Whew, another year? are we sure? yeah, I guess that’s what that adds up to, and it sure adds up to a lot. I signed contracts on another story sale today, I’m putting the finishing touches on a revision to send to my agent, and there’s a lot more stuff in the pipeline, so once again it’s probably good for me to take a moment to stop and breathe and review what I did this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I had the following stories come out, and they were a very mixed group in terms of theme and genre. There’s cranky dolphins, reluctant revolutionaries, aliens doing improv, :<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Exiled to Gravity<\/a>, Sunday Morning Transport (February)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tourist Season<\/a>, Nature Futures (April)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Monster of the Month Club<\/a>, Haven Spec (August)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Spark of Change<\/a>, Translunar Travelers Lounge (August)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yes And<\/a>, Nature Futures (August)<\/p>\n\n\n\n A Piece of the Continent<\/a>, Uncanny (December)<\/p>\n\n\n\n I kept going with poetry, too, with a small clutch of poems. They’re just as varied as the fiction, ranging from a response to a beloved childhood series to science fictional feelings about the world we’re in right now to grief for nerds to fairy tale commentary:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Elegy for Another Hollow Girl, Not One of Us (April)<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Plural of Apocalypse<\/a>, Strange Horizons (April)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Object Permanence, Analog (Sept\/Oct)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Like Other Girls, F&SF (Nov\/Dec)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Just the one essay this year, and I hope it encourages you to do things you enjoy:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Failing the Marshmallow Test: On Not Saving Books for Later<\/a>, Uncanny (December)<\/p>\n\n\n\n I also had some fun reprints! “A Worm to the Wise” came out in Afterglow<\/a><\/em>, and The Deadlands Year One<\/a><\/em> featured both my poem “Oppenheimer in Valhalla” and my short story “Roots of Lamentation.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n That’s the year in publishing, though, which is not exactly the same as the year in writing. In the later part of the year I was more focused than usual on longer-form work, so taking a moment to write some poems and a short story in the last month has been a bit of a breath of fresh air, and I’ll want to do a bit more of that again early in the year. On the other hand I’ve liked<\/em> doing two novellas and some novel work. Balance in all things? We know that’s not my strong suit. But looking for where balance might hypothetically be if I was another person completely? Sure, let’s go for that. Stranger things have happened at sea. And probably will happen on land in 2024, if the work I have coming out so far is any indication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Whew, another year? are we sure? yeah, I guess that’s what that adds up to, and it sure adds up to a lot. I signed contracts on another story sale today, I’m putting the finishing touches on a revision to send to my agent, and there’s a lot more stuff in the pipeline, so once […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-3881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-publishing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3882,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3881\/revisions\/3882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}