Tag: publication

Now Available for Pre-order: New Resonance 9 (and a chapbook!)

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If you’re an avid reader of haiku, you may already be familiar with the “New Resonance” series of anthologies from Red Moon Press. If not, they’re well worth exploring: They’ve won at least seven Haiku Society of America’s Merit Book Awards, and the poets featured in their pages often go on to do great things in the haiku community.

New Resonance 8
(a previous year’s edition of the anthology)

I’m very proud to have been selected for inclusion in the ninth edition of the anthology along with sixteen other poets.

As part of the publication process, I receive 25 copies of the anthology in return for paying part of the publication costs (yes, fiction friends, Yog’s Law(!!!)—but haiku works a bit differently in this particular case).

I’ve taken the pre-order form down for now (thanks to my early buyers for your support!), but will place an order form up again when I receive my copies in June.

In other news, I’ve created a chapbook of my haiku and tanka, called Stray Cats, which isn’t available anywhere else. You can still order a copy of that (if you so desire) using the form below).

Thanks!

“Stray Cats” Chapbook




Original Fiction: “Little More than Shadows” at Daily Science Fiction

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A weird little flash story of mine is available today at Daily Science Fiction.

Broadly speaking, it’s about dreams. Also paranoia, insanity, resignation, love, and a vaguely-defined beast which is eating the world.

You know, the usual stuff.

Intrigued? Perplexed? Read on at: http://dailysciencefiction.com/fantasy/parapsychology/stewart-c-baker/little-more-than-shadows

I’d also like to point out that DSF uses a rating system for their fiction—so if you like what you read, please leave a rating!

Sale! “Configuring your Quantum Disambiguator” to Nature’s Futures.

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Very happy to announce that I’ve sold a story to Nature magazine’s “Futures” feature.

Nature, for those not familiar, is one of the leading scholarly science journals. More importantly for me, they also have a column that publishes sci-fi flash fiction. This is my first sale to them out of four submissions. The story is written in the form of an instruction manual, and balances absurdist humour with SFnal trope-based jokes and is generally quite weird. (There’s also a nod to Ren & Stimpy for the eagle-eyed.)

Huzzah!

Sale! Flash fiction to Plasma Frequency

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I’ve sold a slipstreamy flash fiction piece called “Some Salient Details About Your Former Lives” to Plasma Frequency magazine.

Not clear yet on when exactly it will be published, but I’m happy to find a home for this one, which has done the rounds at a number of places and always come back to me. (Perhaps apt for a story about two people who continually reincarnate and kill one another?)

The story is sort of a riff on part of Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide series—specifically the character of Agrajag, the poor being who was inadvertently and numerously killed by Arthur Dent. Hitchhiker’s Guide was one of those series I read over and over and over again during my formative years, so it’s nice to see a story I’ve written that’s part homage to it and its author find a happy home.

Now Available at Grievous Angel: two short speculative poems

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I mentioned last week that I’d sold a haiku and a tanka to Grievous Angel, a new e-zine by Charles Christian of Urban Fantasist.

Well, they’re now live!

Go check it out for yourself at http://www.urbanfantasist.com/article/new-poetry–haiku—tanka-5071

If you’re of the poetic or flash-fictional persuasion yourself, I’d also add that I received a prompt turn-around time on my submission and—just as importantly—was paid promptly upon publication.

Published Story Alert! “After the Ascension” in Plasma Frequency

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My 100-word story, “After the Ascension,” is in the April/May issue of Plasma Frequency magazine.

In lieu of a summary, here’s a very brief teaser:

When they turned off the gravity, everything went to hell.

The first few days, people kept trying to disprove reality—pulling themselves off ceilings, clambering out of windows, catapulting up into the air until their screams faded into nothing.

You can purchase a copy of the issue from the Plasma Frequency website in print or as an ebook, if you’re so enclined.