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BABY
In other news, I achieved a little career goal by getting a piece into one of the Best American series, specifically my story "Thy Shiny Car in the Night" was reprinted in Best American Mystery Stories 2013. It's a tricky goal as there is nothing to really do except to publish widely and hope somebody notices.
Of course my novel Love Is the Law also came out. I was gratified by the attempts of my regular readers to recruit more readers via aggressive reviewing on amazon and blogs.
Limited hardcover and ultralimited lettered editions of The Damned Highway appeared. I forget whether they're sold out or not. I think the limited is.
My novel Bullettime inexplicably appeared in an audio edition via Audible.com this year, and the first sales report tells me that it sold eight copies.
In short stories, Bob and Ernie Fistfight In Heaven appeared in Cosmos.
Hideous Interview With Brief Man appeared in Fiddleblack.
I also had stories in a number of anthologies:
"The Drowsy Man Dreams" appeared in In Heaven, Everything Is Fine: Fiction Inspired by David Lynch. (This also marked the fiction debut of![]()
strangebint!)
"Vermont Muster" appeared in Shades of Blue & Gray: Ghosts of the Civil War.
"Drive the Warlike Angles Into the Sea!!!" appeared in Caledonia Dreamin'.
"Eureka!" appeared in Where Thy Dark Eye Glances: Queering Edgar Allan Poe. (This story I wrote last Christmas Day. I hope to get writing of similar quality done this Christmas as well.)
"Hostage", which combined ancient Greek and Ashton-Smithian visions of Hyperborea appeared in Deepest, Darkest, Eden.
My taiji Lovecraft story "Wuji" appeared in Shotguns v Cthulhu.
A brief Marxian fable, "The Stray Dogs Learn Their Lesson" appeared in The Lion and The Aardvark:Aesop's Modern Fables.
My novelette "Arbeitskraft" was reprinted in The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy: 2013, edited by Rich Horton. (Not to be confused with the other four or five best-of annuals out there.) It was also recorded as an audiobook and made available via Infinivox in two of their audio anthologies: Steampunk Specs and The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 5.
My day job anthology The Future Is Japanese was nominated for the Locus Award, so I was able to visit Seattle on Pikachu's dime. Ken Liu's story therein, "Mono No Aware" was nominated for and ultimately won the Hugo Award, so I got to visit San Antonio on Pikachu's dime, and throw a party on it as well.
I got to visit my old stomping grounds Boston while attending the AWP Conference, and I also went to Portland for the H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival, which was fun, if sticky.
A small non-fiction volume, Quotes Every Man Should Know, also appeared. A brief essay on point-of-view appeared in Jeff Vandermeer's writing guide Wonderbook, and I took part on an online exclusive Editor Roundtable connected to the book. I also wrote an internal-use cultural encyclopedia and character sketches for the Fable videogame franchise, on the behest of Random House Worlds. I also committed the sin of listicle, for Locus: Five Obscure Books I Recommend.
At a KGB reading in January, I announced my retirement from science fiction, fantasy, and horror, though I wrote several stories I'd previously promised to editors. Two of them, which will be appearing next year, are actually crime stories that fit the themes (scheming and carnivals) but contain no supernatural or science fictional element.
The Under My Roof movie script went into its seventh draft, about four drafts removed from my last whack at it. It was selected for the Oaxaca Film Festival in September. The main character now has a girlfriend, and a comically angry antagonist.
Literally not one week went by where I did not send someone, either formally through a GoFundMe/Indiegogo/whatever campaign or informally through blog post/Twitter/Facebook solicitations, at least $25 to keep their lights on or to pay for medical care or something like that. The economy is still clearly in the pits for very many people.
In physical news, I pulled my groin while wrestling at my local push-hands club, and later broke a toe in Brazilian ju-jitsu class, which occasioned my first-ever trip to the emergency room as a patient. I am officially getting too old for this. I visited both Texas and New York with the bum foot, which was aggravating.
Kazzie had a vestibular issue and is now hard of hearing and sight, but is still a spritely dog at age thirteen.
Coming up in 2014: I will continue to change diapers, and should soon be trying to keep my son from eating the dog's food or bashing his head against the furniture as he learns to crawl, then walk. I have a number of stories coming out in anthologies and literary journals, and am expecting my zombie novel The Last Weekend to finally appear as a limited hardcover only. My dayjob graphic novel, All You Need Is Kill (my script based on the Hiroshi Sakurazaka novel) is coming out, and will be excerpted and distributed to comic stores for free as part of Free Comic Book Day. I'm co-editing a fantasy anthology, Phantasm Japan, and an essay anthology, The Battle Royale Slam Book, both for my day job, as well as the usual mess of novels and artbooks and such. It's back to Seattle, this time for AWP, where I will be presenting on a panel about teaching genre fiction in writing workshops, and to Portland again for the World Horror Convention.
Because I am stupid, I might try to start writing plays.
BABY
In other news, I achieved a little career goal by getting a piece into one of the Best American series, specifically my story "Thy Shiny Car in the Night" was reprinted in Best American Mystery Stories 2013. It's a tricky goal as there is nothing to really do except to publish widely and hope somebody notices.
Of course my novel Love Is the Law also came out. I was gratified by the attempts of my regular readers to recruit more readers via aggressive reviewing on amazon and blogs.
Limited hardcover and ultralimited lettered editions of The Damned Highway appeared. I forget whether they're sold out or not. I think the limited is.
My novel Bullettime inexplicably appeared in an audio edition via Audible.com this year, and the first sales report tells me that it sold eight copies.
In short stories, Bob and Ernie Fistfight In Heaven appeared in Cosmos.
Hideous Interview With Brief Man appeared in Fiddleblack.
I also had stories in a number of anthologies:
"The Drowsy Man Dreams" appeared in In Heaven, Everything Is Fine: Fiction Inspired by David Lynch. (This also marked the fiction debut of
strangebint!)"Vermont Muster" appeared in Shades of Blue & Gray: Ghosts of the Civil War.
"Drive the Warlike Angles Into the Sea!!!" appeared in Caledonia Dreamin'.
"Eureka!" appeared in Where Thy Dark Eye Glances: Queering Edgar Allan Poe. (This story I wrote last Christmas Day. I hope to get writing of similar quality done this Christmas as well.)
"Hostage", which combined ancient Greek and Ashton-Smithian visions of Hyperborea appeared in Deepest, Darkest, Eden.
My taiji Lovecraft story "Wuji" appeared in Shotguns v Cthulhu.
A brief Marxian fable, "The Stray Dogs Learn Their Lesson" appeared in The Lion and The Aardvark:Aesop's Modern Fables.
My novelette "Arbeitskraft" was reprinted in The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy: 2013, edited by Rich Horton. (Not to be confused with the other four or five best-of annuals out there.) It was also recorded as an audiobook and made available via Infinivox in two of their audio anthologies: Steampunk Specs and The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 5.
My day job anthology The Future Is Japanese was nominated for the Locus Award, so I was able to visit Seattle on Pikachu's dime. Ken Liu's story therein, "Mono No Aware" was nominated for and ultimately won the Hugo Award, so I got to visit San Antonio on Pikachu's dime, and throw a party on it as well.
I got to visit my old stomping grounds Boston while attending the AWP Conference, and I also went to Portland for the H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival, which was fun, if sticky.
A small non-fiction volume, Quotes Every Man Should Know, also appeared. A brief essay on point-of-view appeared in Jeff Vandermeer's writing guide Wonderbook, and I took part on an online exclusive Editor Roundtable connected to the book. I also wrote an internal-use cultural encyclopedia and character sketches for the Fable videogame franchise, on the behest of Random House Worlds. I also committed the sin of listicle, for Locus: Five Obscure Books I Recommend.
At a KGB reading in January, I announced my retirement from science fiction, fantasy, and horror, though I wrote several stories I'd previously promised to editors. Two of them, which will be appearing next year, are actually crime stories that fit the themes (scheming and carnivals) but contain no supernatural or science fictional element.
The Under My Roof movie script went into its seventh draft, about four drafts removed from my last whack at it. It was selected for the Oaxaca Film Festival in September. The main character now has a girlfriend, and a comically angry antagonist.
Literally not one week went by where I did not send someone, either formally through a GoFundMe/Indiegogo/whatever campaign or informally through blog post/Twitter/Facebook solicitations, at least $25 to keep their lights on or to pay for medical care or something like that. The economy is still clearly in the pits for very many people.
In physical news, I pulled my groin while wrestling at my local push-hands club, and later broke a toe in Brazilian ju-jitsu class, which occasioned my first-ever trip to the emergency room as a patient. I am officially getting too old for this. I visited both Texas and New York with the bum foot, which was aggravating.
Kazzie had a vestibular issue and is now hard of hearing and sight, but is still a spritely dog at age thirteen.
Coming up in 2014: I will continue to change diapers, and should soon be trying to keep my son from eating the dog's food or bashing his head against the furniture as he learns to crawl, then walk. I have a number of stories coming out in anthologies and literary journals, and am expecting my zombie novel The Last Weekend to finally appear as a limited hardcover only. My dayjob graphic novel, All You Need Is Kill (my script based on the Hiroshi Sakurazaka novel) is coming out, and will be excerpted and distributed to comic stores for free as part of Free Comic Book Day. I'm co-editing a fantasy anthology, Phantasm Japan, and an essay anthology, The Battle Royale Slam Book, both for my day job, as well as the usual mess of novels and artbooks and such. It's back to Seattle, this time for AWP, where I will be presenting on a panel about teaching genre fiction in writing workshops, and to Portland again for the World Horror Convention.
Because I am stupid, I might try to start writing plays.