Cover art for Lifting Up Veronica

                                             by Nico Photos / copyright 2011

At Every Day Fiction

Got e-mail from Every Day Fiction this morning. They’ve accepted a piece of non-SF flash from me.  First Time is a peek at daughter-father relationships and a take on growing up. I love writing flash fiction. It has an intensity that’s often missing in my longer stories.

In my hands

Tod McCoy of Hydra House Books delivered an ARC of Snapshots from a Black Hole and Other Oddities to me last night. Publication is set for January 23rd, the day after my birthday. Launch will be at Rustycon, here in Seattle. The book looks great!

At Big Pulp

I sold This Little Piggy to Big Pulp today.

It’s a tongue-in-cheek short-short, a story George Orwell and E.B. White might have cranked out in collaboration, if they had met on an ocean crossing. It’s also one of my personal favorites. I’m pleased to see it’s found a home.

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And in other news, got a chance to look at the preliminary sketches for the Lifting Up Veronica cover by artist Nico Photos. It blew me away, can’t wait to see the finished product.