I’ve worked with Ekaterina Sedia (squirrel_monkey) twice before, on “Comparison of Efficacy Rates for Seven Antipathetics As Employed Against Lycanthropes” (in Running with the Pack) and “Coyotaje” (in Bewere the Night). Now that I have the go-ahead, I’m delighted to say that I have sold her a third story, this one without any shapeshifters in it whatsoever: “False Colours,” a novelette in her upcoming anthology of YA Victorian romance, Wilful Impropriety: 13 Tales of Society and Scandal.

You can read more about the anthology here. The table of contents looks pretty awesome:

• THE DANCING MASTER by Genevieve Valentine
• THE UNLADYLIKE EDUCATION OF AGATHA TREMAIN by Stephanie Burgis
• AT WILL by Leanna Renee Hieber
• STEEPED IN DEBT TO THE CHIMNEY POTS by Steve Berman
• OUTSIDE THE ABSOLUTE by Seth Cadin
• RESURRECTION by Tiffany Trent
• MRS BEETON’S BOOK OF MAGICKAL MANAGEMENT by Karen Healey
• THE GARDEN OF ENGLAND by Sandra McDonald
• FALSE COLOURS by Marie Brennan
• NUSSBAUM’S GOLDEN FORTUNE by M. K. Hobson
• THE COLONEL’S DAUGHTER by Barbara Roden
• MERCURY RETROGRADE by Mary Robinette Kowal
• THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS by Caroline Stevermer

As for “False Colours”? Well, a select few among you may recall a certain character named Lt. Ravenswood . . . yeah, this is that story. The rest of you will have to wait and read it for yourself — I wouldn’t want to spoil anything!

I’ll post a release date when I have one.