A Season’s End
Orca Literary Magazine A non-genre flash piece for Orca Literary Magazine. The folks at Orca have been great and believed in this piece enough to submit it for consideration for the Pushcart Prize!
Writing
Fatherless Christmas
Bethlehem Writer’s Roundtable One of the saddest damn things I’ve ever written. Read it here.
Still Life
Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores, 2019 I wrote this story a long time ago and was my audition piece for entry into my current writers group, The Wyrdsmiths. I rewrote it many times since then and am thrilled to have it out with a SFWA qualified market like CR&ES. You can read it here. It […]
The World Ended in Ice
Reckoning 3 Reckoning is a very cool publication that does creative writing on environmental justice. You can read the poem on their website, as well as order the ebook or print edition. “Stoking both hope and righteous anger, this far-ranging compendium of writings—visionary, minatory, consolatory by turns—faces our environmental future head-on, honestly but without […]
The Last Tsar’s Dragons
with Jane YolenTachyon 2019 I was initially reticent to turn this short story into a novella. But I am so glad we did. It got deeper and darker and, thanks to the awesome folks at Tachyon, it’s also reaching a lot more people. Buy it from an indie bookstore! “Vivid, gripping and actually riveting as […]
The Ghost of Lady Rei
Lace and Blade 5Marion Zimmer Bradley Literary Works Trust (February, 2019) When Paradox Magazine closed its doors, I despaired of ever selling another Ken’ichi and Master Shichiro story. Where does one even sell Medieval Japanese detective stories? To the lovely people with Lace & Blade it turns out. In this installment, the duo are called […]
Animal Stories
with Jane Yolen,Heidi E.Y. Stemple, and Jason StempleNational Geographic Children’s Books 2014 Writing with my whole family was amazing. And we got a starred review from Booklist! See also: Fly with Me *STARRED REVIEW* “This engaging large-format volume offers 19 surprising, amusing, and endearing stories of real animals doing unusual things…Well suited to reading alone […]
Fly with Me
with Jane Yolen, Heidi E.Y. Stemple, and Jason StempleNational Geographic Children’s Books 2018 The family collaboration started in Animal Stories continues in this big, beautiful book. Starred review in Kirkus! Buy it from an indie bookstore! *STARRED REVIEW* “Yolen and her three children celebrate birds with a lavishly illustrated compendium of facts, photographs, and poetry…As […]
Crow Not Crow
with Jane YolenIllustrated by Elizabeth DulembaCornell Lab Publishing Group (August 27, 2018) My first picture book! A young girl learns to bird using the “Crow not Crow” method. Buy it from an indie bookstore! There’s a little teacher’s guide at Unleashing Readers. (Some lovely reviews as well!) “Descriptions and photos of all the birds illustrated […]
The Seelie King’s War (The Seelie Wars Book 3)
The conclusion to the Seelie Wars trilogy. Buy The Seelie King’s war from an independent bookstore.