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Recent acceptances
More news coming soon!But for now, three new acceptances to report here. First, I sold a poem, “Body double for the oldest organism,” to Star*Line, the official magazine of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association. It will be my third poem in…
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March Lyrical Worlds
My March newsletter will be going out soon. This one includes a reprint of a Weird Western that was first published almost a decade ago. If you haven’t signed up yet, make sure you do so soon, so you don’t miss this story!Lyrical Worlds NewsletterSign up for news, free books, and more!Subscribe Thank you!You…
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Carnival Days and Days in DSF
My fourth appearance in Daily Science Fiction came yesterday, with “Carnival Days and Days.” As the note at the bottom states, I wrote the story while sitting in the airport, waiting to come back home to Colorado about a year ago. It’s a story of air t…
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A Trade in Betrayals–done!
Late Thursday night I wrote the final words of the first draft of A Trade in Betrayals, the third (and likely final) book in the Arcist Chronicles. It feels like the book is…really good. The beats work and build well. The connections within the novel…
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Goal setting—a fiction writer’s how to
I didn’t used to like creating specific goals. It always felt artificial and a recipe for disappointment. Because, sure, I could set a goal to write XYZ, but when I fell short I thought the fact of falling short would overwhelm any sense of accomplishm…
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Two stories, one to read and one to hear. Wait, make that three!
The Dying Earth anthology is finally out. My story “To Climb by the Light of the Sputtering Sun” was written specifically for the antho. In fact, I’m pretty sure it was the only full short story I wrote in 2018. (I wrote some flash and micro fiction, n…
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The next Lyrical Worlds newsletter
I knew a newsletter going out at the start of the week would just get lost in Cyber Monday sales pitches (and yikes, I knew it would be bad, but it seemed like a lot more than other years this time…). So the December newsletter will be going out earl…
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Story sale! “Carnival Days and Days” to Daily Science Fiction
Quick news that I’ve sold this flash fiction story, a sort of trapped-by-forces-beyond-our-control horror/fantasy story. With clowns. It will be my fourth story in DSF.
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2019 eligibility post
Lots of posts going up on Twitter about this year’s eligibility for various awards, etc. I have two more short stories that I’m expecting to come out before the end of the year, so I’ll add those in tentatively and update it with links, new stories if …
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“The Game” in the Lyrical Worlds newsletter
I mentioned in my November Lyrical Worlds newsletter that I would share pictures of the original publication of the reprinted story in it, “The Game.”Fictitious Force had a unique shape. I suppose it was simply folded the other direction (hotdog bun st…