News and Site Updates
Two short fiction sales, in quick succession! “The Old Woman and the Tea” to Daily Science Fiction, and “Ghost and Fox” to the anthology Shapers of Worlds II.
It’s extra-special to have a story out in a magazine that’s been running since before I was born. “Speak to the Moon” has been published in the March/April 2021 issue of F&SF!
Good news for Onyx Court fans! For the first time in years, I’ve got a new story from that series headed for publication: “Oak Apple Night,” just sold to Beneath Ceaseless Skies.
From the Journal
The Advent of Scent, Week 16
Yoon, at this point I’ve finished all the things I acquired off my own bat and have gone back to trying ones you sent me, so once you weigh in on these, I can send you the things you’ve requested! * Violet Elixir (Haus of Gloi) Described as “sweet violets, fresh grass, petitgrain, and bergamot.” […]
New Worlds: Family Feud
In between the personal conflicts of individuals and the state-wide conflicts of wars, the New Worlds Patreon takes a look at feuds: long-running wars of retaliation (and sometimes escalation) between families and other such groups. Comment over there!
Books read, March 2021
Reading comic books makes it feel like I have read All the Things this month! Lost in the Taiga, Vasily Peskov, trans. Marian Schwartz. Nonfiction about the Lykov family, who spent about fifty years living completely isolated in the Russian wilderness (having fled religious persecution in the 1930s). On the one hand this book was […]