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Reality Hunger
I’m reading David Shields’ new book, Reality Hunger: A Manifesto. It’s a really engaging nonlinear, non narrative, at times lyrical essay, always structured by way of collage or mosaic, appropriating...
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Older eyes
My last class for my MFA program at Chatham starts tomorrow. It’s a Multi-Genre Creative Writing Workshop, which means the participants can submit things from any genre, poetry, fiction, nonfiction,...
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Introducing “jenny”
“jenny” is something my students in the Literary Arts Association at YSU have been busily preparing as a new online literary magazine. This is a radically energetic and creative group of students,...
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Fall Recap
The end of autumn. It’s been a busy semester. The student group I advise has created an awesome new online literary magazine called “jenny”. I posted about this a little over a month ago, and now...
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Another piece of the map
For those of you who may have read the vignettes in Map for a Forgotten Valley that I published last month, another piece of that map has recently been published by Muse, a Cleveland magazine. You can...
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A free read of Map of Seventeen
I’ve posted my Nebula nominated story “Map of Seventeen” on my website for interested readers. You can find it on the page tabs overhead. I’ll take it down soon after the Nebulas, around the end of...
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Attack of the Killer Collections
Every year around this season of gift giving, I see lots of posts by writers and readers and online stores, advising people what books would make great gifts. Usually, these lists consist entirely of...
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Andre Norton Award Jury Duty
While I already announced this on Facebook and Twitter , I thought I should mention it here on my blog, too, in case someone out there doesn’t keep up with my doings in the socializing networkings of...
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The Birthday of Birds and Birthdays
Birds and Birthdays has officially released into the wild. It’s been available directly from the publisher for the past couple of weeks, but will be appearing in other marketplaces now, like...
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Interfictions goes online
Another new development for 2013 is that Interfictions, the anthology series that Delia Sherman launched first with co-editor Theodora Goss and then with me as co-editor of the second volume, will be...
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Before and Afterlives Arrives
My first full length short story collection, Before and Afterlives, released this week! I’m sort of over the top excited by that, because since I was a teenager, I imagined my first book being a...
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Sneak Peeks of Before and Afterlives (Dead Letters)
Over the next couple of weeks, I’ll occasionally be posting previews from the 17 stories in my new short story collection, Before and Afterlives. If you like what you read, take a hop over to your...
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Sneak Peeks of Before and Afterlives (A Resurrection Artist)
Over the next couple of weeks, I’ll occasionally be posting previews from the 17 stories in my new short story collection, Before and Afterlives. If you like what you read, take a hop over to your...
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Sneak Peeks of Before and Afterlives (The Boy Who Was Born Wrapped in Barbed...
Over the next couple of weeks, I’ll be posting previews from the 17 stories in my new short story collection, Before and Afterlives. If you like what you read, take a hop over to your favorite online...
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Sneak Peeks of Before and Afterlives (The Language of Moths)
Over the next couple of weeks, I’ll be posting previews from the 17 stories in my new short story collection, Before and Afterlives. If you like what you read, take a hop over to your favorite online...
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Sneak Peeks of Before and Afterlives (Vanishing Point)
Today’s preview from Before and Afterlives is the opening of my story, “Vanishing Point”, which first appeared in the Canadian literary journal, Descant. It’s a story about a mother whose son has been...
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Sneak Peeks of Before and Afterlives (Born on the Edge)
Today’s preview from Before and Afterlives is the opening of my story,”Born on the Edge of an Adjective”. It’s a story about two lovers who can’t get it together, one of whom moves across the country...
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Sneak Peeks of Before and Afterlives (The Drowned Mermaid)
There’s been a break in the sneak peeks of Before and Afterlives, but I’m back with the next one, the opening scene to my story, “The Drowned Mermaid”, which originally appeared in the magazine, Realms...
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Sneak Peeks of Before and Afterlives (The Ghost Hunter’s Beautiful Daughter)
Today’s preview from Before and Afterlives is the opening of my story, “The Ghost Hunter’s Beautiful Daughter,” which originally appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction. It’s a story about a young girl...
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Kirkus reviews Before and Afterlives
A late but better than never review from Kirkus Reviews came for Before and Afterlives at the tail end of last week. It’s a goodie. I’m happy. I can only post a couple of lines from the review without...
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