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April 1, 2008
My dark fantasy story "The
Sorrow Fair" is up at Helix Speculative Fiction.
October 30, 2006
My article "Stripping the Bones" is out
in SO SAY WE ALL, a Benbella Books smart pop collection about
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA.
June 5, 2006
My Joan of Arc alternate history "A
Key to the Illuminated Heretic" is on the Preliminary Nebula
Award Ballot for 2006. "Heretic" also made the short list
for the 2005 Sidewise Award for Alternate History.
August, 2006
"The
Town on Blighted Sea" is out now in Strange Horizons.
May 3, 2006
My story "Time of the Snake" will be part of the anthology
FAST
FORWARD 1, edited by Lou Anders.
March 11, 2006
I've just learned that my story "The Town on Blighted Sea"
will be appearing in Strange
Horizons this August.
March 8 2006
The Canada Council for the
Arts has given me an Emerging Artist grant to support my artistic
endeavors, most specifically so that I can spend the upcoming year
working on a novel called THE WINTERGIRLS.
Spring 2006
This spring and summer I will again be teaching courses at the
UCLA Extension Writers'
Program: Introduction to Fiction Writing begins in
early April, and in summer I will again be teaching Creating
Universes, Building Worlds. Register now for ten weeks of readings,
writing exercises, and strenous workshopping!
Course Description:
Bringing a vivid new world to life is a tricky feat even in a
novel, but how do you do it in five thousand words... or three
hundred? This course shows you how to introduce a reader to an
alien environment, alternate timeline or magical realm, and then
to populate your creation with characters whose problems will
matter to the readers of planet Earth.
Designed for writers who want to focus on short
fiction while deepening their understanding of the many subgenres
of speculative fiction--alternate history, horror, dark fantasy,
sword and sorcery, urban fantasy, sociological SF, hard science
fiction, and more--the class teaches writing principles common
to all of these genres. You will identify the stories that ignite
your passions as a writer and reader--then you will learn to write
them yourself!
The
UCLA Extension Writers' Program is the largest and most
comprehensive continuing education writing program in the United
States where adult learners study with their choice of more than
250 professional screenwriters, fiction writers, playwrights,
poets, nonfiction writers and writers of children's literature.
The Writers' Program offers more than 550 courses annually, both
on-site and online,
as well as a yearly Writers Studio, nine-month Master Classes,
a screenplay competition, and writing consultations - all designed
to help students meet their writing goals.
April 2005
My Joan of Arc alternate history novelette, "A
Key to the Illuminated Heretic" is now out in ALTERNATE
GENERALS III.
March 9, 2005
My short story "The
Spear Carrier" is out now on SciFiction!
October 6, 2004
My short story "Ruby,
in the Storm" is out now on SciFiction!
September 2, 2004
My short story "The Riverboy," from LAND/SPACE
made the 2004 Short
List for the Gaylactic
Spectrum Award!
June 11, 2004
I've just learned my story "Ruby, in the Storm," will
be appearing on SCIFI.COM,
and that the Datlow/Windling anthology THE
FAERY REEL, which includes my "The Dream Eaters,"
will be out August 9th.
May 2, 2004
Two new stories are out now: "Origin of Species," in THE
MANY FACES OF VAN HELSING, an anthology edited by Jeanne Cavelos
for Berkely Books in April 2004. "Faces of Gemini" appears
in GIRLS WHO BITE BACK:
WITCHES, MUTANTS, SLAYERS AND FREAKS edited by Emily Pohl-Weary
for Sumach Press.
November 14, 2003
My story "Faces of Gemini" will be appearing in the anthology
GIRLS WHO BITE BACK:
WITCHES, MUTANTS, SLAYERS AND FREAKS edited by Emily Pohl-Weary
for Sumach Press in Spring, 2004.
October 21, 2003
I've just heard my story "Origin of Species" will appear
in THE MANY
FACES OF VAN HELSING, an anthology edited by Jeanne Cavelos
for Berkely Books in May 2004.
September 16, 2003
My story "The Children of Port Allain" is out in On
Spec magazine!
"Ramon had seen it in Atlanta, children forced
by worried parents to go through the motions of living in the hope
that it might be habit forming..."
August 16, 2003
Where did the summer go? Today Kelly and I were legally married
at the UBC Botanical
Garden in Vancouver, B.C. We had an unofficial wedding nearly
fifteen years ago; now that the law allowed us to formalize the
union, we have two anniversaries to celebrate each and every year!
Photos of the event are here:
May 30,2003
"A Slow Day at the Gallery" is out! Editor David Hartwell
introduces the story with the following very flattering words:
"A Slow Day at the Gallery" is from Asimov's. It
is a perceptive and carefully controlled story of contemporary
political relevance. It is about the clash of cultures, an allegory
of imperialism and cultural appropriation, and about the possibility
of real and meaningful communication between radically unlike
cultures, between the human and the alien. But that's all in addition
to an involving story in the tradition of James Tiptree, Jr.,
about an idealist about to do something terrible."
May 27, 2003
I am just back from Wiscon, where I did a pile of work for Broad
Universe and read from "The Dream Eaters," as well
as seeing many wonderful friends.
April 27, 2003
I've just heard my story "The Dream Eaters" will be appearing
in the Datlow/Windling anthology THE
FAERY REEL!
April 21, 2003
I am just back from Norwescon,
where I read from my upcoming story "The Illuminated Heretic"
(out this summer in Alternate Generals III) and appeared on a number
of panels. It was great fun, and a much-needed break from my daily
routine. My next appearance will be at Wiscon, in May.
March 31, 2003
MOJO:
CONJURE STORIES is out! Not only is my "Cooking Creole"
in this antho, but there are amazing stories by Neil Gaiman, Steven
Barnes, and my own friend Eliot Fintushel. Check us out!
January 24, 2003
"A Slow Day At the Gallery" is going to appear in THE
YEAR'S BEST SF #8, edited by David Hartwell and out soon from
TOR Books!
December 20, 2002
Oceans of
the Mind has gone live with its Winter
2002 issue, including my story "Living the Quiet Life."
Please do check out the on-line preview of this story.
September 10, 2002
"A Slow Day At the Gallery" is now officially out! My
first appearance in Isaac Asimov's
Science Fiction Magazine tells the story of an old man who wants
to see his favorite Monet painting just one more time. The only
problem is that "Waterlily Pond" isn't in London's National
Gallery anymore... aliens have taken it halfway across the galaxy!
(You can find "A Slow Day" in the October/November 2002
issue of the magazine).
September 2, 2002
My story "The Children of Port Allain" has just sold to
ON SPEC magazine. Counting reprints, this marks my thirtieth fiction
sale.
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