Readercon!

I will be at Readercon! Want to find me? Here’s my schedule:

Friday, July 12

11:30am (Salon C) – Reading: Caroline M. Yoachim

2:00pm (Salon 3) –  Panel: Retroactive Problem Solving in SF

A lot of the more hopeful SF is written in worlds where the most urgent problems facing our society today have already been solved, and the characters face other, different problems. But by imagining futures where our current crises are of the past, are we missing out on an opportunity to blaze a real path into such futures? What does it mean to tell stories about solving …

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“Our Chatbots Said “I Love You,” Shall We Meet?” now online at Clarkesworld!

I have a new story out today in issue 213 of Clarkesworld Magazine! Our Chatbots Said “I Love You,” Shall We Meet? Here at 123aiLOVEu, we take all the guesswork out of dating. With personalized chatbots trained on social media and chat histories, we put you in conversation with hundreds of potential matches . . . and you never have to say a thing!

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“We Will Teach You How To Read | We Will Teach You How To Read” online at Lightspeed!

I have a new story in issue 168 of Lightspeed, and I am so excited to share it with you! This is a story that I wrote with the deliberate goal of making your brain do a thing that human brains really do not do. Give it a try* and let me teach you a whole new way to read?

We Will Teach You How To Read | We Will Teach You How To Read

“This is our story, simplified: Life. Loss. Transformation. Love. Death. Iteration.”

In addition to the story, I also did an Author Spotlight interview …

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2023 Year-end Post

I only had one piece out this year, which makes for a year-end post that is short and sweet.

Worlds pop into existence, composed by clicking keyboards or in spraying foam on waves of thought; tucked away in spells, algorithms, entangled particles, recipes; evoked by waving wands; sketched by twirling ley-line brushes; assembled by spinning quantum mundistructors. They’ve been doing it for eons.

But recently, there has been a pause.

“I’ve lost it,” he says to her, despondent. “I haven’t been able to make a new world in sixteen terakernels.”

“Same. I haven’t conjured one in ages.” The barest wisp …

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Norwescon!

I will be at Norwescon! Want to find me? Here’s my schedule:

Thursday, April 6

Time Travel and Historical Fiction

4:00pm – 5:00pm @ Evergreen 1 & 2

Frank Morin (M), Caroline M. Yoachim, Ellis Bray, David D. Levine

If you could travel back in time, where would you go? Time travel adds a slew of cultural complication to historical fiction. Consider Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court and Octavia Butler’s Kindred. This panel discusses what makes such stories so intriguing.

Friday, April 7

Intersecting Art and Technology

11:00am – 12:00pm @ Evergreen 3 & 4

Wm …

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“Collaboration?” is in Uncanny Magazine, Issue 50!

New fiction out today! “Collaboration?” is a novelette I wrote with Ken Liu, and it is in Uncanny Magazine’s 50th issue!

“Worlds pop into existence, composed by clicking keyboards or in spraying foam on waves of thought…”

Writing this broke my brain in all the best ways. Working with Ken pushed me in directions I would not otherwise have gone, and we got to dig deep into the question of what collaboration really is. It was an absolute joy to write, and I am so excited to share it with you!

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2022 Year-End Post

I wasn’t going to write an end-of-year post this year, partly because I usually focus on new stories I’ve published… and this is a gap year for me with nothing new coming out. But despite that it was a good year for me, writing-wise:

  • “Colors of the Immortal Palette” was a Hugo, Nebula, Ignyte, and Eugie Award finalist, and was included in Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022. I am so very proud of that novelette, and I’m deeply grateful for all the honors and attention it got this year.
  • The science fiction awards database has (among …

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Worldcon Schedule!

If you will be at Chicon next month, come see me! Here’s my schedule:

Friday, Sept 2
10am – The Writing Workshop (Michigan 3)

Saturday, Sept 3
10am – Reading (Dusable)
1pm – Let Me Tell You About the Very Alien: They Are Different From You and Me (Grand Hall K)
4pm – Table Talk (Crystal Foyer)

Sunday, Sept 4
10am – Autographing

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Almond Cream Pie

I often post pictures of almond cream pie when I make it for Thanksgiving, and people sometimes ask for the recipe. So here it is! This is basically a recipe for the filling, because I use a store bought pie crust to save myself a little time :)

Ingredients:

1 pre-baked pie crust, cooled

Filling:

2/3 cup sugar

3 tablespoons cornstarch

1/4 tsp salt

1 cup heavy cream

1.5 cup milk

4 egg yolks

1 tablespoon butter

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2021 Award Eligibility

I had one novelette out in 2021: “Colors of the Immortal Palette” (12,900 words) appeared in issue 39 of Uncanny Magazine.

“Colors of the Immortal Palette” combines so many things that I love–Sondheim musicals, impressionist art, and ukiyo-e prints, to name just a few of the inspirations. It is also deeply personal, an exploration of navigating the world of art from a marginalized perspective. Plus I realized that I’d never written a vampire story, and wanted to play with ideas about immortality, legacy, and time.

Here is a short excerpt from the beginning:

LEAD WHITE

I will always remember …

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