for today for all days to come
I appear to have sold a couple of short stories!
"The Romance," otherwise known as the Devil Pony story, to Ellen Datlow for her forthcoming Supernatural Noir anthology.
And "Dolly," the Dashiell Hammett meets Isaac Asimov sex robot murder mystery (otherwise known as the noir objective stuntwriting thingy) , to Sheila Williams at Asimov's.
I am, as they say, thrilled.
And now have .
State of the Honeydew:
Book reviews for Tor.com: Real Soon Now
Realms of Fantasy Review Column: June 9
Fourth Street Fantasy Convention: June 25-27
Secrit projekt novella: June 30
A Reckoning of Men: July 1 (with
truepenny)
Revise "Spell 81a": July 15 (withstillsostrange)
Readercon: July 8-11
Proposal for Spectra: Sometime soonish in here.
Viable Paradise: October 1-10
World Fantasy: October 28-31
The Steles of the Sky: November 2
"Uniform": November 15 (withstillsostrange, blackholly, coffeeem, willshetterly, and leahbobet)
Darkover: November 26-28
The White City chapbook: late fall
"Ligature": January 15 2011
New Amsterdam IV: March 2011
Eurocon: June 17-19 2011 (barring volcanoes)
The Steles of the Sky book 2: November 2 2011
An Apprentice to Elves: December 1 2011 (withtruepenny)
The Steles of the Sky book 3: November 2012
No fixed deadline:
Karen Memory
Smile (unless its name is actually Salt Water)
REZ (formely known at the Singularity Rent novel)
Unsuitable Metal
"Untitled Space Opera Thingy"
"The Shaded King"
"Patience & Fortitude" (aka The Mighty Drag Werewolf story)
"Steel Something"
"Spellslinger"
"Posthumous Jonson"
"Untitled Cyberdragon Story"
"The Slaughtered Lamb"
"The Death of Terrestrial Radio"
"On Safari in R'lyeh and Carcosa with Gun and Camera"
First Lines Meme
Smile:
Dawn scraped pewter across the black wave-caps of the night Atlantic on the morning Carl Hughes learned how his lover died.
The Steles of the Sky:
Ragged vultures spiraled up a cherry sky.
REZ:
"Reproduction is an ultimately sociopathic act."
Karen Memory:
You ain't gonna like what I have to tell you, but I'm gonna tell you anyway.
A Reckoning of Men:
Vethulf and Skjaldwulf did not get along.
An Apprentice to Elves
Tin laced her fingers together across her gravid belly and frowned along her nose at the feeble human child.
Unsuitable Metal
Mrs. Cornelius stalked into the mahogany-paneled reception room, a jacket matching her chocolate trousers slung over her shoulder like the mantle of a queen, tiny emerald studs glinting in her ears like the eyes of a snake.
"The Shaded King"
In the hour when Kaalha gave place to Iashti and the honeyed light of dawn slanted between tawny adobe walls, Mukhtar ben Ishak strode through the streets of Messaline.
"Patience & Fortitude" (aka The Mighty Drag Werewolf story)
"Oh honey. It's not drag if you look like Annie Lennox."
"Little Furry Animals"
Rebecca Sanchez is climbing Mt. Rainier.
"Steel Something"
Johnny Backus was a daywalker. Johnny Backus was a vampire. Johnny Backus was a friend of mine.
"Spellslinger"
Doc Holiday leaned his head way back, tilting his hat to shade his eyes from the glare of the sun, and said, "That looks like some Jules Verne shit to me."*
"Posthumous Jonson"
I loved you not.
"Latency"
Barry Petrewski lived in a hole in the ground.
"Ligature"
The murdered woman's scream sounds like a teakettle.
"Spell 81a"
Someone had left flowers again.
"Untitled Cyberdragon Story"
Before she turned into a dragon, Kathy Cutter was Comanche Zariphes' best friend.
"Untitled Space Opera"
There are no unremarkable worlds.
"The Slaughtered Lamb"
In New York City's storied Greenwich Village, on the Island of Manhattan, there is a tavern called the Slaughtered Lamb.
"The Death of Terrestrial Radio"
The first word was meant to be spoken quietly, if it should ever be spoken at all.
"On Safari in R'lyeh and Carcosa with Gun and Camera"
"We wouldn’t be having this conversation if you'd flunked Algebra."
(Those two have been stalled for so long I have almost given up, but I like the titles as much as Richard Brautigan liked "The Amelia Earhart Pancake.")
busy"The Romance," otherwise known as the Devil Pony story, to Ellen Datlow for her forthcoming Supernatural Noir anthology.
And "Dolly," the Dashiell Hammett meets Isaac Asimov sex robot murder mystery (otherwise known as the noir objective stuntwriting thingy) , to Sheila Williams at Asimov's.
I am, as they say, thrilled.
And now have .
State of the Honeydew:
Realms of Fantasy Review Column: June 9
Fourth Street Fantasy Convention: June 25-27
Secrit projekt novella: June 30
A Reckoning of Men: July 1 (with
truepenny)Revise "Spell 81a": July 15 (with
stillsostrange)Readercon: July 8-11
Proposal for Spectra: Sometime soonish in here.
Viable Paradise: October 1-10
World Fantasy: October 28-31
The Steles of the Sky: November 2
"Uniform": November 15 (with
stillsostrange, blackholly, coffeeem, willshetterly, and leahbobet)Darkover: November 26-28
The White City chapbook: late fall
"Ligature": January 15 2011
New Amsterdam IV: March 2011
Eurocon: June 17-19 2011 (barring volcanoes)
The Steles of the Sky book 2: November 2 2011
An Apprentice to Elves: December 1 2011 (with
truepenny)The Steles of the Sky book 3: November 2012
No fixed deadline:
Karen Memory
Smile (unless its name is actually Salt Water)
REZ (formely known at the Singularity Rent novel)
Unsuitable Metal
"Untitled Space Opera Thingy"
"The Shaded King"
"Patience & Fortitude" (aka The Mighty Drag Werewolf story)
"Steel Something"
"Spellslinger"
"Posthumous Jonson"
"Untitled Cyberdragon Story"
"The Slaughtered Lamb"
"The Death of Terrestrial Radio"
"On Safari in R'lyeh and Carcosa with Gun and Camera"
First Lines Meme
Smile:
Dawn scraped pewter across the black wave-caps of the night Atlantic on the morning Carl Hughes learned how his lover died.
The Steles of the Sky:
Ragged vultures spiraled up a cherry sky.
REZ:
"Reproduction is an ultimately sociopathic act."
Karen Memory:
You ain't gonna like what I have to tell you, but I'm gonna tell you anyway.
A Reckoning of Men:
Vethulf and Skjaldwulf did not get along.
An Apprentice to Elves
Tin laced her fingers together across her gravid belly and frowned along her nose at the feeble human child.
Unsuitable Metal
Mrs. Cornelius stalked into the mahogany-paneled reception room, a jacket matching her chocolate trousers slung over her shoulder like the mantle of a queen, tiny emerald studs glinting in her ears like the eyes of a snake.
"The Shaded King"
In the hour when Kaalha gave place to Iashti and the honeyed light of dawn slanted between tawny adobe walls, Mukhtar ben Ishak strode through the streets of Messaline.
"Patience & Fortitude" (aka The Mighty Drag Werewolf story)
"Oh honey. It's not drag if you look like Annie Lennox."
"Little Furry Animals"
Rebecca Sanchez is climbing Mt. Rainier.
"Steel Something"
Johnny Backus was a daywalker. Johnny Backus was a vampire. Johnny Backus was a friend of mine.
"Spellslinger"
Doc Holiday leaned his head way back, tilting his hat to shade his eyes from the glare of the sun, and said, "That looks like some Jules Verne shit to me."*
"Posthumous Jonson"
I loved you not.
"Latency"
Barry Petrewski lived in a hole in the ground.
"Ligature"
The murdered woman's scream sounds like a teakettle.
"Spell 81a"
Someone had left flowers again.
"Untitled Cyberdragon Story"
Before she turned into a dragon, Kathy Cutter was Comanche Zariphes' best friend.
"Untitled Space Opera"
There are no unremarkable worlds.
"The Slaughtered Lamb"
In New York City's storied Greenwich Village, on the Island of Manhattan, there is a tavern called the Slaughtered Lamb.
"The Death of Terrestrial Radio"
The first word was meant to be spoken quietly, if it should ever be spoken at all.
"On Safari in R'lyeh and Carcosa with Gun and Camera"
"We wouldn’t be having this conversation if you'd flunked Algebra."
(Those two have been stalled for so long I have almost given up, but I like the titles as much as Richard Brautigan liked "The Amelia Earhart Pancake.")
Every time I see this line I realize anew how much I want to read this story. And congrats, too, on your sales!
Ooh, awesome! I look forward to it. (What's the lead time on magazine pubs these days anyway? I should look for it in six months, give or take?)