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News from 2008

December 10, 2008: You can now read my story “A Feast at the Manor” in the new “fat-friendly” anthology The Fat Man at the End of the World.

November 25, 2008: I answered a set of questions for a book series called Contemporary Authors; you can read my answers here.

November 15, 2008: I’ll be spending the rest of the year revising and re-drafting the first novel in my tentatively titled trilogy Contagious Magic. I renamed the first book A Sudden Outbreak of Magic.

October 30, 2008: Author Devon Monk interviewed me about A Gathering of Doorways for the Fangs, Fur, & Fey site.

October 16, 2008: According to Booklist, I’m a “speculative-fiction rising star“! I like the sound of that…!

September 24, 2008: I’ve got some story reprints coming soon:

  • “Coal Ash and Sparrows” (a Contagious Magic story!) in Cornstalk Gypsies
  • “A Feast at the Manor” in The Fat Man at the End of the World

September 2, 2008: You can now pre-order my novel A Gathering of Doorways at Amazon.com or Barnes and Noble (or even Amazon.co.uk!)

September 1, 2008: And the second coat of paint has been applied to my young-adult urban fantasy novel The Secret History of Magic. Done, and sent off to my agent!

August 12, 2008: My new Web site (right here! this place!) is officially launched. Much champagne was drunk and drank, and the party lasted all the way into tomorrow.

July 19, 2008: I finished up a very major rewrite of my young-adult urban fantasy novel The Secret History of Magic. Just one more coat of paint and this book is off to my agent!

July 15, 2008: My alternate-history baseball story “A Miracle in Shreveport” was named an Honorable Mention story by Gardner Dozois in his Year’s Best Science Fiction anthology for 2007.

May 13, 2008: I am pleased to report that my fiction will be represented by the wonderful and wise Colleen Lindsay of FinePrint Literary Management. Hooray!

April 1, 2008: My story “Painting Haiti” was published in the urban fantasy anthology Paper Cities.

February 6, 2008: I now have story reprints available at both the Sony eBook Reader store and the AnthologyBuilder site.

January 22, 2008: My SF novel The Wannoshay Cycle came out in January 2008 from Five Star Books.

January 3, 2008: I sold a novel to Prime Books: A Gathering of Doorways (due out in November 2008).

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