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My New Website – With New Stories For You To Read!
I completely redid my website because I needed new business cards. This is not quite as stupid as it sounds.See, when I went to World Fantasy Con last year, I came home with a sheaf of colorful...
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New Story! “My Father’s Wounds,” at Beneath Ceaseless Skies
My latest story is live at Beneath Ceaseless Skies– have a sample of the opening, why don’tcha?Father carries the knife, because I asked him to—but he keeps turning to look at me, earnestly, as if he...
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Another Story Sold! “Devour,” To Escape Pod
I am thrilled to announce the sale of “Devour” to the premier science fiction podcaster, Escape Pod.“Devour” is the tale of an elderly gay married couple who are infected by a long-forgotten military...
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New Story! “iTime,” At Redstone SF!
Ever wonder what happens when Macintosh develops the first personal time-travel device, and it lands in the hands of rich college kids? Well, wonder no more, for my story iTime has finally been...
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Weird Things About Writing
Accepting compliments on my work is, for me, the second hardest thing about being a writer – which is ironic, because I write to create an emotional reaction in people, then flip out whenever they have...
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New Story! “Run,” Bakri Says
I’ve only written two stories where I finished them and went, “I’m going to sell this.” As a writer, you live for those moments – it must be what Babe Ruth felt like when he pointed to the bleachers...
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New Story! “Sauerkraut Station,” Live At Giganotosaurus!
I bet you’ve been wondering what it would be like if Ferrett wrote a version of “Little House on the Prairie” set in space. I wouldn’t blame you. After all, I did, so much so that I actually had to...
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Boy Stories And Girl Stories And, Oh Yeah, Sales
The good news is, I sold the audio rights for my story “A Window, Clear As A Mirror” to PodCastle. This is awesome, because a) if you’ll recall, it’s my favorite story ever, and b) PodCastle did such...
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Reviews For “‘Run,’ Bakri Says” and “Sauerkraut...
I figure you only have a week or two to purchase the latest Asimov’s before my story disappears from the shelves, so let’s go over the reviews for my time-travelling terrorism story “‘Run,’ Bakri...
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Sale! “Rooms Formed Of Neurons And Sex,” to GUD Magazine!
There is a certain satisfaction that comes from selling the unsalable story. Which is to say that when you write a 7,000-word erotica story dealing with the BDSM relationship between a girl and a...
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“A Window, Clear As A Mirror,” Live At PodCastle
You guys. This is amazing.As you may or may not know, “A Window, Clear As A Mirror” is the most personal story I’ve ever written – the story of a man whose wife leaves him to go through a magic...
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New Story! “Devour,” Now Live At Escape Pod!
Some stories are just too damn personal. When my stepfather Bruce died of Lou Gehrig’s disease and my grandmother went blind, then senile, then died in a sad nursing home, I had a lot of emotions...
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New Stories! Of Mine! For You To, Like, Read! (Or Listen To....
So I’ve been pretty terrible at writer-marketing, because I don’t think I’ve told you that one of my favorite stories of all time is available for you to read. Plus another story that’s sillier and,...
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New Story! By Me! “Dead Merchandise,” At Kaleidotrope!
I was talking to Ted Chiang at World Fantasy, and we were discussing The Singularity – or, as I call it, the Nerd Rapture.If you’re not familiar with The Singularity, it’s the point where computers...
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New Story! Totes By Me! “Riding Atlas,” In Three-Lobed Burning Eye
Today’s freshly-published story is a tale with some serious history behind it.“Riding Atlas” was the story I submitted to the Viable Paradise writing workshop, because I knew it was flawed and needed...
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Would You Like To Help Me Make Money From Professional Masturbation?
…well, if that’s not a zinger of a headline, I don’t know what is.In any case, I wrote a humor tale for Alex Shvartsman’s “Unidentified Funny Objects” science fiction humor anthology, which is now...
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New Story! “Shoebox Heaven,” In Andromeda Spaceways Inflight...
“Shoebox Heaven” may be the most disturbing story I’ve ever written, and yet it’s strangely sweet. Even when it’s been rejected, I’ve had editors ask me, “So did that tale of the kid seeking his cat...
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Hear My Ad-Faerie Story “Dead Merchandise” At Escape Pod!
I fricking love getting my stories read at Escape Pod – the narrators there are so good, the forums so full of awesome feedback, and there’s just something beautiful about hearing words I wrote become...
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Buy My New Story “Black Swan Oracle,” in What Fates Impose!
Last week, I told you about my tale in the upcoming fortune-teller anthology What Fates Impose, citing it as my favorite story I’ve written in the last year. Today, to hopefully encourage you to...
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New Story! By Me! “Shadow Transit,” At Buzzy Mag
I wrote this story because I do not know how to play with children.I was, however, spending time with my um-daughter Carolyn, so named because her parents are Jewish and don’t have a tradition of...
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New Story! “Hollow As The World,” At The Drabblecast!
The Drabblecast is a very well thought-of podcast, so when they commissioned me to write a story for Lovecraft week, I was all like, “Whoah, that’s an honor.” And so, over the next five weeks in the...
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