Very cool news today. In a review of the December issue of Future Science Fiction Digest, my story “Butterfly Blue” was not only praised, but actually became a Locus Recommended Read.

Am I becoming a critical darling all of a sudden? I have no way of knowing (I wouldn’t complain) but if you’d like to judge for yourself, here’s the link to both the review and the story itself.

If you happen to read it, please let me know what you think! Comments, good and bad, about my writing are always enormously appreciated

Poppies in Full Bloom will be published by Page & Spine. This makes me very happy, and I’ll link to the magazine when it comes out.

I’m particularly delighted that this story found a good home, as it’s one I really like.

Sale! My flash story “Casting Shade” has sold to Flash in a Flash. I’ve added a link to the Flash in a Flash Facebook Page here, and will, of course, link to the story when it gets published

Baen has announced the complete list of finalists for the Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award, and I’m one of the top ten finalists. Winner and the two runner-ups will be announced before the end of the month, so I’ll be on the edge of my seat until then.

Here’s the full list of finalists:

Gustavo Bondoni
Deborah L. Davitt
C. Stuart Hardwick
Scott Huggins
José Pablo Iriarte
William Paul Jones
Leigh Kimmel
Wendy Nikel
Kurt Pankau
Russell Pike

Link to the press release, here.

My flash story “Changing Times” will be podcast by Manawaker Studios. Happy dance on this one.

Worlds of Light and Darkness, the Best of DreamForge and Space & Time will be available in May. This one includes my story “A Sip of Pombé” and I’ve included a link to the announcement on Instagram, here.

So, some awesome news I’ve been sitting on for a while: I have a story entitled “Shivering Cinderella” in issue 94 of The Grantville Gazette. My story is in the “Universe Annex” section, not in the shared-world portion of the magazine.

Here’s the link (you need to be a subscriber to read the entire story) in the first comment, below. As a sale to a Baen publication, I believe this is the largest publisher I’ve worked with for a genre story. The happy dance happened a few months ago, but now you know.

Happy to report that The Colored Lens‘ Winter 2021 edition has been published. This one includes my story “Third Class”. You can check it out here.

Good news for a Monday? Sure, why not? I received word that my story “Such Sweet Sorrow” has won the 2020 Critters Poll award for Best Positive Future Short Story.Now, a story about giraffes, airships and conservation efforts was always going to be in the running for that one, but the unusual thing is that, due to the “trying to drink from a fire hose” nature of my life currently, I was not even aware that the tale was nominated.

So this was a complete surprise and really made my day! I’d often played the game in this poll, lobbying for votes and never doing better than a top ten finish, but this year was out of the blue… and the story won!

Link here.

Here’s another book containing one of my stories that launched recently: Twilight Tales, containing my story “For the Light” has been launched. A LOT of my friends (talented writers all) are in this one.

Link here.