Million Writers Award
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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 …
Sunshine!
Seattle can get a little gray and dreary sometimes, but when the sun comes out it sure is beautiful!
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
New stories available!
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 …
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 …
Part of a healthy diet?
Vanilla-almond bread pudding topped with slivered almonds, raspberry sauce and vanilla ice cream. A good source of . . .um. . .calcium.
Arts and Crafts
I was feeling artsy and or crafty the other day, and decided I would try my hand at making some beaded jewelry. One of the things I tried was something vaguely steampunky — disassembling watches and reassembling them so that the mechanism shows. Sadly, many newer watches (particularly on the lower end of the price range) do not have the lovely metal gears that older watches have; but I think the end result was still pretty interesting.
Shots of some of my …
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 …
Ribbit!
Spent some time this morning cleaning up after yesterday’s flooding. We found a frog hanging out in our garage puddles. Poor frog didn’t seem too pleased that we were squeegeeing all the water out with an old mop. Eventually (after some gentle prodding with aforementioned mop) we encouraged him to head outside, and find a more natural puddle somewhere.
Now the sandbags are all stacked up in case we need them again later, most of the standing water is out of the garage, and things are …
