I am beyond thrilled that “The Last Novelist” has been nominated for a Nebula Award! I can’t believe it! I’m super grateful to Ellen Datlow, for choosing and editing the story, to Tor.com, for publishing it, and for …
The anthology Mad Hatters and Marches Hares by Ellen Datlow is out today, just in time for you to snag a copy for the holidays. The Alice in Wonderland-themed anthology contains my story “In Memory of a Summer’s Day”, …
New acquisitions!
Yesterday, I picked up the just released Collector’s Edition of Omni magazine, in which Ellen Datlow is the fiction editor. I grew up reading Omni and loved the articles, fiction, and art. It’s absolutely amazing to see the …
My near-future cyber-hacking seduction story “Love Engine Optimization” is now out at Lightspeed Magazine.
I came up with the idea of “Love Engine Optimization” after reading a blog post from Hugh Howey where he suggests that privacy …
If you attended the Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading back in November with John Langan and yours truly, you might remember the story I read called “In Memory of a Summer’s Day.” That story will appear in an …
Over at Tor.com, they’ve posted my piece on “How to Run a (Successful) Reading Series.”
…So you want to run a reading series, do you? That’s fantastic news! The more places authors have to showcase their work,
So that cryptic message I left a few weeks back about a story sale? Here it is: I’m supremely happy to announce I’ve sold “In Memory of a Summer’s Day” (which some may have heard me read at KGB last …
Over at Fran Wilde’s Cooking the Books, Ellen Datlow and I share inside secrets about the Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading series, the esoteric art of anthology editing, and the black divination of novel writing. Fran has a …
Last week I participated in the Speculate Podcast, episode 144, hosted by Gregory A. Wilson and Bradley P. Beaulieu, and I was joined by Ellen Datlow, who I co-host Fantastic Fiction at KGB with. We speak about the origin …
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