A press birthday, upcoming events and sundries

Jan. 30th, 2022 01:56 pm
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It's been quite the month. Lot of stress, lining up new events (teaching at Clarion West Online! Author Guest of Honor at MarsCon! Etc.), lots of projects in various stages of completion!  Here's the big stuff:
  • I started the next menopausal werewolf novel! If you've heard me talk about this, you may recall that I always planned on 3 books, for a generous interpretation of "planning." Well, Blue Moon has some words on the page now. Onward!
  • I have a Capricon 42 schedule with a virtual panel on queer science fiction and a reading for next Saturday!
  • I have an r/Fantasy StabbyCon schedule for 2/8 too! I'll be talking about Gothic Fantasy and Queen of Swords Press author Rem Wigmore will be on the panel about gender in speculative fiction.
  • Queen of Swords Press is officially 5 years old. I have piloted this little ship for 5 whole years now! Huge shoutout of thanks to my authors, my staff, our interns, our cover artists, our webmasters, our editors, our reader, reviewers, Patreon supporters and everyone else who helps us spread the word! Come check out the Birthday Sale, which ends tomorrow!
  • Uncle Hugo's Bookstore is coming back to Minneapolis! Losing Hugo and Edgar's was a huge, crushing blow to the owner, the staff and the community as a whole, geeky and otherwise, and I think we've all had a rough time with it. Planned reopening spot is the current Glass Endeavors building, next to the field where the Post Office, MIGIZI and Gandhi Mahal used to be on 31st just off Lake Street, across from Moon Palace Books, Arbeiter Brewing and the Hook & Ladder (and the burned out shell of the 3rd Precinct). Big Longfellow shoutout for a neighborhood that suffered so many loses and is still trying to come back. The Glass Endeavors owners, who managed to keep going despite the lockdown and losing all their immediate small business neighbors to fire during the riots and everything else have decided to retire so selling the building is a happy thing for everyone. :-D
  • I'm going to have a story in the next set of Sherlock Holmes and the Occult Detectives edited by John Linwood Grant! More news coming soon!

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Table of Contents for American Monsters Part 2 and news

Sep. 14th, 2019 11:00 am
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I'm on writing retreat this weekend so there'll be a post soon about things actually done and things in progress, but in the meantime, check out the TOC for American Monsters Part 2, coming from Fox Spirit Books in November! Editor Margrét Helgadóttir has pulled together quite the line up. :-D

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Cory Doctorow: Return to Pleasure Island
Kelly Sandoval: It’ll Be Fine
Rhonda S. Garcia: Douen Mother
Ernest Hogan: Cuca
Anne Michaud: The River Song
Tobias S. Buckell: Trinkets
Pepe Rojo: On Desire and its Cure
Catherine Lundoff: Hunger
Carmelo Rafala: What Happened to Mrs  Eleonora  Valdemar
Krista Walsh: Not for Amateurs
Tonya Liburd: Mimosa Versus The  Soucouyant
Federico Schaffler: The Fifth Hand of The Ahuizotl
Pedro Cabiya: Lay of The Land, Law of The Land
Charles Payseur: Stitched Together
Mathew Scaletta: The Sound a Raven Makes
Darcie Little Badger: The Whalebone Parrot
Lewis Shiner: Lizard Men of Los Angeles


And in related Queen of Swords Press/me news: my forthcoming horror and dark fantasy minicollection, Unfinished Business: Tales of the Dark Fantastic, is up for preorder at...Target. It's at all the usual places too, but this is a first and something of a surprise. Anyway, if you're ordering from Target sometime in the next couple of weeks anyway and you're so moved, please consider adding a book. Maybe they'll pick up our other titles too!

Now back to work.

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New story out and misc updates

Jun. 29th, 2019 08:51 am
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First of all, I want to thank everyone who bought and/or boosted the Pride StoryBundle! We had strong sales this year and raised over $600 for Rainbow Railroad to assist with their refugee resettlement efforts. Thanks for helping make that happen! :-D

New story out! My historical fiction tale, “By Her Pen, She Conquers,” is set in Regency London at the Drury Lane Theater. Will Penny Armstrong ever get to see one of her plays on the stage? And will anything come of her flirtation with the intriguing Jess? Check out this Regency slice of life tale based loosely on the lives of several real women playwrights from the time period, as read to you by the very talented Heather Rose Jones on her show, the Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast! 

In personal news, the Furnace Neverending is seemingly done, waiting only upon the final inspections and sign off. And the rest of the bill, of course. Then we get a month to recover before tackling the attic. The bathroom is also now a hideous showcase for its existing flaws and new huge HVAC pipes, so that has to get moved up the list of things to be fixed too. Sigh. But I think central air and much more efficient heat will be nice, so there’s that. I have had some pleasant meals and in the case of last night’s foray to a feminist comedy benefit, hanging out with lovely friends I don’t see very often. And tomorrow, I get to go to a tea/Gentleman Jack viewing party that I’m very much looking forward to! I’m also going to a “Meet the Bees” event at the Tiny Diner this week. I’m making progress on a new story and on my new collection and on a novel and...at any rate, more stuff soon! I am also angry and freaked out and stressed, because I contain multitudes. 

Now back to trying to make myself useful and get stuff done.
 
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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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New story out! (Redux)

Dec. 8th, 2016 08:41 pm
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The first issue of Callisto: A Queer Fiction Journal is out from Sibling Rivalry Press! It includes my story "Faceless" and is edited by the very talented Raymond Luczak. "Faceless" is literary fiction and is about a blind date gone horribly awry at an art opening. The cover is glorious, the publication looks tasty and interesting and for those playing along at home, yes, I have a gaming tie-in story and my second-ever literary fiction piece out within 10 days of each other. :-)
Let no one say I am not eclectic.

Other projects continue apace and I'm trying to do some good in the world. Onward!

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New release day!

Nov. 30th, 2016 03:26 pm
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The Cainite Conspiracies, the Vampire: The Masquerade Dark Ages anthology which includes my story "Incarnadine Seas," as well as stories by Maurice Broaddus and edited by Monica Valentinelli, is out today from Onyx Path Publishing! This is one of two anthologies celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the game Vampire: The Masquerade, which is pretty cool.

I should note that Monica had to format my story to gaming writer standards because I am without clue on this score and that I greatly appreciate her willingness to include writers new to gaming in the antho. I did read the entire Vampire: The Masquerade V20 Rule Book in its entirety, however, and in the next week or so, I will be playing the game with friends so we can all celebrate it together. :-)

More news on my new collection coming up soon too! Into the finalizing of details and formatting and getting sundry things set up stage.

V20 The Cainite Conspiracies Anthology
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Sekrit Project reveal!

Oct. 20th, 2016 10:19 am
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Now that Sekrit Project has been approved and is due out next month (don't have release date yet, but guessing soon), I have carte blanche to talk about it. Amongst the many new things that I've been tackling this year (and there's been a lot), I tried my hand at a spot of gaming tie-in writing, specifically a short story for Onyx Path Publishing's Vampire the Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition (Dark Ages, as opposed to other parts of the gameverse) tie-in anthology, "The Cainite Conspiracies." "Incarnadine Seas" is set in the late 13th century and is about the unlikely alliance between a Jewish sorceress (exiled from England - an actual historical event, I might add) and a female Gangrel from France, both under attack by a Tremere thaumaturge. Gangrel and Tremere are vampire clans, for folks not familiar with the game. I did a lot of research for this, including 400 + pages of gaming manual, a bunch of V20 Wiki and game-related stuff as well as what I could find on Jewish medieval history. Hopefully, I did a good job! Cover and release date when I have them. :-)
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New story acceptance!

Mar. 9th, 2016 09:42 pm
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Way back in October when I was Editor Guest of Honor at Arcana 45, I cranked out a brand shiny new Gothic ghost story so I'd have something to read to the nice folks who came to my reading at DreamHaven and at the con. It's called "A Splash of Crimson" and it features a governess with an active imagination and a perhaps injudicious fondness for her deceased mistress.  Today, I'm very pleased to announce that editor Kate Laity has accepted it for the Fox Spirit Books anthology Respectable Horror, thereby finally making a Respectable Horror Author of me! <g> At any rate, the line up looks great and I thrilled to be a part of it. Not sure of the release date but I'll pass it along when I find out.
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Story out today and other sundries

Feb. 9th, 2016 05:43 am
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Best Lesbian Erotica 20th Anniversary Edition is out from Cleis Press! And I have a blog post with buy links, the Goodreads Giveaway link and the TOC up for your perusal. http://writeremilylbyrne.blogspot.com/2016/02/best-lesbian-erotica-of-year-20th_9.html

What else is going on? Well, insomnia at the moment. But apart from that, our presentation on Accessibility and Aging in Tech at DevFest went quite well. And my friend Sarah Olson did a terrific presentation on the science behind gender bias. I met some new folks, hung out with friends, went to several interesting presentations and learned some stuff. I'll post links to the multimedia options when they're up. Good day all around!

This week's adventures are mostly about doing a mad scramble to get ready for teaching my Loft class this Saturday, answering questions for a Twin Cities Geek author profile, getting prepped for my new short fiction project (about which more later) and other fun. We did manage to fit in one more thing, namely a visit from Jim from Applied Energy Innovations last night. They came by last week and installed our new solar fan in the attic (regulates moisture in winter and house temperature in summer), but this week they were over to evaluate our house for the installation of solar panels. It is still a pricey thing to consider, even with rebates, but we think we can make it cost effective. But first, we have to enter the state lottery for rebates, so that will be the next hurdle. We've been whittling away at the costs of operating our house and reducing our carbon footprint for years now, so here's hoping we get to take the next step!

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New story out!

Nov. 16th, 2015 10:52 am
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I have a new story out today! "Bluebeard's Wife" in "The Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper Stories," edited by Maxim Jakubowski is out in print and audiobook now. This was a challenging story to write but I'm glad that Maxim encouraged me to write something for it! I should mention that it's out in the U.K. in print and book today, audiobook all over and out in the U.S. In midDecember. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mammoth-Book-Jack-Ripper-Stories/dp/1472135849
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New story out today!

Dec. 1st, 2013 03:48 pm
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My new SF story, "The Light Fantastic," is out today in Luna Station Quarterly. Huzzah!
It is free to read but if you like it and choose to donate, LSQ can go on publishing interesting work by women authors. And if you don't like it, donate anyway, and maybe they'll publish things you like better in the next issue. :-)

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