Here is my Obligatory Awards Eligibility Post for 2015. You know, in case you happen to have nomination rights for the Nebula or Hugo or Year’s Best Anthologies Left In This Coffee Shop. I had two pro fiction sales that were published in 2015: “Neil Armstrong Vs. Zombie Hitler,” which Read more…
In sixth grade, we were given the assignment to draw a self-portrait and then write six words that described ourselves. It was a lesson on adjectives. I picked “Obnoxious”, “Fat”, “Loquacious”, “Stupid”, “Grotesque”, and “lazy.” I was bitterly proud of my vocabulary. (“Loquacious” was my attempt to be nice to Read more…
As mentioned before, I was a medieval reenactment fighter (SCA). I was super bad at it, too. How bad? In ten years of fighting, the farthest I ever made it in a double elimination tournament was three rounds. For comparison, an eggplant with a sword taped to it will automatically last Read more…
I think that in the future, fanfic will be considered the literature of our age. One of the first things I ever wrote was fanfic, though I didn’t know it at the time. I was in first grade. I wrote a story about Star Trek. (The original series. Next Gen Read more…
One of my favorite ways to procrastinate on writing is to generate meaningless statistics about my writing. I’m a mathmatologist. I believe that somehow, numbers will reveal the future to me. Recently, someone asked me the average number of rejections a short story of mine receives before it is accepted. Read more…
User almost_a_human wants to add you to their contact list. Accept? Ignore. User almost_a_human wants to add you to their contact list. Accept? *sigh* Well, it’s been popping up every day for a month now, I guess I’ll give this person a shot. Maybe it’s someone I know. Or at Read more…
I am very proud and honored to have my story “Keep Talking” In the Best of Apex Magazine Anthology. This story won Apex’s Story of the Year for 2014. The Oxford Cultural Review reviewed the anthology, and it ends with this glowing praise of my story: To my mind, the anthology’s Read more…