Each month io9 selects one story from the current issue of Lightspeed to feature on their site, and for September they’ve chosen my story “Seven Wonders of a Once and Future World“! I like to read io9, so I’m really excited to have my story featured there :)
My 50th published story is now out! It’s at Lightspeed Magazine, and you can read it for free:
http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/seven-wonders-of-a-once-and-future-world/
(You can also hear the story as a podcast, narrated by Karyn O’Bryant, using the “Listen” button at the above link.)
I sometimes write stories using what I call “flashmash” where I write several interrelated flash stories and mash them together into a longer piece. In “Seven Wonders of a Once and Future World,” the story is divided into seven parts, each one focusing on a different wonder of the world. …
Last week Sofia Samatar tweeted that authors should have good clean websites, and K. Tempest Bradford has been signal boosting and expanding on that idea. I’ve had a website since 2007, but seeing all these tweets about the importance of a *good* website made me realize that I was long overdue for a website overhaul.
Before I started building my site, I looked at lots of examples. A few author websites that I found particularly helpful in getting ideas for content and layout were Mary Robinette Kowal, Cat Rambo, and Ken Liu. When I was looking at …
It’s a lot easier to update an existing website than it is to start over from scratch. But at some point you start looking at your website from 2007 and wondering if maybe something that isn’t done with html tables might be a good idea. Probably for most reasonable people, that point was quite a while ago. But better late than never, right?
The first day of building the new site was immensely frustrating. WordPress isn’t that hard to learn, but there are a lot of options for themes and widgets and it took a while for me to …
This weekend is Armadillocon, and I'm going to be there! I haven't been back to Austin for a few years, and I am really looking forward to seeing some old friends (and meeting new people too, of course!). Want to find me at the con? Here's my schedule:
Sa1000F What Sciences Haven't Been Used?
Sat 10:00 AM-11:00 AM Ballroom F
Allen, Ledbetter*, J. Moore, Simmons, Yoachim
It's not all astronomy and physics. Where are the great psychology SF novels? What else should we be seeing?
Sa1100D Learning to Write: Recommended Workshops, …
My story “Seasons Set in Skin” is in issue #177 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies.
I have a story out in the May/June issue of F&SF!
A lot of writers have a market that they submitted to from the beginning and have always wanted to crack. This one is mine. My very first rejection came from F&SF, printed on a half sheet of paper and signed by JJA. The rejection arrived in February of 2006.
I wrote “Four Seasons in the Forest of Your Mind” back when CC Finlay was guest editing at F&SF, with limited windows for submissions. I got the idea for the …
I wrote a series of 5 food-related flash stories for Daily Science Fiction, and they are now all available to read here: http://dailysciencefiction.com/hither-and-yon/tasting-menu
107 submissions (includes reprints and foreign markets)
31 acceptances (20 original stories, 11 reprints/foreign market)
33 personal rejections
39 form rejections
Submissions-wise, 2014 was an amazing year for me. I sent out more submissions than any other year, and I had more acceptances this year than in the last 4 years combined.
46500 words written
I don't track daily wordcounts, so to get words written I added up the wordcounts for all my completed drafts. This includes a couple of co-written stories (and yes, I claimed all the words even though my co-author wrote some), but doesn't …
As I start my year-end frantic reading of short fiction to put together my Nebula nominations, I really like other people's posts reminding me what stories they've had out this year. (I promise myself every year that I will keep up better and not binge read at the end of the year, but do I keep up? NO. I blame other people for writing too much good stuff.) So here is my 2014 roundup post.
My very favorite of my short stories out this year (and, in fact, my favorite of all the things I've ever had published so far) …
