Aloha!

Are you new to my work? Love short stories? If so, this post is for you.

The recent announcement that my short story “The Martian Obelisk” is a finalist for the Hugo Award, has brought a surge of visitors to my blog and website. If you’re among that number and would like to read more of my short fiction…

Here are some stories you can find online:

• “The Way Home” (Operation Arcana / Lightspeed Magazine)

• “Codename: Delphi” (Lightspeed Magazine / The Year’s Best Military SF & Space Opera)

• “Halfway Home” (Nightmare Magazine / The Best Horror of the Year Volume Six)

• “Nahiku West” (Analog Science Fiction / Republished at Clarkesworld
→ “Nahiku West” was the 2013 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award runner-up and selected for The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Seven edited by Jonathan Strahan, The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2013 Edition edited by Rich Horton, and The Year’s Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 5 (audiobook) edited by Allan Kaster.

Much of my recent short fiction is also available in a convenient collection, Light and Shadow, in both print and ebook editions.

– Here’s a link to Amazon

– Here’s a universal link that will get you to alternate vendors.

Enjoy!

I’ve got some wonderful news to share: My short story “The Martian Obelisk” has been named as a finalist for the Hugo Award!

This is pretty exciting for me. After all, I’m a bit of a late bloomer. It’s been thirty-one years since my first fiction publication, and this is my first-ever appearance on the Hugo ballot. So it’s extra special!

If you haven’t read “The Martian Obelisk” yet, please check it out! You can find it online right here at Tor.com.

I want to say THANK YOU to everyone who’s read the story, to everyone who nominated it, and especially to editor Ellen Datlow, who liked the story enough to publish it at Tor.com.

Other short story finalists are:
• “Carnival Nine,” by Caroline M. Yoachim (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, May 2017)
• “Clearly Lettered in a Mostly Steady Hand,” by Fran Wilde (Uncanny, September 2017)
• “Fandom for Robots,” by Vina Jie-Min Prasad (Uncanny, September/October 2017)
• “Sun, Moon, Dust” by Ursula Vernon, (Uncanny, May/June 2017)
• “Welcome to your Authentic Indian Experience™,” by Rebecca Roanhorse (Apex, August 2017)

Check out the full list of Hugo Award finalists here at Tor.com. You’re sure to discover some amazing reading.

Third post within 24 hours, because apparently I blog in flurries…

The deadline for Hugo Award nominations is March 31, just a few days away. For those eligible to nominate, I hope you’ll consider Going Dark in the best novel category when filling out your nomination ballot. The Trials is also eligible, if you’re truly enthusiastic. 😉

Another suggestion is a vote for my editor, Joe Monti, in the Editor/Long Form category — but not just because he had the courage and enthusiasm to publish me. In 2015, Joe launched Saga Press, a rapidly growing and much praised line of science fiction and fantasy, at a time when other SF imprints are disappearing. Click here to see some of the books published by Saga Press in their first year, 2015. Scroll through the pages and you’ll be able to see some upcoming titles.

Saga Press is an imprint of Simon & Schuster.