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A Misfortune of Lake Monsters

A Lake Monster a Day

I feel like there should be trumpets, but I’ve got a new book coming out! Keep your eye on this space for more information, but

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An Early Christmas Gift

I am always full-on shocked when editor Ellen Datlow takes notice of something I’ve written–so when I say that I very literally clutched my chest

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Change Is the Only Constant

The other day I was talking with someone about being GenX. We have converted from vinyl to cassettes to CDs to mp3s to streaming services

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anthologies

The Trouble With …

I’m terrible at keeping secrets. They sit in my stomach and churn. So you can imagine how difficult it was to keep it under wraps

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anthologies

Congratulations!

Huge congratulations to Black Shuck Books and editor of Dreamland: Other Stories Sophie Essex–the anthology has been shortlisted for a British Fantasy Society Award! My

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Personal

The Quiet Year

I knew 2022 was going to be a quiet publishing year for me. It’s difficult to think too much about writing a novel or submitting

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The Bones of a Story

Happy holidays! It’s not quite the holiday we all envisioned, for sure. The COVID-19 Omicron variant has timed itself in such a way that I’ll

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Rarified Air

2021 has certainly been a year of firsts for me, publishing-wise. I mean, just in terms of work published, by the end of next month

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short fiction

2021 Eligibility Post

Apparently it’s that time of year when speculative fiction writers do an eligibility post, highlighting the work they’ve done this past year that’s eligible for

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anthologies

Winding Down the Year

Where did this year go? Here we are, almost Thanksgiving–the pandemic has very much impacted the way I experience the passage of time. And the

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