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“The Archronology of Love” at Lightspeed Magazine

I have a new story out this month! My novelette “The Archronology of Love,” is the cover story for the April issue of Lightspeed Magazine. The gorgeous illustration is by Reiko Murakami.

There is also an Author Spotlight interview where I talk about the origins and inspirations of the story, and how my writing has changed over time.

Here is an excerpt from the story:

This is a love story, the last of a series of moments when we meet.

Saki Jones leaned into the viewport window until her nose …

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Year in Review: 2015

Numbers

36 stories published:
23 originals
13 reprints

33 acceptances:
1 short story collection
14 original stories
17 reprints
1 non-fiction essay

13 new stories written (45k words*)

* I don’t track my daily wordcount, so my yearly wordcount is based only on finished stories. My actual wordcount is probably somewhat higher. But definitely not high enough. Generating more words is really something that I need to work on for next year.

Year in Review

2015 has been big for me in a lot of ways. I had 23 original stories out this …

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2010 Nebula Award Nominees

SFWA has posted the nominees for the 2010 Nebula Awards, and I am very excited to announce that my novelette, “Stone Wall Truth,” made the ballot! Squee! It is a huge honor to be up for the award alongside so many amazing writers.

And the nominees for novelette are…

‘‘Map of Seventeen’’, Christopher Barzak (The Beastly Bride)
‘‘The Jaguar House, in Shadow’’, Aliette de Bodard (Asimov’s 7/10)
‘‘The Fortuitous Meeting of Gerard van Oost and Oludara’’, Christopher Kastensmidt (Realms of Fantasy 4/10)
“Plus or Minus’’, James Patrick Kelly (Asimov’s 12/10)
‘‘Pishaach’’, Shweta Narayan (The Beastly …

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Scriblings from 2010

The obligatory year-in-review post. Due to having taken some time away from writing after my daughter was born, I didn’t do a lot of writing in 2010 (so I’m not going to post a list of stories written), but I did have four new stories come out:

Stone Wall Truth – originally in Asimov’s, Feb 2010, but now available on my website
Blood Willows – Flash Fiction Online, March 2010
What Happens in Vegas – Greatest Uncommon Denominator, Issue #6
The Sometimes Child – Fantasy Magazine, May 1, 2010

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New stories available!

February 2010 Asimovs with Stone Wall Truth by Caroline Yoachim

The February 2010 issue of Asimov’s hits newsstands today, including my novelette “Stone Wall Truth” (and also the novelette “The Wind-Blown Man” by fellow Codexian Aliette de Bodard).

An excerpt from my story:

Njeri sewed the woman together with hairs from a zebra tail. Her deer-bone needle dipped under the woman’s skin and bobbed back out. The contrast of the white seams against her dark skin was striking.

“The center seam makes a straight line,” Njeri told her apprentice, “but the others flow with the …

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Nebula Noms

Nominations have opened up for the Nebula Awards. I’ve just joined SFWA, so if there’s an eligible story you think is nom-worthy (be it yours or someone else’s), feel free to call my attention to it in the comments section.

And now for a little shameless self-promotion! I’ve got five award-eligible works this year:

Short Stories (2009)
“Tending the Mori Birds,” Fantasy Magazine (September 24, 2009)
“Firefly Igloo,” Shimmer (Issue 10)
“Setting My Spider Free,” Electric Velocipede (Issue 17/18)
“Pageant Girls,” Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine (Issue 42) **

Novelettes (2009)
“The …

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Story at Fantasy Magazine!

My story, “Tending the Mori Birds,” is now online at Fantasy Magazine.

Excerpt:

A Mori bird waited for him on the railing, its claws wrapped around the wood. The dying light accentuated the patch of red feathers at the base of its slender neck, the only color on an otherwise black bird. A bloody-throated Mori bird, harbinger of death.

I wrote this story while attending the Clarion West Writers Workshop back in 2006, and it is the very first story I ever sold. Due to an assortment of unforseen circumstances the story is not …

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Free Fiction!

Issue 17/18 of Electric Velocipede will be available in print soon, but in the meantime John Klima has made a selection of stories from the issue available to read for free online:

* The Bear Dresser’s Secret by Richard Bowes
* Enmity by K. Tempest Bradford
* The Spaces Between Things by Matthew Kressel
* Setting My Spider Free by Caroline M. Yoachim

Here’s a brief excerpt from my story:

Cool air swirled in through the window and carried with it the faint tapping of claws scratching …

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Story Online, Website Updates

Issue #20 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies is now online, including my story “The Land of Empty Shells.”

Excerpt:

The rest of the birthing was hard work, but painless. Dziko and Terra sprinkled water over the clay to soften it and kneaded the flesh together until there was no way to separate his riverbed brown from her sunset orange. Then they divided the babyflesh into two equal pieces, soon to be their children.

Read the rest here.

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I finally got around to updating my webpage, which had gotten a bit out …

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