David D. LevineScience Fiction Author

A collection of brief news updates:

• My story “I Hold My Father’s Paws” will be reprinted in Telling Tales, a Clarion West fundraising anthology edited by Ellen Datlow.
• In the January Locus, Gardner Dozois calls “Last Days of the Kelly Gang” “among the best in the book” and Rich Horton calls “Liaisons Galantes” “a slight but quite enjoyable piece.”
• Also from Locus, online short fiction reviewer Lois Tilton calls “Liaisons Galantes” “interesting” and “quite charming.”
• I will be appearing on a panel, with Erik Wecks, William Hertling, and Daniel (Robopocalypse) Wilson, at the Portland Comic Con (Feb 22-24 at the Oregon Convention Center).

That’s all for now. Watch for some bigger, more exciting news from me in the next couple of weeks!

As you may know, Potlatch is being held this year in conjunction with Foolscap, February 1-3, 2013 at the Redmond Marriott Town Center. As is traditional for both conventions, we’ll be having a writer’s workshop, and the deadline to submit manuscripts for critique has just been extended to January 10. The deadline to sign up for the interactive writing seminars remains January 25. See http://potlatch-sf.org/workshop.php for information.

I’ve just discovered that Bridget and Marti McKenna’s anthology End of an Aeon is now available as an ebook from Baen Ebooks, and what’s more they’ve put up my story “The True Story of Merganther’s Run” as one of the sample chapters you can read for free online. Enjoy!

With LiveJournal’s recent issues, lots of people are talking about moving to Dreamwidth.

I have been posting all of my content at DW as well as LJ (as well as my own blog at daviddlevine.com) for some years now, though I’m still using LJ as my main blog-reading interface. I don’t anticipate this will change soon, but as I’m a belt-and-suspenders kind of guy I have just gone over to Dreamwidth and friended everyone who’s on my LiveJournal friendslist.

If your username on Dreamwidth is different from (i.e. not character-by-character identical to) your username on LiveJournal, please comment here or otherwise notify me of your Dreamwidth username if you’d like to keep in touch there.

I’m considering an irregular series of blog posts about technology, science, and science fiction. If you have any questions on these topics that you’d like to see me address, please post them as comments here. Thanks!

When Hungarian magazine Galaktika paid me for the two stories they’d published previously, they also said “I would like to purchase a third one in advance to restore your faith in our good will.” So here’s another Hungarian translation sale: “Nucleon.” And that’s my last sale for the year, I think.