and the rest is rust and stardust
I wasn't going to launch into promo for this book until September, but whatever, it's almost September, and I want to. So here's the first chapter of Labyrinthian, which - recap - is coming out in January from Samhain Publishing. It's a (very, very loose) retelling of the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur IN... Continue Reading →
As promised, here's the first chapter of Ravenfall, free to read. The Story So Far, by way of the back cover blurb: In exile from her home and her people, Turn – once Crow and psychopomp-in-training – is living among the mysterious Ravens, a people steeped in magic and forgotten history. Despite a period of... Continue Reading →
I haven't posted in a bit. Nothing major to announce at the moment, except that I sold a short story - "A Shadow on the Sky", a tale of a drone queen because of course drones would need one - to Mythic Delirium. AND here's a novel update: I'm currently working on two concurrently, because... Continue Reading →
This is from "Singing With All My Skin and Bone", which will be out at some point in Nightmare, and which I'm posting because I've been thinking about it, because it's pertinent to my post last night, and it remains the most intensely personal thing I've written in a long time. It is essentially autobiography... Continue Reading →
[Note: Initially I got a few details wrong about which actual side of my husband's family some of this stuff is from; they're corrected now] Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History is out today. You should get it, so here's where you can: Print ($19.95) ISBN-13: 978-0-9913921-0-0 Amazon Createspace Coming soon: Barnes... Continue Reading →
Let's have some nice things. Let's have some nice "classic" SF, in fact. Ray Bradbury is one of those writers who first made me want to write. The Illustrated Man blew my mind at a very young age. "The Smile". "The Veldt" (which utterly terrified me; Bradbury was as good a writer of horror as... Continue Reading →
Guess what else is out today? Shimmer #17! Which features stories by me, Helena Bell, A.C. Wise, Damien Angelica Walters, Lavie Tidhar, and a whole mess of other awesome people. You can read excerpts of each story at the link above. Here's a bit of mine, "Love in the Time of Vivisection". A Setting Stripped... Continue Reading →
As I was yelling about on various social media outlets yesterday, Crowflight - Book I of Casting the Bones - has been released and is now available to spend your hard-earned dollars on. Goodreads link is here, if you're so inclined. It's been almost exactly a year from completion of the first draft to release... Continue Reading →
After the loss of a limb, some people experience bereavement. Some people are angry. Some people adjust perfectly well. Some people have a hard time working with your particular family of prosthetics. Fewer than there used to be. The majority of people are fine with you, grateful for the advances that have produced you. But... Continue Reading →
Basically what the post subject line says: We See a Different Frontier, the anthology of post-colonial SF that I'm lucky enough to be a part of, is now available in ebook and paperback formats. So far the book has gotten great buzz from critics. Publisher's Weekly (which calls my story "haunting"): Fernandes and al-Ayad, editors... Continue Reading →
A Trick of Light 