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The past few months have had a bunch of new things coming out, so here's my attempt to catch up on them.First, shortly after my last update, I started posting reprints and excerpts at Curious Fictions. I plan to continue posting at least one short stor......

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!

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......

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......

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...

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....

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 ......

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......

I announced a story sale to this anthology some months ago, and at the time it was expected to come out fairly soon, but there were some delays in getting to publication.Now it's finally getting close to publication, and we recently were sent the cover......