Nebula nominations close the end of the week. If you're voting, I’d be honoured if you considered my novelette, “The Stench of Freedom,” from Writers of the Future Vol 41 (Galaxy Press, April 2025). It’s long-listed for the BSFA Award and ⭐️ ⭐️ recommendation by Tangent. Read it on my website below 😊
Cover of Writers of the Future Volume 42, featuring a golden dragon and two warrior women among the clouds, as painted by Ciruelo.
So incredibly honored to have written one of the four “dragon stories” to be published in the upcoming Writers of the Future anthology, with cover art by the wonderful Ciruelo. Everything about this still feels like a dream.
I just found out my university has secret tunnels running under the campus.
You know, Mythology 101 style.
I'm thrilled because it fits so well with future plans for a certain award-winning story.
It's tempting me to run up there and breathlessly ask some perplexed secretary to let me see them...
Baen's logo on a black background.
A 2025 Baen Fantasy Adventure Award certificate, edged in gold.
Hmm, what could be in this big yellow envelope from @baenbooks.bsky.social ?
A shiny certificate? For me? :)
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Happy Hobbit Day! Today's Classic Cover of the Day is The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, with a cover illustrated by Tolkien himself
I was an interview guest yesterday on "The Author's Quill" radio show with fellow Writers of the Future winner @kathleen-powell.bsky.social !
www.youtube.com/live/zuxTHuT...
I've made my first ever podcast appearance!
Thank you to Joe Montaldo and John Goodwin for making me feel welcome on The Author's Quill, and to @stricklandia.bsky.social for the company of another Volume 42 writer.
(I can't wait to read your story now!)
Adding otherworldly words for worldbuilding depth is great fun until it’s time for declension.
I have confused myself with plural/singular/collective at least twice, and I made the rules…
(readers, please assume I know what I’m doing)
Oh, indeed.
(have you figured out how to hold a normal conversation with the accomplished writer people yet or…)
Like…I’m just a little story scribbler who has to occasionally remind herself to brush the leaves out of her hair. Yes, hello, professional spec fic writing world. This isn’t surreal at all…
Yes, being a Writers of the Future winner is cool, but I do feel a bit like a kid allowed to stay up past her bedtime wondering how to make conversation with all these accomplished adults.
For sure! I'm already impatient to read the winning one, too. :)
Congratulations!
The title makes me curious. :)
Congratulations! :)
