Where I and Queen of Swords Press will be in 2025

Dec. 31st, 2025 09:18 am
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 It begins!

January:

February:

  • ReadOUT Festival - February 14th-16th, online and in person from Gulfport, FL. Author Dee Holloway (Little Nothing) will be a featured author on panels and readings.
  • Queer Writes Romance Book Fair - February 16th, 11-3PM. The Machine Shop, Minneapolis, MN. Local event for writers, publishers and bookstores hosted by Twin Cities Pride. We'll have a Queen of Swords Press table.

March:

  • MarsCon - March 7-9, Minneapolis, MN. We’ll be there with a book table and Michael Merriam and I will be on programming.

April:

  • 13 Gears Steampunk Festival - April 5-6th, Squirrel Haus Arts, Minneapolis, MN. Queen of Swords Press will have a table with authors Michael Merriam and Patrick Marsh.
  • Herstory Book Fair - April 12th, 12-3PM, Midtown Global Market, Minneapolis. Catherine Lundoff will be signing and selling her books.
  • Minicon - April 18-20. The Hotel Formerly Known as the Radishtree, Bloomington, MN. Michael will be tabling for Queen of Swords Press on Friday and Sunday and will be on programming, Catherine will be there on Saturday (unconfirmed).
  • Speculations Reading at DreamHaven Books - April 23rd, 6:30-7:45PM. Catherine Lundoff reads from her work and signs books.

May:

June:

  • Pride Month StoryBundle - Kicks off end of May and runs through end of June, placeholder. Lots of books by amazing queer authors and we're raising funds for Rainbow Railroad again!
  • 4th Street Fantasy - June 13-15th, Minneapolis, MN. Catherine Lundoff will be attending.
  • Temporal Textual Talks Virtual Book Club - June 22nd, 4:30-6:30 PM PST. Terror at Tierra de Cobre by Michael Merriam is the featured title and Catherine and Michael will be there.
  • Twin Cities Pride - June 28th-29th, Minneapolis, MN. Queen of Swords Press will back in the Queer Writes Tent, near Harmon Place this year.

July

  • Inbound Brewing Book Fair for Grown Ups - July 12th, 12-7PM, Education Building, MN State Fair Grounds, St. Paul. There is an admission fee with this one, but it comes with a drink ticket. Queen of Swords Press will be there with books.
  • Readercon - July 17th-20th, Burlington, MA. Catherine is planning on being there and on programming.

August:

  • Seattle Worldcon - August 13th-17th, Seattle, WA. Some of us will be there online and some will be there in person. Catherine, Alex, Jennie and Heather will be there in person! 

September:

October:

November:

December:


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Catching up on a tumultuous month

Jun. 27th, 2023 09:09 pm
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Today, the air quality is pretty crappy, I didn't get enough sleep and i have a headache from the hovering storm so I'm working on projects and watching the Netflix series Word of Honor. I'm a big wuxia fan from way back so this is a fun one. Very pretty, moderately interesting and laden with interesting subtext.

Apart from that, the month has been filled with caregiving-related stuff, miscellaneous events, day job, the Pride StoryBundle and sundry other things. Not so much rest or sleep, alas, though perhaps this weekend will bring some of those around other things. I'll need it - I just scheduled two procedures in a single day for two weeks from now - both needful, but it will be a lot and means that I probably won't be at Diversicon. I'm also also talking to the burial ground/nature preserve about a good date to scatter my mother's ashes and that is likely to happen that weekend as well. Which is a LOT.

Anyway, this week:
Two events! The release of Blood Moon in audiobook! The end of the Pride StoryBundle for this year!
Tiny Diner Art Market - June 29th, 5-8PM. Minneapolis. I'll be there with books by local authors and some of Jana Pullman's handmade boxes and book
Raedial Reads Book Fair - July 1, 11-5PM. Harriet Island Park, St. Paul, MN. Queen of Swords Press will have a table, staffed by me, with books and tea.
Blood Moon comes out in audiobook from Tantor Audio on 6/30! It's up for preorder now and is available everywhere you buy audio books, as is Silver Moon. And you can request them at your local library. Please do! This will be a big part of their discoverability.
The Pride StoryBundle ends this week (7/1) and this year is particularly outstanding in that we have 17 books (biggest bundle ever!) and of those 17, 4 wound up as finalists for the Locus Awards and one was a winner! Big shoutouts to Sam J. Miller for winning best collection for Boys, Beasts and Men and to R.B. Lemberg, Nisi Shawl and Naseem Jamnia for being finalists! Also: this has been a harder than usual bundle to sell, in part because of, well, everything. So if you're thinking about it or want to give someone a copy or you've already gotten it, please, please tell your friends and followers! We've got some amazing books this year and Rainbow Railroad could definitely use all the extra funds it can get.

And on that note, I am off to bed. May tomorrow be a mellower day!

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Where I'll was in 2019

Dec. 31st, 2019 04:33 pm
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January:
  • greydogtales - Online. Queer Horror Month Celebration (collaboration with Gingernuts of Horror). Monthlong through January. I have a lengthy interview up about my work and thoughts about queer horror; plus, my short fiction collection Out of This World: Queer Speculative Fiction will be on sale 1/21-1/27.
  • Queen of Swords Press 2nd Birthday Celebration at Bingley's Tea Salon - Minneapolis. January 19th, 2-4PM. Books, munchies, chocolate and excellent company! Come celebrate with us!
February:
March:April:May:
  • Wordplay, Minneapolis, MN - May 11-12th. The Loft Literary's new author festival. Michael Merriam and I will be reading on the Pop-up Stage at 2PM on 5/12.
  • Cream & Amber Author Reading, Hopkins, MN - May 19th. 2-3:30. Michael Merriam and I will be reading from Scourge of the Seas of Time (and Space)
  • WisCon, Madison, WI - May 24th-27th. A panel on marketing books, a presentation on small press publishing and a Queen of Swords Press party for our new titles.
June:

July:

August:
  • OutWrite 2019 - Washington, D.C. August 3. 4PM: Queering the Grotesque reading.
September:
  • Queer Voices Reading, Quatrefoil Library, September 20th, 7PM-8:30PM. I'll be reading with Rachel Gold and other contributors to the anthology.
  • St. Cloud Pride in the Park, St. Cloud, MN, September 21st, 11-4:00 PM. Queen of Swords Press will have a table.
  • Steampunk Tales and Tea - Bingley's Tea Salon, Minneapolis. Saturday, September 28th. Afternoon, TBD. Michael Merriam and I will be reading steampunk stories! We may end up in the art gallery downstairs from Bingley's - stay tuned for details.

October:
November:
  • "Breaking Out of the Slush Pile" - Online class at Hidden Timber Books, Moved to February 2020! Check link for pricing. I'll be talking about ways to make your work noticed in a good way and answering your questions.
  • DreamHaven Books/Ampersand Club- November 7th, 7PM. DreamHaven Books owner Greg Ketter and I will be talking to the Ampersand Club about running small press publishing companies and genre fiction.
  • A Room of One's Own Bookstore - Madison, WI. November 14th. 6-7:45. "Running a Small Press" - publisher talk and short readings from Queen of Swords Press titles.
December:
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Action-packed week ahead!

Nov. 30th, 2019 08:14 pm
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Spent a very nice Thanksgiving with friends, eating good food, playing with their cat, chatting and watching Season 4 of Legends of Tomorrow. By the time you get this far in to the show, just about everyone is canonically bisexual and they are mashing up everything and it is glorious. Friday was puttering and errand running day, including delivering some Queen of Swords Press titles to Cream & Amber in Hopkins, then going to a kind of terrible adaptation of Pride and Prejudice with friends on Friday. Today's been more puttering and some writing and tomorrow is the 1st Standish-Ericsson Neighborhood Association (SENA) Winter Market Crawl. I'll have a pop-up table at Homespun MN from 12-4 and will be selling Queen of Swords Press titles as well as some of Jana's handmade boxes and journals. Come visit!

Monday is a couple of job interviews. The rest of the week, I hope to be working on projects and hunting up a few more job opportunities. Then next weekend features back to back events. Saturday, I'll be at the L Spot's 2nd Annual Queer Author Holiday Gathering at Eat My Words Bookstore, doing a short couple of readings and selling Queen of Swords Press titles from 1-5 (event goes until 7PM). I'll be reading around 3PM. On Sunday, I'll be working the Queen of Swords Press table at the Geek Partnership Society Holiday Emporium from 10-5PM with author Michael Merriam. Come visit us for your geekly gift needs.

Apart from that, we'll see how it goes. I'm cautiously optimistic about making progress on the To-Do List of Doom, at any rate.


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New story, a reading reminder and a question

Dec. 4th, 2018 07:38 pm
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Free this week only, I have a story in A Few More Winter Tales edited by Matthew Bright. This is an anthology of mostly queer winter and holiday-themed tales. My story is an f/f climate change fairytale, in case that is a thing you ever wanted to read by me. And of course, if you like that, I have an entire queer spec short fiction collection called Out of This World that you can get too, for a mere $3.99 (print also on sale this week).

Reading tomorrow night! Michael Merriam and I will be reading selections from Scourge of the Seas of Time (and Space) at Dreamhaven Books in Minneapolis from 6:30-7:45. There will also be Q&A and chocolate!
Also worth noting: DreamHaven's owner, Greg, has said that these last few months have been quite slow at the store, so please help keep our local indies open and stop by, even if you can't make our reading. We'll have another one on the 13th at Eat My Words Bookstore so you have two chances.

Queen of Swords Press and Western Slope Bindery (AKA my wife, Jana Pullman, and me) will have a booth at the MN Women's Art Festival this Saturday, December 8th at the Colin Powell Center in Minneapolis. This is always a good show and it's our first time doing it so please come by and say hi!
Also this weekend, the GPS Holiday Emporium, where Mike Merriam will selling his books, some Queen of Swords Press titles and the work of other local authors. Be sure and check that out too!

A lovely human reminded me today that I have a Ko-Fi account and that I should maybe do something more with it. If you like my fiction, my commentary, my YouTube readings, my articles and other miscellaneous things like the older women in spec fic bio, and would like to kick in a bit toward me doing all those things and more, that would be lovely. If you think it's something you'd like to do periodically, what kind of content would you like to see from me?

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St. Cloud Write-up

Sep. 21st, 2018 08:24 am
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 Still getting caught up, so here we go. Things to not do before an author event: do not put ear drops in your eyes. For real and serious. Ow. So much ow. Anyway, was groggy and grabbed the wrong bottle, so much flushing of left eyeball ensued. But then I had to leave to drive up to St. Cloud (about an hour and a half away). My eye swelled and burned and seeped, so this was all kinds of fun, but the drive was otherwise uneventful. I got to the hotel, checked in and unpacked the car, then met Rachel for lunch.

We took a brief tour, then went to the Great River Library, which is surprisingly big and new (it is a multi-town effort). We had already gotten a nice write-up in the St. Cloud Times and the library had a good plug up in their "What's Happening at the Library" display. However, 4PM on Friday is not the most hopping time slot so we drew a small (10-12) person crowd. They were quite enthusiastic though, which helped. We read and did our on the road schtick and it was well-received. Flaming Eyeball of Doom did not help, however, so I was happy to wrap up and head back to the hotel. Rachel had been traveling for a couple of weeks so she decided to drive home for the night while stayed at the hotel. 

Next day, Flaming Eyeball of Doom looked and felt more like Allergy Eyeball, which was a giant improvement. Rachel and I met for breakfast, then headed to Pride in the Park. We loaded in and set up the tent I borrowed from my buddy Kevin, with some help from other vendors and a minor injury to my hand (metal retractable banner snap-back is less fun than you'd think). We helped out one or two other folks and settled in. Folks stopped by with great regularity, bought books and picked up cards and chatted. Also, it was hot. Then it was blisteringly hot. Rachel had to go sit in her car with the A/C on for a bit. I drank a lot of water. It got hotter. I went and sat in my car for a bit. We still both got heat exhaustion. Blergh. But overall, it was a good tabling experience and a nice, friendly event. Would go again, minus the eardop thing. 
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Scrambling to get through this week

Oct. 10th, 2017 11:33 am
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Apart from national and world events, Ma'at hates Shu this week so it's Kitty WWIII at home. Which means separating them into different parts of the house, all night howling, sneak attacks and a house overflowing with cat pheromones. Whee. It generally doesn't last more than a couple of days but has gone as long as two weeks. Ack. Otherwise, lots and lots of balls in the air. Some should settle soon and then I'll have some good news about Queen of Swords Press, the schedule for next year and such. I'm also getting a new writing website, so I'll post about that soon too. My much beloved previous site was rendered unupdatable and inaccessible through sundry changes in tech so I'm getting something simpler and much easier to navigate. 

In the meantime, two huge events this week for Queen of Swords Press and I'm scrambling to get ready:
  • On Friday, October 13th, QoSP will be at the WomenVenture Women Mean Business Luncheon and Marketplace at the Minneapolis Depot. This will be the first big tabling event for the Press. I'll have books, mugs, mouse pads and info out at the table so please stop by and say hi if you're there.
  • On Saturday, October 14th, QoSP will have a Press table at the Twin Cities Book Festival at the MN State Fairgrounds in St. Paul. Author Michael Merriam will be helping me out, as well as selling and signing his brand new weird Western novella, Not Enough Midnights. More books, more swag and chocolate! Come by and say hi!
And for serious fun, I get to scramble to pack up right after the first event, go quick like a bunny to my car and race through early rush hour traffic and the horrors of "Hey, we've closed pretty much everything for construction! Good luck!" (Seriously, our construction season is epically awful right now) to go get set up up for the second event late Friday afternoon! It will be glorious! Or something! I'm sure I'll learn a LOT from this experience. 😏



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