Once again, I’ll be taking part in the Clarion Write-a-Thon to raise money for scholarships to the Clarion Science Fiction Writing Workshop. Clarion was one of the best experiences of my life and I want to make it possible for other people to attend! What is a write-a-thon? Well, I Read more…
It was the last week of Clarion. My sixth story was critiqued on Monday, and I was startled, like coming out of a long sleep, to find I did not need to scramble to write another story by NEXT Monday. Naturally, I started writing a new story. It started as Read more…
Zombie Hitler Vs. Neil Armstrong came out today. I sold the story… well, it was last summer I think. I got to use it for a public reading and it was well-received. (Meaning I cracked people up.) I still can’t believe I got paid for this. It was the easiest, Read more…
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…
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…
My story “Hold the Moment” about a woman who invents a time-freezing machine and tries to be a successful single mother at the same time, is in the June Analog. (Plug: the story takes place at my Alma Mater, Case Western Reserve University.) It was rejected 16 times before selling, by Read more…
My dear friend Mary Turzillo prompted me in the last write-a-thon for “A cat falls in love with a chat bot.” This story, Kitten Lorelei ❤ CherryBerry24, was the result. Not since Zombie Hitler have I written something so marvelously silly. Drawing loosely on my early days as an online chat Read more…