Tweet story at Outshine!

I have a story up today at Outshine, the optimistic near-future SF twitter-zine. So take a break from that 50k-word NaNo project and check out this 25 (or so) word story.

"Even So (a Fib)" at Every Day Poets

I'm not even sure if I mentioned this when the poem was accepted a couple of months ago, but now my Fibonacci-sequence poem is up for your ecstatic enjoyment or something: "Even So." This was definitely one of those poems that started with form--I don't remember much else about its composition apart from the fact that I was playing with the Fib form and this was the one I ended up liking best. As always with Every Day Poets, go visit, give it a score if you wish, even comment, but mostly read and enjoy.

Story published at Everyday Weirdness

In what is easily the fastest turnaround on a story from acceptance to publication, my flash fiction "The Last Centaur, Dying," was accepted yesterday for publication and published this morning. This story came from a prompt on a forum, one of several I've cut back my participation with lately but still visit. On there was a loud-spoken member whose tastes were typically diametrically opposed to my own, and he challenged the other members to write a story based on this picture he'd taken (or perhaps only found, I forget) of Antoine Bourdelle's Dying Centaur statue. Or actually one of them, as Google seems to indicate there are a number of his centaur statues at various locations around the world. I wanted to keep the narrative completely from the perspective of a viewer, as that seemed fitting for the statue, rather than giving the centaur's dying thoughts.

We didn't post the stories at the forum, of course, but he invited us to send them to him, offering some sort of prize, it seems. As I'd expected, he didn't consider mine a favorite, though he did have some kind things to say. I then forgot about the piece I'd written for probably close to two years until I stumbled on it about a month ago, revised it, and sent it to Everyday Weirdness.

Nemonymous now available also!

Nemonymous 9, Cern Zoo is available now, and while you're ordering, might as well throw in Zencore! as well, if you didn't get it when I had a story in there...as well as any of the others. I can't wait to see this and see how my story fits in with all the others (besides anonymously).

Cinema Spec available now!

I got an email from Karen Romanko yesterday that Cinema Spec is already available from Amazon and Barnes & Noble, apparently surprising her by how quickly it went through the system--she'd been told 6 to 10 weeks and instead it sailed through in 4 days.  So reviews are not out yet, since the idea was to time them for the expected publication date...

Anyway, I'm very excited to see this book and to see the reactions of others to it.  It looks like a lot of fun.  As with Sporty Spec, my story wraps up the anthology.  So...Raven Electrick Ink has done sports and movies, what do you think she should do next?

Nemonymous 9 -- Cern Zoo

I'm excited to announce that I'll be having a story in Nemonymous 9.  My experience with Nemo 7 was great, and I'm very much looking forward to the guessing contests to see if anyone guesses that I wrote the story I did--I feel like this one was definitely written in the spirit of Nemonymous, writing something very different from what I typically write (or at least it seemed that way to me at the time) such that it was almost like I was hiding my own writing identity from myself as I wrote.  I'm tempted to elaborate on that a bit...but I don't want to leave too many clues as to which story is mine, so I'll leave it at that.  I'm looking forward to seeing the anthology--probably in August.

Twitter serial at Thaumatrope

This month my serial story--of a Prospero-like wizard who is far less powerful than he imagines himself to be--will be going up 140 characters at a time at Thaumatrope.  It's a little more accepting of the standard ideas of a wizard than what I tend to write, but I wanted to build on and play with those kind of expectations here.  I see the narrator as a bit of a rogue at first, though in editing the work so it worked better as a whole, some of that rogue-ish-ness was lost.  But it still informs how I see his development.  So you can just check Thaumatrope everday all month and see both the serial and the various stand-alone tweets (and it's been fun to see how the many writers involved have told their stories in such compressed form), or you can go to the link dedicated just to the serial, which is called #WorldAsh.  I'll also recommend the serials that have proceeded mine, Jeremiah Tolbert's #futureJer and Alethea Kontis's #DrGnome.

This was a fun experiment to write, a very different kind of way to tell a story.