I’ll have work showing up in two anthologies this year.
The first is the remarkable Mirrormaze, a dreampunk anthology of mind-melting SFF from editor Cliff Jones Jr. and Fractured Mirror Publishing, to be released on December 8, 2020. I’ve read the galley. It was stunningly well-put together. You should pre-order this book!
My story is the near-future ‘Two Roads’, which had its genesis in a righteously-spiteful slapdown of several famous SFF writers I really didn’t like. My caution was later revealed to be very well-founded…but you’d never know any of that from this version.
Also, I owe N.K. Jemisin yet another apology for sipping from the same wellsprings: this story predates her orogenes by 20 years, and I adapted the idea much differently. Hers is much better, because she looked fearlessly into the water when I merely glanced.
The next is a personal anthology of some Southwestern-inspired collected poems and short stories from yours truly, and I don’t have a solid release date on it yet. I haven’t made a poetry chapbook since 1985, so this feels weird-but-good.
As familiar, in its way, as realizing in 1997: I want to make book art. It all cycles back, because many of the poems in this collection were central texts for my one-of-a-kind book art sculptures from 1997-2020. Turns out, my innate laziness at wanting to hand-embroider as few words as necessary on fabric lends itself well to short poetry!
I have a cover, though:
