Category: Short Stories
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Writing with Remedios Varo
I stumbled upon Remedios Varo‘s art by accident. A happy accident. While I was in grad school (the first time, back in the early 2000s), I came across a surrealistic novel by Leonora Carrington called The Hearing Trumpet. The book’s cover was amazing: So I looked into the cover artist’s background. It turned out that the…
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The Birthday of Birds and Birthdays
Birds and Birthdays has officially released into the wild. It’s been available directly from the publisher for the past couple of weeks, but will be appearing in other marketplaces now, like Amazon.com (where they say it’ll take 1 to 3 weeks to get the book, but that’s only because they’ve just recently placed orders for stock with the publisher…
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Birds and Birthdays Cover Copy
Just received the cover copy for BIRDS AND BIRTHDAYS, which will be out next month (already!). Here’s the publisher’s book description: Remedios Varo, Leonora Carrington, Dorothea Tanning: three of the most interesting painters to flourish in male-dominated Surrealism. This is Christopher Barzak’s tribute to them: three stories and an essay that enter into a humane…
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Turning Points
This post is short, but I wanted to point any of my readers over to the blog of writer Nova Ren Suma (author of the fantastic novel, Imaginary Girls), where I’ve guest blogged in Nova’s Turning Points series. My turning point: turning from writing the short story to the novel, and then from the novel…
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Taking Stock: 2011
Well, it’s that time again. End of the year and all. Every year I try to write down the various things I’ve done–written, published, won, been nominated for, sold for the future, etc–and lay it out like I might in a proper journal. It’s been a while since I’ve kept a proper journal, but most…
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Attack of the Killer Collections
Every year around this season of gift giving, I see lots of posts by writers and readers and online stores, advising people what books would make great gifts. Usually, these lists consist entirely of novels. I’m a big fan of novels, but I might be an even bigger fan of short story collections. But even…
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The 24 Hour Brother
Just a heads up for interested readers: my short story, The 24 Hour Brother, is now available to read in the new issue of Apex Magazine. You can read it by clicking here. The story is an odd one. Two things formed the story initially: one for form, one for feeling. 1.) I’d been wanting…
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A free read of Map of Seventeen
I’ve posted my Nebula nominated story “Map of Seventeen” on my website for interested readers. You can find it on the page tabs overhead. I’ll take it down soon after the Nebulas, around the end of May, but here it is for a limited time for free. If you like it, please drop me a…
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Nebulated
And now it can be told: my novelette “Map of Seventeen” has been nominated for this year’s Nebula Awards. This is the third time for me to be nominated for the Nebula. The first time was in 2007, when I was also in the novelette category with my story “The Language of Moths”. The second…
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Pre-viewing, pre-ordering, pre-mourning
There have been lots of pre-reviews of this anthology popping up in the past month or two, all of them positive. I’m happy to be included in this review as one of the reviewer’s “favorites”. If you go to Amazon.com right now, you can pre-order the book at an extremely reduced price. Incidentally, this story…