Happy release day to Wild Cards I, featuring my story “Powers”!
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Locus reviewer Rich Horton’s year-end summary for Analog calls out my “Teaching the Pig to Sing” for special praise. Because this story has been catching some critical attention, I’ve put it online for you to read for free. Tell all your friends! Also, my story “Tides of the Heart” has been accepted by the re-revived Realms of Fantasy.
My story “Letter to the Editor” was accepted by John Joseph Adams for his anthology The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination; my story “Trust” was accepted by Daily Science Fiction; I have received an ARC of the revised Wild Cards I, which will be available on November 23; the website for the Cascade Writers writing workshop is now open for registration; and I’m quoted briefly in an Oregonian article about climate change in SF.
You can now read my story “Finding Joan” at Daily Science Fiction; You can win a copy of Wild Cards 1 from Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist; and you can now buy Légendes, an anthology in French including my “L’histoire de l’Aigle Royal” (The Tale of the Golden Eagle), from Black Mamba.
Yay! StarShipSofa wants to podcast my story from Interzone 228. But! Gardner Dozois in Locus didn’t like it. Ya win some, ya lose some.
While I was in Australia I didn’t write a word, but when I came home I found that a lot had happened in my absence:
- Horror story “Floaters” was podcast in issue 177 of The Drabblecast
- Ghost story “A Little Song, A Little Dance” was published in Book View Cafe’s charity e-anthology Breaking Waves
- Vampire story “Family Matters” was published in anthology Fangs for the Mammaries, edited by Esther Friesner
- Fantasy story “Nucleon” was reprinted in anthology Retro Spec: Tales of Fantasy and Nostalgia, edited by Karen A. Romanko
- An interview with me was published at AusLit.net.
- I received the Sacred Chalice of Glory trophy from The Drabblecast for the podcast of my story “Babel Probe”, which won the People’s Choice Award for Best Drabblecast Story of the Year. Unfortunately, Kate says she doesn’t want that eyeball on her mantel.
- I learned that next April I will be the Stollee Lecturer at Buena Vista University in Storm Lake, Iowa, where my Clarion West classmate Inez teaches in the English department. I’ve never been an endowed lecturer before. (No, wait, that didn’t sound right.)
I also received three rejections and a rewrite request. The rejected stories have all gone back out and I’ll be starting on the rewrite shortly.
“A Little Song, A Little Dance,” a ghost story co-written with Andrine de la Rocha, will appear in charity anthology Breaking Waves: An Anthology for Gulf Coast Relief from Book View Cafe. Also, take a gander at the cover for Wild Cards I, coming in November!
I sold SF story “Finding Joan” to new online market Daily Science Fiction, and horror story “Floaters” to podcast The Drabblecast.
The Mars Diaries — the collected blogs of Mars Desert Research Station Crew 88 — is now available from lulu.com.
I’ll be giving my Mars talk at the Mars Society’s annual convention (August 5-8 in Dayton, Ohio). I’ll be presenting to the whole convention right after Robert Zubrin opens the event! My Realms of Fantasy story “Joy is the Serious Business of Heaven” was selected as an Honorable Mention by Gardner Dozois in his Year’s Best SF. And the September 2010 Analog, Interzone 228, Alembical 2, and Escape Pod episode 240, all with stories by me, are now available.
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