Woo and hoo! One of the very first short stories I ever sold was The Red Boots to Terry Windling and Ellen Datlow, for their anthology of retold fairy tales, Black Hearts, Ivory Bones. That anthology has now been reissued as an ebook, along with all the other anthologies in that series! I’m kind of […]
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In an ideal world, I’d be able to write and publish an absolutely brilliant novel once a month, every month. At this point, I can’t. I may never be able to. But I have been looking at my individual processes, trying to tweak them and so speed up the entire process, and possibly gain more
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No, not the waking up at 3 AM and craving candied, cajun bacon. (I’m not the only one who does that, right?) But that hunger, that drive to succeed. I was really busy for a while this summer. Too busy. Busier than I would choose to be. Unsustainably busy. And as part of that, as
As you may or may not recall in our continuing saga of cross-promotion, the new Fiction River subscription kickstarter has featured some of my work for its rewards, which was, let’s just say, very rewarding, indeed. They also asked if we’d do a video. I, uhm, may have agreed. It may also be very, very,
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Gracie’s Fire, the second Gracie story, is now available! This is the story that I sold to the anthology, Clockwork Universe. It was my first steampunk story. However, I liked it so much, and I liked Gracie and her world so much, that I’ve written more stories about her. The first, chronologically speaking, is Gracie
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I made some progress on the new quilt! I sewed together sixteen of the smaller squares into a larger square. I think it’s really pretty. I’m very pleased. I only have 79 more of these larger squares to make. There will be strips in between the larger squares when I assemble them. Then more material
This weekend, September 12-15, Kobo is having a sale. And I’m in it! My novels The Clockwork Fairy Kingdom and The Maker, the Teacher, and the Monster are both on sale for 30% off this weekend. Of course, there’s a secret handshake. You knew that, right? The code is: READ30 There are lots of books
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If you haven’t gotten your copy of Poisoned Pearls, here’s your chance! I’m giving away five copies of the book as part of a Goodreads giveaway that I’m holding until September 12, which is Friday. (I believe the giveaway lasts until midnight on the 12th, but it might be midnight on the 11th.) I know,
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To start on page one, as it were. Fiction River is an anthology series edited by Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith. They funded the first year using a Kickstarter. (The original video is awfully funny and silly.) Kris and Dean have decided to run their subscription drive for the second year of Fiction
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The Curious Case of Rabbit and the Temple Goddess is now available! This is the story that I sold to Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine last year and was in their 2014 Jan/Feb issue. I have also sold the second Rabbit story, Rabbit and the Missing Daughter to Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine. I don’t know when
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