This is book two in the continuance series after Stars and Bones and I liked this one a lot more than the previous one. I tried to figure out why… what is it about this book that resonated more with me? Don’t get me wrong. I liked the first one, but I gave that a 4/5 and this one gets a 5/5. So, what is different? Maybe because it was set further in the future…
My first publication should go live in the next ten days. I have seen the proofs and approved them. Very exciting! I applied to both Clarions and also the Odyssey workshop, but found out over the last few weeks that I didn’t get in to any of them. That was disappointing but I turned around and submitted the story I had sent to Odyssey and have already been rejected by Clarkesworld (my dream market). It…
Humanity has been evicted from the Earth by a benevolent super alien, and now we all live on arks, forbidden to ever land on a planet and destroy it again. That is a hell of a premise. And it gets worse. The main character, Eryn, is the pilot of a navigational ship and she wants to find out what happened to a lost survey crew that included her sister. This was a great space opera…
It is hard to believe that my fourth FoF is coming up this weekend. I found out about the first one in 2020 from a random post I just happened to see from Neil Clarke. I registered 3 days before the con and it was an absolute blast. I met some good friends, I joined a writing group, and my TBR pile has never been larger thanks to this group. It is not an exaggeration…
I was looking forward to reading this 2nd book in the NEO-G universe. Set about 400 years in the future after an unspecified calamity, this series follows the Near Earth Orbital Guard, Coast Guard in space, on their various adventures. K. B. is a non-binary author and their book has a host of various trans, and non-binary characters, as well as a loving and affectionate team of spacefarers. I was a little concerned that all…
I found out yesterday that I did not get in to the Clarion workshop in San Diego for this summer. I am sad, but I also understand the reality that it is highly competitive. I will keep trying, because I think a workshop like this will be a total game changer for my writing. Onward!
Today I signed another contract for my story entitled “The Grocery Store” which will appear in Radon Journal. Amazing. I can’t keep up this pace for too much longer, since I currently only have 3 other pieces out on submission but it was very exciting to have this happen quick on the heels of yesterday. I actually knew about this one for a few weeks. They gave me a conditional acceptance, but wanted me to…
I am beyond excited to share that I have made my first sale! My flash fiction story entitled “Alien Anthropologist” will appear in On Spec, the Canadian magazine of the fantastic, later this year. I received the acceptance email yesterday, had a brief email exchange, signed the contract, and just received the payment. I am so excited! I have been writing science fiction (off and on) since 1983. I have had several periods of more…
This book has been on my TBR pile since my first Flights of Foundry con; it seemed like every panelist was recommending the book. I finally purchased it a few months ago and I was in the mood for a shorter, quicker read after all the space opera epics I’ve been reading. Wow, it was a lot of fun and i am so happy that there are apparently 5 more novellas and 2 more novels…
This is book two of the Final Architecture series and boy did I love it. I read the first half of the book in two days about a week and a half ago and then some things got in the way and then I got sick and I didn’t do much reading at all for a while, otherwise I probably would have finished it in about 4 days. There are several things I love about…