I curated a Storybundle to help us all escape the nightmares of 2026. As I explained in an interview with Jamie Ferguson, one of the other participants in the bundle, sometimes an escape means going to another scary place. But sometimes it means going to a wonderful alternate timeline where things are much better. This […]
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My latest novelette, “The Test of Time,” just appeared in Lightspeed Magazine. Editor John Joseph Adams describe the story by saying it contains “all the SFnal crunchiness of time travel paradoxes inside a delicious academia setting. It’s like the Reese’s peanut butter cup of SF novelettes!” And, y’know? It is! I think you’ll enjoy it. You […]
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Don’t you wish we could escape from 2026? Sometimes I do, especially when I look at the state of our world right now. I really want this period in history to end so that I can read the history books from the comfort of my own chair, smiling softly at the fact that we survived […]
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I know you’re all looking for a great read to get you through the last two weeks of summer—unofficial summer, that is. In the States, summer ends with Labor Day, even though the official end is September 23. But life and work and all those supposedly non-summery things will start getting in the way of […]
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Asimov’s Science Fiction has just published my story, “Last Thursday.” Honestly, I love this story. It was fun and cathartic to write. I’m also with great company in the volume. From a novella by Michèle Laframboise to poetry by Bruce Boston, the writers in this issue are stellar (pun intended). So pick up your copy […]
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And it came early in my career…as these things do. Acclaim often happens to a new voice because it so stuns the readers that everyone pays attention. They did so with Gallery of His Dreams, which was a cover story for Asimov’s (my first there), and a limited edition and a many-times reprint. It got […]
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…no. Not that one, the one we all remember. This one happened about 100 years ago, in the financial district…in the tallest building at the time. I have no idea how I came across this little tidbit, but of course, it attracted my writerly brain, and of course, I had to write about it. September […]
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We started a Kickstarter on Tuesday of six of my standalone science fiction novellas. As I mentioned in the first post here on the site, I was a bit stunned to realize how long it had been since we did any discoverability work on any of these novellas. That includes letting you all know what […]
Continue ReadingJuly was strange. I had a lot of dental and other medical appointments which ate up a lot of time. Some of the stuff that happened forced me to rest afterwards or deal with migraines. I’ve had migraines my whole life, so I can judge how “bad” they are. These were bad enough that I […]
Continue ReadingA lot of reading in June, but mostly for various editing projects. One of them, the Holiday Spectacular, will have a Kickstarter that goes live in October. Before that, though, you can sample our Christmas in July promotion of the Spectacular with the compilation of last year’s stories. What I did read outside of that […]
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