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April 14, 2020
Locus Awards!
Locus Magazine is one of the premiere scifi magazines in the world, and being long listed is a great honour for me. I’m actually on it twice, as my story ‘The Anchorite Wakes’ is included in the Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 4, edited by Neil Clarke, which is also nominated for Best Collection.
Click here to read The Sun From Both Sides.
Click here to read The Anchorite Wakes.
This list is decided on by industry reviewers and writers and then the awards are voted on by the public, so please follow the link and vote for your faves.
It’s ranked voting so you can include five choices in each category from 1st to 5th. If you want something to win, you vote for it for 1st place.
You don’t have to fill out the Locus survey, and you don’t have to be a subscriber to the magazine. Just make sure to include your email and name or the vote won’t count. You don’t have to vote in every category either. Full instructions are at the link.
Thank you for reading, and for your support.
Click here to vote!
Stay Home, Stay Safe, my friends!
April 8, 2020
Another Interview!
Coronavirus may have put an end to my library tour, but this was one way to keep the ball rolling!
Stay home, stay healthy, my friends!
April 2, 2020
An Interview with the Author
So the world kind of went and exploded since the last time I posted.
I’m okay so far, and my country’s doing pretty well, all things considered. By which I mean, my people more ‘harden’ than the damn Italians and twice as sociable, so the government is pulling their hair out trying to get us to stay inside. Thank God they closed borders and schools early.
I’m in a risk group, however, with loved ones also in risk groups, so I’ve been trying to stay inside as much as possible, and I’m lucky enough to still have a job that lets me work from home.
In the meantime, I did a couple of interviews this week, so yay me!
One interview is a replacement for library tour around my country I’ve been forced to postpone for now. When that goes up on Facebook, I’ll post the link.
The other interview, is with the lovely Cheryl Morgan, a longtime writing friend, on Ujima Radio’s Women’s Outlook Show for April 1st 2020. She interviewed people from around the world about the Covid-19 situation in their country. My interview is around the hour mark, but the entire show is fascinating and well worth the listen. Here’s the link:
Hope you enjoy, and please let me know how it’s going in your neck of the woods in the comments below.
Till next time, stay thirsty, my friends! And stay at home!
March 3, 2020
It’s Official! Or, This Post Has a Lot of Exclamation Points!
The results for Clarkesworld’s Readers’ Poll were released on March 1st and the winner for favourite story of 2019 was….
A.T. Greenblatt’s beautiful ‘Give the Family My Love’!
This was entirely foreseeable as the same story has been nominated for a Nebula for Best Short Story.
Congrats to A.T. and Clarkesworld!
Second place went to ‘Such Thoughts are Unproductive’ by Rebecca Campbell and third place went to…
ME!!
That’s right, ‘The Sun from Both Sides’ finished third and I’m pleased as punch!
For the full results, including the best cover of 2019 (I’ll give you a hint, it was from the same issue as my story!), you can go here.
Thank you to all who voted in the poll, and everyone who cast a vote for my story. And huge congrats to A.T. and Rebecca! Award season has only just begun and I suspect this won’t be their last time in winners row!
I’ll have some more good news to announce soon, so keep watching this space. Until then, stay thirsty, my friends, and enjoy this awesome gif of me celebrating with one of my biggest fans 
February 15, 2020
Nebula Awards Close Today!
Today is the deadline for Nebula nominations. Please remember to vote for your faves!
And yes, my novelette ‘The Sun From Both Sides’ in May’s Clarkesworld is eligible and I’d be deeply grateful if you considered it.
http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/garcia_05_19/
See you on the other side!
February 1, 2020
Locus Recommended Reading List and Clarkesworld Readers Poll 2019
I have two huge announcements!
Locus Magazine, has released their yearly recommended reading list, which is the long list for the Locus Awards. My novelette, ‘The Sun from Both Sides’ has been nominated alongside such incredible authors as Elizabeth Bear, Nnedi Okorafor, N.K. Jemisin, Tobias Buckell, Karen Lord, Nalo Hopkinson, and Rebecca Roanhorse!
My story ‘The Anchorite Wakes’ was included in the anthology Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 4, edited by Neil Clarke, which has also made the list!
I’m stunned and grateful. This is definitely a bucket list moment and one I will treasure, but I’ve got even more good news.
I am a finalist for favourite story of the year in the 2019 Clarkesworld Reader’s Poll for my novelette, ‘The Sun from Both Sides’!
Thank you to everyone who voted for me and congratulations to everyone who has made both lists!
If you’d like me to win, please cast your vote at anytime between now and February 20th at the link below. Links to the stories and covers nominated are also included so please vote for your faves.
Thank you so much for your support and watch this space for the results!
January 27, 2020
Clarkesworld Readers Poll 2019
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/cwm2019
My novelette, ‘The Sun From Both Sides’ is nominated on this list! Would appreciate it if you’d consider voting for it and any other two stories, as well as three covers you like.
You have until tomorrow, January 28th! Links to the stories and covers are included.
Thanks for your consideration and please feel free to share!
December 30, 2019
Goodbye, 2019
I know I’ve been gone a while and that was because life took a really hard turn in the second half of the year.
I lost a few family members. Most importantly, in September, my mom had a stroke. Shortly after, she passed away.
She was barely in her 60s and we had no warning at all. It’s been hard, especially since I lost my dog shortly after to a brain tumour.
I’m just starting to come back onto social media, aside from Twitter. I know I promised a post on my novelette. I’ll try to do that next year.
And the year wasn’t all bad. I have a couple of sales to announce that happened at the end of the year, and I’m hoping to get back on the writing horse so I can keep publishing in 2020.
For now, I plan to ring out a difficult year doing some fun things with my best friend and sister, and I wish everyone else a great holiday season, and a happy and prosperous New Year.
Here’s hoping 2020 is a wonderful year for us all. We all deserve it after 2019.
Auld Lang Syne, guys. May the best of your yesterdays be the worst of your tomorrows.
May 1, 2019
The Sun From Both Sides – Clarkesworld
Happy to announce my first ever novelette has been sold to Clarkesworld Magazine!
The Sun From Both Sides is now live and can be read for free here.
This is a very special one for me, and also one of the things I worked the most exhaustively on in the recent past. More editing passes were made on this than on my first novel, I swear!
I’ll talk about the process more in a later post, but for now I’ll just say it’s about a woman who sets out to rescue her husband, and then he rescues her right back. The title is actually part of a quote by David Viscott:
‘To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.’
Hope you enjoy!
February 4, 2019
Clarkesworld Readers’ Poll 2018
It’s been a banner year for me already, and it couldn’t happen at a better time, given I’m still hunting for a full time job.
So far, I’ve had three acceptances, signed two contracts, and I’ve just learned I’m a finalist in the Clarkesworld Readers’ Poll for favourite story of 2018 for my short, The Anchorite Wakes.
That last one’s really special to me. I’ve been lucky enough to have fans reach out to me to tell me what my work has meant to them, and that never gets old, let me tell you. But to be regarded as one of the favourite stories in a magazine with so many stunning, award-worthy works, by authors I admire and am flattered to be among–I’ve never had that before. There’s nothing like knowing you wrote something and it was seen. Really seen.
Readers now have until February 20th to vote for their favourite story and cover for 2018. I’d be delighted if you voted for mine, but I encourage you to read the stories–which are available for free–and peruse the cover art, then follow your heart and vote for what you loved. Voting will take a couple of minutes as there are only two questions, but you will be asked to rank the selections, so looking them over before hand will be helpful.
You can find the links to the stories, covers and voting here. Results will be announced in March.
I have some other good news that I can’t share yet, so please watch this space for further announcements.
And to everyone who’s reading this, everyone who follows me, reads my work, buys my stuff, and voted for me in the poll, please know how much I appreciate you. You are the best, and you’re the reason I keep doing what I do.
