If you’re reading this from my website, you’ll notice that the place looks a little different. I’ve been meaning to update the blog for a while now, streamline it, update it, get all my information correct, and I figured that while doing that I might as well also update the look of it. The old look was feeling stale and since I feel on the cusp or in the midst of a great number of changes, why not change up the blog as well.

So, what do you think? More colorful, definitely. More in line with my mood right now, I think.

Feel free to sound off if you think something doesn’t work.

I got word late last night that my story, “Holes” (formerly “The Burning Bridge to Heaven”), is now online in the latest issue of Abyss & Apex. I wrote “Holes” a while ago, and it’s nice to see it finally seeing “print”.

This comes as I’ve just begun contemplating another story of Damon Hawking and Julia Sinclair in the Unusual Circumstances division of MI5.

If you take a look, let me know what you think.

Like every year since 2009, I am doing the Clarion West Write-a-thon this year. The idea is simple – you sponsor me and my writing goals, and the money goes to support the Clarion West Writers Workshop. Clarion West made me a better writer and every year it makes other people better writers. The way I look at it, it’s a way to invest in better fiction in the future. Participants of Clarion West do pay tuition, but much of the money that supports the workshop comes from efforts such as this one.

This year, because I have a diverse set of projects I’m working on, I’m committing to writing five hours a week. This writing will likely be devoted to revising short stories in an effort to get them out, writing new short stories, and working on novels.

I know that there are plenty of places that you can donate to, and never enough money or time to go around, but if you love science fiction and fantasy, if you read genre fiction, please think about investing in the writers of tomorrow.

My page is here – please consider donating some money to the workshop.

Thank you.

I have some writing-related news from the past few weeks.

First off, my story, “The Case of the Wounded Heart”, which I enjoyed the hell out of writing, is now available in the anthology, A Study in Lavender: Queering Sherlock Holmes from Lethe Press. I’ve mentioned the anthology here before, but it takes characters from the Holmes mythos (including, of course, Holmes and Watson) and imagines them (or reveals them, perhaps) as gay. I haven’t had a chance to read it, but I’m dying to get my hands on it. It’s available now here or at Amazon .

Second, while the story was accepted a while ago, I finally signed the contract for my story, “The Burning Bridge to Heaven”, which will be appearing in Abyss & Apex next quarter. I will, obviously, link to it when it’s up. It’s a kind of British 60’s X-Files story and was also a lot of fun to write.

Finally, I also signed a contract for my story, “Doors”, which will be narrated as a podcast on Podcastle. “Doors” was originally published in GUD Issue 6 and, though I usually don’t have favorite stories, is probably one of my favorites.

That’s all for now.

So, I’m finally settling down into more of a normal schedule, which hopefully means more time to update this blog. As usual, things have fallen by the wayside, but the ride has been thrilling, so I don’t mind too much.

Work on the apartment, meaning unpacking, is proceeding. Not at a breakneck pace, but slowly but surely. I’ve been finding time lately to write more. I have certain plans and projects in the works.

I’m also blogging again elsewhere and have a few more narrations lined up for various sites. But all about these things later. Soon.