New essay out today in Uncanny: Book Clubs with My Imaginary Friends! The joy of reading, now refracted in fictional form! Go, read, enjoy!
Tag: publishing
As the dust clears….
New story out today! Conjured from the Rubble is in Haven Spec magazine. Natural disaster, class mobility, and…wizards! I hope you enjoy it.
I’m walking a weird path with my natural disaster stories these days. The nearest inspiration for them, the thing my heart is still processing, is the tornado that hit my college in 1998. It can take some time for art to come to the surface, and it’s only in the last few years that I’ve really been dealing with that one. On the other hand natural disasters in general are on the rise, and the more time goes on, the more I’m looking at what’s coming rather than what’s come before, on this topic. So the balance gets interesting. I hope you like this one.
Under the waves
I have a new poem out in the Jul/Aug issue of Analog magazine, “Panthalassa.” I’ve read a lot of people’s takes on Pangaea, the primal continent, but when there was only one land, there was also only one sea, and it was Panthalassa, and that is where we really come from. Thence my poem. You can get a copy here.
Now, with more exile!
Reprint out today! “Exiled to Gravity” appears in Year’s Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 8. It originally appeared in Sunday Morning Transport, and now it has gone to make new friends with other hard science fiction from last year. Enjoy!
Skies are…well, lots of colors really
New story out today in Lightspeed! And the Dreams That You Dare to Dream is available for your reading or listening pleasure. I wanted to write a story about finding your place and finding your magic…only some of which is new. Yes, the title is an Oz reference, but actually it’s the Oz books that inspire me, not the movie. This one goes out to all of you who remember Ozma’s whole story and are newly delighted by it as adults. I wrote it for my friend J. R. Dawson and for all of the members of the Silent Queer Migration. Welcome home to Minnesota. We’re delighted to have your magic. I made you a story to say welcome.
We’ll get there together
I have a new story out today in Beneath Ceaseless Skies! A Pilgrimage to the God of High Places is available for your reading pleasure. (It’s also available for your listening pleasure if that’s how you roll.) This one draws on some disability experiences in its attempts to travel down into the depths and come back up again. Hope you enjoy.
Two fun things
- Last month Meghan Smith’s Fiction to Features discussed a number of stories Smith thought would be fun in film–including my story, Monster of the Month Club, from Haven Speculative! I found all the discussion interesting, and you might enjoy taking a look at what elements Smith thinks could be provocatively pulled out into other media.
- Next week I will be making my second appearance on Story Hour! Wednesday, April 24 at 9:00 p.m. Central on their website I will be sharing the hour with fellow author Chloe Smith. You can come and hear a brand new story from me– not sure which one yet, still have to time two options and see which fits, but it’ll definitely be something new!
I may be whistling in the dark, but I like the song
I have a new story out from Lightspeed Magazine today, Islands of Stability. You can read or listen there, and also there’s an author spotlight with more from me about the story. This is one I wrote last year when I needed some positive eldercare thoughts, which actually still applies now and is likely to keep applying. I hope you enjoy it.
Cardamom and cinnamon is the smell of home
New poem coming out in issue #78 of Not One Of Us! “Mistletoe Theodicy,” a plague poem, a nurturing poem, a suffering poem. A poem of home and leaving it. If you buy a copy of the magazine (print only), I hope you enjoy.
Back at the lab
Every year Analog magazine runs AnLab, its readers’ choice poll that allows readers to select their five favorites in each of its departments. (Except I think the cover, the cover may be three? If this was relevant to me, if I was doing magazine covers, regular readers would know it already, I promise.) This year, my nerd grief poem “Object Permanence” has made their list! You can read it here along with the other finalists.
If you’re paying close attention, that’s the second magazine for which I’ve been in the “reader favorites” poll this year. I find this incredibly gratifying. I think most of all what any of writers wants is to be read and to touch readers–but particularly in speculative poetry. No one imagines fame, fortune, and glory will accrue from writing speculative poetry. We’re just trying to say something that will be meaningful to someone else. Analog’s readers, like Uncanny’s before them on the fiction side, have said that I did that this year. Thank you so much, readers.