Category: short stories

  • 2020 Eligibility Post

    Despite all the craziness, I’ve had a number of fiction pieces come out this year, and as we head into awards season, I hope the craziness has allowed you all the space to read lots of great speculative fiction this year so you can nominate it! If you’ve read and enjoyed, or would consider reading,…

  • Summer Sampler: Free Stories, Novellas on Sale!

    Curious about what I’ve been writing lately? Now’s an excellent opportunity to try a sampling of it out! Until Sunday, August 23, two of my short stories are FREE and two of my novellas/novella collections are only $0.99! As tie-ins with the Dungeon Scrawlers D&D stream (check that out too!), we have: An Irregular Community.…

  • Free Space Opera Erotica Short Story

    You should download the erotic short story set in my space opera universe because it is super sexy and also FREE the July 4th holiday weekend: a Q&A post! Q: Erotic? Like…explicit? A: You know how some media “contains explicit content”? Well, this is a short story, so once you take out the explicit content,…

  • Crossover Story

    So, for fun (we all need more of that right now), I wrote a silly story that’s a crossover between all of my D&D adventuring party and the space opera world of the Amsterdam Institute Series. It all worked surprisingly well! So if you’re familiar with the Dungeon Scrawlers stream and not my books (or…

  • Two Novellas and a Short Story

    If you’re looking for reading material in these crazy times, I have three new works, across several genres, I want to let you guys know about! First, Book 1 in my new space opera series, CLEAN INSTALL, is available for preorder now, and will be coming out on April 7. To serve both my epub…

  • A Year of Writing 2017

    As a scientist, I am deeply fond of data. I haven’t found word counts particularly represent my effort in any meaningful way, however (especially given the difficulties of calculating a word count to represent revised material), so this year I tried out a visual representation of what I worked on: These are based on ranges,…

  • Untethered Guests

    Today I’m hosting some other authors to talk about their thoughts on a topic related to our shared anthology! Untethered Authors Speculate on the Future of Contemporary Fantasy Fiction in Light of Rapid Changes in Technology Contemporary fantasy fiction changes with the times. The Dresden Files has a very different flavor, for instance, than Dracula.…

  • Kickstarter Anthology

    I have another cool, shared project announcement for you guys! My story is going to be part of Untethered: A Magic iPhone Anthology! It’s part of a Kickstarter right now, so if you’re interested in reading my story and lots of cool others ones about the intersection of magic and technology, take a look!

  • Eligibility Post

    In the past, I’ve done one of these only rarely–I was, after all, concentrating on my novels, and I know how hard it is to get series books onto nomination lists if you’re not, you know, the Wheel of Time. That’s why now that I’m doing one, I’m throwing my weight behind something entirely new…

  • Short Story Out

    My new urban fantasy short story is now available online to read for free! Thinking in Pieces, Urban Fantasy Magazine, December 2015 A taste: When the woman built her mind from crows, she chose them for their cleverness, their puzzle-solving. She had not expected to find them so stubborn, so resistant to thinking together. But…