Category Archives: short stories

story out next month

Now it can be said. My story of dervishes and Rumi and sex and other stuff, “Turning” (which has been referenced previously under a different title), will appear in the premier issue of Chelsea Station, out in November. I just read the proofs. Handsome layout.

16 October 2011 – 9:55 PM | By AX | Posted in fiction, short stories, Turkey | Comments (0)

indian summer writing update

This afternoon, probably the penultimate warm day of 2011 if the long-range forecast and my hard-won knowledge of New England climatic patterns are to be trusted, I completed a draft of my third story for the year. Not a short story. At nearly 12,000 words, it’s about midway through the range defined by SFWA for …

9 October 2011 – 6:40 PM | By AX | Posted in short stories, Turkey, YA | Comments (0)

reviews

In The Abode of Bliss’s first four – five weeks as an actual book, there have been a few. The first I saw was from Bob Lind of Echo Magazine, published to a private Yahoo discussion group, then to Amazon. It makes you think, which perhaps isn’t ideal for lazy readers who demand to be …

3 September 2011 – 3:00 PM | By AX | Posted in Safe as Houses, short stories, The Abode of Bliss | Comments (0)

dispatch from the occult head of brass

Several months later than I expected, BrazenHead has signed up (well, the contract hasn’t been issued/signed, but I’m working on that) its first title: Eat Your Heart Out by Dayna Ingram A breakneck tale of kick-ass, wise-ass, sexy-ass lesbians and ZOMBIES, Eat Your Heart Out opens on what promises to be another tediously annoying day …

31 July 2011 – 2:24 PM | By AX | Posted in BrazenHead, fiction, Lethe Press, novella, short stories, spec fic, The Abode of Bliss, Turkey | Comments (0)

praise from an unexpected quarter

Have just seen an advance review of Steve Berman’s inspirational YA anthology Speaking Out from Kirkus Reviews, notorious in book circles for brutal negativity. The one-paragraph review disappoints, not for its expected negativity (Kirkus doesn’t think much of the book) so much as errors of fact—the book has more than one transgender protagonist, Kirkus; the …

19 July 2011 – 11:38 AM | By AX | Posted in fiction, football (soccer), short stories, Turkey, YA | Comments (0)

sundries

A few things going on. Seem to be in the process of making BrazenHead’s first acquisition, a little book the choice of which may surprise some people who know me. It surprises me. More dirt when the contract is issued/signed. Trying to complete a short story for an anthology whose editor has graciously extended the …

9 July 2011 – 1:49 PM | By AX | Posted in BrazenHead, design, fiction, short stories, The Abode of Bliss, The New People | Comments (0)

mega congratulations

Last evening in New York (while I cowered under the blankets in Rhode Island: second week of persistent migraine aura), my friend Sandra McDonald (who wasn’t in attendance either) won the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT SF/Fantasy/Horror with her luscious, enigmatic, and spectacular collection Diana Comet and Other Improbable Stories, which you should buy and …

27 May 2011 – 6:13 PM | By AX | Posted in fiction, short stories, spec fic | Comments (0)

surprise award nomination

A friend who attended Gaylaxicon 2011 at Outlantacon this weekend informs me that my Arabian Nights-esque short story “Firooz and His Brother” appeared on the shortlist for the 2010 Gaylactic Spectrum Awards. Which all seems rather odd to me since “Firooz” first appeared in 2008, but apparently the 2009 awards recognized only novels while 2010 …

15 May 2011 – 12:52 PM | By AX | Posted in fiction, historical fantasy, short stories, spec fic | Comments (0)

stocktaking, early spring

Tl;dr. Winter 2010-2011 was not enormously successful in terms of getting things done. Well, I made a lot of books for other people and one for myself. But not a great deal of consummated writing. Stories I worked on, ought to have finished, but did not: “Liam and the Changelings”—the fourth Liam story, following “Liam …

31 March 2011 – 5:59 PM | By AX | Posted in fiction, short stories, spec fic, work in progress | Comments (2)

divers notes

Multiple Lambda Award-winning writer Michael Thomas Ford—most notorious, perhaps, for the essay collection Alec Baldwin Doesn’t Love Me and its sequels and the multi-volume Jane Austen-as-vampire spectacular commencing with Jane Bites Back, but treasured as well for many other books of fiction and non-fiction for adults and young people—has this to say about The Abode …

20 March 2011 – 5:14 PM | By AX | Posted in fiction, Lethe Press, SF, short stories, The Abode of Bliss, Turkey | Comments (0)