Two short fiction sales this week, one short fiction reprint sale this week, details to come when I can announce them. Also, Russian rights to Green have been sold. Not bad, not bad.
Posted: 8:07 am Sat January 15 2011 | Comments(0) |
I am pleased to announce that Prime Books has accepted my novella, “Love in the Time of Metal and Flesh” for publication as a single-title book in 2011. The story is a contemporary dark fantasy about extreme body modification, murder and childhood innocence.
More here from the publisher.
Posted: 6:19 am Tue December 21 2010 | Comments(0) |
This morning, Subterranean Online has accepted my novelette, “A Long Walk Home”. I am mos def pleased.
This is another piece of the Sunspin continuity. It’s also a story idea that came to me in the late stages of chemo, when I could barely sign my name, let alone write fiction. So call this a bit of a personal victory on more levels than the usual headrush of selling a story.
Anent the Sunspin shorts, here’s a list of them so far, with a little bit of commentary.
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| “Permanent Fatal Errors“ | About 1,200 years before the narrative present; concerns the Before Macaria St. Maduabuchi | Is Anybody Out There?, ed. Nick Gevers and Marty Halpern, DAW, June, 2010 |
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| “A Long Walk Home” | About 1,100 years before the narrative present; concerns the Before Aeschylus Sforza | Subterranean Online, forthcoming |
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| “To This Their Late Escape” | About 850 years before the narrative present; concerns the Before Skanderia Knaak and the Before Raisa Siddiq | The Sky That Wraps, Subterranean Press, August, 2010 |
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| “To Raise a Mutiny Betwixt Yourselves” | About 700 years before the narrative present; concerns the Before Michaela Cannon, the Before Raisa Siddiq, and the shipmind Polyphemus | The New Space Opera 2, ed. Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan, Eos, June, 2009 |
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| “The Weight of History, the Lightness of the Future” | Immediately before the narrative present; concerns the Before Michaela Cannon, Lieutenant Shinka, and the shipmind Third Rectification | To be announced |
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| “Torquing Vacuum“ | In the narrative present; concerns Domitian Spanich, the Imperial Household, and the shipmind Mare Ibrium | Clarkesworld, February, 2010 |
Posted: 7:42 am Sun December 19 2010 | Comments(1) |
I am pleased to announce that I have received and accepted a German rights offer for my novel Mainspring [ Powell's | Barnes & Noble | Borders | Audible ], from publisher Bastei Lübbe, via my agent Jennifer Jackson of DMLA.
Posted: 7:38 am Fri December 03 2010 | Comments(4) |
Short story “West to East” was accepted by Subterranean Online yesterday. Old school SF, through the Jay Lake filter.
That makes eighteen short fiction sales for the year to date, not all of which I’ve been able to announce. Two of those were jointly written with calendula_witch. Not so bad for a year mostly spent on chemo and its discontents.
Posted: 6:46 am Mon November 15 2010 | Comments(2) |
I seem to have sold another Japanese rights reprint, of short story “Two All Beef Patties” to Hayakawa’s Mystery magazine. The piece originally appeared in the DAW anthology Better Off Undead. Hooray!
Also, can’t recall if I reported this, but “Tall Spirits, Blocking the Night” will be included in The Best of Talebones from Fairwood Press.
Posted: 4:20 pm Mon May 17 2010 | Comments(1) |
Yesterday was the best day I’ve had in weeks. Woke up from a solid night’s sleep. Very productive at the Day Jobbe. Got in a bit of emergency parenting. Managed two hours and a bit more of writing related program activities. It’s not new wordage, but it counts. Some continued GI distress, and my usual fatigue patterns, but that’s pretty much the new normal. And I sold a story to tor.com.
So, yeah, good day.
Of course, that meant a ragged night’s sleep last night. Woke up at 2:45 am with a headache. Gave up on trying to sleep at 3:30 am. Today will not be quite so swell.
However, today will be substantially improved as eight nine of twelve. [ETA: Ah, chemo brain.]
There is a potential wrinkle in the wind, as mononucleosis may be going around
If it ain’t one damned thing it’s another. And so on and so on, scoobie doobie doo.
Posted: 4:39 am Wed May 05 2010 | Comments(1) |
Yesterday I emailed
In short, not my best work. A concession to chemo. I am very frustrated and unhappy, but I recognize this is a cooperative effort, and neither of them would allow me to be truly unprofessional. So my feelings of unprofessionalism are essentially a coping issue.
But man…
Today at Fireside I have been trolling through my spreadsheet, finding balls chemobrain hasn’t dropped. That would include (ahem) two unrecorded sales and several more unrecorded/misrecorded rejections. Various queries were sent, some submissions made, and spreadsheet updated. All ship shape and Bristol fashion now, at least until the next round of silliness on my part. At this point, I have five stories out to market and none in idle inventory, which would be my lowest level of short fiction submission activity since the year 2000. Oi.
There are several reasons for it. A busy novel career and chemotherapy are two obvious ones, but there’s more going on here. I used to write virtually all my short fiction inventory on spec. My submission-to-sale ratio used to be above 5:1. These days the majority of short fiction inventory is written to invitation, and I hit those markets perhaps 80% of the time. So much less of what production I do have goes into spec inventory. Then my submission-to-sale ratio is down to about 3:1 now. So short fiction doesn’t remain in spec inventory so long, either.
Mind you, these are good problems to have. Very good ones. But when I come out of the cancer thicket, I think I’m going to lay down some short fiction smack for a while, to build inventory (or sales, really) back up. And yes, I’ve sold thirteen pieces (in nine acceptances, one sale was a quintet of linked stories) this year either solo or collaboratively with
Speaking of sales, in my frenzy of querying, a query and an acceptance crossed in the email, thanks to the good offices of my spam filter. Which resulted in some very amusing correspondence. However, I’m quite pleased to announce short story “The Speed of Time” has been accepted by tor.com.
It really has been a good day.
Posted: 5:44 pm Tue May 04 2010 | Comments(1) |
As announced here, Realms of Fantasy has accepted my short story, “The Fall of the Moon”, for publication.
Posted: 3:16 pm Fri April 30 2010 | Comments(1) |
My Mainspring novella “Chain of Fools” has been confirmed for a translated appearance the June issue of the Japanese magazine Hayakawa SF. The sequel (and steampunk astronaut story) “Chain of Stars” will be appearing in translation in Web publication in Japan later this year as well.
In other news, short story “Jefferson’s West” has sold to the anthology Boondocks Fantasy forthcoming from DAW. This is in continuity with Original Destiny, Manifest Sin, for those following along at home.
Posted: 2:31 pm Thu April 15 2010 | Comments(0) |