Where You Can Find Me @ COSine 2023

January 11, 2023December 29, 2022Leave a comment

For the first time ever, I’ll be attending COSine 2023, Colorado Spring’s science fiction convention, on January 20-22. I’m looking forward to getting to know this regional con better and the First Friday Fandom that hosts the event.

The Guest of Honor is the Martha Wells (!) plus Science Guests of Honor Drs. Louise & James Gunderson (experts in robotics & artificial intelligence, Artist Guest of Honor Kyle Crutcher, and Special Guests Connie and Courtney Willis.

If you are in the area, you can find me on the following panels:

Friday 4pm: Best and Worst MacGuffins
Saturday 1pm: Trust Issues (on-line)
Saturday 2pm: Adding Romance to Your SF&F (M)
Saturday 5pm: Author Reception & Mass Autographing

Hope to see you there masked and vaxxed!

My MileHiCon 2022 Schedule

October 13, 2022October 14, 2022

MileHiCon is nearly here!

On October 21 to 23, you can find me along with lots of other amazing regional authors at the Denver Marriott Tech Center in Denver, Colorado, for a weekend of SF/F/H fun. There’s a robust Covid policy to protect participants and attendees alike, which I’m grateful for. I’m on a bunch of panels and look forward to digging in on these topics and more throughout the convention:

● Friday 5pm: You got your Punk in my Story! (M)

● Friday 8pm: Body Modification – Science can take us farther than ever, but
should/can we?

● Saturday 11am: Building a Sustainable Future (M)

● Saturday 12pm: Making your Characters Names Memorable and True to Them (M)

● Saturday 8pm: The Future of Food

● Sun 11am: The Future of Work (M)

I hope to see you there — masked, vaxxed, and boosted, of course! To learn more, check out the convention’s website at milehicon.org.

New Story Alert: Android Press’s Cyberpunk Solarpunk Anthology

September 15, 2022September 15, 2022

I am so pleased to announce I’ll have a story in the forthcoming anthology Fighting for the Future: Cyberpunk and Solarpunk Tales, which is edited by Phoebe Wagner and published by Android Press.

When I first saw the call for the anthology, I knew I needed to submit a story since they were specifically looking for stories at the intersection of Cyberpunk and Solarpunk, and of course, that is exactly the same energy I brought to my debut novel Implanted.

How it started:

How it’s going:

“Root Cause,” my story for the anthology, is set in the very same world of Implanted: that of a high-tech society rewilidng the land outside a domed city, their refuge from the changes wrought by climate change. While it introduces new characters, the story’s blend of hyperconnectivity, environmentalism, and rebellion will be familiar to readers of the book and hopefully entice new readers to check it out as well.

I am very grateful to the people in my writing group (you know who you are!) who helped me get this story ready for submission. I am also glad to be working with the people at Android Press, given their mission to showcase environmentally-focused speculative fiction.

The full table of contents is a banger, and I’m thrilled to have my work alongside everyone:

Introduction by Andrew Sage

“Nano-Vibration” by Brent Lambert

“Property of PAUSE Ltd.” by Ai Jiang

“The Galaxy’s Cube” by Jeremy Szal

“Do Anarchists Dream of Collective Sheep?” by Izzy Wasserstein

“Tomorrow Is Another Day” by Louis Evans

“The Promise” by Rona Fernandez

“Root Cause” by Lauren C. Teffeau

“Broken Threads” by Kevin Wabaunsee

“The Robot Whisperer” by Holly Schofield

“The Strength of the Willow” by Commando Jugendstil and Tales from the EV Studio

“Solarpunks” by J. D. Harlock

“Materiality” by Cory Doctorow

“The Scent of Green” by Ana Sun

“Cloud 9” by Christopher R. Muscato

“The Holiness of Light” by Cynthia Zhang

There will be a cover reveal in the weeks to come, along with a pre-order campaign, so stay tuned for more about this project!

Release Day for Chromophobia!

July 27, 20221 Comment

Rooster Republic Press surprised us with the early release for the trade paperback edition of Chromophobia: A Strangehouse Anthology by Women in Horror, edited by Sara Tantlinger, and featuring a story by moi, along with two dozen other lady horror writers!

While the pre-order window for the special hardcover edition has come and gone, you can still get your hands on the trade paperback version, rocking a brand new but no less intriguing cover for the amazing collection.

But you don’t have to take my word for it. In Kirkus’s review of the book, the anthology is described as

“a set of admirable stories featuring delicious twists, eerie creatures, and visceral imagery. They necessarily linger on assorted colors, befitting this anthology’s theme, but the prose throughout is vibrant in other ways. [..] It’s a fine sampling of an array of voices in the horror genre that will assuredly garner a bevy of new fans. Extraordinary tales of terror that are as grim as they are delightful.”

In the Editor’s Pick Booklife review, they say,

“An inventive anthology spotlighting women in horror and exploring the terror-inducing possibility of color, Chromophobia showcases the talents of new and veteran writers alike offering an eclectic mix of fresh horror stories as strange as they are inventive and unsettling.”

While the book will soon be rolling out to bookstores and other online platforms, you can get your copy now on Amazon. I can’t wait to get my hands on my own contributor copy. I hope you’ll enjoy my story “Gray Rock Method” as well as all the others within its pages!

August Convention Schedule

July 21, 2022July 21, 20221 Comment

August is nearly here, and with it is the return to con season. While I’ve participated in my local con virtually the last two years, I’ve decided to bite the bullet and return to in-person conventions. This all made more sense when I put my name in for programming earlier in the year than it does now with the recent increase in Covid and monkeypox cases throughout the country, but since I’m vaxxed and boosted and plan to mask the entire time (even when paneling), I’m going to honor my commitments.

First up is Armadillocon in Austin, Texas, August 5th through the 7th.