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“Nothing But What You Bring With You” published in Carpe Noctem

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Some more publishing news: my werewolf story “Nothing But What You Bring With You” is out now in the Carpe Noctem anthology.

Carpe Noctem was edited by Megan Fennell and Leslie Van Zwol (who were fantastic to work with) and published by Tyche Books in Calgary. There was an official launch at the When Words Collide festival on Aug. 18.

The theme for the anthology was stories deeply connected with the night. As the announcement for the book says: “Night transforms the world. Owls and bats claim the sky from songbirds, nocturnal predators prowl beneath cover of darkness, and cloying shadows grow thick enough to swallow a scream. As the saying goes: people aren’t truly afraid of the dark—they fear what could be in the darkness with them.”

A promo card for the Carpe Noctem anthology, with an excerpt from my short story, “Nothing But What You Bring With You.”

My story, “Nothing But What You Bring With You,” is a werewolf tale of friendship, betrayal, and revenge. It takes place in Manitoba near the Ontario border, in the Canadian Shield, during a winter snowstorm. Those are especially fun at night…

The full list of contributors to Carpe Noctem is: Teresa Aguinaldo; Tyler Battaglia; Stewart C Baker; Beth Cato; Barry Charman; Tommy Cheis; Jonathan Chibuik; Derek Des Anges; Richard DiPirro; David J. Fortier; David Jón Fuller; Chadwick Ginther; Joseph Halden; Richard Lau; Jennifer Lesh Fleck; Avra Margariti; Thomas C. Mavroudis; Cat McDonald; Paul McQuade; Ville Meriläinen; Tais Teng; and Laura VanArendonk Baugh.

Tyche Books held a countdown to the release date on social media, making up beautiful promo images for each piece in the collection, which is where the image for my story above comes from.

For more information on Carpe Noctem and ordering, visit the Tyche Books website.

Happy reading! And don’t stay up too late…

“Not Fit to Print” in latest issue of On Spec

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onspec-103I guess I could have sneaked (snuck?) this news into my last post, but I didn’t want to announce I had a short story in On Spec for the first time ever without being able to link to the latest issue and show off the gorgeous cover. I was very pleased that they accepted my short story “Not Fit to Print.” I’ve read On Spec for years and it was one of the first markets I started submitting to, way back when.

“Not Fit to Print” is about Marion —a waitress, a werewolf and a part-time private eye — as she tangles with the media in Winnipeg in 1965.

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“Sisters” now out in Swords & Steam

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swords-and-steamWeeelllll it’s been a while since I posted here but I guarantee you it’s been a busy summer. Summer? Fall? Fall too. Anyway, one of the pieces of good news I have is that my short story “Sisters” was accepted into Swords & Steam, the latest in Flame Tree Publishing’s Gothic Fantasy series.

Like the other tomes in the series (yes, tomes), Swords & Steam is a big, beautiful hardcover book.  I’m in good company in this one, and can’t wait to read the rest of the anthology.

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No shit, there I was… in a cool anthology

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As you may have heard, there is a new anthology of speculative fiction coming up, in which every story must begin with the phrase “No shit, there I was…” The book is edited by Rachael Acks and will be published by Alliteration Ink.

The rationale for the anthology is explained in the video accompanying the Kickstarter campaign announcement. In response, Rachael received a huge range of stories, and chose tales for the book that range, “from hard science fiction, to high fantasy, from laugh-out-loud funny to tragic.”

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Updating my bookshelf: 2013 in writing

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I’m going to admit: this is slightly embarrassing, but you have to start somewhere. For a long time, the only books I could claim to have stories published in came out when I was in high school.

Don’t get me wrong: at 15, finding out my assassin-droid short story “My Function is to Kill” was going to be published in Creative Minds ’88 made my year.  The anthology of student writing was published annually by the school division my high school was in, and it was a real cross-section of what a lot of us were going through and how that came out in our writing. (Er, well, I don’t know what an assassin droid says about my high-school experience, but I thought it was cool.)

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What the hell I’ve been up to in 2013

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Well, you can’t do everything at once, and I’m not good at New Year’s Resolutions, but I’m proud to say it’s been a good six months of writing for me — which was my goal for this year. And, oddly enough, all of it was werewolf-related…

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