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I’m such a trend-setter

New story out today in Nature Futures! Denebian Glamour’s What’s Hot and What’s Not for the Next Millennium! Get all your fashion tips here and find out what heavenly bodies you’ll be able to vaporize with impunity and how many airlocks your space station should have! Are YOU living in the fashionable part of the galaxy? The answer may surprise you!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Two fun things

  1. 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.
  2. 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!
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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.