My story in Tesseracts 15 is about a stiltwalker, and I happen to know a professional clown…so I had my first lesson at stilt-walking at lunchtime (well, more like stilt-standing).
I may not look it in the picture, but I was terrified.
I now have true respect for stiltwalkers. They make it look so easy.
Come to the Tesseracts 15 book launch on Saturday, September 17th from 3-6 p.m. at Bakka-Phoenix Books at 84 Harbord Street, and I may have recovered enough to talk about the experience!
Tesseracts 15: A Case of Quite Curious Tales will have its Toronto launch on Saturday, September 17th from 3-6 p.m. at Bakka-Phoenix Books (84 Harbord Street, just west of Spadina).
I will be doing a reading, and editor Julie Czerneda and author Mike Rimar will be there as well (among others, if all goes well). Hope to see you there!
“Tesseracts Fifteen: A Case of Quite Curious Tales”,
edited by Julie Czerneda, and Susan MacGregor
EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing
ISBN: 978-1-894063-58-6
$15.95
I’m back from summer vacation, having gone to San Francisco, Reno (for WorldCon) and Las Vegas. Great trip! Here is a photo for each city:
Alcatraz in the background. I actually missed visiting Alcatraz in SF because the tickets were sold out for at least another week. Ugh. But had great ramen at Tanpopo in Japantown, saw relatives, and rode the cable car.
Me, on the Throne of Swords at Renovation (WorldCon). I didn’t do any panels but did participate in the Clarkesworld authors reading and the Edge Books book launch (reading from my story in Tesseracts 15).
Vegas was terrific, as always. It costs an arm and a leg but is totally worth it. I finally saw Cirque du Soleil’s O, and it was stunning.
This is part 7 of my weekly series on Dave Van Domelen’s Academy of Super-Heroes universe, a collection of musings, interviews, writerly insights and historical notes about the free super-hero serials (which started on the newsgroup rec.arts.comics.creative back in ’94 and recently released as Omnibus editions.)
Deep Armageddon was the first crossover arc in the Academy of Super-Heroes universe, based on an idea that I had but developed by Dave Van Domelen, with the assistance of Matt Rossi and Marc Singer in their own respective titles.
The Dragon and the Stars now has excerpts and full stories online at editor Eric Choi’s website.
So various members of my writing group, The Stop-Watch Gang, have had some success with short story sales and publications this year thus far. Stephen just sold another one today to Interzone. (Woot!) The most amazing bit, though, is that 3 of us sold to Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show this year, appearing in 3 consecutive issues!
The current tally is:
“Four Wizards and A Funeral“, Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show, June 2011
“My Name Is Tommy”, Tesseracts 15, forthcoming
“From the Files of the E.F.P.D.”, Mother Goose is Dead: Modern Stories of Myths, Fables, and Fairytales, forthcoming September 2011
“Chicka-Chicka-Bow-Wow”, Cucurbital 2, forthcoming November 2011
“A Time For Raven”, Interzone, forthcoming
“Under the Shield”, Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show, forthcoming this month
“Destiny Lives in the Tattoo’s Needle“, nominated for Best Short-Form Fiction in English, Prix Aurora Awards 2011
“The Tremor Road”, Tesseracts 15, forthcoming
“We Who Steal Faces“, Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show, April 2011
“Brine Magic“, When the Hero Comes Home
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F&SF writer and linguist. Winner, 2015 Aurora Award for Best English Poem/Song.
Also 2015 Aurora Awards finalist, Best English Short Fiction; former finalist, 2009 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer; finalist, 2008 Aurora Award, "Best Short-Form Work in English"; Second Place winner of the Writers of the Future Contest (volume XXIII).
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