...to Fiction and Other White Lies, my official-like corner of the web. I'm a Canadian writer of literary science fiction and fantasy with a love for mythic prose and an obsession with the secret hearts of cities. My bibliography, links, happenings, and snippets of writing projects on the go are here; day-to-day stuff, discussion, whimsy, and silliness are located at my journal.
Updated regularly, insofar as interesting and pertinent things happen.
January 16, 2012
Another scavenger hunt!
Welcome to my stop on the YAmazing Race with MGnificent prizes, the biggest blog scavenger hunt in town, featuring over 50 debut authors and prize packs featuring ARCs, gift certificates, swag, and more! If you haven’t yet been to the Apocalypsies website, please click here to start from the beginning and read the complete rules.
And now, the race bit!
Matthew has loved Ariel from the moment he found her in the tunnels, her bee's wings falling away. They live in Safe, an underground refuge for those fleeing the city Above--like Whisper, who speaks to ghosts, and Jack Flash, who can shoot lightning from his fingers.
But one terrifying night, an old enemy invades Safe with an army of shadows, and only Matthew, Ariel, and a few friends escape Above. As Matthew unravels the mystery of Safe's history and the shadows' attack, he realizes he must find a way to remake his home--not just for himself, but for Ariel, who needs him more than ever before.
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January 9, 2012
One of the odd, scattered poetry sales to report! "Hold Fast", which is a poem about Tam Lin, relationships, and non-trivial amounts of swearing, is going to appear in a future issue of Strange Horizons. As always, when it's up, you'll know it.
Furthermore, Above is getting some more love: It's been named one of Indigo Teen Blog's most anticipated books of 2012, and is appearing as one of Badass Bookie's 2012 Debutantes, which is a list that includes such awesome people as Jodi Meadows, Jill Hathaway, and awesome people I'm not personally somewhat acquainted with. It's a fun event; check it out!
Stuff is, in general, ramping up. More to come later this week!
January 4, 2012
Ellen Datlow has posted the table of contents for her Best Horror of the Year, Vol. 4 -- which means I can stop sitting on the fact that "Stay", originally published in Chilling Tales, will be included. It's my first sale to this particular Year's Best series, and so kind of a big deal here at the Treehouse. There will be cookies tonight.
As always, further information about where to find it, release dates, and so forth when I have it!
January 1, 2012
Happy New Year, kids. :)
I came home from my house party of choice to the news that Above's won Best Sneak Peek Cover for 2012 on All Things Urban Fantasy's best covers of 2011 reader poll, which was a nice way to start 2012. Although I cannot almost be surprised. Cover artist Nathalia Suellen is pretty much brilliant. I got this!
Hope you all had a lovely new year, and well, here comes 2012! (Book year!)
December 19, 2011
Been a busy offline month here at the Treehouse, but here's a bit of digital reprint news: Intrepid editor Mike Allen has made the original Clockwork Phoenix anthology available as an ebook for Kindle, epub and mobi, and they're ready to go. My own having a story included aside? It's a fantastic book, and worth your time.
Also, today Above somehow ended up in the Huffington Post! So, go Above.
December 1, 2011
Oh look, it's the YA Scavenger Hunt!
What does this mean? It means the awesome Colleen Houck has corralled a whole bunch of YA authors into creating a scavenger hunt for your delectation, featuring not only a bucket of extra and secret material for a whole lot of awesome upcoming releases, but there are also fabulous prizes. Every author has a piece of secret content and a link to the next person on the hunt, and if you collect all the words marked in red and enter the contest before December 4th, you could win those fabulous prizes we mentioned up there.
I'm featuring author Lisa Nowak, author of Running Wide Open!
About Lisa
-- In addition to being a YA author, Lisa Nowak is a retired amateur stock car racer, an accomplished cat whisperer, and a professional smartass. She writes coming-of-age books about kids in hard luck situations who learn to appreciate their own value after finding mentors who love them for who they are. She enjoys dark chocolate and stout beer and constantly works toward employing wei wu wei in her life, all the while realizing that the struggle itself is an oxymoron.Lisa has no spare time, but if she did she’d use it to tend to her expansive perennial garden, watch medical dramas, take long walks after dark, and teach her cats to play poker. For those of you who might be wondering, she is not, and has never been, a diaper-wearing astronaut. She lives in Milwaukie, Oregon, with her husband, four feline companions, and two giant sequoias.
Running Wide Open
-- Cody Everett has a temper as hot as the flashpoint of racing fuel, and it's landed him at his uncle's trailer, a last-chance home before military school. But how can he take the guy seriously when he calls himself Race, eats Twinkies for breakfast, and pals around with rednecks who drive in circles every Saturday night?What Cody doesn't expect is for the arrangement to work. Or for Race to become the friend and mentor he's been looking for all his life. But just as Cody begins to settle in and get a handle on his supercharged temper, a crisis sends his life spinning out of control. Everything he's come to care about is threatened, and he has to choose between falling back on his old, familiar anger or stepping up to prove his loyalty to the only person he's ever dared to trust.
Running Wide Open is available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Smashwords!
Bonus Material
Lisa's bonus material is a sneak peek at holiday scene from Getting Sideways, the second book in the Full Throttle series, which will be released in mid-December. The setup: 15-year-old Cody has been sent to live with his uncle, and they are currently staying with his friend Kasey. Lisa says: "As a disclaimer, I realize that Burl Ives is no longer with us, but he was in 1989 when this scene takes place. (Spoilers have been removed.)"
In the days following Thanksgiving, I discovered a whole new aspect to my uncle’s personality. He was a total fruitcake when it came to Christmas. I like the holiday as much as the next guy, but Race really got into it—the lights, the hype, even the music. Naturally, he had Jimmy Buffett’s Christmas tape, which he broke out first thing Friday morning.“Hey, Kasey,” he asked that night at dinner. “Is it okay if I decorate your house?”
“Of course. I let you at Halloween, didn’t I?”
I wondered if she’d caught that “your” the way I had. Race obviously still had issues about us belonging here.
“It’s too early,” I protested.
He grinned. “Ain’t it great? The way the calendar is this year, we get a whole extra week of Christmas.”
Despite the Halloween experience, I didn’t realize what I was in for until he took me to his shop Saturday morning. Race had boxes of decorations stacked in the back corner—a dozen at least. To think that evil secret had been lurking there all this time and I’d never suspected.
“Where did you use all these?” I asked as we loaded them into the van. He had enough stuff to decorate a mall.
“On my trailer.”
“They must’ve been able to see it from space.”
I gave Race a hard time all the way home. It sort of perked me up. Friday had been a bitch, what with the letdown after the big bash at Kasey’s.
When we got to the house, we unpacked everything then lugged the lights outside, where I was subjected to cold rain, Race’s unrelenting cheerfulness, and worst of all, his singing.
“Dude,” I protested when he started in on Holly Jolly Christmas. “You’re gonna make Burl Ives turn over in his grave.”
“Burl Ives isn’t dead.”
“He will be when he hears you butchering his song.”
Race shook his head sadly. “You Grinch types mock people like me, but you’d do well to remember I have a direct line to Santa. If you don’t wanna end up with a quart of used motor oil in your stocking, you’d better watch yourself.”
“Fine. But if you start wearing a Santa hat or those stupid reindeer antlers, I’m moving back to Portland.”
Race snaked an extension cord across the deck to an outlet. “That reminds me. I should get a hold of your dad.”
Alarm shot through me, making my heart pound. “Don’t worry about it. I’ll take care of it tonight.”
Race broke into a grin. “Y’know, I’m really impressed with how you’ve patched things up with him. I know it must’ve been tough to give him a second chance.”
Normally I loved hearing that sort of praise, but this time it brought a flood of guilt.
* * * Throughout the soggy morning, we hung lights on the deck railing, gutter, and several bushes in the front yard.
“I may need to pick up a few more strings,” Race said as he stood back to survey our work.
“Along with the tab for Kasey’s electric bill.”
He nodded. “Good idea. I should’ve thought of that myself.”
Way to go, dumbass. Just feed his obsession.
When we were done with the outside of the house, Race started on the interior, festooning each room with pine swags, ribbons, candles, and artificial snow. The activity stirred Winston from his usual catatonia, and he reverted to kittenhood, playing hide-and-seek in the empty boxes.
I knew Race had gone completely mad when he brought out the window clings and stuck them to every available glass surface. He even plastered a snowman on the door of the microwave.
“Hey,” I said. “It’s DeFrosty de Snowman.”
When Kasey came home from work, we were sprawled on the couch, blown out from all the activity, and listening to Mele Kalikimaka for the fiftieth time.
“The place looks really nice,” she said.
I snorted. “It looks like Whoville before the Grinch showed up.” But the truth was, as much as I enjoyed messing with Race, it was a relief to see him showing so much enthusiasm. And I kind of liked the festiveness. Except for a few long-ago Christmases when my mother was still playing the Good Mommy role, I couldn’t remember our house ever looking like this. Mom had always complained that decorating was too much trouble, and Dad didn’t seem to care about the holidays. The only reason we usually had a tree was because I’d put it up myself.
That's the fun extras bit! Now the prize bit!
Scavenger Hunt Puzzle
Directions: Copy and paste the words below onto a document or print it out and unscramble the words as you proceed through the Scavenger Hunt. Search for keywords, one on each website, that are highlighted in RED. When you're finished, fill out the Google form here.
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6. DLENGO
7. IRDEEDEWLB
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11. GURENDOHY
12. GAUINDAR
13. RETECSS
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Rules: To be eligible for the grand prize, you must submit this filled-in puzzle before noon on Dec 4th, Pacific Time. All the keywords must be in the correct place and you must include your full name and address. Entries sent in without name and address will not be considered.
Good luck, happy hunting, and here's the next website on the Scavenger Hunt!
November 9, 2011
A small stack of reprint news to report!
Both Clockwork Phoenix and Clockwork Phoenix 2 are going to receive an ebook edition, which means "Bell, Book and Candle" and "Six" are both going to be available digitally. I'll let you know when they're available!
Secondly, "The Ground Whereon She Stands" is going to be reprinted in Witches: Wicked, Wild and Wonderful, edited by Paula Guran and out in March from Prime Books. It's a kind of amazing TOC, including stories from Neil Gaiman, Madeleine L'Engle, Ursula Le Guin and Jane Yolen. Again, more when I have it!
October 20, 2011
Heading out of town tomorrow for a trip culminating in the World Fantasy Convention in San Diego, and I have a tentative schedule as of tonight! It's a late reading, but I'll probably do something from Above, or alternately, something new depending on what people are feeling like.
Hope to see you there!
October 17, 2011
I'll be at SFContario next month, and have in my hot little hands this crazy thing we call a preliminary panel schedule. Hope to see you there!
September 13, 2011
And "The Parable of the Shower" is up at Podcastle this week! This is the story written in second person, present tense, in the language of the King James Bible, so my ultimate respect goes out to the reader: I know what it's like to read that one!
August 20, 2011
And a reprint sale! "The Parable of the Shower", which originally appeared in Lone Star Stories, will be produced in audio at Podcastle sometime in the near future. I don't have a date yet, but I'll tell you when.
August 19, 2011
Another (slightly sudden) convention appearance: I'll be at Can-Con 2011, in Ottawa, on the weekend of September 9-11. I'm not yet sure what my panel schedule will be, but there will be one, and I'll let you all know when I have it!
July 27, 2011
Another international publisher's picked up Above! A Brazilian Portuguese-language edition will appear from Novo Conceito, which has a huge list of both YA, adult fiction, and nonfiction.
July 18, 2011
Above has its first international publisher! It will appear in translation in Germany from Baumhaus (an arm of the Luebbe publishing group) sometime late next year.
July 3, 2011
I'll be at Readercon 22 in two weeks' time, and have my finalized schedule up!
Most notably, I'll be getting a chance to read from Above. It's at 12:30pm on Friday, in the New Hampshire room, and I should have an ARC to give away to someone in the audience there. I haven't yet decided if it'll be a random raffle or if I should make people do creative and silly things for it yet, but you will be kept posted.
Hope to see you there!
June 18, 2011
Houston, we have ARCs:
June 12, 2011
A couple publications to report: short story "The Ground Whereon She Stands", which is about hedgewitches, boundaries, and relationship subtext, is in the current issue of Realms of Fantasy, which should be available on newsstands now.
Secondly, there's new Shadow Unit: "The Small Dark Movie of Your Life" is airing today, tomorrow, and Tuesday.
May 6, 2011
Above is up on Goodreads, and thus so am I: I've put in for an author page. Friend me if you're inclined!
To further make this an update of social media spread, I've also finally built an author fan page on Facebook, which I will attempt to update with more diligence than I update this newscrawl. Add or do not add as the spirit moves you!
March 16, 2011
Chilling Tales is now officially available in Canada! (Americans and Brits, sorry; you have to wait.) There's a launch party this Saturday, on March 19, 2011, at Bakka-Phoenix Books. Many authors will be there. I am told cookies will be involved, and probably drinks afterwards.
Hope to see you there!
January 16, 2011
My first attempt at a formal Petrarchan sonnet (about poetics, and music, and the gentlemen, with one bonus! dirty Greek pun) has just gone live in the Winter 2011 issue of Goblin Fruit. Enjoy!
January 13, 2011
Happy new year!
Interesting new kinds of announcements for you all: I'm going to be participating in some readings and book launches this winter and spring. First off, the Chiaroscuro Reading Series is holding a "Bakka to the Future" reading on February 8, 2011 at the Augusta House, featuring three former/current Bakka-Phoenix Books staffers: Ed Greenwood, Michelle Sagara West, and myself. The CZP folks put on a great reading series in a lovely, atmospheric space, and I hope to see you there!
Secondly, anthology Chilling Tales will be launching on March 19, 2011, at the aforementioned Bakka-Phoenix Books, with snacks, good company, and some of Canadian horror's finest. I'll be reading and signing, and probably hanging out for after-event dinner.
If you can't make it, there will be a second launch for Chilling Tales at Ad Astra 2011; more information on that as I have it!
All this stuff is on the Appearances page, as well as what's shaping up to be the 2011 convention schedule, but if anything more shakes out, I'll update here as well!
December 6, 2010
More short story news: Chilling Tales is available for preorder! Like we said downstream this summer, it contains "Stay", which is a story about wendigoes, pomegranates, Raven, and the ethics of cold-weather communities, as well as fiction from a pretty all-star crew when it comes to the Canadian horror scene.
The book's out in April and I'm assured of events and signings and such around (at least) the Toronto area, but you can preorder it now, or put it on a list, or what have you.
December 1, 2010
I'm drowning in novel edits and dayjob at the moment, but yet more quick sale news: short story "The Ground Whereon She Stands", which is about hedgewitches, boundaries, and relationship subtext, will be appearing in a future issue of Realms of Fantasy.
September 21, 2010
Quick sale news! Two poems will be appearing at Goblin Fruit in the near future. "For Pomegranates" will be in the Autumn 2010 issue, and "Little Songs," which is my first attempt at a formal sonnet, in the Winter 2011 issue.
July 28, 2010
So here's the big news:
ABOVE, a young adult novel about a girl with bee wings and a boy who grew up underground, will be published by Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic, with a release date somewhere around Spring 2012.
I am so looking forward to getting to give this to you guys I cannot even describe.
June 10, 2010
New story out: "A Thousand", which is a story about paper cranes, Vancouver, bad communication, and the subtleties of cultural-social expectations, is in the Spring 2010 issue of On Spec, which should be hitting newsstands about now.
Enjoy!
May 14, 2010
Sale news! "Stay", which is a story about wendigoes, pomegranates, Raven, and the ethics of cold-weather communities, will appear in the inaugural volume of Chilling Tales: From the Great White North, a new annual anthology series of Canadian horror edited by Michael Kelly and published by Edge. I'm really looking forward to this, as the company, from what I can tell so far, will be very good.
The book should be out in March 2011, premiering at the World Horror Convention in Austin.
February 16, 2010
That reprint mentioned a few posts down is available now: "Three Days and Nights in Lord Darkdrake's Hall" is in audio at Podcastle! Enjoy!
January 6, 2010
Well, happy New Year, folks!
Some notable news on an appearance that's worth mentioning on the front page: I will, along with a goodly chunk of the other Shadow Unit authors, be appearing at the Tucson Festival of Books in Tucson, AZ on March 13 and 14. We'll be doing a panel and signing, and otherwise just roaming the festival, being festive.
If you're local to it, hope to see you there!
December 16, 2009
This stuff apparently comes in waves.
In any case, a reprint to report: "Three Days and Nights in Lord Darkdrake's Hall", which appeared in Strange Horizons in early 2007, will be reprinted in audio at Podcastle. Dates provided as I have them!
December 13, 2009
Further to that last one, the February 2010 issue of Realms of Fantasy is being offered as a free PDF as part of the relaunch of the magazine under Tir Na Nog Press. So if you're nowhere near a newsstand, this is no longer a barrier; the link for the free PDF is on their new website. Enjoy!
December 3, 2009
Finally, something report-worthy for this space: "Mister Oak", a Wildean fairytale about an oak tree and the girl he loves, is available in the February 2010 issue of Realms of Fantasy, which is actually on newsstands until February 2010 (meaning December and January). Enjoy!
August 13, 2009
...unlike usual, I haven't neglected this because nothing's been doing. I've been neglecting this because everything's been doing.
The major news for this summer is, I suppose, that slightly after that last post down there I accepted an offer of representation from Caitlin Blasdell at Liza Dawson Associates. So: my agent, I show you her! Between this, the rewriting involved in it to get the book ready for submission, and doing two conventions (Readercon and Worldcon) in one month, well. I'm sure you can see how that all went down.
That being said, things are now a touch calmer, and I've done an overall tweak and update on the site this evening, barring changing out the fiction for something fresher and actually smacking all those reviews up into the bibliography (and I think there really needs to be a new approach to that at this point). So, updates all over tonight, and more in the next few days!
June 11, 2009
Clockwork Phoenix 2, which contains my "Six" as well as stories from Marie Brennan, Mary Robinette Kowal, Tanith Lee, Catherynne M. Valente, and a good handful of other seriously accomplished writers, appears to be available for preorder from Amazon now. Publishers Weekly gave it a starred review and said:
Allen finds his groove for this second annual anthology of weird stories, selecting 16 wonderfully evocative, well-written tales. Marie Brennan's thought-provoking "Once a Goddess" considers the fate of a goddess abruptly returned to mortality. Tanith Lee puts a stunning twist in the story of a morose prince in "The Pain of Glass." Mary Robinette Kowal's "At the Edge of Dying" describes a world where magic comes only to those at death's door. In "Hooves and the Hovel of Abdel Jameela," Saladin Ahmed tells of a small village on the edge of a desert, a hermit and a woman who may be a witch. Each story fits neatly alongside the next, and the diversity of topics, perspectives and authors makes this cosmopolitan anthology a winner....so I'm excited.
May 31, 2009
Lone Star Stories #33 is live, and it includes short story "The Parable of the Shower", an outrageous jaunt of stunt-writing. Enjoy!
April 21, 2009
News springs eternal! "The Parable of the Shower", which is a paragon of stunt-writing, will appear in the June issue of Lone Star Stories. This is my first fiction appearance there and it's a zine I really enjoy reading, so I'm looking forward to it!
April 5, 2009
After a quiet month or two, here's a double-header of good stuff: Realms of Fantasy's been bought by Warren Lapine's Tir Na Nog Press, and so will in fact continue publishing, and will in fact be running "Mister Oak". Which is a great relief to me.
More immediately, I've been doing some work this winter and spring with Shadow Unit, an interactive fiction project helmed by Elizabeth Bear, Emma Bull, Sarah Monette, and Amanda Downum, which they describe as fanfiction for a television series that doesn't exist. I'm one of two guest writers this season -- the other is the estimable Holly Black -- and my episode, "Sugar", goes live tomorrow at the site. It's a whole novella's worth, and free unless you're moved to make a donation, so check it out!
February 2, 2009
Good news, bad news: unfortunately, Realms of Fantasy has abruptly closed its doors this month, ending fifteen years of publishing. The April 2009 issue will be the last, which means "Mister Oak", as reported below, will not appear in its pages. Boo.
The good news, though, is that "A Thousand", which is about paper cranes, Vancouver, and the rather unfair traps of communication inherent in several fairytales, will appear in an upcoming issue of On Spec. Further good news is that Clockwork Phoenix has made the Locus Recommended Reading List. Yay!
January 12, 2009
Interzone #220 has been spotted in the wild! It includes novelette "Miles to Isengard", which is about a boy, a nuke, and a long drive to a volcano, and is available across the UK and from TTA Press directly or Borders Books.
January 6, 2009
Another sale to report: "Mister Oak", which is a Wildean fairytale about an oak tree and the girl he loves, will appear in a future issue of Realms of Fantasy. This'll be my third story to appear in Realms!
December 15, 2008
Sale news: "Six", which is a story about gardening, roof-sheep, and the apocalypse, will appear in Clockwork Phoenix 2, edited by Mike Allen! Other contributors who have announced their acceptances include Marie Brennan and Mary Robinette Kowal -- stay tuned for more!
December 13, 2008
Interzone #220 is going to press, and it includes novelette "Miles to Isengard"! Apparently it'll hit newsstands in early January, so keep an eye out!
October 24, 2008
"Furnace Room Lullaby", which originally appeared in Fantasy Magazine, is up at this week's Pseudopod. The folks there really did right by this story, getting together sound effects, music, and a really enthusiastic reader. Check it out!
October 9, 2008
Poem "Going Back" is now live in the Autumn issue of Goblin Fruit, along with a cornucopia of excellent stuff.
September 29, 2008
Two pieces of news: first off, short story "Kimberley Ann Duray is Not Afraid" is live in this week's issue of Strange Horizons (with a direct link here).
Secondly, the The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2008 is out, and two stories and two poems have received Honourable Mentions: "Bears" and "The Girl From Another World", both at Strange Horizons; "Fitcher's Third Wife" in Mythic Delirium #17; and "Three Deaths", which was also nominated for a Rhysling, at Lone Star Stories.
Updates in all things have been made on the Bibliography pages.
September 27, 2008
Sale news! Novelette "Miles to Isengard" will appear in an upcoming issue of Interzone, with publication tentatively set for late this year or early next.
August 6, 2008
The Mammoth Book of Extreme Fantasy, which contains short story "Lost Wax", has hit its official release date! It's available through the link here or the cover link on the sidebar, and includes fiction from Andy Duncan, Orson Scott Card, Howard Waldrop, Liz Williams, David D. Levine, Jonathan Lethem, William Hope Hodgson, Jeffrey Ford, Michael Moorcock, Michael Swanwick, Ted Chiang, and many other authors who could kick my butt 'round the block were they so inclined.
There's also a bit of website housecleaning tonight: The 2008 Rhysling Anthology, which contains nominated poem "Three Deaths", is now linked up on the Poetry page, and I've fixed the Appearances schedule to something final; alas, I'm not going to make the World Fantasy Convention this year.
August 3, 2008
"Bell, Book, and Candle", which appears in Clockwork Phoenix, is also available free online! It's been chosen as the teaser story for the anthology at Fantasybookspot.com, and is readable there.
Enjoy!
June 29, 2008
Clockwork Phoenix, which includes short story "Bell, Book, and Candle", has gone on sale at Amazon ahead of the release date! So it's now available and shipping -- you can click through to get a copy from either the link here or the cover link in the sidebar to the right.
June 28, 2008
More poetry news: "Andromeda in the Forest of the Suicides" will appear in the July issue of Chiaroscuro, and another untitled poem (yes, it's called "Untitled") in a later issue at the same 'zine.
June 11, 2008
The cover for Clockwork Phoenix, an anthology due in July (and containing my "Bell, Book, and Candle"), has been added to the cover roll located just to your right.
Publishers Weekly says about it:
Author and editor Allen (Mythic) has compiled a neatly packaged set of short stories that flow cleverly and seamlessly from one inspiration to another. In "The City of Blind Delight" by Catherynne M. Valente, a man inadvertently ends up on a train that takes him to an inescapable city of extraordinary wonders. In "All the Little Gods We Are," Hugo winner John Grant takes a mind trip to possible parallel universes. Modern topics make an appearance among the whimsy and strangeness: Ekaterina Sedia delves into the misunderstandings that occur between cultures and languages in "There Is a Monster Under Helen's Bed," while Tanith Lee gleefully skewers gender politics with "The Woman," giving the reader a glimpse of what might happen if there was only one fertile woman left in a world of men. Lush descriptions and exotic imagery startle, engross, chill and electrify the reader, and all 19 stories have a strong and delicious taste of weird. (July)
— Publishers Weekly, May 12 2008
Purchase details to follow, as I have them!
June 3, 2008
Another poetry publication: "The Pack Rat's Manifesto" is in the Spring 2008 issue of On Spec, which should be hitting newsstands as we speak (read?).
May 27, 2008
Sale news! Poem "The Murdered Woman Comes Home" will appear in the June issue of Flashquake, and poem "Going Back" will appear in Goblin Fruit this fall.
April 8, 2008
What's that? In the sky?
A Welcome header with some text!
March 21, 2008
Website spring cleaning! Some major revamping of website components tonight: the Bibliography page is now subdivided tidily into short fiction, poetry, and a new subpage for novels, both finished and in progress.
The Appearances page is also updated, and holds what should be my final 2008 convention schedule.
February 18, 2008
More sale news: Poem "Kryptonian International Remembrance Day" will appear in new online magazine Oddlands.
Also, on the Where To Not Go If You're Avoiding Me front, I'll be at this year's Readercon, July 17-20. Eventually I will update the Appearances page to reflect this (and to be actually readable).
February 11, 2008
Another sale! Short story "Furnace Room Lullaby", which originally appeared in Fantasy Magazine issue #5, will be "reprinted" in audio at Pseudopod.
Also, cover art is up for The Mammoth Book of Extreme Fantasy, where "Lost Wax" will be making a reprint appearance. It has joined its merry compatriots on the cover sidebar.
February 3, 2008
Sale news! Short story "Bell, Book, and Candle" will be appearing in Clockwork Phoenix, a new anthology edited by Mike Allen. Publication's tentatively set for Spring 2008.
That, and a review of "The Sorceress's Assistant", added to the Bibliography page.
January 17, 2008
More updates to the Bibliography page: reviews, this time, of "Bears", "Fitcher's Third Wife", and "His Other Wives".
Also, the convention schedule is coming closer to completion. I can say that I will definitely, entirely, totally be at Wiscon 32, May 23-26, in Madison, Wisconsin. Hope to see you there!
January 3, 2008
Sale news again: poem "A Brief History of Night, Before Sleep" will be appearing in a future issue of Chiaroscuro.
ETA, 12:18am: Actually, it appears to be this issue. Fastest sale-to-publication ever. Well...look! Poem!
Also, at some point soon I will sort out my concrete 2008 Public Appearances schedule and put it up here for your delectation, or so you know what places to avoid. Keep watching the skies. *g*
December 9, 2007
Two more sales added to the Bibliography page: "Kimberley Ann Duray Is Not Afraid" (under a different title, when I think up a new title for it) will be in a 2008 issue of Strange Horizons, and "Lost Wax" will be reprinted in The Mammoth Book of Extreme Fantasy in mid-2008. This will probably require me to bribe Amanda for another natty book-cover link on the side there.
Also, I got off my duff finally and changed the Online Fiction. As well as Apres Moi, Le Deluge, two older stories are up now: Midnights on the Bloor Viaduct and Sonnets Made of Wood.
November 18, 2007
More updates to the Bibliography page -- "The Sorceress's Assistant" is in the new issue of On Spec, where I'm fortunate enough to be the Featured Author.
October 31, 2007
Two new pieces hitting print in the next week: "Bears" will be appearing at Strange Horizons on Monday the 5th, and a poem, "Fitcher's Third Wife", is in the current issue of Mythic Delirium, which is mailing to subscribers as we speak. Those updates and a review or two are linked on the Bibliography page.
October 3, 2007
By the good graces of Amanda Downum, web-designer extraordinaire, we have New Website. Yes, the old website was a perfectly good website, but white print on black background -- hacked together with my own ghetto HTML -- is very nineteen, and while I was nineteen when I made it, I am no more.
So welcome to the newest incarnation of Fiction and Other White Lies, poke around, and enjoy!
