Something Old, SOmething New

I have news! It’s pretty exciting! And I should have told you all about all of this weeks ago! But here we are.

First, Bookburners has become a free-as-in-beer podcast that you can listen to at any fine podcasting platform near you. For a while, we were even the #2 fiction podcast on Apple and still holding steady in the top 20. Amazing!

None of my episodes are up yet, since I only came in on the second season, but I am so psyched to see this work getting so much love from a wider audience. The world that Max Gladstone, Margaret Dunlap, Mur Lafferty, and the stubbornly offline Brian Francis Slattery created together is magnificent, and I still maintain that everything I did later was Bookburners fanfiction that I somehow accidentally got paid for.

And then… I wrote, sold, and had published my first piece of original fiction since America Inc. came out three-ish years ago! (I’ve been writing in that time, just not… finishing things. We’ve all had a rough few years, yeah?) It’s a short story about aliens called Requiem for the Stars, brought to you by the absolutely lovely people at The Sunday Morning Transport.

Please note that this is a subscription publication, so to read the story you’re gonna have to pony up. It’s a great model: one new short story a week sent to your email inbox. I’m enjoying having fiction to read where I never feel like I have to catch up. And I can assure you that they’re putting out some fantastic work — it’s written by a constellation including a lot of Realm/Serial Box alumni and other genre notables. I’m excited to see new work from basically every writer they’ve featured yet so far.

And that’s it for today! I’ve got a pretty long queue of posts coming up, including in no particular order some follow-up on the alien invasion that may or may not have taken place, that whole Five Observables thing, and a long, long piece on Ozempic. More soon!