today's mail

My contributor's copies of Paradox 10 arrived in the mail, with "Amante Dorée"--my alternate history transsexual New Orleans story--leading off.

I was really kind of startled to see how many things I've had published this year

"A Gift of Wings." The Queen in Winter. New York: Ace Books, 2006. 247-312.

"National Geographic On Assignment: Mermaids of the Old West." Fictitious Force 2 (Spring 2006): 18.

"Drowning Palmer." All Hallows: The Journal of the Ghost Story Society 41 (February 2006): 63-80.

"Toward a Praxis of World-Building." Concussed. London: Concussion, 2006. 43-46

"The Ile of Dogges" (with Elizabeth Bear). Æon 7 (May 2006).

"The Séance at Chisholm End." Alchemy 3 (May 2006): 56-68.

"A Night in Electric Squidland." Lone Star Stories 15 (June 2006).

The Virtu. New York: Ace Books, 2006.

"Draco campestris." Strange Horizons (August 2006).

"Katabasis: Seraphic Trains." Tales of the Unanticipated 27 (2006): 8-20.

"Letter from a Teddy Bear on Veterans' Day." Ideomancer 5.3 (September 2006).

"The Importance of Maps." The Broadsheet (September 2006).

"A Light in Troy." Clarkesworld Magazine 1 (October 2006).

"Amante Dorée." Paradox 10 (Winter 2006): 4-11.

And, okay so a lot of that is just because there was a kind of backlog of things in press (there's still a backlog of things in press), but all the same, it's just like, wow.

It's still very weird to me to realize that I AM what I wanted to be when I grew up. Because, you know, that's just not how it works.

Weird.