Does anyone have experience writing on the train? Or similar multitasks?
January 20, 2012
December 31, 2011
I moved to WordPress.
Mainly because of the ease of upgrades. Compared to Movable Type upgrades, well, damn. My commute is so ugly these days (hence the radio silence) that that makes a big difference to me.
So. How are you? Happy New Year!
October 1, 2011
“La Divina Commedia” is live at ChiZine!
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Yay! I’m really excited! This story took a long time to sell (two years, three months), and the rejections all said it was really good but not really something they buy. I never lost faith in the story, though, and am really happy that such an awesome place picked it up. I was never really in danger of giving up, because I’m obnoxiously stubborn that way, but I admit it was getting a little disheartening.
You can read it here.
September 1, 2011
June 12, 2011
I’ve been sitting on this one for awhile, and it’s time to release it into the wild. It’s called “The Will of Venus.”
It was a day that all young girls both dreamed about and feared. Mostly feared. Aelia Prima had done all the traditional spells to see the face of your future husband, but they’d never worked. Which was odd, because she had a knack for spells–finding lost objects and the like. She asked the household Gods, the Lares, for help, but got the distinct impression that things were being managed by something higher than them.
June 8, 2011
Thanks to my sister for suggesting the title “In Sickness and in Health.”
Robbie didn’t sleep, but if he did he would have been awakened by the sound of Lydia vomiting. It echoed all up and down the house through the plumbing.
He padded downstairs, watching his feet. They looked indistinguishable from human feet, if perhaps a bit less veiny. He went into the guest bedroom downstairs, where Lydia had moved because her bones were getting brittle, and moved into the bathroom.
June 4, 2011
I just learned that “La Divina Commedia” will appear in the July October issue of ChiZine. Yay! I’m really excited; I’m really fond of this story and am glad it finally found such an awesome home. (I wrote it January 1, 2009, and suspect that it’s the only short story I finished in 2009 since that year sucked so much. NO MORE DEAD AND DYING RELATIVES, UNIVERSE! I’M LOOKING AT YOU! Ahem, I digress.)
I will, of course, link when it’s available. 
May 17, 2011
I read part of “Underworld” in this month’s Broadpod. You can listen at http://broadpod.posterous.com/may-2011-celebrating-motherhood.
May 13, 2011
April 3, 2011
Let me show you it:
May 27, 2011
4:00 PM – Broad Universe Rapid Fire Reading
Conference 2, Concourse Hotel, Madison, Wisconsin
Members of Broad Universe, an international organization dedicated to promoting and celebrating women in science fiction, fantasy, horror, and everything in between, will present snippets of available and on-going work. Expect the touching and irreverent, humorous and frightening, action-packed and emotional, poems and prose, and at least a few surprises! Additional readers: Katherine Mankiller, Kimberly Long-Ewing, Deidre Murphy, S A Bolich
May 28, 2011
2:30 PM – The Future’s Here, It’s Just Not Evenly Distributed
Room 634, Concourse Hotel, Madison, Wisconsin
Many SF books presuppose dramatic technologically-led transformation for the human race. But even in a high-tech society, not everyone can or will adopt technology at the same rate. Will developing countries leapfrog the industrialized world and go right to the newer technologies, as several countries did with cell phones? What will happen to the late adopters when the singularity comes?
May 29, 2011
4:00 PM – Where Is the Indigenous American Fantasy?
Wisconsin, Concourse Hotel, Madison, Wisconsin
Why is American fantasy so Eurocentric? If you believe our fantasists, American cities are populated with imported Romanian vampires, Russian werewolves, Celtic faeries, Nordic gods, Germanic witches, and the (very) occasional African god or Arabic djinn, but scarcely a homegrown magical being to be found. In fact, indigenous magical beings abound in the Americas and their stories of magic, wonder and horror are widely told by spoken and written word. North American mythology is rich with magical beings. Do these stories get adequate air time? Is it easier to imagine an Old World teeming with supernatural beings than to visualize a North America enchanted with indigenous mythical beings? Is it difficult to believe that we live in a naturally magical place? And if we did, what would it look like?
