Frequencies, a Fiction Album Is Here
They’re all special to me but something a little different this time. Just between you and me, there will be a damn fine deal on this one next week, but for those who hate waiting, you can hear the opening now. And if you absolutely loathe it, you can get your own copy from a secure site, complete with a bonus track.
Cover Art by Kelly U. Johnson
Broken Fevers’ Starred Publisher’s Weekly Review/Preorder Available
I really couldn’t ask anything more from a review than the one I just discovered from PW (yes, discovered, perhaps I’ll keep closer tabs on this in the future). Color me pleased.
Broken Fevers is out March 2nd, 2021, but available for preorder now from Tombolo Books and Amazon.
Blueprints for Better Worlds
Paperback and Ebook Now Available
We’ve all encountered delay during these interesting times. So while full availability waits, there’s been progress. My latest novella is now available in ePub and PDF here. And the paperback and Mobi ebook are available on Amazon.
Evolution Ebook Is Available for Preorder
The ebook will be released June 21st, but it’s available for preorder now. 
New Poetry and Prose in Sycorax’s Daughters
Three new works, “Foundling” and two poems appear in Sycorax’s Daughters, an anthology of horror works by Black women. The ebook is out today and the paperback on March 10th.
The Rep War World Reappears in “Each Star a Sun to Invisible Planets”
William Woods, the world’s oldest man and one of the talented progeny in R/evolution‘s reparation generation reappears in “Each Star a Sun to Invisible Planets.” The story is included in Stories for Chip, a tribute to SF icon, Samuel Delany.
Look out for William and the next reparations generation in the upcoming novel, evolution®
Publishers Weekly Reviews Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond
PW reviewed the Mothership anthology with a shout out to yours truly, which just about made my month. They had kind words for “The Taken” one of the stories in the mosaic novel, R/evolution. I’m proud to be part of this project and amongst so many fine writers. Beyond all that though I’m looking forward to reading the rest of the stories in this anthology: 40 multicultural tales of sci fi, horror, and fantasy compiled by editors Edward Austin Hall and Bill Campbell. I’m a big fan of spec fic tomes with something for everyone, and this particular one looks to be just that. It’s out now.
“The Swell of the Cicadas” in Shades of Blue & Gray
“The Swell of the Cicadas,” a ghost story, is out now in Prime Books’ Shades of Blue & Gray. The anthology has stories by Connie Wilkins, Nick Mamatas, and many more.
More Americans were killed during the years of the Civil War (1861-1865) than any other date in history. Men shattered,women lost, families broken. In Shades of Blue & Gray, editor Steve Berman offers readers tales of the supernatural, ghost stories that range from the haunts of the battlefield to revenants on the long march home. Yank. Rebel. Both finding themselves at odds in flesh and spirit…
Shades of Blue & Gray cover
Heiresses of Russ 2013
I’m happy to announce that my co-editor, Steve Berman, and I have made the final selections for this year’s edition of Heiresses of Russ. It’s a great list of authors and stories. We can’t wait to present them to you all. They are:
“Harrowing Emily” by Megan Arkenberg
“Reality Girl” by Richard Bowes
“The Witch Sea” by Sara Diemer
“Saint Louis 1990” by Jewelle Gomez
“Narrative Only” by Kate Harrad
“Nightfall in the Scent Garden” by Claire Humphrey
“Elm” by Jamie Killen
“Beneath Impossible Circumstances” by Andrea Kneeland
“One True Love” by Malinda Lo
“Winter Scheming” by Brit Mandelo
“Feed Me the Bones of Our Saints” by Alex Daley McFarlane
“Nine Days Seven Tears” by JL Merrow
“Oracle Gretel” by Julia Rios
“Otherwise” by Nisi Shawl
“Chang’e Dashes from the Moon” by Benjanun Sriduangkaew
“Astrophilia” by Carrie Vaughn
“Barnstormers” by Wendy Wagner”
R/evolution Now Available
People are starving, biogenetic adaptations are prevalent amongst the privileged, and the poor are being ground to a sharp and dangerous point. This is the future US where in the struggle for survival citizens are pushed to the breaking point as relationships start to fracture along the lines of class and race. These are stories of the leaders and the followers, the victims, heroes, and the everyday people caught in history’s wake, chief among them Dr. Ezekiel Carter, a genius in his field who decides to offer genetic reparations to those being left behind. In this world, what will become of the people at the fringes and more than that of humanity itself?
Print book available at IndieBound and Amazon. Ebook available at Weightless Books, iBookstore, Sony, B&N and Amazon.
Smoketown
The city of Leiodare is unlike any other in the post-climate change United States. Within its boundaries, birds are outlawed and what was once a crater in Appalachia is now a tropical, glittering metropolis where Anna Armour is waiting.
An artist by passion and a factory worker by trade, Anna is a woman of special gifts. She has chosen this beautiful, traumatized city to wait for the woman she’s lost, the one she believes can save her from her troubled past and uncertain future.
“Release in A Minor” in Tangle XY
Want some public sex and magic in your life? Check out Release in A minor appearing in Tangle XY from Blind Eye Books. Available now.
“Dead and the President” in Tangle Girls
In an apocalyptic future one woman with the power to inhabit many bodies fights to free herself and her people from a heritage of repression. Check out my short story “Dead and the President” in the Tangle Girls anthology from Blind Eye Books. (more…)
Starting Friction
On the off chance you may have woken up this morning thinking to yourself, “Hey you know what I need? Poetry, gods above! Yes, poetry. Of course! That’s what’s been missing!”
Should this be the case you’re in luck. Starting Friction is out. And you know what’s in it? Poetry. (Also some short prose.) (more…)
“The Taken” in Dark Dreams III
The Taken, a short story, is now available as part of Whispers in the Night: Dark Dreams III collection.
“Deep Night” in Necrologue
Deep Night, a short story, is available as part of the award-winning anthology Necrologue: Diva Book of the Dead and Undead.
