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May 20, 2017
Second reprint sale this month!
What a month May is turning out to be! I’m doing my second happy writer’s dance this month: the podcast The Overcast just picked up my story ‘Long As I Can See The Light’ for a future episode! This short story originally appeared in the anthology ‘People Are Strange’, and I can’t wait to hear […]
May 16, 2017
Reprint story sale!
The contract is signed, so now I can spill the beans: I just sold a story to the wonderful people at Cast of Wonders! It’s a reprint sale, and the story is ‘Tunguska, 1987’, originally published last year in the anthology ‘Tales From Alternate Earths’ (Inklings Press). I am so happy and excited about this, […]
May 7, 2017
Read ‘Magpies & Moonshine’ – a story written for R.B. Wood’s Word Count Podcast
You can hear me read this story on episode #65 of R.B. Wood’s Word Count Podcast. The prompts for this episode were “April”, and this wonderful photo by Bill Kirton, one of the regulars at the Word Count Podcast: I’ve contributed stories to the Word Count Podcast since January 2016, and without exaggerating, I can say that it’s been a […]
May 3, 2017
Listen to R.B. Wood’s Word Count Podcast & my new story ‘Magpies & Moonshine’
My story for the new Word Count Podcast episode is called ‘Magpies & Moonshine’, and the story prompt this month was this photo, taken by fellow author Bill Kirton, and the month: April. The other participating authors are: Jack Gwaltney & John McCaffrey – “The Man Who Was Thursday” Eden Baylee – “The Cottage Life” […]
May 2, 2017
Read my new story ‘Metal, Sex, Monsters’ in GAMUT
Well, holy cow. HOLY COW. My story ‘Metal, Sex, Monsters’ (my first short story with a Judas Priest soundtrack) is in the new issue of Gamut (it’s issue #5, the May issue)! And I am screeching like a demented velociraptor. Look at that TOC! So many awesome authors…wow. AND: the cover art is apparently the […]
April 30, 2017
Read my new story ‘The Machine of the Devil’ in FLASH FICTION ONLINE
May is starting off with a bang for me: my new flash fiction piece ‘The Machine of the Devil’ is out right now at Flash Fiction Online. You can read it here. I am so grateful to the ever-awesome team at FFO for giving this story a good home, and it’s part of a terrific […]
Read my new story ‘The Machine of the Devil’ at Flash Fiction Online
May is starting off with a bang for me: my new flash fiction piece ‘The Machine of the Devil’ is out right now at Flash Fiction Online. You can read it here. I am so grateful to the ever-awesome team at FFO for giving this story a good home, and it’s part of a terrific […]
18 superb speculative fiction short stories
I read a lot this past month, partly because I was having some trouble writing (writer’s insecurity demons rearing their heads), and so I read more instead. End result: a whopping 18 stories in this monthly roundup, including stories from two new publications: Anathema: Spec From the Margins – “a tri-annual speculative fiction magazine of work by queer […]
April 15, 2017
Book review – INFOMOCRACY, by Malka Older
The official blurb: It’s been twenty years and two election cycles since Information, a powerful search engine monopoly, pioneered the switch from warring nation-states to global micro-democracy. The corporate coalition party Heritage has won the last two elections. With another election on the horizon, the Supermajority is in tight contention, and everything’s on the line. […]
April 10, 2017
Reading the Nebula nominees
Yes, it is definitely awards season in the realm of speculative fiction. Meaning: there are lots of books and stories to add to your TBR-pile. This is a link-list for the books and stories nominated for the Nebula Awards, handed out by SFWA. About the Nebulas: The Nebula Awards® are voted on, and presented by, […]
