Caroline M. Yoachim

Norwescon Schedule

Coming to Norwescon? I’m doing a reading at 10:30am on Friday. Come hear a story and grab some free chocolate!

Here’s my full schedule:

Patterns of Success, Patterns of Failure Thu 6:00 PM-7:00 PM – Evergreen 1&2 Nicole Dieker (M), Gregory A. Wilson, Caroline M. Yoachim, Annie Bellet, Dean Wells Reading: Caroline M. Yoachim Fri 10:30 AM-11:00 AM – Cascade 1 Caroline M. Yoachim (M) A Culture By Any Other Name Sat 12:00 PM-1:00 PM – Cascade 10 Jason Bourget (M), Caroline M. Yoachim, Kim Ritchie, Lawrence M. Schoen, Luna Lindsey Autograph Session 1 Sat 2:00 PM-3:00 PM – …

Locus Recommended Reading List

The cover story for my collection, “Seven Wonders of a Once and Future World,” made it onto the Locus Recommended Reading List! Really thrilled to have my story listed with a bunch of other top-notch work. A lot of what I’ve already read from the list has been awesome, and I’m looking forward to checking out some of the stories and books that I hadn’t seen yet.

2015 Locus Recommended Reading List

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 …

“Seven Wonders” selected for Best SF of the Year

The table of contents has been announced, so I can share that my story “Seven Wonders of a Once and Future World” is going to be included in Neil Clarke’s Best Science Fiction of the Year. I’m so excited to be a part of this book, alongside many of my favorite authors!

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 …

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 …