- 2022 roundup + awards eligibility postOkay, I finally dragged myself out of the twin hells and imposter syndrome and procrastination and decided to finally do an awards eligibility post. I had exactly one speculative short story published in 2021 (“The 74th District”, in Speculative City) — this year I have 7 short stories and 2 flashes, plus one essay! It’s … Read more
- Conversations: We Do Stories To Escape And Also Confront Demons, with Sabrina LunavongFiction can be either escapist or intensely real and cathartic. It can be a getaway or a means by which to confront things that otherwise just build and tangle inside of you. Both can be equally important.
- Conversations: On writing for yourself, with Jen ElrodNo one can truly predict what sells, or sells well. I am a firm believer in writing books that speak to you and for you.
- A Brief SEA Fantasy ListI wrote this list to accompany this thread about SEA being underrepresented in SFF! Even as publishing diversifies and we see more interest in stories and worlds that draw from non-Anglo Western canon, the bars we see move are generally still commensurate with the cultures that have more global or American cultural capital/consciousness. Asian representation, … Read more
- How I Got My AgentI’ve been writing for pretty much as long as I can remember. I started with self-insert fanfics and thinly veiled riffs on all my favourite shows and books, and then started writing original stories that I would pass around in notebooks to my classmates or email them new chapters like a subscription. My best friends … Read more