Excellent News

So today I signed the contract -- Candlemark & Gleam is going to publish my new novel. (Title is still in progress.) This is one set in the same universe as my previous novel, but with different characters -- some of the characters appear in the short story I published with Candlemark & Gleam, "Velocity's Ghost."

It's tentatively scheduled to come out in Spring 2018. Between now and then, I'll probably be posting less, since I'll be working on the edits.

I'm so pleased!

Review of To Shape the Dark

Oh, look! My review of To Shape the Dark, a wonderful new anthology edited by Athena Andreadis, is live today, over at Strange Horizons.

New Issue of Crossed Genres:Issue 33: 2065

Our new issue of Crossed Genres is up.  This is Issue #33, which has the theme the year 2065. So all near-future stories.

For me, these are the hardest sorts of stories to write.  Not other writers, apparently -- we got tons of submissions for this issue, though not nearly as many as for the novella issue.

Our stories!

Verity Lane, our Spotlight Author, brings us The Springwood Shelter for Genetically Modified Animals.  (For those at home just joining us on the blog, each month Crossed Genres publishes one Spotlight Author, which is an author who has never made a professional sale before.) Verity deals here with the twin problems we have already in our country -- disposable people, disposable pets.

Here is Verity's interview.

Elliotte Rusty Harold gives us Ants on a Trestle, a story about problem many of us don't consider when we think about the future -- we think monsters or terrorists will be what we have to worry about.  But realistically, you know, probably not.

And finally, from Brian Trent, a wonderful story, Chasing Comets.  No spoilers on this one. Go read. You won't be sorry.

New Issue of Crossed Genres: Issue 32 Portals

It just occurred to me that I forgot to post about our new issue up at Crossed Genres!

Portals is our theme; and our writers did some very nice things with it.

Yusra Amjad, in Where Do You Go, My Lovely? writes about women and girls who, now and then, mix a little more than spice into the dishes they cook.

(Yusra is our Spotlight Author -- her interview is here.)

Naru Dames Sudar writes about a scientist who uses her team's breakthrough in a heartbreaking, and dangerous, personal quest in Infinite Skeins.

And finally Lauren Rudin mixes mundane with fantastic in The Copperlin U.S. Post Office Manual.

Crossed Genres

...is holding a Kickstarter.

It's a great indie press, which I would say even if I hadn't been part of it for so long.

It publishes plenty of voices that don't get represented in the big markets -- women, writers of color, LGBQT writers -- and Bart & Kay do this almost entirely on their own.

Go here for details, and boost the signal!

Win Free Book!

Look over here!

Crossed Genres is holding a book giveaway -- you can win a free copy of Subversion: Science Fiction and Fantasy Tales of Challenging the Norm, which -- yes! -- is the anthology my new story, "Cold Against the Bone," appears in.

Details here.

New Crossed Genres Release!

Crossed Genres is releasing a new title -- a very cool one!

I've known about this for a bit; in fact, I submitted to it. How could I not? It's my favorite subgenre! Subversion!

Subversion: Science Fiction and Fantasy Tales of Challenging the Norm.

My story made the cut! It's coming out in December.

(This story isn't a Martin tale, but it's on the same world.)

New Issue!

A new issue of Crossed Genres is out.

Some excellent stories this month, I must say.

Go read.

Also, the next month's genre is up -- MONSTERS!! -- so start your engines.

Twenty Years of Hair!

Bart Leib is donating 20 years of hair if you buy Broken Slate this Friday!

Well, if enough of you do, anyway.

Go here for details.

A Party! For My Novel!

Look here! It's a party for Broken Slate!

If you're at ReaderCon, you should go.

Hey! Wow!

Two bits of news from Crossed Genres today.

(1) One of our stories, "Drag Queen Astronaut," by Sandra McDonald, made the Tiptree Honors List, which, wow, this is a big deal.  I'm very pleased.  

(2) The conclusion to Broken Slate is up.  Now you can see how it comes out!  

Print copies available starting in July.

Hey, Look!

It's Martin Tuesday --

Chapter 15 is up.  We're on the second to last chapter now.  Closing fast!

Oh, and Look!

Martin Tuesday on Wednesday this week!

Chapter 12 of Broken Slate is up over on Crossed Genres.

Look! A Review!

A review of Crossed Genres, Y2, has been posted.  A nice one, too.

Also!  The anthology itself is on sale right now.

And!  A new issue of Crossed Genres, Opposites, is now available.  

Rise Reviews

Awhile back, Bart Lieb, who you may remember as the endless bundle of energy who helps run CG, came up with another idea -- a site to review all the many works of in the SF/F which slid past, unnoticed, because most sites only review those titles which receive pro-rates (mostly, that is, a nickel a word or higher).

Skipping all the middle of this story -- ta-da!  Rise Reviews debuts today!  January 1, 2011.

Both Herr Dr. Delagar and I are among the many excellent folk writing reviews; but you should go on over and have a look, not at our reviews per se, but at the works being reviewed.  A lot of the best writing in SF these days is coming from this, literally, marginalized work.

Martin Tuesday!

If you have an iPad, you can read Chapter 10 of Broken Slate, now available on Crossed Genres, on your iPad!

I'm just saying!

It's Martin...uh...Wednesday!

Yeah, I got occupied yesterday, dealing with that child, and didn't get to post this.

But Look!  Over at Crossed Genres, more Broken Slate!

You Know You've Been Waiting!

Yes!  It's Martin Tuesday!

More Broken Slate!

Go here for the second half of Chapter Eight, up now on Crossed Genres.

Oh Boy!

Look!  

It's Martin Tuesday at Crossed Genres.

Half of Chapter Eight this time.

Also!

It's Opposite month at Crossed Genres.  

We want "stories in which two opposites butt heads. Or inexplicably work together perfectly. Or cancel each other out!"

What have you got?