Month: October 2019

Baltimore Book Festival 2019 Schedule

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It’s not really a convention per se, but I love the Baltimore Book Festival. It brings in a great draw of writers from up and down the East Coast. I adore seeing my friends there and always meet new people every year. If you’re a speculative fiction writer and in the area, I recommend checking out the Science Fiction Writer of America events at the festival. They have a constant stream of panels Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Here’s the full schedule.

This year, the festival will be from Nov 1st-3rd. I’ll be on two panels on Saturday, Nov 2nd. They are:

2 PM — Blind Swordfighters & Wheelchairs on Starships: Making Space for Disability in SFF
An #OwnVoices panel of writers discussing disability in SFF worldbuilding.
Panelists: Day al-Mohamed, AT Greenblatt, Victoria Lee, Sunny
Moraine, Elsa Sjunneson-Henry

5 PM — All Fiction in A Day: The Beauty & Brilliance of Commute-Length Reads
Panelists make the case for why short fiction, whether in magazines, podcasts, anthologies, or collections, encapsulates the best of the SFF genres. Find out who you should be reading!
Panelists: Nino Cipri, AT Greenblatt, Barbara Krasnoff,
LH Moore, Karlo Yeager Rodriguez, Nibedita Sen, AC
Wise

If you’re going to be there, please feel free to say hello!

“On the Other Side of the Line” Now Live at Fireside Magazine!

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I’m very excited to announce that my story “On the Other Side of the Line” is now live and free to read over at Fireside Magazine! It’s narrated by the fantastic C. S. E. Cooney and it has an amazing illustration by Amanda Makepeace.

This isn’t a happy story, but it’s one I felt I needed to write. It was fueled by loss and the looming grimness of our future. It was heavily influenced by some traveling I did where there was an international fence line and witnessing people on the other side standing of it, staring through the wires.

It’s not a happy story, but I’m happy with the way it turned out.

The dog in the story is based on a real one. He name was Tiger and he was the best. We lost him over a year ago and I still miss him dearly.

Picture of Tiger

Oh! I almost forgot. The song I listened to on repeat while writing and editing this story was Now and Not Yet by Hammock.

Give your loved ones a hug tonight.

Reading at Charm City Spec!

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I know, two posts on this blog in one week after ages of silence.

Yet here we are and I thought I should tell you that I’m going to be part of a reading on October 23rd with Baltimore’s Charm City Spec. I’m thrilled to be sharing this reading with two talented authors, Cadwell Turnbull and Vivian Shaw! The reading is happening at 7pm in Bird in Hand Cafe in Charles Village.

I’d love to see you there if you’re in the area!

New Essay “How To Send Your Disabled Protagonist on an Adventure in 7 Easy Steps”

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This is a first for me. I usually prefer to spend my writing time working on fiction, but for Uncanny Magazine’s Disabled People Destroy Fantasy Issue, I made an exception. Today, I’m pleased to say I have an essay in this issue called “How to Send Your Disabled Protagonist on an Adventure in 7 Easy Steps.”

This is something I’ve been thinking about for the last few years and have been trying to incorporate into my own fiction more often. The essay was surprisingly fun to write, because unlike the essays I wrote for school, now I could be sarcastic.

I hope you like it and find it useful. And as always, if you enjoy the content that Uncanny Magazine puts out, please consider supporting them.