New story out today in Clarkesworld: A Shaky Bridge ! This one is more directly referential to current events than most of my science fiction, while also drawing on my experience with my dad having strokes. So this is not the most happy-clappy upbeat story I’ve ever written…but it is one that I feel good about having out there, and I hope you’ll like it too.
Tag: publishing
When listicles go wrong
New story out today! Things I Miss About Civilization appears in Nature Futures. Just a scientist, a slightly broken spaceship, and the great expanse between galaxies….
JR Dawson launch party!
My friend J.R. Dawson is launching their second book, The Lighthouse at the End of the World, and I get to be part of the festivities! We’ll be at Moon Palace Books at 6:00 p.m. on July 29, having a lovely conversation about this book and the previous book and other stories and life in general, and you can come join in the fun!
Trade show! in! spaaaaaace!
New story out today in Lightspeed magazine: All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt. Visit the space gift shop trade convention and learn who’s most likely to try to ruin things for all of us (hint: it’s Earth people, UGH).
Don’t miss the Author Spotlight discussing the story afterwards!
SFWA Poetry Open Mic
I’ve been reading my own prose in public for audiences for more than 25 years now, and I’ve even thrown in a poem or two as spice. But this Saturday is the first time I will be doing a dedicated poetry reading! If you’re a Nebula attendee or a SFWA member, please join us on Saturday, June 28th, at 11 a.m. Pacific (1 p.m. Central).
When it all changes
New story out today in ebook format! Print copy to follow for those who want that. “The Things You Know, The Things You Trust” appears in If There’s Anyone Left, vol. 5. It’s a look at life’s constants in the face of great change, which are sometimes where we hope they are and sometimes…other places.
With the RIGHT sort of person of course
New story out today in Nature Futures–Disconnections! For those pesky young people who are just not optimizing social media to its full advancement potential….
more than all the courage I can muster up inside
New story out! “If the Weather Holds” appears in the Mar/Apr 2025 issue of Analog. For all the work we have ahead, we’ll need a big team…and just the reasonable people won’t do. Analog is available for order here.
Yes, I wrote this because the Indigo Girls left this title lying on the table when they called their song “The Wood Song.” The ways of creativity are mysterious and here we are.
Selkie solidarity
New story this morning in Sunday Morning Transport: Her Tune, In Truth. Who told you the stories that limit you?
Oh we like sheep
New story out today in Diabolical Plots: The Year the Sheep God Shattered. You might think that the presence of divinity would make growing up easier, but….
In addition to being a story I wrote because I have big feelings about the godkids growing up (yes, another one, there are a lot of feelings to process here, they’ve been doing this for a minute now), this was one of the stories I write when I’m turning over the standard fantasy worldbuilding premises in my mind and going, “Okay, but….”