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Join the clamor

It’s today! My novella A Dubious Clamor is officially out in the world today! If you find yourself in the mood for a fantasy novella full of harpies, opinionated weapons, and a ragtag bunch of allies taking on the fash, you can just have it whenever you want. Which is just wild from my perspective, after so many months of work. Lots of ordering options here.

If you’re going to be in the Twin Cities area Thursday, please do come to my book launch party, which is 6 p.m. at Moon Palace Books. There will be cake after (including gf and vegan options because that is how we roll), and I will have a lovely conversation with my friend Naomi Kritzer for everyone’s enjoyment (plus audience Q&A and signing and, as I said, cake).

If you’re not going to be in the Twin Cities, or if you prefer virtual events, or if you just can’t get enough of me flapping my yap, there will be a virtual event on Wednesday, September 23 (not tomorrow, the Wednesday after that) at 6:00 Central. It will feature friend and fellow Horned Lark author Jo Miles, and we’re hosted by our publisher, Kevin Hearne. Free to attend, reserve a spot here.

Still want to hear more from me about this book? Check out the Big Idea piece I wrote about it for John Scalzi’s blog, or My Favorite Bit for Mary Robinette Kowal’s! Or here’s an interview with blogger Rob McLennan!

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Launch party!

I’ve already told you about my upcoming novella, A Dubious Clamor, coming September 15 from Horned Lark Press. But now, please come to a party about it!

That’s right, Thursday, September 17–two weeks from when I am posting this!–at 6:00 p.m. at Moon Palace Books, 3032 Minnehaha Ave., Minneapolis, Naomi Kritzer will join me for a book launch event. I hope you join me too! Free event with free cake! Not free books, you’ll have to buy one if you want one, but still, free event with free cake sounds pretty good.

If you’re not going to be in Minneapolis and are sad about missing it, don’t worry, the information for a virtual event will be coming soon. But in the meantime, Thursday the 17! 6:00! Book and cake!

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Made glorious summer by this….

I’m in Michigan visiting M’s family when what should show up in my inbox? OH HI:

What’s this? Why it’s the Publishers Marketplace announcement of next year’s book! I’m doing edits on That Fatal Discontent now, to bring it to the world next summer! Something else to look forward to!

Since I’m traveling, I’m in an unfamiliar format that is not making it clear whether there’s alt-text, so in case you can’t read the image, it’s all text, and it says, “PUBLISHERS MARKETPLACE Deal Report. Category: Sci-Fi and Fantasy. August 13, 2026. THAT FATAL DISCONTENT by Marissa Lingen. Imprint: Union Square & Co. Poet and short story author Marissa Lingen’s THAT FATAL DISCONTENT, pitched as a Shakespearean-inspired sci-fi exploration of disability justice, rebellion, and survival aboard a generation ship as two sisters–a ‘shipsider’ genetically unsuited for life on the gravity-bound colony, and the ship’s dazzling and ambitious new captain–lead battling factions after the death of their reckless third sister throws the ship into chaos as it hurtles toward the end of its centuries-long mission, to Ardyce Alspach at Union Square & Co, for publication in summer 2027, by Kurestin Armada at Root Literary (world).”

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Ghost story with tomato soup

New story out in Strange Horizons today! Scarcely Gone is a thing I haven’t done much of: it’s a ghost story. In this case it’s a ghost story with a John Denver title: “he’d rather play his banjo in the morning when the moon is scarcely gone” from “I Guess He’d Rather Be in Colorado.” That makes this one of a random series of stories I’ve written from fragments of my dad’s music, which are not linked in any other way except that their titles came from singing artists Dad loved around the house.

(This is why, incidentally, “the story behind the story” is often so hard to write: because “how did you come to write this story?” often has a beginning like “well, when I was preverbal my parents listened to a bunch of James Taylor, so….”)

Anyway, hope you enjoy my foray into the world of ghost stories!

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I think that about covers it

Hello, friends. I’ve got something to show you

It’s a book cover! In fact it is my book cover! Because…you can preorder my novella, A Dubious Clamor, directly from the publisher or from an assortment of bookstores of your choice! In ebook or hardcover editions! Isn’t it pretty? Isn’t it appropriate for the book?

Okay, so you can’t know whether it’s appropriate for the book yet. But you can trust Naomi Kritzer, friend and multi-award winner, who describes this book as, “No war but class war; also, harpies!” (She also says it’s “delightful, unique, and frequently hilarious,” in case you were wondering.) Some other awesome people describe it as things too! Wonderful people like authors Ruthanna Emrys and Davinia Evans and critic Paul Weimer! Do you want to know what those things are? You can see them on the pre-order page!

But wait! there’s more. (You did the right voice in your head for that, right?) If you preorder, you can not only get this lovely novella (ooooh! aaaaah!), you can also get a really cool sticker of a skeptical sword! You can put this on your laptop, phone, water bottle, small child, or other sticker-bearing device! Be the envy of your friends and neighbors, or at least those of your friends and neighbors who are cool enough to like sword stickers. (As for the other kind, who cares what they think? You are a discerning individual who knows the value of sword stickers, and that’s what matters.)

Don’t go yet! There’s still more. Sadly we currently live in the timeline that has class war but no harpies. (I have improved on this in the novella! Which you can read on September 15 if you preorder it now!) But do you know what our timeline does have? It has harpy eagles. Harpy eagles are so cool. And the lovely people at the World Wildlife Fund allow you to donate to support their habitat. Every person who preorders will be entered into a drawing (subject to sweepstakes laws in your jurisdiction) to win a harpy eagle plushie that also supports harpy eagles in real life! For each hundred pre-orders, we will add another harpy eagle plushie (and its attendant habitat support) to the drawing, so your odds of winning an awesome harpy eagle plushie to be your new cuddly pal and mascot will never be less than 1 in 100. Or you can pass it on to be the cuddly pal and mascot of someone else you know, that part is up to you. Similarly you can also preorder copies of the novella and not read them, if for some reason you’re opposed to opinionated weaponry, fictional operetta, and cake in your reading life. I will warn you, there is much cake.

So here it is! Pre-order today! or also other days, that’s fine too!

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I speak fluent human

New story out in Clarkesworld: Person, Place, Thing! This was such a fun voice for me to fall into writing, and it ended up surprising me with how many Muppet references it wanted. Usually I am opposed to “I am but a servant of the muse” claptrap from writers, but when that muse is demanding aliens who have very earnestly learned from mid-to-late period Henson…well, what am I to do?