Technical Difficulties

My spies, a.k.a. mirrorthaw, tell me that "Coyote Gets His Own Back" came in second in Apex Magazine's 2012 Story of the Year Readers Poll, behind tied-for-first-place Alethea Kontis and Katharine Duckett.

This has reminded me that I should make a post about the things I published in 2012. So here you go:

• "Blue Lace Agate" (Lightspeed Magazine 20)
  
• "Coyote Gets His Own Back" (Apex Magazine 38)
  
• "Extract from 'Horror in Pierre Lucerne: Suburbia, Alienation, and the Rejection of Community" (The Magazine of Speculative Poetry 9.2)
  
• "Hope Is Stronger Than Love" (Shadow Unit 4.03)
  
• "A Road That Has No Ending: Revenge in Sandman" (Chicks Dig Comics)
  
• "The Wreck of the Charles Dexter Ward" Part 1 & Part 2 (Drabblecast 254-55)

"The Wreck of the Charles Dexter Ward" by matociquala and me, which is set in the same universe as "Boojum" and "Mongoose," is a free podcast up at The Drabblecast (2 parts, here and here).

1. I should mention that OddCon was awesome. I'm no good at con reports (fellow GoH robin_d_laws is blogging his con experience, though), but I had a wonderful time. Thank you, Odyssey Con!

2. My friend Marissa Lingen (mrissa) has just made her eightieth short fiction sale. (Yes, that's eightieth--80--not eighth.)

3. Today is Carol Emshwiller's ninetieth birthday. Happy birthday, Carol!

4. Drabblecast is doing matociquala and my story "Boojum," which--for those of you playing along at home--is set in the same universe as "Mongoose." Drabblecast 202 is Part I.

5. Taronga Zoo in Sydney has a baby red panda.

Since I'm spamming LJ today anyway--

The mail just brought me two copies of ESLI Magazine (one of which I will be mailing to Bear here presently), in which appeareth the Russian translation of "Boojum." I can identify which story is "Boojum" because it's the only one with two authors (and I can sort of recognize Bear's name and mine in Cyrillic)--and it has an illustration in which I can recognize both the Lavinia Whateley and Black Alice Bradley. (!)

People, I am SO. GEEKED. Endorphin rush and everything.

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