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04-12-16: “The Sadly Only Mildly Dramatic Tale of Sijo Uthwen” Now Out in Space and Time
My short satire “The Sadly Only Mildly Dramatic Tale of Sijo Uthwen” is in Issue #125 of Space and Time. It’s a companion piece to my previous short satire “The Very Strange Weird of Endart Sscowth,” which appeared in Issue #114 of Space and Time.

Space and Time #125

01-12-12: “The Halberdier, by Moonlight” Out Now 
The Fall 2011 issue of On Spec, featuring my story “The Halberdier, by Moonlight” is now out. With my name on the cover!

On Spec, Fall 2011

12-18-11: “The Halberdier, by Moonlight” forthcoming in Fall 2011 On Spec
My “slipstream plus armor” story “The Halberdier, by Moonlight” will be out soon, in the Fall 2011 issue of On Spec.

07-08-11: “Of Casting Pits and Caustic Salts” inHeroic Fantasy Quarterly
My fantasy espionage story “Of Casting Pits and Caustic Salts” is in the current issue of Heroic Fantasy Quarterly. If you like taut spy stories set in desert worlds with giant beetles, check it out!

05-18-11: “The Very Strange Weird of Endart Sscowth” in Space and Time
My short satire “The Very Strange Weird of Endart Sscowth” will be appearing in Issue #114 of Space and Time, with my name on the cover. Pretty cool!

Space and Time #114

11-11-10: Story Sale to On Spec
My story “The Halberdier, by Moonlight,” has sold to long-running Canadian spec-fic journal On Spec. They’ve published lots of great neo-pro authors, like Tony Pi, and I’m thrilled to be forthcoming in their pages.

02-24-10: “Picking Up the Spin” out in M-Brane SF
Issue #14 of M-Brane SF, featuring my hard-SF baseball story “Picking Up the Spin”, is now out! See my Journal for details.

M-Brane 14 Cover

02-08-10: Story Sale to M-Brane SF
My near-future, hard-SF baseball story “Picking Up the Spin” will be appearing in Issue #14 of M-Brane SF, a very cool up-and-coming online SF magazine.

01-25-10: “Excision” Podcast Out
The audio podcast of my story “Excision,” which appeared in Weird Talesa few years ago, is out now from Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine. You can check it out here. They had me tape a segment of author’s notes explaining the genesis of the story, which you can hear at the end of their reading performance. And they have this very cool cover art for the story:

Dunsteef Excision Artwork

01-4-10: Beneath Ceaseless Skies in Rich Horton’s Year-End Summaries
Beneath Ceaseless Skies, my literary adventure fantasy magazine, which started last fall, got a great review in editor/reviewer Rich Horton’s year-end summary of the magazine. Among other praise, he said that BCS is “a really important source of fantasy.” Very cool!

Beneath Ceaseless Skies

07-06-09: ReaderCon
I will be at ReaderCon, north of Boston, in about ten days. There will be a reading for Beneath Ceaseless Skies, featuring authors such as S.C. Butler, Margaret Ronald, and Saladin Ahmed. See my Journal for more information.

Beneath Ceaseless Skies

03-31-09: Space and Time Issue #107
Issue #107 of Space and Time magazine, which includes my short story “Ebb,” is now up on their website’s Current Issue listing. It’s a character-driven fantasy story with a setting rigorously built on real science. I’m delighted to have it in Space and Time–they are an indie magazine getting a lot of buzz lately. See my Journal for more on Issue #107 and their new PDF subscription option.

Space and Time #107

01-31-09: Beneath Ceaseless Skies in Locus
My literary adventure fantasy magazine Beneath Ceaseless Skies, which started last fall, was reviewed in the January issue of Locus. Ace short-fiction reviewer Rich Horton says the magazine “is off to a promising start.” You can read more of his comments on the BCS Online Forums.

Beneath Ceaseless Skies

11-15-08: Story Sale to Space and Time
I’ve sold a short story called “Ebb” to Space and Time magazine. It’s a fantasy story with a setting rigorously built on real science, and they are an indie magazine getting a lot of buzz lately. I’m delighted the story has found a home with them.

10-09-08: Beneath Ceaseless Skies has Launched
My literary adventure fantasy magazine Beneath Ceaseless Skies has released its first issue, featuring short stories by Chris Willrich and Hugo-winner David D. Levine. Come read our online fiction for free and log onto the BCS Forums.

07-15-08: Beneath Ceaseless Skies is Online
The website for my fantasy magazine Beneath Ceaseless Skies is now online. You can read a little bit about how the magazine will work, check out our Submissions Guidelines (we open to public subs on Aug. 1), or read and post in our online forums.

Beneath Ceaseless Skies

07-09-08: The Homeless Moon Chapbook
My cohorts at The Homeless Moon and I are releasing a chapbook of all-original SF/F stories. We will have copies this weekend at ReaderCon 19. If you can’t make it to the con, you can download a PDF copy or get info on how to pay postage so we can send you one.

06-11-08: Beneath Ceaseless Skies
I’m starting my own fantasy magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies. I’ve always wanted to edit short fiction again, and I’ve always thought that the world could use a market dedicated to adventure fantasy written with literary flair, so I’ve started a new online magazine to do just that. You can read more about the exact type of fantasy I’m looking for in this blog post: “Literary Adventure Fantasy”?.

03-20-08: Writers of the Future
My Writers of the Future Finalist story unfortunately did not win one of the top three places. However, the contest administrators have asked to hold the story for possible inclusion in the annual anthology as a Published Finalist.

02-18-08: Writers of the Future Finalist
I have been named one of eight Finalists in the Writers of the Future contest, for the First Quarter of 2008. The stories from the Finalists are passed on to the professional judges who will pick First, Second, and Third Place Winners sometime in March. I like those odds!

02-15-08: Weird Tales Reviews
Weird Tales #347 has been out for a month now, and reviews of my story “Excision” are trickling in from blogging readers and review sites like The Fix. I will be acknowledging several of them soon in my own blog.

01-05-08: Weird Tales Available for Order
Weird Tales #347, featuring my story “Excision,” is now available for order. This issue also includes a nonfiction article by my friend and colleague Michael J. DeLuca. Grab a copy soon!

Weird Tales