WHERE TO FIND ME
CLASSES, LIVE EVENTS, AND PANELS
UPCOMING
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I will be doing a live reading for gritLIT (Hamilton!) with co-presenters Amanda Leduc and Alessandra Naccarato, hosted by gritLIT board member Selena Middleton on April 17, 2021, at 1:30 pm MST!
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Also on April 17, 2021, a wonderful event with Glasgow2024 (WorldCon) with my fellow Solaris Satellites authors Wayne Santos and Derek Künsken! That's at 7 pm BST, or 12 pm MST.
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And teaching a workshop, Writing Genre Fiction, for gritLit as well! April 18, 2021, 9 am MST!
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Aaaaand also on April 18, 2021, at 11 am MDT, a kaffeeklatsch with Flights of Foundry! Ask me anything! Also at Flights, I will be doing a reading on Saturday April 17 at 11 am MDT, and at 1 pm MDT on the 18th paneling on 'Professional Querying Practices'!
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I will be participating in a Twitch stream with the lovely Alasdair Stuart and Marguerite Kenner on April 21, 2021! At... I've got 3 pm on my calendar but. What is a time zone. What is time.
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I am teaching Writing Sci-Fi Like A Scientist for Clarion West on May 11, 2021, 4:30 - 6 pm PST! Be there or be square!
- I will be doing a live reading with Neon Hemlock on June 14, 2021!
ALREADY HAPPENED
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I was at Mysterious Galaxy (virtually!) with fellow authors S.B. Divya, C.L. Clark, and Arkady Martine, on April 9, 2021, at 3 pm MDT! Chatting about pandemic books and anything else that comes to mind. Recording is up now!
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Darcie and Arula and I did a little CBC spot that aired March 26, 2021, before 'Let's Build A Space Habitat' with Alan Neal from CBC! Listen here!
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A Can*Con panel called 'Let's Build A Space Habitat!' with my lovely agent-sibling Darcie Little Badger, and fellow authors Eric Choi and Arula Ratnakar, moderated by recent Nebula finalist Phoebe Barton! March 27, 2021, at 3 pm EST (1 pm MST). YouTube video here!
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Panelist at 'How We Get Through,' organized by the (excellently organized) Karen Osborne, March 7, 2021! Thoughts on the second year of the pandemic: getting through or not getting through.
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Taught 'Writing Sci-Fi Like A Scientist!' for the wonderful Orange County Public Library in February 2021! No recording available, alas. (And virtually, so I was still freezing.)
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Live (virtual) event at Mysterious Galaxy in LA with my wonderful fellow debut, Rachel Mans McKenny! December 7, 2020, at 7 pm PST. You can watch the replay here! (This event got a shout-out on Buzzfeed!)
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I am participating in PhilCon 2020 this year on several panels! (I am not sure if these will be recorded but if so I will stick them up here) Nov 20-22, 2020, all times EST:
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Friday 8 pm - Reading
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Friday 10 pm - Where the Wild Things Grow
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Saturday 11:30 am - Putting Science into Science Fiction
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Saturday 2:30 pm - Cosmic Horror's Recent Growths
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Saturday 7 pm - Do Different Genres Have Different Editing Needs?
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Sunday 2:30 - Rule of Cool vs. Actual Science
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Sunday 4 pm - Dust to Dirt
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Emerging Caribbean Diaspora Writers in Conversation -- a brilliant panel put together by my friend and fellow author Suzan Palumbo! This is running as part of Can*Con's programming this year. November 14, 2020, at 3 pm EST! The video is up on YouTube here!
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Pre-Nanowrimo Plotting panel - live panel with the Edmonton chapter of #NaNoWriMo with Kate Boorman and Susie Moloney! This was Saturday, October 17 at 1:30 and I'm not sure if a recording will be made available, sorry.
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The Subtle Use of Horror Across Genres - live (tho remote) panel at Schuler Books with Caitlin Starling, W.M. Aker, Nicky Drayden, and Richard Kadrey! September 6, 2020
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Columbus NASFic 2020, August 21-23, 2020! My panels are (all times EST):
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Friday: Weekend Science Update (6 pm); COVID-FX: Horror Beyond 2020 (8 pm)
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Saturday: The Legal Implications of Monster Hunting (3 pm); Reading (8 pm); Worldbuilding: Crime and Punishment (10 pm)
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Sunday: Predicting the Post-Apocalypse: How Will We Be Saved? (12 pm)
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Full schedule is up here!
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Book salons on June 7, 21, and 27, 2020 - Anne Corlett and Kevlin Henney as hosts! (No video, tragically)
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Panelist at WiFiSciFi 3! May 16, 2020, 4 pm BST. As below, videos are up at Anne Corlett’s channel.
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Panelist at Flight of Foundry online con, May 16-17, 2020! At the time of writing, I am doing: Editing & Self-Publishing; Networking for Creatives; Why Audio Fiction?; and a kaffeeklatsch! Update: panel videos are up on their YouTube channel!
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Panelist at WiFiSciFi ‘Pandemic’ edition (April 4, 2020) and ‘Sci-Fi-Crime-Genre-Mashup’ (April 18, 2020) edition! YouTube videos are here at Anne Corlett’s channel
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‘Beneath the Rising’ book party at Audreys Books downtown, March 14, 2020 at 2 pm!
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Taught ‘Getting Your Start in Short Spec Fic’ on February 6, 2020, at the Clareview location of EPL! Notes are up on my Curious Fictions page.
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Taught ‘Putting the Sci in Sci-Fi’ at the Enterprise Square location of EPL on December 10, 2019. Notes are up on my Curious Fictions page!
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Capital City Press Featured Writer 2019/2020 – Edmonton, AB.
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Attended and participated in Worldcon 2019 in Dublin, Ireland – panels included the Escape Artists Live Show, a literary beer, and Lord Dunsany
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PureSpec 2019 – Edmonton, AB. Panel guest on ‘Apparition Proposition,’ June 2019. Ghosts in fiction and the rules (or lack thereof) around their existence and use!
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Scintillation 2018 – Montreal, QC. Panel guest on ‘Reclaiming Lovecraft,’ October 2018. Lovecraft’s legacy as a well-known bigot and jerk vs. his legacy as a well-known cosmic horror author: how do contemporary authors reconcile the two when playing in his sandbox?
PODCAST APPEARANCES
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The lovely Gareth invited me back to chat at Intermultiversal Space about the new books! (February 2021)
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Interview and discussion with local podcast Androids and Assets! (October 31, 2020)
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The podcast version of that great StoryComic interview in October 2020!
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Deep questions about 'Beneath the Rising' over at the New Books Network with Gabrielle Mathieu!
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An excellent talk with Dan Smith over at Coffee In Space! Publishing, racism, filters, friendships, and work in dialogue with other work (as it always is).
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Chatting with the wonderful, analytical Rob Wolf on the New Books Network! Science, friendship, dysfunction, anxiety, and writing in general.
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I get tentacles and they grow out of my back! Lovecraft's ugly legacy, teenage protagonists, what is YA, a reading, and dystopia as the bringer of hope, on the Second Life Book Club! (There's also a recording of our talk. This was really interesting to do!)
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Cosmic horror, racism, and modern takes on monsters and gods at the Imaginary Worlds Podcast with Eric Molinsky!
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Books, X-files, pulp, politics, Umberto Eco, and voice on Intermultiversal Space with Gareth Jelley!
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A delightful discussion of books, sequels, and writing through a pandemic with Jonathan Strahan at The Coode Street Podcast!
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Best ever podcast with Breaking the Glass Slipper – and some very flexible hosts when we realized we weren’t talking about the same time zones!
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Terrific interview with Julie Duffy at Story a Day — short stories, writing in general, and running on fumes
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Podcast with Rose Quinn! Misophonics should be aware though: my side of the interview has a lot of fuzz and noise.
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Appeared on Tales from the Trunk Episode 9, November 15, being interviewed by the terrific Hilary Bisenieks!
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Discussion with the Edmonton Public Library for their podcast, Overdue Finds! Episode 43, which is about NaNoWriMo, fictional books, and pen names. I gush about ‘The Name of the Rose’ (of course) and Maria Dahvana Headley’s ‘The Mere Wife.’ I neglect to gush about my books.
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Interview in Dublin with Beth Gauld of Speculative Spaces (I’m in around the 12-minute mark) plus I participate in a game of Werewolf vs. Shark for subscribers! (I’m not a werewolf or a shark, but we had a very good game!)
VIDEO APPEARANCES
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Wonderful interview with Karen Woodward for her new talking to writers series! Trunk novels, agenting, litfic and genre fic, Stephen King, how stories get shaped, passion and inspiration!
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Really fun interview with Barney at StoryComic in October 2020! Listen to me talk about process, the writers whose prose I love, how I began my writing journey, and why I sat on my novels for decades!
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Video for Super Relaxed Fantasy Club! Come see my writing setup, hear me read a poem, and take a tiny tour through my disorganized shelves!
VIDEO READINGS
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Reading from 'The Apple-Tree Throne' on January 30 with the Romancing the Gothic group!
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Reading on November 25, 2020 at 7 pm PST for Story Hour again -- so pleased to be invited back! I'm planning to read 'At the Hand of Every Beast' and the recording is up here!
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Reading on July 8, 2020 for Laura Blackwell's Story Hour -- watch me perform 'More Tomorrow'!
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My reading of 'A Guide to Burying The Old Man When No One Else Will' at the BFSA YouTube channel!
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Reading with Ephemera Series at 7 pm EST, May 20, 2020!
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Reading with Neon Hemlock on Instagram Live, 8 pm EST May 19, 2020!
PRINT INTERVIEWS
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An excellently in-depth interview with Paul Semel again (thanks Paul!) about 'A Broken Darkness' and 'These Lifeless Things'
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A great, thoughtful interview by Matt at Runalong Womble! Mostly focused on 'These Lifeless Things,' the newest novella out! (Feb 2021)
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A couple of Q and A's on the By My Shelf blog! Mostly about debuting in 2020, which. Phew. Yikes.
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An interview and review of 'Beneath the Rising' on the most excellent Alasdair Stuart's brilliant weekly newsletter, The Full Lid!
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Reddit AMA on April 19, here!
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Forbidden Planet Q&A and a little excerpt from ‘Beneath the Rising’! Includes also my explanation re: FRANKENCANOLA
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Interview with Fadwa for Colour the Shelves!
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Super fun interview at Nerds of a Feather
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Interview with Paul Semel about ‘Beneath the Rising’
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Qwillery interview up now!
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Six Books with Nerds of a Feather — SO hard to pick. Up now!
STORY Q&A'S
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Q&A for my story ‘The Redoubtables‘ at Apparition Lit (scroll to the bottom!)
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Interview for my story ‘The Last’ – Apparition Lit.
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Interview for my story ‘Shepherd Moon’ – Analog
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Interview for my story ‘At the Hand of Every Beast’ – Lackington’s
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Interview for my story ‘The Adventurer’s Wife’ – Nightmare Magazine
ESSAYS AND NONFICTION
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SciFiNow kindly let me do a guest post as well: Five Books that Nick and Johnny proooooobably should have read (but clearly did not) before 'A Broken Darkness'!
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Paul at SciFi Bulletin let me guest-post on the blog about some of the research I did for 'A Broken Darkness,' check it out! Giant crystals! Plague! Human snackrifice!
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My essay on being an accidental horror writer, 'An Empathy of Fear,' is up at Nightmare Magazine's essay series The H-Word! (Thanks to Wendy Wagner for commissioning this! It was fun to write!)
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Wasn't sure where to put this. Featured on Julie Duffy's Story a Day with a story prompt about superheroes!
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Hosted by the amazing John Scalzi for a blog post about friendship and transactions at his ‘Big Ideas’ series here!
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Essay for Augur’s (very successful) Year 3+4 Kickstarter: Growing Minds and Imaginations
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Curious Fictions blog posts:
RELATED THINGS BY OTHER PEOPLE,LISTS, &C
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'Beneath the Rising' was a finalist for the 2020 Crawford Award, presented by the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts! My thanks to the judges and huge congrats to the winner, Nghi Vo, for her seriously terrific novella 'The Empress of Salt and Fortune.'
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Five Fascinating Twists on Cosmic Horror at Tor shouts-out 'These Lifeless Things' and four other excellent recent cosmic horror books!
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An excerpt of 'A Broken Darkness' up at Tor!
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A wonderful review of 'These Lifeless Things' up at Runalong Womble!
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'Beneath the Rising' appears on Locus' 2021 Recommended Reading List for first novel! (I am over the moon to be mentioned!)
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'A Broken Darkness' appears on Cultured Vultures with '10 Books To Scare Your Pants Off'!
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Joshua Eferighe namedrops 'Beneath the Rising' at OZY's Museum Tours from Your Couch!
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'The Adventurer's Wife' was discussed at the Los Alamos County Library, apparently, on October 15! As part of an ongoing conversation about cosmic horror. Very exciting!
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'Beneath the Rising' shouted-out by Silvia Moreno-Garcia in the Washington Post for Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy of the Year So Far!
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Also in the Oneonta Daily Star (Jen Donohue) and the Millsbury-Sutton Chronicle (Jeff Raymond)
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Tor list of Best Books of 2020 So Far includes 'Beneath the Rising' twice!
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‘Beneath the Rising’ is on this Tor roundup of genre-bending books, this one from Tor Nightfire (their horror imprint), and this Polygon list! And also for some reason (oops) on this one, about novels set in Toronto. I assume they’ll fix it though.
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And this one from This Is Horror, though it’s not so much a roundup as a warning, sort of. 😀
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Absolutely amazing soundtrack for ‘Beneath the Rising’ on this ‘Soundtracks for Novels’ post by Meghan Ball!
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Review for ‘Beneath the Rising’ by S. Qiouyi Lu up at Strange Horizons (swoon!)
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Terrific essay including analysis of ‘Beneath the Rising’ by S. Qiouyi Lu up at Tor, A Framework for Decolonizing Speculative Fiction: Beneath the Rising and Steel Crow Saga
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And review on The Quill to Live (great name) by Alex Tas
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‘Us & Ours’ covered splendidly at the Lovecraft Reread at Tor!
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Wonderful review of ‘A Secret Guide to Fighting Elder Gods’ at Skiffy and Fanty
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Nice review of ‘Shepherd Moon’ at Reviews and Robots
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Review of the whole issue of Analog that included ‘Shepherd Moon’ at Featured Futures, SF Revu, and Tangent Online
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A raft of nice reviews, excerpts, and recommendations for ‘The Apple-Tree Throne’:
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Indie Spec Fic excerpt and summary
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Super nice review at Galen Strickland’s blog, Templeton Gate
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Gold Acorn Award at The Book Squirrel!
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5/5 Star review at Altered Instinct
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Nice review at Tamaranth’s Creative Reading
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Made KJ Charles’ Top 10 For 2018
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Nice review at 10 Bad Habits
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Recommended at Aliette de Bodard’s 2018 Awards Consideration Post!
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Nice review from Marissa Lingen’s blog
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Super thoughtful, thorough review at Vanessa Fogg’s blog
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Nice review at Jai Baidell’s blog
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Lovely review of the whole issue of Lackington’s that included ‘At the Hand of Every Beast’ at Charles Payseur’s Quick Sip Reviews
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Notable mentions for ‘More Tomorrow’:
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Featured in a Maria Haskins’ B&N Top 10 Short Fiction Roundup in March
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Made Merc Rustad’s Favourite Fictions in June
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Also Catherine Baker’s Little Queer Ideograms Recommended Fiction for 2018 overall!
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And Sarah Waite’s The Illustrated Page May 2018 Recommendations
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‘The Water and the World’ featured in AC Wise’s Women To Read: Where to Start, December 2017
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Great review of ‘And Sneer of Cold Command’ at Charles Payseur’s Quick Sip reviews
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Notable mentions for ‘The Evaluator’:
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Super nice review of the whole anthology plus my story at Grey Dog Tales
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Ditto at SL Edwards’ Turn To Ash blog
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Honorable Mention for Best Horror of the Year 2017 by Ellen Datlow
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Notable mentions for ‘Four Hours of a Revolution’:
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Called out in Best of Pseudopod 2017 at Diabolical Plots, Honorable Mention
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Featured in 20 Splendiferous Stories I Read In August, Maria Haskins
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Notable mentions for ‘Willing’:
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Beautifully and thoughtfully five-star reviewed by Marion Deeds here at Fantasy Literature!
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Great review at Tangent Online of the whole anthology with detailed writeups for each story
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A lovely shout-out at SF Reader
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Nice overall review at The Well-Rounded Geek
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Notable mentions for ‘The Last’:
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‘Sixteen Minutes’ included here on 6 Creepy Stories by WoC at Book Riot!
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‘The Adventurer’s Wife’ initial go-round thoughtfully and thoroughly reviewed here, by Derek Newman-Stille and here by Derek Conrad! (This story seems to really resonate with Dereks.) And the anthology straight-up won a 2016 World Fantasy Award!