There is a very particular pleasure that comes from selling a story to a market I’ve been trying to crack for a dog’s age. In this case, I am delighted to announce that after twenty-two years of trying, I’ve sold my first story to Interzone: “999 Swords,” a tale that could almost go equally well in my historical category as my folklore, as it weaves a path between the factual reality of Minamoto no Yoshitsune and Saitō Musashibō Benkei and the wild tales about them, shamelessly pillaging from a sixteenth-century source as it goes.

Not sure when this one will be out, but I’m looking forward to it!