Here’s a a poem I wrote, in this month’s Uncanny, for those of us who find that poking around in family history is not much like it looked in Frozen 2: Identity.
Tag: publishing
Always watch the deleted scenes
I’ve now got the author copies for the current (Sept/Oct 2022) issue of Asimov’s, in which you can find my story “Bonus Footage!” (Available here in print or digital versions.) It’s a travel show in space! It’s a story about sensible Girl Scouts and the adults around them! It’s got a quite happy ending in which no one is eaten by the native flora, you hope!
Watch this space for more about this story….
Another from the woods
New story out today in Beneath Ceaseless Skies: The Splinters of Our Bond!
I have feelings about wood witches. And also I have feelings about vigilantes in fiction. And it all got wrapped up with a sibling relationship and the complications of “we only have each other” and…this is the result, and I hope you enjoy it.
I got all my sisters with me
Today’s new story is in Nature Futures, Family Network.
This one was inspired by my grandmother, though it isn’t the sort of story she’ll ever probably read or enjoy. When old farm families and artificial intelligence collide…or proliferate….
I suppose these are large, friendly letters
Don’t panic! At least not about criticism of your fiction. I have a new essay out in Uncanny today, From Panic to Process: What Taking Criticism Actually Means.
This is a bigger topic than one essay could hold, so I have all sorts of further ideas about fans taking gracefully criticism of works they love dearly, organizing and sub-organizing types of critique notes, and more. But this has the beginnings of the “taking criticism” conversation for me.
Among the best
I’m very pleased to tell you that one of my stories from 2020 (“The Past, Like a River in Flood”) has been chosen by Rich Horton for inclusion in his Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2021 Edition. The table of contents can be seen on Rich’s blog, here.
When I wrote that story, I was thinking about natural disasters I had witnessed, some quite close up, and some institutional failures they’d left in their wake. I didn’t really want a story about institutional failure and its human cost to be quite as timely as it turned out to be, but…I’m glad the story resonated, all the same, and I’m still very proud of it. And so happy to be in a volume with so many other stories I enjoyed, and some that are new to me, some I’ll be glad to discover.
Helpful hints and parenting tips!
Kids! Surely they can make themselves useful around the house! But how? Today I’ve got a new science fiction story in Daily SF that has a guide for you: An Age-Based Guide to Children’s Chores.
(THIS IS SCIENCE FICTION, THIS IS NOT A PARENTING COLUMN.) (I mean, unless it helps, in which case, knock yourself out.)
And that’s final
The good readers of Asimov’s magazine get to vote on their favorite stories, poems, and artwork each year, and you can see the finalists for the Asimov’s Readers’ Award for 2021 here, with links to read the works online.
I mention this not just to be nice but also because my poem, Chalk and Carbon, is one of the finalists in the poem category. So you can read that now! Thanks, dear Asimov’s readers!
Children, corvids, Clarkesworld
New story from me today in Clarkesworld! The Plasticity of Youth is in their February issue.
This is one where babies come out differently than planned but so does the world receiving them. So…barely speculative, that’s how the world actually is? Anyway it’s near-future science fiction.
A month for roots
I got the author copy for my poem in Not One Of Us issue #69, “Revelations of the Artificial Dryads.” It’s apparently a very tree month for me, or maybe every month is a very tree month if I’m honest with myself.
This is one you’ll have to order if you want a copy, so here’s their website.