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January 9, 2017
Award-worthy fiction from 2016
It’s nominating season. Hugo nominations have just opened as I write this, and there are great lists everywhere of fantastic fiction that is all worthy of nominations and awards. My monthly roundups of stories I read and loved through 2016 can be found here. In this post, I boil those roundups down to 27 short fiction […]
January 1, 2017
9 incredible speculative fiction short stories
December was a busy month for me: lots of feasting, lots of traveling, lots of reading, too. Here are nine stories that are for keeps. Wooden Boxes Lined with the Tongues of Doves (when I write this, it’s not yet live online, but I will update! OR! subscribe so you can get it NOW!
December 14, 2016
Read a new interview with me by Gwendolyn Kiste!
Head over to the wonderful Gwendolyn Kiste’s website right now and check out a brand new interview with … me! Huge thanks to Gwendolyn for having me over for a chat about music, writing, inspiration, and more. I’m thrilled to be featured at her site, partly because she’s such an amazing author. She’s written a […]
December 7, 2016
New release: DARK FLASH is now available!
My flash fiction anthology ‘Dark Flash’ is now available from Amazon, Smashwords, Apple iBooks, Barnes and Noble, and Kobo. It contains the eight stories I wrote for R.B. Wood’s Word Count Podcast this year: The Unicorn, Nemesis, Miriam and Cat, Treasure Island, True Words (Kirke’s Bed & Breakfast), Chiaroscuro, OK Computer, and The Demon. It’s […]
December 5, 2016
2016 award eligibility post (AKA: what am I even doing?)
It feels very strange to put together an awards eligibility post, but I decided at the beginning of the year to do everything I could to put my best foot forward as a writer… so, by golly, I am doing this too, no matter how awkward it makes me feel. My goal for this year […]
December 2, 2016
DARK FLASH – my anthology of flash fiction is now available for pre-order
Right now, you can head over to Amazon or Smashwords and pre-order a brand new little self-published book by me. It’s called Dark Flash, and it’s a slim volume containing the eight flash fiction stories I wrote this year for R.B. Wood’s wonderful Word Count Podcast. It will be released on Tuesday, December 6th. The […]
November 29, 2016
12 awesome speculative fiction short stories
It’s been a strange month for me, and maybe some of you as well. Even so, I read some awesome short fiction, and here are my favourites. Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies, by Brooke Bolander in Uncanny Magazine. “This is not the story of how he killed me, thank fuck.” The fiercest and most ferocious […]
November 27, 2016
Hope & resistance – books to read for inspiration & understanding in dark times
Hope and resistance. Those are two things I’m craving these days. This is a list of books and authors that might inspire both hope and resistance, as well as a deeper understanding of the world around us. For an always current, eerily prescient and perceptive look at politics and power, revolution and repression, look no […]
November 13, 2016
Story notes for my story ‘Seven Kinds of Baked Goods’ from JUST DESSERTS
My latest short story to appear in the wild is ‘Seven Kinds of Baked Goods’, part of the anthology Just Desserts from WolfSinger Press. (It’s available now at Amazon.) ‘Seven Kinds of Baked Goods’ is a fantasy tale about revenge (that is the theme for the anthology, after all), and it is also the story […]
November 5, 2016
Book review – ‘A Taste of Honey’, by KAI ASHANTE WILSON
The official blurb: Long after the Towers left the world but before the dragons came to Daluça, the emperor brought his delegation of gods and diplomats to Olorum. As the royalty negotiates over trade routes and public services, the divinity seeks arcane assistance among the local gods. Aqib bgm Sadiqi, fourth-cousin to the royal family […]
