It’s the start of a new year! Yes, I know, it’s the end of April as I write this, and 2019 is speeding toward the halfway point, but I see this as the beginning of what will hopefully be a good writing year. After a bit of a break, long needed after writing three novels back to back, I sold a story. My science fiction story, “Binary”, will be appearing in an upcoming issue of Analog. When I first started thinking about writing professionally, it was always the Big 3 genre magazines that I imagined one day being in — Asimov’s, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Analog. They’ve been on “the list” ever since. And now I get to cross one of them off. I’m really impressed with what Trevor Quachri has been doing with the magazine and I’m proud to be a part of it with him as editor.

I should mention that this story came out of the Launch Pad Astronomy Workshop that I attended back in 2015. I attended (despite having a terrible case of bronchitis) because I wanted to write more science fiction and I thought learning more about space and astronomy would help, and I’m happy to say that it did. Yes, it took a few years to get the story right, but I’m glad I was able to finish it and sell it and I can’t wait to see it in print. I’m hoping it’s the first of a string of science fiction stories from me.

I’ll post an update when I have an idea of when it will be out, but in the meantime you should check out the current issue (March/April 2019), particularly the story “The Walk to Distant Suns” by fellow Altered Fluid members Matthew Kressel and David Mercurio Rivera. It’s a great story and I’m happy to follow in their footsteps.