My first story collection, Leaving the Dead is now available!

New Novel, The Perfect Stranger, now available from Speaking Volumes.

WHILE SCOURING THE ATTIC of her literary hero and dissertation subject, Gene Sanders Wilkerson, grad student Genevieve Slidell comes upon five previously unknown Wilkerson novels. In a variety of genres and nothing like his previous work, Genevieve fears the stodgy world of Wilkerson scholarship won’t understand them, and she claims them as her own, entering them in a batch of literary contests. Two win and two place.

SHE MAKES THE ROUNDS of genre conventions to accept her honors accompanied by Wilkerson’s ghost Sandy who’s taken with the idea of vicariously enjoying being famous again through her.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIIMMINGLY for the pair until they get to Literature where the whole thing blows up, only to be resolved by a clever courtroom drama in which she pleads not insanity but metafiction. A bumper car ride through the crazy business of telling stories, The Perfect Stranger explores the complex relationship between the author and her work.

I’m pleased to announce that The Watch is now available in ebook.

My story “Healing Benjamin” has had its fifth incarnation. Originally in REALMS OF FANTASY, reprinted in Ellen Datlow’s TALES OF WONDER, in a Japanese collection of sf cat stories, and in LIGHTSPEED. Now it’s in SCIENCE FICTION WORLD in Chinese. Will he get nine lives? He’s a pretty persistent cat. Here’s the cover and illustration.

For all the cat lovers out there. Have a good laugh, and a good cry.

If Time and Time was ever timely, it’s now. Check it out:

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Kindle Edition

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Apple

A new story, “Penelope Waits,” is online at Apex Magazine.  There is also an interview with me about the story and my work in general.

I’m delighted to announce the publication of “Once More Into the Abyss” on Tor.com, the third and final in a series of stories about Stan, who believes his parents to have been aliens.  The previous stories are “Adult Children of Alien Beings” and “Orphan Pirates of the Spanish Main.”  They are edited by Ellen Datlow, with the marvelous artwork of Chris Buzelli.