I am a terrible person who shouldnt keep a blog since she never updates it ever so here is my apology in the form of a roundup of whats been happening in my writerlife since Conventions August.

Updates

Ett. After having made a few more qualifying sales I am now an Active member of the Science Fiction And Fantasy Writers Of America. Despite not being American living in America or identifying particularly with America for that matter. GLOBALISATION Or something like that.

Tva. Ive joined the team at Crossed Genres as a slush reader Send your juicy yummy monthly themed short stories please I like recommending pretty stories to editors Bart Kay and Kelly

Tre. Ive been attached to the Athenas Daughters vol 2 anthology as a stretch goal author What this means is that my Clarion West submission story Red Is The Colour Of Mother Dirt will be added to the anthology Kickstarter campaign as a stretch goal. The Kickstarter campaign will run in December so youll hear more about it when that time comes. A few months to start saving pennies It goes without saying that I would love to have my story included in the anthology. I am deeply fond of it.

Here a teaser of the gorgeous cover art created by Kelli Neier 3

Calls to action

A few awesome calls for submission. Temporally Out Of Order seeks stories about temporally displaced objects. Submissions close November 30th. Buku Fixi are seeking Malaysian cyberpunk stories for an anthology edited by Zen Cho. Submissions close Dec 31st. The Booksmugglers are looking for First Contact stories for their fiction series. Submissions close December 31st.

Strange Horizons are running their annual fundraising drive SH do excellent work and some of the favourite stories Ive read this year were from them. This one by Usman Malik for example or this one by Sunny Moraine. Lets not forget Alyssa Wongs recent amazing two parter. They were also the venue for my first pro sale this year and for that Im forever grateful. I would love to see them continue for a long time but for that they need support from the community So do contribute if you can. Plus the funding rewards we can unlock sound amazing.

As added incentive SH are doing a lucky draw for everyone who donates And because I am the sotong of all bokeh Ive only just realised that one of the prizes is a South East Asian specfic bundle donated kindly by Victor Ocampo. It comprises print copies of the second issue of LONTAR and Fish Eats Lion both edited by Jason Erik Lundberg. I have a story in the second one Exciting.

Story sales

I have a few to announce. I store these up for a few months before dumping them all on your heads like a plate of overripe tomatoes.

In local publishing news I will have a story Pocket Cities in the airport and air travel themed anthology In Transit. I will also have a tiny flash piece each in the MILO and ICE KACANG issues of the 24 Flavours zine series. All of the above are published by Math Paper Press.

Will have a flash piece Cold Hands And The Smell Of Salt appearing on Daily Science Fiction whenever it shows up. I made the sale in September so I expect the piece will be out early next year. This was one of my entries to the summer flash fiction contest on the Codex forum.

Delighted to announce a sale to Lackingtons for their Winter 2015 issue. Tiger Baby was originally printed in Math Paper Press In The Belly Of The Cat anthology and it will now be available to read online With an illustration Sometime in Jan 2015 cant wait.

And last but not least one of my Clarion West stories A Sisters Weight In Stone will appear in Apex sometime around summer next year. Sigrid Ellis acquired the story in July this year and Ive gotten permission from EIC Jason Sizemore to talk about it The story is set in a fantastical alt history not quite steampunky Singapore and tells the story of a young Samsui womans struggle to save her sister. My Clarion West classmates were quite fond of this one and Im glad its found such a marvellous home

One More Thing

AND HERES WHERE I UNVEIL A SHINY MARKET DISRUPTING TECHNOLOGICAL DEVICE.

No. Not really.

Two things are happening at once Im trying to work short fiction reading into my life as a regular thing and Im also looking around for venues that review short fiction. Im also trying to blog more. Okay so thats three things. Three things are happening at once.

My take is that short fiction could use more regular review venues. More of these have been popping up lately but theres so much fiction out there and the community could really use a dozen more short fiction review sites IMHO. So Im going to try to do this myself.

Instead of trying to review everything though Im going to do a monthly round up of the 5 to 10 stories I liked best. I think thats a reasonable start. Ill start with October so look for the first instalment at the end of this month

Saying this in public on a website so that I can be held accountable for it and not flake out AS IT IS VERY LIKELY TO HAPPEN IF I ONLY SAY IT TO MYSELF AND THEN GET TOO LAZY TO DO IT