A heaping spoonful of awesome poetry signal-boosts:

1) shweta_narayan is crowdfunding poetry to raise money for Clarion San Diego. Go take a look, chip in some money, enjoy the poetry goodness.

2) grayrose76 is editing Stone Telling, devoted to literary speculative poetry. She's open for submissions now. If you have any interest at all, bookmark this site--it will be ( Read more... )

One of the downsides of being in this weird quiet transitional state is that I tend to emerge only when I have good news to report, turning this into a de facto brag blog. Still, I know at least some of you are reading to keep track of what's up with me, so:

"Attar of Roses," my first published story, is now available in podcast form at Podcastle. ( Read more... )

... that five links make a post.

1) jimhines recently put up a very timely post about introversion and the cost of social exposure. As somebody who is both an X-treme Introvert and pathologically shy (which I doubt comes as a surprise to anybody who's met me), I find it comforting to know that the Internet can be daunting even to people who--like Jim ( Read more... )

So "The Armature of Flight" is now up at Fantasy Magazine.

It's also available in podcast form. Read, in a spectacular bit of OMG-this-world-is-small, by one of my classmates from grad school, who I did not realize until last night is now a slush reader for Fantasy Magazine ( Read more... )

Starting the year off right: PodCastle has accepted "Attar of Roses." Squee!Other than that, the year goes steadily, though I could have lived without the disruption involved in the introduction of termites to the joy of sulfur and fluorine. Everything consumable that wasn't in factory-sealed bottles or cans had to be double-bagged; we used this as ( Read more... )

Ink: Off Netflix. A super-indie, ultra-low budget, independently distributed urban fantasy about Storytellers (who do not actually tell many stories) and Incubi (who do not actually seduce any women) battling for the sake of a single small child. If this sounds glurgy, well... you're not wrong, but it has a sharpness to it that keeps it worth ( Read more... )

Happy 2010, only a week belated. Here's hoping it treats people better than 2009 did.

We brought it in well, with friends gathered from near (in California terms) and far, with rib roast and parsnips and pumpkin pie and nog, with sunshine and ocean and only one plumbing disaster. I prefer to think of that last as a christening and not an omen ( Read more... )

For Zak, always ( Read more... )

Last night I stopped by the drug store to pick up a gift card so I could buy a pet crab for my character in the Korean online game that I play with my sister.

The future happened while my back was turned, didn't it?

(Still alive. More content soon.)

Apparently trying to get CoR done by August 31 was not a great idea. I managed to stress myself into radio silence and run out of spoons in the process. Part of it was the other opportunities I was going to miss if I stayed single-mindedly focused on the novel redraft: the next Leviathan anthology (which has since gotten pushed back), the next ( Read more... )