Lots of cool news!

Oct. 22nd, 2019 08:36 pm
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I’ll do a MultiverseCon write up later this week, but the short version is that it went well and we had a good trip!
Other cool things:
  • Ginn Hale has a lovely piece up at Tor.com about queer communities and chosen family in fantasy. It includes a nice shoutout for Murder on the Titania by Alex Acks, as well as some other fine books. Ginn also has a new book out and you should get that too!
  • Host Wayne Goodman interviewed me on his podcast, Queer Words
  • My new collection, Unfinished Business, got a very nice plug in this fun queer horror feature at Lambda Literary
  • And a nice plug on Kirkus Reviews!
More later!

 
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Book release reading tomorrow night!

Oct. 8th, 2019 08:07 pm
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I'll be reading from Unfinished Business: Tales of the Dark Fantastic tomorrow night (10/9) at DreamHaven Books in Minneapolis from 6:30-7:45 or so. There'll be a Q&A and chocolate and general random fun. Hope to see some of you there!
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Recap of a most excellent day

Oct. 1st, 2019 09:09 pm
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So to recap my day:
I have a new book out: Unfinished Business: Tales of the Dark Fantastic is here! Ebooks and here. Print here and DreamHaven later this week, as well as all the usual places and to my great surprise, Target. They say they're sold out, but I know there's more where that came from.


I have a new lesbian ghost story out in Fireside Fiction (and I’m already getting fan mail!) The readings by C.S.E Cooney is gorgeous, by the way. I had a couple of moments of "Did I write that? Cool!"


My novel SILVER MOON got a nice new review from the amiable and erudite Heather Rose Jones.

And the cats threw up on the bed and miscellaneous other things happened, but this is the cool stuff. :-D 
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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 book up for preorder and misc.

Aug. 22nd, 2019 08:40 pm
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My new mini collection, Unfinished Business: Tales of the Dark Fantastic, is up for preorder!
 

As part of the complete insanity that is my October, I'll be peddling this book at Fall Con (Twin Cities comics convention), the Twin Cities Book Festival and MultiverseCon, as well as doing readings at DreamHaven in Minneapolis (10/9) and Charis Books in Decatur, Georgia (8/17). Might also fit in a Halloween event, depending on how things go. I'll also be teaching an online class on writing Gothic Horror on 10/13, Crimson Peaks and Melancholy Mansions. Stay tuned for a podcast interview and a new class on escaping  out of the slush pile for Hidden Timber Books (more coming soon).

I have also been sick, unsurprisingly, but am now mostly better. Just in time for the MN State Fair, among other things. I'm going to make an effort to post a bit more regularly; wish me luck!



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Back from D.C., plunging into more projects and stuff

Aug. 8th, 2019 09:28 pm
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I spent weekend before last in Washington, D.C., hanging out with friends, going to museums and doing a reading at Outwrite. This post has taken me forever. Too much going on! So D.C. was fun - I got to see an old friend who I haven’t seen in forever, got to spend time with Rob and Peter (my hosts) and go museuming. I made it to the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument, the Library of Congress and the Folger Shakespeare Library and had a fine time at each one. I now have a suffragist sash for my steampunk costumes, along with other cool things.

After that, I went to meet an old friend for dinner. Jennifer and I grew up together, but between one thing and another, haven't seen each for over 25 years. It made for a long and interesting reunion (and some fraught memories), but ultimately, it was great to reconnect.

Saturday was off to the convention. I went to a reading, spent some time with friends and ate a fab lunch at Poets & Busboys with Craig Laurence Gidney, Bob Angell and Rob Gates, with a bonus meetup with Bryan Thao Worra (in town for the Smithsonian's Asian American Writer's Lit Festival). Then it was back to the conference to meet up with more people, then the Queering the Grotesque Reading, which was well attended. Heard some good stuff (and possibly freaked a few people out reading my Victorian-style ghost story, "A Touch of Crimson"). After that, I headed back to Rob and Peter's for a dinner party and more chatting.  Sunday was brunch and heading home.

Since then, I've gotten persuaded to go back to St. Cloud Pride on 9/21 (the day after a reading at Quatrefoil Library), put Unfinished Business up for preorder on Kobo, Smashwords and ITunes, gone to see Shaw and Hobbes (entertaining) and gone back to see "Hearts of Our People" at the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Also worked on stuff, lots of stuff. Now to finish some of it.

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Cover reveal for UNFINISHED BUSINESS

Jul. 18th, 2019 08:24 pm
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I will have a new short fiction collection out from Queen of Swords Press in October! Unfinished Business is a collection of some of my horror and dark fantasy tales. This will be the first of the QoSP Minis, a series of single author short fiction collections and novella length works to tempt book buyers into trying new-to-them authors. They'll be about half the size of a regular-sized trade paperback and priced accordingly. A.J. Fitzwater's The Voyages of Cinrak the Dapper, coming in April, 2020, will be the second book in this imprint. Here's a link if this doesn't post correctly the first time, which invariably happens. More updates coming soon!


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New book! Wordplay! A poll, if I can get it to work!

May. 9th, 2019 01:56 pm
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 The weekend’s coming up so it must time be time for the next event. In this case, that’s the Loft Literary Center’s  Wordplay, which will be going on all weekend at the Open Book, the Guthrie Theater and Uptown in Minneapolis. Michael Merriam and I will be reading from Queen of Swords Press’  fantastical pirates anthology, Scourge of the Seas of Time (and Space), at the Target Stage by the Open Book at 2PM on Sunday. Come on down! Bring Mom or Grandmom or equivalent and check it out

In other Queen of Swords Press news, I’m going to be trying out some “minis,” which will be about half the size of our regular trade paperback books. These will be single author collections or single novellas. I’m noticing that people shopping at book events are more inclined to take a chance on new to them authors if a book is priced in the $8-10 range so this is a way to pick up some of those book buyers, while hopefully getting some work out there that might otherwise not be available. I’ll be experimenting on some of my own work first to get an idea of how best to market these and releasing a small collection of my horror, dark fantasy and adjacent work, Unfinished Business: Tales of the Dark Fantastic, in October. QoSP is not open for the mini subs yet but will be opening for full length book queries from 6/1-7/15. Queer and/or POC and/or international authors are urged to send in proposals 

Next up, a poll on reviving my Patreon. Currently QoSP is supported through book sales (about a third to roughly one half of all expenses) and my savings (everything else). Sales are going up slowly but since my job is Magic 8 Ball in terms of the future and we have a new furnace and a much needed attic remodel happening this summer, it would be super helpful to have additional cash coming in. I may not have set the radio buttons up right, so you can also respond in the comments. It will likely be a mix of 1 and 2, if everyone responds as they have elsewhere. Thanks for weighing in on what you would be most likely to support.

Reviving my Patreon:
1. Queen of Swords Press support? (rewards to be determined)
2. Serialize my works in progress?
3. Other - specify in comments
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