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My First Short Stories Have Fantastic Publishers
My kids are in the world! My first ever publication is Patient Was the Doctor, a hefty 7,100-word short story with Analog Science Fiction and Fact, in the July/August 2025 issue. Electronic and box subscriptions are always available, and paper copies should be available soon in stores like Barnes and Noble and Kepler’s. Behold, the…
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How I Got My Agent: Querying in the Pandemic
This is it… the time to finish your novel. [Man rows through a shipwrecking storm] Hilary Allison I signed with my literary agent in late 2022, after querying through the pandemic. My journey was both so unusual and so boring I decided not to post about it. But then I realized every choice I made,…
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I Hired Sensitivity Readers & This Is What I Learned
Potential triggers: Mention of death, murder, genocide, sorcery, insects, military-industrial complex, upset stomach; images of human skill and paper moths He’s a tourist. He vacations in people’s lives, takes pictures, puts them in his scrapbook, and moves on. All he’s interested in are stories. Basically, Leslie, he’s selfish. And you’re not. That’s why you don’t…
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The Details: I AMM Better Than Ever
The remaking of human history by the technological manipulation of the human nervous system belongs to the literature of science fiction, the [thought] experiments of social science that may illuminate history but not change it. Richard Lewontin As I type this, I’m fighting down worries about Lewontin’s The Politics of Science, where he bitches out…
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The ABCs of Shang-chi
SPOILER WARNING for Marvel’s Shang-chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings; reprinted from Medium.com I’m not a real Chinese anymore either! Nobody here is real Chinese. my dad Honestly, I can’t even remember what my Dad and I were talking about. The geomancy of furniture arrangement in my old condo? The chi balance of…
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