Category: News

Where No One Sleeps to be Published in Andromeda Spaceways

Happy April friends!

The contract is signed, sealed, and delivered, so I can finally share that my historical fantasy story “Where No One Sleeps” is going to be published in Issue 90 of Andromeda Spaceways Magazine. Yay!

“Where No One Sleeps” is set in Argentina shortly after the end of World War II. It’s about a young Italian immigrant grappling with grief and memory and homesickness, along with a magical power that makes all of that a lot harder to handle. When I was writing this story, I drew on my own knowledge of Italian history and family stories about my great-grandfather, who immigrated to Argentina from Italy before eventually settling in the United States, so “Where No One Sleeps” is close to my heart. I can’t wait for you to read it!

Duet for a Soloist Is Out!

Hello friends! My short story “Duet for a Soloist” is out today in Electric Spec. This is another story set in my musical Phoenix world, Cantabile. It has a smaller scope than some of my other Cantabilie—focusing on a set of twins trying to find themselves—but it’s full of powerful emotions.

You can read “Duet for a Soloist” here, and find out more about the world of Cantabile, including links to all my published stories, background on those stories, and the music that inspired them, here.

Enjoy!

Some Long Overdo Website Updates and Two New Short Stories Coming Soon

Happy February, friends!

I feel like February always gets flack for being a bad month, but personally I like February. Here in D.C., the days are starting to get a bit longer and there are hints of spring in the air (not today precisely, but in February in general). Best of all, February is short, so before you know it, it’s March, and real spring is just around the corner.

January was a pretty rough month, but I’m crossing my fingers that it was just the remnants of the curse that was 2022, and things will be looking up from here. My knee is getting stronger and stronger every day, and I have lots and lots to look forward to in the months ahead.

So to start out February, I’ve finished up some updates to the website that I’ve been meaning to do for a while. First, I realized that I hadn’t written the story behind the story posts for my last two published short stories. Those are up now, so you can check out the story behind “Roomba Requires Your Attention” here and the story behind “Noa and the Dragon” here.

Next, I have redone the page with additional information about my short stories set in the world where everyone has a magical bond with their musical instruments and they use the magic created by playing their instruments to strengthen the Phoenix who carries the world. I have named the world Cantabile, and you can find more information about the world and links to all the stories set in Cantabile that I’ve had published on the new Cantabile Stories page here. The page is still a work in progress. I plan to add maps, some of the illustrations I’ve done, and links to the playlist I made for this world. If there’s anything else you think it would be cool for me to add to this page, just let me know and I’ll do my best to make it happen.

I’m still trying to figure out how I want to deal with my book recs page. It’s feeling a bit unwieldy, and I’d like to reorganize, but I haven’t figured out quite how yet. I hope to have it back up soon.

Finally, I’m really excited to share with you all that I got two short story acceptances in January. I’m still waiting on the contract for one, so I’m going to hold off sharing those details just now. But I can definitely tell you now that my story “Duet for a Soloist” will be published in Electric Spec at the end of February. This is my fourth story set in Cantabile to be published, incidentally, and I’m so excited that it’s found a home! I can’t wait for you all to read it, and I can’t wait to tell you more about the second short story I’ll have coming out in the next few months.

More soon!

Roomba Requires Your Attention Published in Kaleidotrope

Hello friends. I know it’s been a while since I posted. It’s been a pretty rough few months, honestly, but I have a few posts lined up I’m really excited to share with you in the end of 2022.

In the meantime, I wanted to share with you all that my short story “Roomba Requires Your Attention” was published in Kaleidotrope last month. You can read it here.

This little story means a lot to me, because it actually got me out of the serious writer’s block I was struggling with in my second year of law school. That writer’s block, and this story as the key to overcoming it, taught me a lot about how I need to treat writing goals and take care of myself as a writer so I can keep telling the stories I love. Also, this story might be one of the funniest things I’ve written, and it was a lot of fun to marry the stress of what I was studying in law school with a near-future AI apocalypse.

I really hope you enjoy reading “Roomba Requires Your Attention” as much as I enjoyed writing it.

More soon!

Another Short Story Publication Incoming

Hello my friends, and happy December! I know I’ve been a bit absent from this blog for the last few months, despite all my best intentions. I promise there’s a bunch coming down the pipeline in the next couple weeks, as I get all my year end posts ready to go.

In the meantime, I wanted to share that my short story “Roomba Requires Your Attention” is going to be published by Kaleidotrope. This little story, about law students living through the start of the AI apocalypse, was the story that got me out of the longest writer’s block I have ever experienced, back from the end of 2017 through the spring of 2018, so it’s really special to me. It’s also kind of a funny story, which I don’t manage to write that often because funny is hard friends. I can’t wait for you to read it, and I will share more details as soon as I have them.

Artificial Divide Published

Hello friends. We have reached the end of October and I can’t believe it. I still think it’s August, and the warm weather isn’t helping. I’ve been really busy with work and writing and friends in the last couple months, and I just don’t understand where the fall went. I also just realized the Artificial Divide anthology, which includes my story “Noa and the Dragon,” came out a couple weeks ago and I haven’t shared the news.

Artificial Divide is an anthology of stories by blind authors, about blind characters. It isn’t meant to be about blindness, though of course blindness is a big part of it. It’s about blind people having their own stories, with their own agency, told accurately. It’s incredibly important and I’m glad to be part of it. My story, “Noa and the Dragon,” is set in a secondary fantasy world and is about a young girl who goes blind and how she learns to navigate safely and independently and rediscovers the joy and power of reading. This was the first story I wrote about a blind character, and the hope and vulnerability I put into it makes it really special to me.

You can find the Artificial Divide anthology here on Amazon, or wherever you prefer to buy your books. If you’re a fan of audiobooks, I actually got to narrate my story for the audio version of the anthology, which was a really cool experience. To my blind friends, the book does not appear to be up on Bookshare or Bard yet but I know the publisher and editors are working on that. Please go check out the anthology, and I hope you enjoy reading “Noa and the Dragon” as much as I enjoyed writing it.

P.S. I will put up a more detailed story behind the story page for this one ASAP. And I realize I also owe you a story behind the story post for another story I had published this year. Bear with me. It’s coming. I promise.

Short Story News

I have a bunch of great news for you all this week.

First, the anthology Triangulation: Habitats was published this week. It includes my story “Moon by Moon We Go Together,” about how building sustainable space colonies can go wrong, the evolution of meaning in music, and general space is neat vibes. You can grab a copy of the anthology here. It’s available in paperback and Kindle additions. And once you’ve read the story, you can head over here to read about where I got the idea and how I wrote it. Writing this story was really an adventure for me, and I really hope you enjoy reading it.

The other news is that you can now preorder the Artificial Divide anthology, which will be published next month and contains my fantasy story “Noa and the Dragon.” Artificial Divide is an anthology of stories by blind writers about blind characters. I can’t wait for you all to read it. You can preorder it in a number of formats. Preorder a paperback copy here, or an ebook or audiobook copy here. Fun fact, I actually narrated my own story for the audiobook, which was a lot of fun.

Moon by Moon We Go Together to Be Published in Triangulation: Habitats

Hello friends! I am so excited to share with you that my short story “Moon by Moon We Go Together” is going to be published in the anthology Triangulation: Habitats. Triangulation is an annual anthology published by Parsec Inc. For the past three years, the themes have been environmental. Triangulation: Habitats explores sustainable living, and my story is about the consequences of colonizing the solar system. I am so happy “Moon by Moon” has found a home in Triangulation: Habitats (pun intended), and I can’t wait to share it with you. The anthology will be published in August. You can learn more and help support the anthology here.

Harmonies for Cadence Published by the Voyage YA Journal

I’m a bit late posting here, but I am thrilled to announce that this week my short story “Harmonies for Cadence” was accepted and published by the Voyage YA Journal. You can read it right over here. This story is set in the same world as a couple of my other works, my short story “Dissonance” and my poem “A World in Seven Flames,” so I have also set up a page collecting all my Phoenix stories and some fun stuff about the world. I’ll add more to that page as we go. In the meantime, I am so excited to finally share “Harmonies for Cadence” with all of you. I hope you have as much fun reading it as I did writing it.

A World in Seven Flames Published in Twilight Worlds Anthology

This actually happened last week, but it was a crazy week, so I’m only telling people now. The anthology Twilight Worlds: Best of New Myths Volume II, which includes my poem “A World in Seven Flames,” has been published. You can get it on Amazon here, and it should be available from other retailers and in other eBook forms soon. “A World in Seven Flames” is my first speculative poem, and also the first poem I’ve written in a long time. It is also set in the same world as my short story “Dissonance,” which was published by Abyss and Apex in 2016. I hope you enjoy. And once you’ve read the poem, head over here to read about the story behind “A World in Seven Flames.”