Flash Fiction: “Love and Relativity” at Nature Physics today
Okay… 5 days ago. (insert joke about relativity here) Interestingly, as Colin Sullivan points out in his intro, both of the flash fiction stories I’ve sold to Nature deal with multiple universes in...
View ArticleWriters of the Future V32 Q2: A winner is me! (With bonus rules clarification!)
I’m pleased to be able to announce that–after entering the Writers of the Future contest every three months for about four years–I’ve finally managed to break into the winner’s circle! And not just...
View ArticleOut soon: “Science Fiction Short Stories” anthology from Flame Tree Publishing
My story “Behind the First Years” will be included in this anthology, which is due out at the end of the month (after a few printing-related delays). If you’d like to pre-order it ($18.75—a pretty good...
View ArticlePodcast Reprint: “Behind the First Years” at StarShipSofa
My story “Behind the First Years” has been produced as an audio version by the venerable StarShipSofa! You can listen to it (as well as Bogi Takács‘ excellent “Changing Body Templates”) for free(!) on...
View ArticleMy stories are now on AnthologyBuilder (which is having a sale!)
I just recently learned of a website called AnthologyBuilder. It’s basically a way to select whatever available stories you want from your favourite authors and bundle them all together into a fancy...
View ArticleOut today: an Interview and an Anthology
Actually, both of these things were out yesterday. But today is the new yesterday! Or it will be tomorrow. So: close enough. The first thing is an interview with me in the Polk County Itemizer-Observer...
View ArticleWant to appear in a story I write? Now’s your chance!
“Tuckerization,” for anyone not familiar with the term, is the practice of including real people in fiction as a sort of in-joke, either using their real name, an obvious parody of it, or just similar...
View ArticleStory sale! “The Plumes of Enceladus” to Abyss & Apex
Thrilled to announce that I have sold “The Plumes of Enceladus,” a roughly 7,000-word science fiction story, to Abyss & Apex. It is by far the “hardest” story of mine to see publication to date....
View ArticleLooking for a writing activity in November? Come run the @WYRMsGauntlet !
If anyone out there in the wide world of Internet is looking for some kind of motivational writing thing to do in November that isn’t a novel, and/or would like a chance at $150, why not come join me...
View ArticleCome check out my story “How to Configure Your Quantum Disambiguator” in the...
…which sadly is not a competition involving clothes that have the fly open and closed until you think to check. But it is a pretty neat flash fiction competition. I’ve entered my story “How to...
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My quantum physics haiku (yes, really) made the EQUS competition shortlist
I recently entered one of the mini-contests for the Quantum Shorts competition (where my story “How to Configure Your Quantum Disambiguator” is still in the flash fiction contest and eagerly awaiting...
View ArticleMy Dicksian story “Fugue in a Minor Key” free to read at Galaxy’s Edge
What would you do if everything you thought was real was ripped away, and you were young again? And what would you do if everything you thought you real was what you wanted back again? These are the...
View Article“Elements of a Successful Exit Broadcast” is odd, short, and free to read at...
I like flash fiction. I also like space ships (albeit ones without puppies involved). So it pleases me to combine the two in my latest publication, “Elements of a Successful Exit Broadcast,” which is...
View ArticleMy story “Elements of a Successful Exit Broadcast” reviewed
I’ve spotted a couple of reviews out there on the Interwebs for my story “Elements of a Successful Exit Broadcast” in the November issue of Fantastic Stories of the Imagination. I know you’re not...
View Article“Excerpt Regarding the Departed” out today at the Sockdolager
Story release day! My story, “Excerpt Regarding the Departed from the Diagnostic and Necromantic Manual, 5th Edition“ is out today in the Winter 2015 issue of The Sockdolager. This is my second time...
View ArticleMy story “How to Configure your Quantum Disambiguator” up for people’s choice...
A few days ago, I received an e-mail from the administrators of the Quantum Shorts contest letting me know that my entry, “How to Configure your Quantum Disambiguator,” was in the short-list of ten...
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My published original fiction from 2015 – in review (the dreaded “awards...
For SFF writers, there are two year-end traditions. One is to post a list of your published fiction for the year so people who read for award nominations can be reminded it exists. The second is to...
View ArticleFirst in a Series of Free Weekly Micro-fiction Pieces – The Last Words of...
It’s a new year! If you use that whole Gregorian Calendar thing. Plus there’s a whole extra Monday at the end of next month. This calls for something special, so I’ve decided that I’m going to run a...
View ArticleGuest Post – Daniel M. Bensen on How Dinosaurs can fix your Need for Speed
Here’s a first—a guest post! Daniel M. Bensen is a fellow member of the Codex Writing Group, and he is doing a blog tour in celebration of self-publishing his novel Groom of the Tryannosaur Queen,...
View ArticleReported Final Words of God-Empress Min-Jo (Last Words Series)
There are many genres of Science Fiction, and I enjoy pretty much all of them. But perhaps my favourite is space opera. I love the breadth of the stories, the vast sweep of space, the clashes and...
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