I sat at the window and watched the world. Dark and bright, hidden and exposed, it’s the only time I can breathe, can think, can dream. I should probably have taken off my glasses, so I wouldn’t look like any other lonely owl, watching and waiting, hunting an invisible prey.
Strange Horizons fund drive almost over!
And they are soooo close to reaching their goal. If you have a few bucks to spare, please help out! I will think good thoughts about you.
Strange Horizons 2011 Fund Drive
I love Strange Horizons. And, yes, I would marry it. The online web zine consistently publishes diverse and exciting speculative fiction and manages to pay professional rates to writers. Years ago, when I first started submitting my stories, Strange Horizons was my dream publication. Two acceptances later (“The First Time We Met” and “Finisterre”), after getting to work with super talented editor Karen Meisner, it’s still my dream publication. This is where I first read fiction by Christopher Barzak, Kameron Hurley, Genevieve Valentine, Jay Lake, and Haddyr Copley-Woods.
Right now, SH is doing their annual fund drive. I know times are tough for some of you, but even a $5 donation would help to keep SH running, able to pay its authors and artists, while keeping its content free for readers.
Recent Publications
Oh, hi, hello!
My flash fiction piece “Laundry” was recently published in Every Day Fiction. A bit of surreal humor.
My short story “Somewhere the Desert Hides a Well” was published in GigaNotoSaurus. This is a great monthly ‘zine, edited by Ann Leckie, that has published stories by Cat Rambo, Silvia Moreno Garcia, Jeremiah Tolbert, Yoon Ha Lee, Ruth Nestvold, and other great authors. Quite an honor to be in their company!
“Somewhere the Desert Hides a Well” has also been reviewed by Lois Tilton at Locus Mag: Locus Online Reviews
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Story acceptance!
Every Day Fiction has accepted my flash fiction piece “Laundry.” The story should be out in the next few months, I believe.
Currently working on a science fiction story, but most of my time has been spent fixing up an old gothic cottage my partner and I bought.
The School by Lavie Tidhar
As soon as I wrote this story I realised I would most likely have to self-publish it. To my delighted surprise, though, an editor at one of the big online magazines offered me, shortly after, to publish it. Two days later, however, the publisher of the same magazine declined the story, not wanting to deal with any potential fallout. I then showed it – unofficially – to a handful of people, and got a potential offer to publish it in another big magazine, if only I were to change some of the references in the story.
I decided, instead, to publish it here.
–Lavie Tidhar
I think this is an excellent story and am sorry that some magazines are afraid of “any potential fallout.” This is what stories should do — challenge us as readers, make us confront our assumptions and expectations, offer us diverse views of the status quo.
Click on the excerpt below to read the full story, and consider donating a couple of bucks to Mr. Tidhar.
Because of aliens.
Good Fiction, Free Fiction
Here’s a list of stories from around the web that I think are worth reading:
After October by Ben Burgis @ GigaNotoSaurus
Peerless by Karen Munro @ Strange Horizons
Not so free, but Oh So Good!
I hope you’ve listened to my story “The Giant of Malheur Park” via PodCastle. The reading, by Anna Schwind, was excellent; she made each character and every scene stand out. Brava, Anna!
If you’d like to read the story, hold a copy of it in your hands, look at print on paper, then I suggest you get yourself a copy of Kaleidotrope #10, where “The Giant…” originally appeared.
$5 for the print copy
$2.99 for the ebook
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Listen to “The Giant of Malheur Park”
My story “The Giant of Malheur Park” went live on PodCastle yesterday. The intro is fantastic, the reading is wonderful. It’s free, so check it out.
If you like what you hear, consider making a donation to Escape Artists, the company that brings you Escape Pod, PseudoPod, and PodCastle.
“The Giant of Malheur Park” was originally published in Kaleidotrope #10, a print ‘zine that publishes a great variety of speculative fiction. If you haven’t already, I highly recommend you check out this publication. Authors published in Kaleidotrope include Rachel Swirsky, Bruce Boston, Genevieve Valentine, Marshall Payne, Camille Alexa, and more.
PodCastle Acceptance
Trying to play it cool, but my story “The Giant of Malheur Park” has been accepted for publication by PodCastle. Ahhhhhh!!!
“Giant” originally appeared in print in Kaleidotrope
Not sure when it will go live, but in the meantime go listen to stories by Saladin Ahmed, N.K. Jemisen, and more. There are a lot of great stories to choose from!
About PodCastle:
PodCastle is the world’s first fantasy audio magazine. Each week we bring you short stories across the spectrum of fantasy from leading authors and new discoveries. Like our sister podcasts, Escape Pod and Pseudopod, PodCastle is entirely free to listen and share.
