I'm glad to announce my story, "Emergency Evaluation of Penny Ante, as Recorded by Cal-Q-Tron of the Benevolent Order of Heroes" sold to Galaxy's Edge! I'm still reeling by how quickly the editor, Mike Resnick, responded, but I'm overjoyed my funny story about performance evaluations and superheroes finally found a home....
My friend Ezzy Languzzi has a story that will appear in the upcoming "Strange California" anthology (being Kickstarted here). I helped workshop her story, called "Naranjas Inmortales." It's a creepy little story I'm eager to see out in the world. So, if you feel you don't have enough strange stories about California, please contribute or spread the word about this anthology. It promises to be great!...
I was approached to include my story, "Choices, In Sequential Order" as part of an anthology dedicated to People of Color Taking Over Fantastic Stories of the Imagination. I am very happy to have my story selected for this collection. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'll be crossing out "Invitation to an Anthology" on my Career Bingo Card and celebrating!...
Sometimes, Googling your own name yields pleasant surprises. For instance, I had hoped that when my story got published in Nature Magazine, they would select it as a podcast. Well, it turns out that they did, and the production values are amazing. It sounds exactly the way I'd imagined it, which is amazing. I already added it to my fiction page, but you can also find it here....
It's over. I was glad I decided to come down to the Inner Harbor on Saturday to meet some of my colleagues in SFWA. I was able to catch the last 15 minutes or so of the Black Sci Fi panel before attending the "Second Breakfast to Snozzberries" panel all about food. My apologies to Fran Wilde for a slight derailment of the panel due to a discussion of casu marzu. The resultant explanations of how the Sardinian cheese is made and eaten was hilarious. I got to speak with Sam J. Miller, and was surprised when he remembered a story I'd sent him more than a year ago. On Sunday, while on the Short Stories panel, he referenced my story again, and said every rejection like that is a little bit of pain an editor carries with them. I was floored by his kind words, and if that had been the only panel I'd been...