Read “On Not Going Extinct” by Carol Emshwiller.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
In preparation for NaPoWriMo, I’m coming up with some poetry ideas. I have a few topics I want to tackle (Alzheimer’s and my maternal grandparents, a praise poem to bunnies, etc.) and a few forms to work on, including: hay(na)ku: A tercet of 6 words: 1 in the first line, 2 in the second line, [...]
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Read “Little Ghosts” by Duane Ackerson. And my chapbook Edgewise is still available for pre-order.
Monday, February 22, 2010
Strange Horizons published my short story “Sundowning” today. This is a very personal story for me: my maternal grandfather had Alzheimer’s for several years before he died last February, and my maternal grandmother has just had to be put in a home because of hers. The character in the story is not either of my [...]
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Read “Doctor Diablo Goes Through the Motions” by Saladin Ahmed.
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Read “Inter-Sentient Personal Ads” by John Nichols. And my chapbook Edgewise is still available for pre-order.
I’ve decided to publish a new chapbook of speculative poetry and microfiction at the end of February, so they’re available for sale at 2010: A Space Oddity. I plan to do a limited, numbered edition of 100, with a mix of three different covers. I’m taking advance orders now via PayPal to joannemerriam@gmail.com (or mail [...]
SFWA members can nominate work published between July 1st 2008 and December 31st 2009. Since this is an award for fiction, my only Nebula Award eligible work is “Swan Song” (Strange Horizons, published 6 October 2008).
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Read “By Way of Sorrow” by Peg Duthie.
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Got my contributor’s copy a few days ago and finally got around to scanning the cover for you all to see. Purty ain’t it? There’s some really excellent stuff in there, including my homegirl Peg Duthie’s “Evolution,” Charles Wright’s “The Ghost of Walter Benjamin Walks at Midnight” and Jane Yolen’s “Goodbye Billy Goat Gruff.” A [...]
