Status Report

Sorry, this is going to be a boring post, because it's going to be about what of mine was published last year and what I already know will be published this year. It's a way of organizing myself, a way of seeing how I'm doing.

But first, a reminder: Book Giveaway #1 ends at midnight, my time, tomorrow night! So you have one more day to enter. For the rules, look under Book Giveaway #1 below.

So, what was published last year?

Well, first, two short stories of mine were published. "Pug" appeared in the July issue of Asimov's Science Fiction. "Christopher Raven" appeared in Ghosts by Gaslight as well as the November issue of Fantasy Magazine, where you can still read it.

Three short stories of mine were reprinted. "The Rose in Twelve Petals," my first published story, appeared in Happily Ever After. "The Rapid Advance of Sorrow" appeared in Kafkaesque: Stories Inspired by Franz Kafka and in the July issue of Apex Magazine. "Fair Ladies" appeared in Jonathan Strahan's The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 5.

Also, in awards news, "The Mad Scientist's Daughter" was a finalist for a Locus Award.

I only had one poem published: "Binnorie" in the winter/spring issue of Mythic Delirium. But "Ravens" was reprinted in The 2011 Rhysling Anthology.

I was the Folkroots editor for the late, lamented Realms of Fantasy, which published five articles of mine: "The Femme Fatale at the Fin-de-Siècle" in the February issue, "Vampires in Folklore and Literature" in the April issue, "Fairies and Fairylands" in the June issue, "A Brief History of Monsters" in the August issue, and "The Myth and Magic of Narnia" in the October issue.

By the way, I still have a column that was supposed to be in the December issue. It's called "Planting a Magical Garden." Anyone want to publish an essay on magical plants? If so, let me know!

So that's it for 2011. What's going to happen in 2012? Well, of course, The Thorn and the Blossom is coming out in two weeks. That's the most important publication of mine for the year, I think.  (I would include a picture here, but you've seen so many pictures of it on this blog already, haven't you?  Let the other books have some space for a day.)

Then I have two stories coming out. "Woola's Song" will be in Under the Moons of Mars, which will be out in February. The other one I can't talk about yet because the editor has not yet make it public. But it's a terrific anthology, and I'm very excited to be in it.

I'm also going to have several stories reprinted. "The Mad Scientist's Daughter" will be in The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination, "Lessons with Miss Gray" will be in Witches: Wicked, Wild and Wonderful, and "Pug" will be in Rich Horton's The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2012.

I also have some poems that will be reprinted: "Binnorie" and "The Witch" will be in The Moment of Change: An Anthology of Feminist Speculative Poetry.

I'm currently working on a poetry collection, but I don't yet know when that will be published, so I'll tell you more as I know it myself. And there are a couple of other projects in the works.

That's not bad for a year, is it? Particularly the year in which I finished my PhD? Yes, I'm now Dr. Goss. Someone fetch my Tardis . . .

If you want to see me in the coming year, I will definitely be at Boskone, The International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, the Arkansas Literary Festival, Readercon, and the World Fantasy Convention. The one place I usually go that I might not make this year is Wiscon. I need to go to London to do research for the novel I'm working on, and I need to save money.

So there you go, that's my status report. There will be more in 2012, I'm sure. Because you know what? I'm done with my PhD now, and what that means is all systems are go. Tardis or not!