“Sword of the Silent”
Unioverse: Stories of the Reconvergence

“Now We Paint Worlds”
Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2021 Edition

“Still You Linger, Like Soot in the Air”
The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Six

“Now We Paint Worlds”

“Your Future is Pending”
Science Fiction World

“Still You Linger, Like Soot in the Air”
Lightspeed Magazine

“The Marsh of Camarina”
Lightspeed Magazine - Issue 121

“Very Surely Do I Not Dream”
Psi-Wars: Classified Cases of Psychic Phenomena

“Your Future is Pending”
Clarkesworld Magazine #158

Queen of Static

“Truth is Like the Sun”
Lightspeed Magazine 108

“The Last Novelist (or a Dead Lizard in the Yard)”
2019 Nebula Awards Showcase

“White Roses in Their Eyes”
Other Covenants: Alternate Histories of the Jewish People

“Love Engine Optimization”
The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2018 Edition

“The Last Novelist (or a Dead Lizard in the Yard)”
The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 3

“The Walk to Distant Suns”
Analog Science Fiction and Fact

“The Marsh of Camarina”
Shades Within Us

“Will You Meet Me There, Out Beyond the Bend?”
Nightmare Magazine 63

“In Memory of a Summer’s Day”
Mad Hatters and March Hares

“The Last Novelist (or a Dead Lizard in the Yard)”
Tor.com

“Love Engine Optimization”
Lightspeed Magazine 85

“The Singularity is in Your Hair”
Cyber World

“The Meeker and the All-Seeing Eye”
Nebula Awards Showcase 2016

“Demon in Aisle 6”
Nightmare Magazine 38

“Saving Diego”
Interzone #221

“The History Within Us”
Clarkesworld Magazine #42

“The History Within Us”
The People of the Book

“The Bricks of Gelecek”
Naked City

“The Great Game at the End of the World”
After

“The Sounds of Old Earth”
Lightspeed Magazine and io9.com

“The History Within Us”
Clarkesworld Year Four

“The Meeker and the All-Seeing Eye”
Clarkesworld Magazine #92

“Cameron Rhyder’s Legs”
Clarkesworld Magazine #98

“The Sounds of Old Earth”
Nebula Awards Showcase 2015

“The Garden Beyond Her Infinite Skies”
Clarkesworld Magazine

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Writing News and Sale

I’m happy to announce that I’ve sold a new story to Clarkesworld Magazine. “The Garden Beyond Her Infinite Skies” will be my fourth story published in Neil Clarke’s excellent magazine, and I’m excited to be there as always. I …

March 18, 2015

“The Meeker and the All-Seeing Eye” nominated for a Nebula Award

I’m excited to announce that my story “The Meeker and the All-Seeing Eye,” which was published in May 2014 in Clarkesworld Magazine has just been nominated for a Nebula Award in the category of Best Short Story! …

February 25, 2015

On Novel Editing

Several years ago while at Delia Sherman and Ellen Kushner’s house Delia showed me a manuscript of her novel marked up with her editor’s comments. She said, “Just in case you were curious what such a thing looks like.” I …

February 19, 2015

KING OF SHARDS Cover

There are few moments to an author that are more exciting than the book cover reveal, that moment when you get to show off the fabulous art and design for the book you’ve worked on for so long. Even more …

January 21, 2015

Finding A Place to Write

As most writers know, finding the perfect place to write is almost as challenging as writing itself. Of course, some will say that there is no perfect place to write. That you must write everywhere and anywhere you can. Perhaps …

March 13, 2014

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