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Awaiting my copy of the signed contract before announcing the big bit of good news, but in the meantime, I have a new f/f pirate and spy story coming out on Heather Rose Jones's LHMPodcast! Jacquotte DelaHaye may or may not have been a real historical pirate, but with a nickname like "Back from the Dead Red," does it matter? Her foil/love interest, Celeste Adele Girard, is loosely based on the several female spies active at the time who probably inspired Alexandre Dumas' Milady de Winter. Together, they cross swords, plot and encounter Sir Henry Morgan (pirate captain turned Governor of Jamaica), Cardinal Mazarin, Aphra Behn (former spy turned playwright) and more!

The first story in the series, "The Letter of Marque" just went up on the Queen of Swords Patreon and will be public by the end of the week.

The others, in order are:

"One Night in Saint Martin"

"Cardinal's Gambit"

"The Adventuress"

"The Pirate in the Mirror" is coming out in April!

Have yourself some swashbuckling fun this week!

British publisher Fox Spirit Books has this lovely-looking series of international monster stories that I've been eyeing for a while. Volumes have been finalists for the British Fantasy Awards and editor Margrét Helgadóttir has been getting lots of acclaim for her work. I scored an invitation to submit for American Monsters Part 2 (they're all divided by geography and focus on each writer's local monsters) a few months back so I set nose to writing grindstone and produced "Hunger," a jolly little tale about toxic masculinity and wendigos and elderly ladies who know the truth behind old stories, and sent it off. It just got accepted and I'm quite thrilled! Why wendigos or wiindigos? They're a regional Native American monster, one that shows up in Chippewa and Ojibwe stories so they are a part of Minnesota lore. I tried to be respectful of their origins as creatures born of greed, hunger and lines that should not be crossed and hopefully, I did a reasonable job with it. More bulletins as I have them!

Twin Cities Pride was very nice yesterday. Got to see some friends, do a bit of shopping, eat interesting food, check out a new to us comic book shop, admire people's costumes and make up, scritch rescue dogs and all the good things. Favorite new amusing thing: local Lutheran church handing out stickers that said "Not all Christians are assholes," along with Mom and Dad hugs. The weather held up well, despite rain predictions. Today, not so much so I hope people didn't get too soggy.

Furnace. Going into Week 3. We might get done this week. Or we might need a new fuse box. Suspense mounts. So far, one cat has gotten stuck in a wall, the other got covered with cobwebs and both have required sponge baths. The house is in chaos with boxes stacked everywhere and little boxes and mayhem. It's going to a be rough week on multiple fronts so I'm off to go see Tessa Thompson rock a suit for a few hours.

I'm pretty pleased to announce that my new historical short story, "By Her Pen, She Conquers," will be included on Heather Rose Jones' Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast later on this year. "Pen" is about an aspiring questioning/lesbian playwright trying to get established in the madcap theater world of Regency England. This year's line-up looks pretty interesting! And, of course, you can listen to my contribution from last year, "One Night in Saint-Martin" here (follow the links to the other stories). Please give these a listen and boost them, if you like them. This is very much a labor of love for Heather and one of the few options that those of us who write queer historical short fiction have to earn pro rates. (And please pledge the Patreon for the host site if you'd like more of this kind of programming).

I've got a bunch of interviews coming up on various blogs soon and will post when I have links. I've also just turned in a short book feature to Nerds of a Feather and that will go up in early March. I'm finishing up my outlines for my upcoming classes at Cat Rambo's Academy for Wayward Writers and should have everything finalized soon. I heartily recommend the classes on this site - I've enjoyed the ones I've taken and have found them to be affordable and useful.

Otherwise, I'm wrangling taxes, and snow and more snow and prepping for this weekend's 13 Gears Steampunk Festival, where Queen of Swords Press will be sharing a table with authors Michael Merriam and Patrick W. Marsh. There'll be music and tea and costumes and fun and we'll be bringing our steampunkish titles, including Murder on the Titania and Other Steam-Powered Adventures by Alex Acks, Scourge of the Seas of Time (and Space) and my own collection, Out of This World, which includes a steampunk ghost story. And speaking of both Alex and steampunk, we're working on the next Captain Ramos and crew book, Wireless and More Steam-Powered Adventures, which will be out in April from Queen of Swords Press. More on that soon!

After 13 Gears, I'll be performing (by which we mean reading my work) at the Not-So-Silent Planet Spoken Word/Open Mic Series: Love & Lust at Kieran's Pub in Minneapolis on 2/19. I'll be reading some sexy Emily L. Byrne fiction and I hope some of you can make it. Other performers include Lyda Morehouse, Laura Packet and Tom S. Tea, as well as brave open mic participants!

I'm hoping to be back working on Blood Moon again soon, so expect more updates on that as well.

New acceptance! My historical fiction story, "One Night in Saint Martin," will air later this year on the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Podcast! Pirates and spies in the 17th century Caribbean! Looks like a great lineup - http://alpennia.com/blog/lhmp-2018-fiction-line

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