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This story, which appeared in the June issue of Realms of Fantasy, picked up a Nebula nod. Only nine more to go!

If you’re a member of SFWA, and you’d like to give the story a read, you can do so here.

My story, "No Viviremos Como Presos," is now live over at IGMS, courtesy of Issue 9. For my Clarionite friends out there, this was the Wall story. If that doesn’t help, you can preview a portion of the story even if you don’t buy the issue.

I have a story in this anthology, and it just went officially on sale. I share the TOC with friends and fellow writers Paul Genesse, Anton Strout, and Don Bingle. If you pick up a copy, I’d love to hear what you think of the story.

I’ve sold a new story to the fine folks over at Martin Greenberg’s place for an upcoming DAW anthology called City Fantastic. The story was pretty fun to write. It’s about a black woman fighting to save her son from a crazy old man and a promising young trumpet player who’s been dead for twenty years. It’s set in New York, and it was a lot of fun pulling all my NYC experiences together to write it. I’ll post more when I know the release date, but I believe it’ll be closer to the end of 2009 or early 2010.

Oh, and thanks to Sarah Kelly and Will Ludwigsen for your excellent critiques. You guys rock.

A while back I entered into an agreement with Sony’s new eBook venture through Marty Greenberg’s group (they edit many of the DAW anthologies). This online store and their new eBook reader is a direct parallel to Apple’s iTunes store and their iPod products. They (I assume) allow you to easily download books and short stories from their site to your reader. I don’t know in reality how easy or not it is, but I imagine they spent a lot of time making it right. As far as I can tell, Sony’s reader and Amazon’s Kindle are the two new, Next Big Things with respect to readers.

In any case, I now have a story up on their site. The story is "Chasing Humanity", a story that appeared in DAW’s Man vs. Machine anthology last year. It’s a near-future story about a female reporter who’s chasing an AI, the first one to be deemed "human". Her chase, and the reason for the AI’s disappearance twenty years ago, makes her realize she’s not only been chasing the story, she’s been running away from her past.

Edmund Schubert is trying to spread the word about the excellent magazine he edits, Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show. They’re giving away free fiction so readers can take a look to see if they like what they see.

In Edmund’s own words:

To Readers of Science Fiction and Fantasy everywhere,

When you have something great, you want everyone to know. So you tell people about it. You share it. You pass it along to friends everywhere. Well, that’s what we’re doing with InterGalactic Medicine Show. We want to make sure everyone has had a chance to check out what we’re doing, so we’re offering up a sampling of our stories – for free.

During the month of February we are going to make one story from each of our first four issues available at no charge. Two stories will be set free on February 1st, and two more on February 15th. Just visit www.intergalacticmedicineshow.com and explore the table of contents; the free stories will be clearly marked.

Issue one’s free story will be “Trill and The Beanstalk” by Edmund R. Schubert, issue two’s will be “Yazoo Queen” by Orson Scott Card (from his Alvin Maker series), issue three’s “Xoco’s Fire” by Oliver Dale, and issue four’s “Tabloid Reporter To The Stars” by Eric James Stone. Each story is fully illustrated by artists who were commissioned to create artwork to accompany that tale — as is every story published in IGMS.

“Tabloid Reporter To The Stars” will also be featured in the upcoming InterGalactic Medicine Show anthology from Tor, which will be out this August (we wanted you to get a sneak peek of the anthology, too). However, the other three stories aren’t available anywhere except the online version of IGMS.

It’s really quite simple. Great stories. Custom illustrations. Free. We’re pleased with and proud of the magazine we’re publishing; now we’re passing it along to our friends and telling them about it. We hope you’ll enjoy it and do the same.

Edmund R. Schubert
Editor, Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show
www.intergalacticmedicineshow.com

Now go forth, good readers, and read…

You can order it now from Amazon or Barnes and Noble. For any fellow Clarionites in the audience, my story, “Cirque du Lumiere”, appears in this issue. There are also stories by my friends, Paul Genesse and Don Bingle. The inimitable Alan Dean Foster also appears in the anthology, edited by Kerrie Hughes and Martin H. Greenberg.

Synopsis

13 new stories about testing the bonds of fellowship on fantastical worlds

The bonds of friendship and fellowship are key to many fine fantasy and science fiction novels, most notably Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring. Now top tale-spinners offer their own unique takes on fellowship in thirteen original stories, featuring a girl who finds her best friend through a portal to another world, an adventure on an alternate Earth where a not-quite Holmes and Watson take on a fascinating challenge, a group of urban mages playing the “True Game” for high stakes, a squire determined to help his master’s ghost fulfill his final mission, and more. Together, these stories dramatically illustrate how fellowships can alter destiny and change worlds.

I got a nice little bit of news this morning. Rich Horton provides a year-end summary of various magazines and he just posted a review of Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show, and he posted a nice mention of me as providing one of the standout novelettes.

One of my Clarion stories from last summer has found a home. For any of you Clarionites out there, it was the wall story, the story about the photographer and his grandfather who got a bug up his ass to stop the spyders from tagging the immigrants hopping over the completed US-Mexican border wall. IGMS has agreed to buy it, and it should appear in the summer or fall of 2008.

Yay!

The Fix Online has reviewed Intergalactic Medicine Show #6, which includes my story, “How Peacefully the Desert Sleeps.” A snippet of the review:

 A rare western fantasy tale, “How Peacefully the Desert Sleeps” steps outside of the greedy white man versus the noble natives cliché, revealing all involved to be merely human after all.

I know I said this book was coming out, but I don’t think I ever posted when it actually did come out. (Hey, it’s been one busy month for this sad little puppy.) Man vs. Machine hit the shelves on July 3rd. I received my copy a few weeks back, and I’m enjoying the stories I’ve read so far, especially Jean Rabe’s “Stalking Old John Bull.” If anyone picks it up, drop me a note or comment her and let me know what you thought of it.