science fiction author
Quick update. I’ve been super busy at work. I finished a book (Ancillary Sword, by Anne Leckie) more than a month ago and listened to an audiobook in the last week (A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine, which I really liked!) but haven’t had time to blog about either one. But that is not why I am here today. I found out just a few moments ago that the TL;DR anthology “Figments & Fragments”…
A quick update… I found out first thing this morning that I was one of the winners of the TL;DR 1,000 Word Herd Flash Fiction 2024 Competition from April! Here is the official announcement. Great way to start my day, and the contract has been signed and sent back. Woo Hoo! I have heard good things about the TL;DR press from my writing community. First of all, they provide good feedback on the stories, no…
Checking in. The Nebulas were pretty cool, but I am glad I knew someone there (yay Molly!) because I felt very out of my league and impostery. I had one-on-one meetings with two authors; one who principally writes shorts (in S&SF and Clarkesworld mostly) and one who has written a novel or two. For the first meeting, I got comments back on a short and in the second, we talked through my novel. I got…
I have made my third sale! I found out late in the evening, two nights ago, and now have a signed contract so I am happy to report that my first non-flash fiction piece entitled “Stars End” will appear in Abyss & Apex magazine in Spring of next year. I am beyond excited and am really looking forward to sharing this story with you all. It had been quite a dry spell and I was…
This was a year of firsts. First sale. First publication. Second sale. Second publication. I had 36 rejections (including one yesterday) which means I probably subbed 36 short/flash stories. I had a novel coach review my finished novel and I have started the process of editing it (I don’t know what I’m doing). I read, according to storygraph (a great app, by the way), 17 books, totaling 6602 pages, and I am about 1/3 of…
My story is out in the world! Thank you to OnSpec for publishing it. And, thank you to R. Graeme Cameron at Amazing Stories for reviewing it! My review is about 1/3 of the way down, but the gist of it is this: “this fictional example is vivid and … cynically amusing. Old-fashioned science fiction, perhpas, but a classic of its kind. Memorable. … I’m very fond of it.” That makes my week, everybody. 🙂
My short story entitled “Alien Anthropologist” will appear in the next issue of On Spec, which is going to the printers soon! This was my first sale but is the second to appear. Still waiting (with 5 currently out on sub!) for the third sale…
This 2nd book completes the “Six of Crows” series where we follow the adventures of Kaz, Inej, Nina, Matthais, Jesper and Wylan as they attempt to undo the wrong they received at the hands of a crooked “merch” at the end of the last book. I’ve been struggling to find time to read, but I finally had some time and read the last quarter of it last night. It got to the point I love…
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…
