginger Stuyvesant and the Case of the Haunted Nursery†is going to appear in Talebones #38, tentatively scheduled for Spring 2009. This will be my second time in Talebones, which is one of my favorite magazines. Seriously, if you’re only going to subscribe to one magazine (besides Shimmer) I highly recommend Talebones.
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