Next Thursday, June 9th at 7pm, I’ll be reading at the Bright Hill Literary Center in Treadwell, New York alongside poet Kirby Olson. I’ll likely be reading from a new short story and/or an excerpt from the new novel Queen …
Edit: Today is the last day to read “One Spring in Cherryville” for free. Get it today for nada and tomorrow (and thereafter) at 99 cents.
From now until April 12th, you can read my short story “…
I’m happy to announce my story “The Garden Beyond Her Infinite Skies” now appears in the Czech magazine XB-1. I share the TOC with Jason Sanford, Mercurio D. Rivera, and Will McIntosh, among others. This marks my third appearance …
Storyological, a new podcast series, discusses my story “Demon in Aisle 6,” which was published in November in Nightmare Magazine and also Alyssa Wong‘s Nebula Award-nominated “Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers” (also from Nightmare).
They …
My Nebula Award-nominated story “The Sounds of Old Earth” (originally published in Lightspeed Magazine) was reprinted in the 2015 Nebula Award Showcase, edited by Greg Bear, and is recently reviewed by Pop Matters, who has …
I’ve been reading Shirley Jackson’s short fiction. I had read her novels The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle (the latter being one of my favorite novels of understated horror), and I’ve enjoyed both …
Here’s 30-Second Sci-Fi Book Review giving my Nebula-nominated story “The Meeker and the All-Seeing Eye” their “highest recommendation.” In case you want to watch, the review of my story starts at 3:24. (I love that they use the …
My story “Demon in Aisle 6” (published in Nightmare Magazine) was a finalist for the Sippy Awards. The winner going to “When Your Child Strays From God” by Sam J. Miller. Of my story, they …
I’m happy to announce that my Nebula-nominated short story “The Meeker and the All-Seeing Eye,” has been translated into Romanian and appears in the Almanah Anticipatia 2016. The anthology contains fiction from Alastair Reynolds, Ursula Vernon, Gray Rinehart, Sarah Pinsker, …
Over at Fantasy Scroll Magazine, Iulian Ionescu interviews me in their December issue. I give my life story in three paragraphs, wax philosophical about character creation, and give (gasp!) advice to aspiring writers. Not for the faint of heart! Here’s …
SFSignal has some love for “Demon in Aisle 6,” my story just out in Nightmare Magazine as part of their Mind Meld series, this one on What Makes the Perfect Short Story?
…“One of my very favorite stories
Over at The Brooklyn Rail, Valya Dudycz Lupescu interviews me about King of Shards and my short fiction, delving deep into themes that recur frequently in my work. And Valya really dug deep, finding themes I wasn’t consciously aware of …
This morning I received this nice review of “Demon in Aisle 6” from Charles Payseur at Quick Sip Reviews:
…“Stories like this wreck me. Just absolutely wreck me. There is an aching beauty and tragedy to this story
This month my story “Demon in Aisle 6” appears in Nightmare Magazine, edited by John Joseph Adams. You can purchase the ebook of the issue now, or you can wait until November 18th to read this story for …
To celebrate the October 13th release of my forthcoming debut novel, King of Shards, I will be featuring one new blog entry a day about a different Judaic myth for 36 days. Today’s entry is on Adne Sadeh, The …
I’m happy to announce I’ve sold a new story to Grendelsong, the magazine edited by Paul Jessup. My story is called “The Problem of Meat,” and it’s about inter-dimensional creatures who eat our emotions. Grendelsong, back in the 00s …
I’ve just found out that “The Meeker and the All-Seeing Eye” (from May 2014 Clarkesworld Magazine) has made the BookTubeSFF Awards shortlist for Best Short Work. Some pretty great company to be in, with my work listed …
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