Two of them, even. "Barbara Newhall Follett welcomes home" among fabulous company in Mythic Delirium 26. You can order it now as a single issue, or subscribe and get even more issues of excellent poetry. Not that I'm biased or anything.

For more instant gratification, "Deluge" is now live at Goblin Fruit. You can read it and/or hear me read it while messing with foley yet again.

If you're inclined to find devils dealing "At the Crossroads of the West," you might look in the pages of the latest issue of Fantastique Unfettered, and you would indeed be in fantastic company.

You can take part in "The exposure of William H. Mumler" in the latest issue of Stone Telling.

Happy birthday to my gorgeous birthday twin, to anyone else fortunate enough to share this natal day with us, and to all the other December babies! It's a fantastic month to be born.

Happy, Happy Birthday!!!

No Lussekatter this year, but that happens sometimes. Seaspouse ensured the return of the sun with a gift of starry bezelled diamond earrings to match the engagement ring he designed lo, these many years ago. We always save my cake for Christmas, when there are usually more people around to help consume it. I might or might not want pizza for dinner. It's a very quiet way to turn forty, but pleasant nonetheless, and the sea always does like to start quiet.

Although today's BPAL? Sagittarius, baby.

BOOM.

My review of the latest issue of Stone Telling is up at Versification. Short form: This is an amazing issue, even for a market as consistently excellent as Stone Telling, and y'all should read/listen to it.

You can now join me "On the Searoad" in the latest issue of Jabberwocky. Just don't expect that you'll be able to return the way you came, and you can thank sovay for that.

You can now witness how "Mark Twain feels the storm" in the September issue of Ideomancer.

Stone Telling Issue 4 is alive!!!!



It is full of awesome things to read and hear and look at, and I might be doing the Snoopy dance around the house for the next three months, because I contributed to this amazing thing! Granted, I think all the amazing bits are more the result of the tireless efforts of rose_lemberg, dormouse_in_tea, and shweta_narayan, not to mention the work of our poets and article writers, than anything I did, but still! I helped!

My advice on "Summoning a Southern Devil" can now be found in Mythic Delirium, Issue 24, which can be purchased here.

My poem, "Crowfunded," is in the latest issue of Goblin Fruit, now live. You can read it, and/or hear me read it, here. There are actual sound effects and everything (aka witness my first grapple with foley).

I am rather late with this, but shweta_narayan and I are guest co-editing Issue 4 of Stone Telling! The general guidelines are here. Shweta was good enough to post more specifics for our issue here. The Stone Telling flavors of poetry are very much a concept in the building, and we're serious about wanting to see things in speculative poetry that just haven't been seen yet, so when in doubt? Give us a try. Though the mermaid thing is a hardline (mermaids are my kryptonite; I am being saved from myself).

If you have more detailed questions, there is a Q&A post open here, though I should note that poor Shweta and I have traded off the health crash, so she is now the one taking some time to rest up offline, and I'm applying spoons to being present for fielding discussion. I also plan to eye some of you Meaningfully, once I catch up with what's currently in the magazine's inbox.

Also also, any signal-boosting you are inclined to do is most welcome and appreciated, and if you have suggestions for places where we might encourage submissions from less-represented groups in the subgenre, those would also be welcome.

My in-laws are coming to visit next weekend, so I thought I'd make a knitted gift for my mother-in-law. She adores owls and does a lot of reading, which made an owl-themed bookmark a good bet. Unfortunately, I couldn't find a pattern, so I took the owl cable and made my own. I think I wrote it down the way I did it, but definitely let me know if the instructions don't work out.

( Instructions and pictures )

Stone Telling 2 is now live. In it, I review some of the work to be found in the latest issues of Goblin Fruit, Apex, and Mythic Delirium. Discussion of the issue can be found here.

Today, I received both my subscription copy and my contributor's copy of Mythic Delirium Issue #23, which contains my faerykrusher poem written for kallistei, "Tigerskin." You can get a copy for yourself here, I believe, by purchasing a sample issue and specifying the issue number. I got to read the whole issue early for a review, and I can vouch for the excellent quality of the rest of the contents.

This one totally slipped by me. I suspect my inbox gremlins of eating the announcement it was live. My poem "Fathom" was featured in Strange Horizons back in June. Luckily, thanks to the magic of the internet, I can still brag about it, and y'all can still read it.

This afternoon, I met up with my dear friend shweta_narayan for the final time before I move across the country for at least three years. We haven't seen each other since at least February, thanks to conflicting bouts of healthiness. We talked about a lot of things, including the inevitably entwined (to us) topics of the speculative field and social justice. The fail of Elizabeth Moon came up, and our reactions. Shweta has already written eloquent and heartbreaking things in response, including a post on the cost of attempted assimilation that makes me tear up just thinking about it.

I haven't yet written anything, for all the thoughts I have. As Shweta reminded me, my spoons have been a bit in demand with preparing for my move. I feel, though, that I can perhaps address the offense of Elizabeth Moon's stated beliefs from a slightly different perspective, and hopefully these words will help those she more directly attacked to know that to this military dependent descendant of white, non-English immigrants, she is horrifically, irrevocably wrong.

( My ancestors came to this country for religious freedom. )

My poem "Robert Cornelius speaks a dead tongue" is live in the first issue of Stone Telling. I did a very stripped-down recorded reading, which seemed appropriate for the piece, and which you can hopefully hear by pressing the play button at the top of the page which carries the poem (and I am pleased to see Robert's own art featured beside the art he inspired). It is in very excellent company, which I hope to have the spoons to indulge in once all the moving arrangements are finally settled. But you all don't have to wait to enjoy everything in this issue, poetry, articles, interviews, and art, and I'd encourage you not to wait.

A bit on the late-ish side, but my poem "Kindler" is now available in Star*Line's May/June issue, 33.3. I believe you can get it by ordering a sample issue and requesting that one in particuler.

Since I got my sniffer fixed, I decided to treat myself to a new smellgood or two (Monarch and Gypsy from the Moths and Butterflies collection, an imp of The Apothecary, and then potentially inoffensive frimps Gomorrah, Has no Hanna, and Bruised Violet Compound; there was also a frimp of The Unicorn, for handling of which I pretty much have to don a HAZMAT suit). The arrival of the package from BPAL reminded me I still have some unposted reviews hanging out, doing nobody any good. So here they are.

Unstoried, I'm afraid. I have hopes the new batch will inspire some flash.

( Montresor )

( Wolf's Heart )

( The Lion )

The Goblin Delirium issue of Mythic Delirium is now available, containing my poem "The Birth of Science Fiction," along with sheer awesome from the likes of Shweta Narayan, Sonya Taaffe, Rose Lemberg, and C.S.E. Cooney.