Free Fiction Monday: The Most Recent Madame Fortuna

Carol grew up with the carnival and its attractions. Like the fortune teller: Madame Fortuna. Now Carol runs carnivals and their employees, including Madame Fortuna. When the screaming begins, Carol doesn’t need a fortune teller to predict trouble. She can do that all on her own. Fixing the problem, however, might take a magic touch. “The Most Recent Madame Fortuna,” by New York Times bestselling author Kristine […]

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A New Short Story: Safety Tests

 I have a new short story out in Jonathan Strahan’s Edge of Infinity  anthology. There are lots of great writers in here, and I’m happy to be among them. I’ve only just started reading, but I can already tell you that the introduction itself is worth the price of admission. So take a peek at Edge of Infinity. I’m sure you’ll find lots of good reading to […]

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“The Observer” in War & Space

I love it when I get books in the mail that I want to read right now. I have a story in War And Space: Recent Combat, edited by Rich Horton and Sean Wallace, but honestly, when the book arrived, I thought I had ordered it to read. Then I looked and realized this was that anthology, the one Rich and Sean had contacted me about […]

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Physical Therapy

I have a new short story in a beautiful anthology out of Ireland, Box of Delights, edited by John Kenny.  Here’s the cover. The anthology has stories by some marvelous authors, including Mike Resnick and Steve Rasnic Tem. I can’t wait to read it. You can find ordering information here.

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Enter A Future: The Digital Anthology

Asimov’s editor Sheila Williams has put together a spectacular digital anthology with tales from the magazine.  She’s included my award-winning novella, “Recovering Apollo 8.”  I’ve read every single story in the anthology when those stories originally appeared in Asimov’s, and I can tell you this is one amazing collection.  It includes one of my all-time favorite stories, Gord Sellars’ “Lester Young and the Jupiter’s Moons’ […]

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