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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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anthologies

My Lady Bits On Display

The run up to election day always seems to move lightning fast. The entire Autumn seems to have lasted for approximately one week, despite the

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Myrtle, My Familiar

Every now and then I do something that is both smart and stupid. In late July, I did one of those things: I decided I

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