2013 in review


This was a very difficult year for me. I got divorced, started single-parenting my kid after the ex left town, and went up for tenure. My health has been frustrating and often outright scary. While my personal life was in upheaval, some SFF things happened; here they are.

 

Stories published:

Teffeu: A Book from the Library at Taarona,” in Strange Horizons. Locus recommended review.

Theories of Pain,” in Daily Science Fiction.

 

Stories reprinted and translated:

“Held Close in Syllables of Light (reprint), in Best of BCS, Year 4.

“Geddarien” (reprint), Journal of Unlikely Architecture.

Las siete pérdidas de Na Re (Spanish Translation of Seven Losses of Na Re) at Cuentos Para Algernon. Also collected in Antología Cuentos para Algernon: Año I.

 

Stories sold to appear in 2014:

“A City on its Tentacles,” to Lackington’s Magazine.

 

Poems published in 2013:

The Journeymaker, Climbing,” Goblin Fruit, Winter 2013 (short)

The Journeymaker to Keddar,” Goblin Fruit, Winter 2013 (short)

לכבוד אַ סטרונע (Lekoved a Strune)“, Through the Gate 2 (short)

Bone Shadows,” Interfictions Online, issue 1. (long) – this is not really a poem, but an unclassifiable.

I will show you a single treasure from the treasures of Shah Niyaz,” Goblin Fruit, Summer 2013. (long)

Resh,” Through the Gate, 5 (short)

Where the ocean falls into itself,” Apex Magazine. (short)

 

Poems sold in 2013 to appear in 2014:

“Earth Map,” to appear in Mythic Delirium

“Dualities,” to appear in Mythic Delirium

“The Rotten Leaf Cantata,” to appear in Strange Horizons (this was scheduled for late 2013 release, but got delayed).

“Landwork,” to appear in Goblin Fruit

 

Editorial projects:

Stone Telling 9: Menagerie, featuring JT Stewart (who is amazing).

Stone Telling 10 got very delayed due to combined health issues and my personal issues, but we are hoping to get it out in the next two weeks.