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The Middle Child's Practical Guide To Surviving a Fairy Tale/Deathlight
The latest issue of Fireside Fiction just went live, and with it, my short story, The Middle Child's Practical Guide to Surviving a Fairy Tale, the story I read at last year's World Fantasy Con and this year's ICFA. Originally written as a Twitter joke, it slowly grew into a blog post, as these things do, and then mutated into a short story ( Read more... ) -
My Own Damn Heaven
New story by me, My Own Damn Heaven, up at Bourbon Penn today. You can also purchase the paperback or a Kindle edition over at Amazon.com if you prefer.
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The Huntsmen
The first half of my latest venture in fairy tales, "The Huntsmen," is now up at Truancy. The second half is coming soon.
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Happy Watermaidens Day
For the most part, water maidens and snow maidens avoid each other. The single touch of a water maiden, after all, can melt even the coldest heart of any snow maiden, or turn her hands to clear water. The snow maidens, in their turn, can freeze a water maiden in her tracks, or worse, trap a water maiden beneath ice. That last, it is whispered, has ( Read more... ) -
Ok, NOW I'm worried about Amazon:
The following paragraph is taken VERBATIM from Amazon Web Services legal terms of service ( Read more... ) -
World Fantasy Con 2016, Update
Good news:
The 2016 World Fantasy Con has updated its website with a disability and accessibility policy, found here. In other good news, the convention has arranged for ASL interpreters for some events, which is a great step forward and something I applaud ( Read more... ) -
Clowns: The Unlikely Coulrophobia Remix
And now, in much happier news, I'm delighted to announce that I've received my authors' copies of Clowns: The Unlikely Coulrophobia Remix, and that this anthology is available at last on Amazon Kindle.I've always loved Unlikely Story's little themed issues on unlikely subjects, and I'm both thrilled and, to be honest, kinda creeped out at the ( Read more... ) -
Choices, and World Fantasy Convention 2016
First, a bit of background. The World Fantasy Convention is a gathering of writers, artists, editors, other pros and fans that I try to get to every year. It moves from city to city, which means that although it has an overall board running things, it's run by a different group each year ( Read more... ) -
Cat Play
My short story, Cat Play, popped up at Metaphorosis today, just in time for the weekend.
It's fantasy, but it's set in a very real place - the apartment complex and the coffee place mentioned in the story are based on places here in Winter Garden. I like the thought that strange things happen here as well.
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End of year publication round-up post
Ah, yes, the hellish annual ritual of looking back at this year's publications.
Fiction:
Four short stories this year.
The Fox Bride, up at Daily Science Fiction, and also in a podcast over at Podcastle.
Inhabiting Your Skin, which appeared in both Apex Publications and The Mary Sue.
Sometimes Heron managed to survive a tangled history to see ( Read more... )