Archive for June 7th, 2012

Holy cow, I’ve sold over 50 stories!

As you can tell from yesterday’s big catch-up post, I managed to fall several months behind in updating my tracking spreadsheets and my web page. Now that I’m all caught up, I idly counted up the number of sales, and I was astonished to find that I passed 50 some time ago.

Here’s my list of sales, in approximately the order they were written:

1.  Nucleon Interzone, Year’s Best Fantasy 2, New Voices, Retro Spec, Bli-Panika (Hebrew)
2.  Babel Probe Darker Matter, Drabblecast (audio)
3.  Primates Asimov’s
4.  Fair Play Up for Grabs
5.  Rewind Writers of the Future 18
6.  Joy is the Serious Business of Heaven Realms of Fantasy
7.  Fear of Widths Land/Space, Infinity Plus, Infinity Plus Single
8.  A Passion for Art Interzone, StarShipSofa (audio)
9.  Wind from a Dying Star Bones of the World, Escape Pod (audio)
10.  The Last McDougal’s Asimov’s, Escape Pod (audio)
11.  The Tale of the Golden Eagle F&SF, Science Fiction: The Best of 2003, Audible.com (audio), Bli-Panika (Hebrew), Nova Science Fiction (Swedish), F&SF Czech edition (Czech), Legendes (French, forthcoming)
12.  Zauberschrift Apprentice Fantastic, PodCastle (audio)
13.  A Book is a Journey Tales of the Unanticipated
14.  Written on the Wind Beyond the Last Star, Escape Pod (audio)
15.  Where is the Line Talebones
16.  Legacy Imagination Fully Dilated
17.  I Hold My Father’s Paws Albedo 1, Infinity Plus, Year’s Best SF 24, WRFR (audio)
18.  Tk’Tk’Tk Asimov’s, Escape Pod (audio), Asimov CF (Spanish), Nowy Fantastyka (Polish), Robot (Italian), Portii (Finnish), Bli-Panika (Hebrew), Ikarie (Czech), Helion (Romanian, forthcoming), 21st Century SF (forthcoming)
19.  Charlie the Purple Giraffe Was Acting Strangely Realms of Fantasy, Year’s Best Fantasy 5, Mammoth Book of Extreme Fantasy, Drabblecast (audio)
20.  The Ecology of Fairie Realms of Fantasy
21.  Sun Magic, Earth Magic Beneath Ceaseless Skies (text and audio)
22.  Brotherhood Haunted Holidays
23.  At the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting of Uncle Teco’s Homebrew Gravitics Club OryCon Program Book, Infinity Plus
24.  The True Story of Merganther’s Run (novelette) End of an Aeon
25.  The Curse of Beazoel All Hell Breaking Loose
26.  Circle of Compassion Gateways
27.  Love in the Balance All-Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories, Gears and Levers
28.  Moonlight on the Carpet Aeon
29.  Falling Off the Unicorn Space Magic
30.  Titanium Mike Saves the Day F&SF, Nebula Awards Showcase 2009, StarShipSofa (audio), The Tenth Dimension (Hebrew), Fiction (French), F&SF Czech edition (Czech)
31.  Second Chance (novella) Alembical
32.  A Little Song, A Little Dance Breaking Waves
33.  Firewall Transhuman, SF King (Chinese, unauthorized), Digital Rapture (forthcoming)
34.  Midnight at the Center Court Witch Way to the Mall
35.  Aggro Radius Gamer Fantastic
36.  Trust Daily Science Fiction
37.  The Tides of the Heart Realms of Fantasy, Heiresses of Russ 2012 (forthcoming)
38.  Meet the Stars: Launch Pad 2008 (non-fiction) tor.com
39.  Galactic Stress Diamonds in the Sky
40.  Overnight Moon Strip Mauled
41.  Teaching the Pig to Sing Analog
42.  Family Matters Fangs for the Mammaries
43.  Pupa (novelette) Analog, Into The New Millennium, StarShipSofa (audio, forthcoming), Science Fiction World (Chinese, forthcoming)
44.  Finding Joan Daily Science Fiction
45.  Powers (novelette) Wild Cards I, Wild Cards: L’origine (Italian)
46.  How the Future Predicts Science Fiction (non-fiction) IROSF
47.  horrorhouse DayBreak
48.  The White Raven’s Feather Daily Science Fiction
49.  Letter to the Editor Mad Scientists (forthcoming)
50.  Citizen-Astronaut (novelette) Analog
51.  Into the Nth Dimension Human for a Day
52.  The Last Days of the Kelly Gang Armored, Journey Into (audio, forthcoming)
53.  Liaisons Galantes: A Scientific Romance (novelette) Beneath Ceaseless Skies (forthcoming)
54.  Cry Wolf (novelette) Lowball (forthcoming)
55.  The Wreck of the Mars Adventure (novelette) Old Mars (forthcoming)

Now, not all of these are “stories” (some are non-fiction, some are flash) and not all of them sold to SFWA-qualified paying markets, but they are all SF, Fantasy, or related works, and I did get paid — or at least promised — something for each one, so I’m pretty sure that somewhere in there I’ve sold at least 50 SF and Fantasy stories. But I’m not going to try to declare which one was the 50th.

Still, ::confetti::

Now back to work on that novel…

Extremely belated writing update

I was behind in reporting my writing news even before the trip to Europe, and I got still further behind during that trip, so here’s a massive update.

I have two new sales to report:

  • Science Fantasy novelette “The Wreck of the Mars Adventure,” to anthology Old Mars, edited by Gardner Dozois and George R. R. Martin, forthcoming from Random House.

  • Fantasy novelette “Liaisons Galantes: A Scientific Romance,” to webzine Beneath Ceaseless Skies, edited by Scott H. Andrews, forthcoming Fall 2012.

(and what is is with me and italicized phrases in titles?)

I also have a bunch of reprint sales:

  • “The Last Days of the Kelly Gang,” from Armored, to podcast Journey Into, edited by Marshal Latham.

  • “The Tides of the Heart,” from Realms of Fantasy, to anthology Heiresses of Russ, edited by Sacchi Green and Steve Berman, forthcoming September 2012 from Lethe Press.

  • “Firewall,” from Transhuman, to anthology Digital Rapture, edited by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel, forthcoming August 2012 from Tachyon Publications.

  • Hugo-winner “Tk’Tk’Tk,” from Asimov’s, to anthology 21st Century SF, edited by David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden, forthcoming in 2012 from Tor.

And several of my older stories are now available for Kindle:

I was also interviewed on the SF Signal podcast.

I think that’s everything. Whew!