TRAVERSING Z

Reading

2018 Award Eligibility

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This has been a year of planting, not harvesting, but nonetheless I had a few tales published:

Short story

“All That I Left Behind (We Are),” in The Fabulist.

“A Harvest Fit for Monsters,” in Nightscript IV.

“From Court Visionaries of the Imperial Age,” in Zetetic: A Record of Unusual Inquiry.

“Sabbaths,” in Syntax & Salt.

Novelette

“X Is for Xavier,” in E Is for Evil.

Novella

Leviathan

 

I’m also reading for awards, but I am a little, ahem, inundated at the moment (at last glance I had nearly 200 emails with everything from short stories to novels … insert Munch-style screaming here …) so while I want to do a recommendation list, I’m going to wait until January, when I’ve had more time to read and process.

evangelion

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Cautiously pleased that I’ll be able to rewatch Evangelion on Netflix. I’ve been meaning to for a while, I’m curious to see how its influence on me has played out (I first saw it sometime in the late 90s, I think? When it aired on PBS in San Francisco) … But please, please can we not redo it, or extend it, or revise it, or live-action it, or anything else? The series was so good, both as a story and an artwork, a kind of commentary on its own creation, which is also one way of looking at the story’s themes. It’s interesting times we live in where we can access more content than ever, we live in a perpetual tidal wave of story, yet we keep reaching again and again for a few old familiars. Watch new things. Read new things.

… and tell me where I can finish Ergo Proxy now that it got snatched from Crunchyroll. 😉

Not once but thrice! Events in October

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I am back from Florida, where the regular afternoon storms felt appropriate for this nightmare of a timeline. But in between the rage and the phoning, the phoning, because November is coming (it is coming, it has to be coming), I’ve somehow got three events this month:

October 13: I will be at the Livermore Public Library’s Indie Author Day Showcase. There will be a talk by Andy Weir from 1-2 PM, followed by a book sale from 2-4 PM. I’ll have copies of all three books, along with a little swag. Come find me and say hello!

October 20: I’ll be reading at Litquake along with four other members of Women Who Submit Writing: Becca Gomez Farrell, Jennifer Hasegawa, Janna Layton, and Dominica Phetteplace. Hear a variety of work and learn more about WWS and how it encourages women to get their work out for publication. 6:30-7:30 in the Women’s Building.

October 31: And last but not least, I’ll be reading on Halloween at the Octopus Literary Salon in Oakland, 5-7 PM. It’s a night of “Grimdark, Horror, and Fantasy” with Eric Esser, Jonathan Fortin, Mercy Hollow, E.M. Markoff, and myself. There will be books and creepiness galore!

I hope to see some of you out in the real world, scary though it is. xo