Story at Daily Science Fiction!
My story “Birthday Child” is up at Daily Science Fiction. This is my last story of the year, and brings my total publications for 2015 up to 23, which is the most I’ve ever had in one year!
Novelette in the Jan/Feb issue of Analog
Tina Connolly and I co-wrote a novelette titled “We Will Wake Among the Gods, Among the Stars,” and it’s out in the current issue of Analog!
This is my first time appearing in Analog, and Tina’s first time in the magazine as well. Really happy that we broke into the market together :)
Stories in 2015
This has been kind of an amazing year for me, and I have 23 original stories out (8 short stories and 15 flash). My favorite, if you’re looking for a place to start, is Seven Wonders of a Once and Future World.
The other story of mine that has been getting a lot of buzz (including a tweet from Wil Wheaton!) is Rock, Paper, Scissors, Love, Death.
Here’s the complete list:
Short Stories:
Ninety-Five Percent Safe (Jan 2015, Asimov’s)
Temporary Friends (Escape Pod, Artemis Rising, February 2015)
Four Seasons in the Forest of …
Time Travel Love Story Double Feature
I have an original story out today at Lightspeed Magazine, a time travel love story called “Rock, Paper, Scissors, Love, Death.” You can read it for free at: http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/rock-paper-scissors-love-death/
In an odd coincidence, my OTHER time travel love story “Beneath the Willow Branches, Beyond the Reach of Time” is out as a (reprint) podcast at StarShipSofa today: http://www.starshipsofa.com/blog/2015/11/17/starshipsofa-no-411-caroline-m-yoachim-and-tricia-glock/
Katherine Inskip does a lovely reading of the story. This story is an older one of mine (I originally …
The World Fantasy Award – Let’s Make it a Book!
So I’ve seen a lot of discussion about what the redesigned WFC Award ought to look like, and I figured I’d throw out my suggestion: Let’s make it a book.
It could be an open book, with a different artist each year illustrating the pages (much like the hugo base is different each year). It could be a closed book, simple and elegant, with information about the year and whatever else where the title would go. It could be a bunch of books that twirl up in a precarious stack.
Because what writer wouldn’t love to go to WFC and …
World Fantasy Convention 2015 Recap
This past weekend I was at WFC. I had a lovely time, meeting many people I formerly only knew online and seeing lots of old friends. (I would try to list everyone, except that I would inevitably miss someone.)
I also gave a reading, which was well attended despite being in the earliest time slot on the schedule. I read two stories (“Four Seasons in the Forest of Your Mind from the May/June F&SF, and “Please Approve the Dissertation Research of Angtor” from Unidentified Funny Objects 4). I also got it into my head that I would sing the Lovecraft …
Come Find Me at World Fantasy Con!
Here is my schedule for World Fantasy:
Friday 8:30pm Autographing Session in City Center 2A and 2B
Starts at 8:30pm (open to signers at 8:oopm). Bring me things and I will sign them! I will also bring a few print magazines to give away to people who stop by and chat with me.
Saturday 10am Reading in Broadway 1
Yes, I have the very first time slot (10 am!) on Saturday for my reading. I’m hoping people will be awake! I will have chocolate to give away. At minimum a dark chocolate and a milk chocolate. Possibly several kinds of …
“Betty and the Squelchy Saurus” at Fireside Magazine
My story “Betty and the Squelchy Saurus” is out today at Fireside Magazine, with a beautiful illustration by Galen Dara. Excerpt:
Betty was hanging wet towels on the clothesline when a faded blue Plymouth Roadking came up the drive. Someone had donated the car to the Six Sisters orphanage back in 1952, and Sister Mary Margaret was the only nun who knew how to drive it.
A new girl got out of the car — maybe five years old, with brown hair and lots of freckles. Skittish little thing, probably terrified …
Short story collection!
My debut short story collection SEVEN WONDERS OF A ONCE AND FUTURE WORLD & OTHER STORIES is coming out with Fairwood Press in 2016! It’s available for pre-order here.
The table of contents isn’t finalized yet, but the collection will include between 25 and 35 stories, totaling about 95k words. It will be a mix of science fiction and fantasy, flash fiction and longer work. There will be at least one original story.
Want to get an idea of what the collection will be like? The title story “Seven Wonders of a Once and Future World” …
“The Little Mermaid of Innsmouth” at Drabblecast
My first ever commissioned story is a mash-up of The Little Mermaid and Lovecraft’s Shadow Over Innsmouth, told from the perspective of a Japanese fish-frog girl. You can listen (or read) “The Little Mermaid of Innsmouth” over at The Drabblecast:
http://www.drabblecast.org/2015/09/13/drabblecast-370-the-little-mermaid-of-innsmouth/
To go with the story, I wrote a Lovecraftian parody of “Part of Your World,” from Disney’s version of The Little Mermaid. There’s a version of it at the end of the Drabblecast episode linked above, but I did a somewhat cleaner recording of me singing the song, which you …
