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Reflecting on the Past Year

Overall, 2010’s been a much better year than 2009, although it’s had its less pleasant moments, such as special assessment convulsions in my condo complex, my Grandmother’s death in November, and the usual array of rejections implicit in being a writer and sending stuff out. 🙂

On the bright side, my collection was a 2010 Endeavour Award finalist and I had fourteen stories published in 2010. Here’s the list, with a notable reprint and two podcasts to boot:

  1. 2020 VISIONS, edited by Rick Novy. Therapy Buddha.

    2. A dark story of data herds and contraband foods, edited by a fellow Codex writer.

  2. CLOCKWORK PHOENIX 3, 2010, edited by Mike Allen. Surrogates.

    3. An R-rated absurdist story telling of Belinda and Bingo’s love.

  3. TRIANGULATION: END OF THE RAINBOW, 2010, edited by Bill Moran. In Order to Conserve.

    4. A reprint from the collection, which also appeared as a podcast on Podcastle. A slim little political fable.

  4. M-BRANE, January, 2010. Fire on the Water’s Heart.

    5. Far flung tragedy of alien species interacting and sparking a doomed romance.

  5. MOOT MAGAZINE, April 2010. Biosapiens.

    6. Who is V-man, what does he want, and why does he glow under certain conditions?

  6. MOOT MAGAZINE, April, 2010. The Strange Case of Maya Andaluz.

    7. Graduate student and artist Maya is abducted by a strange alien light, leaving behind a fishbowl filled with desiccated fish and half-melted glass pebbles.

  7. EXPANDED HORIZONS, June, 2010. Coyote Barbie.

    8. Contains a favorite line of mine, “Barbies who run with the wolves”.

  8. EXPANDED HORIZONS, July, 2010. Swamp Gas.

    9. This was originally written for the Apex magazine contest asking writers to combine urban legends with UFOs – it’s my version of the vanishing hitchhiker.

  9. EVERY DAY FICTION, August, 2010. The Investigation.

    10. Flash fiction detailing events in a mythical location that I think of as vaguely French.

  10. PODCASTLE, August, 2010. Sugar.

    11. A Tabat story that originally appeared in the first Fantasy Magazine sampler and was later reprinted in my collection.

  11. LIGHTSPEED, September, 2010. Amid the Words of War. (Kindle version)

    12. One of my Clarion West stories, the first set at the brothel The Little Teacup of the Soul.

  12. DAILY SCIENCE FICTION, September, 2010. Seeking Nothing.

    13. 2010 was a year for dark SF, and here’s another example of that.

  13. CROSSED GENRES, September, 2010. Centzon Totochin.

    14. Horror set in a small Mexican town.

  14. EVERY DAY FICTION, September, 2010. Love Affair.

    15. Written during my grad student days at Indiana University.

  15. TOR.COM, October, 2010. Clockwork Fairies

    16. Perhaps my favorite of the 2010 publications, this is my attempt to talk about some of the problems implicit in the steampunk genre. I -love- the accompanying artwork by Gregory Manchess.

  16. REDSTONE SCIENCE FICTION, November, 2010. Not Waving, Drowning

    17. A final dark story of a marriage between telepath and non-telepath to finish out the year.

In 2011, I have stories coming out from ABYSS & APEX (Bots d’Amor), BENEATH CEASELESS SKIES (Love, Resurrected), BULL SPEC (The Coffeemaker’s Passion), GIGANOTOSAURUS (Karaluvian Fale, which Armageddon players should note is set in Allanak), DAILY SCIENCE FICTION (Pippa’s Smiles), LIGHTSPEED (Long Enough And Just So Long), SHADOWS AND LIGHT II (Aquila’s Ring, another story that Armageddon players will be interested in, since it takes place in Allanak and Tuluk). Podcastle will be doing an audio version of my collaboration with Jeff VanderMeer, The Surgeon’s Tale.

I got a Kindle and discovered the joys of e-readers, and even converted my collection, EYES LIKE SKY AND COAL AND MOONLIGHT, into a Kindle version, as well as one for other e-readers.

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  1. “Clockwork Faeries” was great, but I’m hard-pressed to decide which comes in second: “Sugar” or “Not Waving, Drowning”.

    All in all, damn fine work!

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