The Year That Was
I have not written as much as I hoped this year (so say we all), but I did start work on a project that promises to be terrifying and horrible, so that is exciting and ahhhh writing. Dear god, it's that time of year again, awards awards awards awards awards awards-- Here's what I published […]
Tomb Raider
Patience is hard. Especially as a writer, maybe, because we have so many lovely things we want to show you. When I started writing the Folley and Mallory adventures, I knew that eventually they would have to explore a tomb, because a) it's Egypt so duh and b) I've loved exploring tombs for a long […]
Ice Ice Baby
2016 was hard. And 2017, well. WELL. I feel like we all need a little extra fun now and then, right? We need to be able to put the real world on pause, while we explore the depths of a world that isn't poised to lose so much of what it has built up these […]
Hooked
Last Thursday, I did something I'd been thinking about for a while; I picked up a crochet hook and started crocheting. I found a video on YouTube and away I went, hooking yarn as if I'd done it all my life, spinning out hats and cowls and arm warmers and-- Oh wait, no. It wasn't […]
How My 9 Clarkesworld Stories Are Like the Cast of Firefly (Maybe)
Apparently I've published nine stories with Clarkesworld now. If you'd told me this would happen three years ago, I would have scoffed. I've read Clarkesworld for a long time and dreamed of selling them a story -- from my records it looks like I first submitted to them in 2009. Nine rejections followed over the […]
Old Things
If you are acquainted with my writing, you know I like old things. My stories and novels gravitate toward history -- albeit sometimes history we haven't written down yet. There are two universes I like to play in: one is rooted in ancient Egypt, the other in the timeless fields of carnivals. My new Apex […]
Baroness
I love space. I also love our solar system. It's never not fascinating. New Horizons going to Pluto? Curiosity going to Mars? Cassini studying Saturn? Juno peeping at Jupiter? Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh! We live in an amazing age for this stuff. I eat it up! My new Clarkesworld story, "Baroness," is set on Saturn's moon, Titan. We […]
Murmuration
You probably know about the face on Mars, the mesa imaged by Viking I in 1976. It looks like a mask, a face, something that could only exist because Martians built it. But, it turns out, it's just a rock (a really beautiful rock), only looking like a face when the shadows fall just right. […]
Upright Infinity
Many of my story ideas come from random conversations with the muse. (By this time, perhaps you know I call him that ironically, or perhaps you don't. Now you do.) In one such conversation, he said "whatever happened to the Ripleys?" And while further conversation revealed he meant the kick-ass girls who go out into […]
The Princess
"We're going to play war. You stay here, and wait to be rescued." "We're going to play monsters -- you stay here and wait to be rescued." "Stay here until we come with the army to save you." "You can't have a gun, you're a girl." "You don't get a uniform, you're not in the […]