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Translation, Anticipation

This week, I finished something I'd been wanting to do for a while: I finished translating a story of mine into Spanish. Because of the more challenging aspects of my upcoming story This Is Not My Adventure (specifically, how it combines first-person and second-person, direct address POVs), I chose it for translation. Given that the story is not yet out, much less out of its exclusivity period, this was more of a playful challenge than anything else. Plus, I'm not sure if it's actually well-translated (I'd like to think so, but . . .) I suppose this is what happens when I'm waiting for my story to be free to read online. I'm not sure if it will be well-received, but I sure hope that's the case. I also found out my upcoming story got reviewed over at Rocket Stack Rank, which whatever their flaws, made me feel like I'd...

September 15, 2019
Fantasy, Writing
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New Story to Appear in Uncanny

I can finally announce that my new story, This is Not My Adventure will appear in Uncanny Magazine's issue 30 - Disabled People Destroy Fantasy. I'll appear with other fantastic writers, like Sarah Gailey, Lane Waldman, Jei D. Marcade, among many others. The Table of Contents was posted as part of Uncanny's Year Six Kickstarter Campaign. I can't wait to share This is Not My Adventure with you all. This story, folks. This story . . . On the afternoon after Futurescapes ended, I remember turning this story over in my head. I remember telling discussing with the alumni who were killing time in a Barnes & Noble the seed of this story. I spent the next few months wrestling it out onto the page. I grappled with words because I wanted to capture how my own depression feels onto the page, and the problem of the "impossible task" when you're deep in...

July 19, 2019
Fantasy, Writing
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Story Acceptance!

Last night, I received news that my first novelette, As the Shore to the Tides, So Blood Calls to Blood (all about brothers, bad blood and blood magic) will be published in Beneath Ceaseless Skies. I'm delighted to finally appear in one of my favorite online magazines! My story should be available to read later this year or early next; in the meantime, you can see what BCS has to offer. They're the only magazine that concentrates on secondary world literary adventure fantasy stories (think Lord of the Rings by way of Faulkner). If you like those types of stories, you can puchase a monthly subscription through Weightless Books, or help them pay their authors the new SFWA-approved pro rates through their Patreon. ...

June 7, 2019
Fantasy, Writing
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There But For the Grace of Grunts Go I. . .

I enlisted into the Navy right out of high school. I graduated early and everything so I could make it to boot camp. My dad was the one who took me to the recruiter's offices on base. He let me get a feel for each of the branches of the military by letting me ask intermittent questions. There was something about the Marine recruiter's look that put me off. The Army guy was fine, but they only had openings for infantry. The Navy guy, though, made me take notice. Navy was looking to recruit for Intelligence Specialists, and with my ASVAB scores I qualified. My natural pessimism helped prepare me for the awfulness of boot camp in Orlando, Florida during the height of summer. Other recruits seemed bitter because their recruiters lied to them, or let them believe it would be different, which isn't that much different than lying. I made...

April 1, 2019
Military, Science Fiction, Writing
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