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I have new fiction in the world today! My latest short story “An Invitation from the BildungsEssen Restaurant Group” is live at the wonderful Sunday Morning Transport! It is subscribers only, but you can check out two months free with this link. Many thanks to Fran Wilde, Curtis Chen, and Eric Brooks for their feedback on this one.

It was the shortest story inception to publication yet, though the prompt for an “excessively, bewilderingly buzzing meal” I received from Fran an unspecified...

Keeping this blog updated has clearly become less and less of a priority based on my last post being over a year ago, but I’m happy to say that I’ve become more remiss not because of a lack of productivity or happenings, but because I’ve been busy working on a book and on essays and new short fiction.

In fact, I found out just this week that my first two Science Fact essays published in Analog last year came in both first and second in the AnLab awards, which are a reader’s choice awards for...

Cooking, Writing and the End of the World

Last I wrote was back in November after my novella, Ghosting, had come out in Giganotosaurus. Since then it made a few people’s best of the year lists, including from Nerds of a Feather, and from Charles Payseur, who had some wonderful things to say about it in his review in Locus:

GigaNotoSaurus provides another wonderful read with November’s “Ghosting” by Kelly Lagor, which follows Lydia as she attempts to reboot her life, and not for the firs...

Desert Fact and Fiction

I hope you’ve been having a wonderfully cromulent fall –

It’s been an eventful time for me since I last wrote back in July, both on the writing and personal fronts.

The biggest news I have is that first of the two stories I sold this year is up as of this week at Giganotosaurus! This one is a novella-length gothic cyberpunk story about forgetting, and I’m quite fond of it. This was a cathartic story for me to write, as I was trying to work out some feelings tha...

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First off, in writing news, my new essay series for Asimov’s has officially begun! You can pick up both the first installment, as well as a guest editorial about the series by yours truly, in the March/April 2022 issue.

Needless to say, I’m excited about this series, which will trundle along, coming out twice a year for the foreseeable future, and will galavant through cinematic history in a roughly chronological fashion. This issue’s essay is about George Méliès’ La Voyage Dans la Lune, ...

Another year has ticked over, and while this traditionally means a “year in review” kind of post, I did want to start off first with the news that I just had a new story come out in the December issue of Three-Lobed Burning Eye called, “A Selection of Tissues.”

A while back I resolved to stop writing such overtly sad stories anymore. For many obvious reasons, I found I increasingly didn’t want to read or watch sad stuff, and even my default musical taste was shifting into more energetic/angry...

Well, I am at least.

I don’t have too much to say about the intervening time between my last post in March of 2020 and today. I spent most of that time like many others who already had a work-from-home day job – indoors and away from others. I started wearing masks everywhere, got more houseplants and pairs of leggings, and got vaccinated as soon as I got the green light to from work. I also read more than I usually do, played more guitar and video games, did a variety of horror-themed puzzl...

Its been a minute since I last updated, but Ive had a bunch of things published in the past ::counts backwards:: nine months? Sheesh. Well, no one reads personal blogs anymore, so no great loss. Ive been channeling that energy into lots of different writing projects lately. Namely:

A slew of new installments in the Tor.com Science and the Fantastic column A two-part examination of how science is used in science fiction over at Locus Magazine (from both the theoretical and practical angles) I...

There have two more installments of the Science and the Fantastic column published on Tor.com since I last wrote – they cover the weird interstitial period of SF of the 50s that I cover using Bradbury, and the maniacal scientific work of Monod in uncovering mechanisms of cellular regulation. This was followed up by my first dip into the expansion period for both biology and science fiction in the 60s, covering Ballard and the movement’s British origins, which aligned nicely with the birth of...