A Busy Year on the Writing Front

Nonfiction/Essays

Los Angeles Times: “What my son with Down syndrome taught me about baseball — and life” (https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2022-10-03/a-father-a-son-and-an-almost-perfect-day-of-baseball ) “The Spruce Goose, the Hollywood Stars, and America’s Nazis” (From Earth to the Stars blog) (https://fromearthtothestars.com/2022/08/04/the-spruce-goose-the-hollywood-stars-and-americas-nazis/ )

3) “Q&A with Rick Wilber on ‘Blimpies’”  (From Earth to the Stars blog https://fromearthtothestars.com/2022/03/17/qa-with-rick-wilber-3/ )

Fiction Sold or Published in 2022

“The Greeter” (short story, with Lisa Lanser Rose, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, forthcoming in 2023) “The Storyteller” (novelette, Merciless Mermaids anthology, WordFire Press, forthcoming in 2023) “The Goose” (novella, Asimov’s Science Fiction, July/August 2022) “Blimpies” (novella, Asimov’s Science Fiction, March/April 2022)

Fiction Submitted

“The Death of the Hind” (novella, with Kevin J. Anderson) “To the Mean” (short story) “The Hill and the Stars” (novel) “The Donkey’s Hind” (short story)

Work in Progress

Media Matters (college textbook, 2nd edition, with John Saunders of University of Alabama-Huntsville) Encyclopedia updates on baseball/science fiction “The Civil Servant” (science fiction, with Joe Haldeman, a novel? A novella? We’re working on it) “Insensitive Sounds” (novel) Collaborations in the works with a handful of other writers, ranging from WWII alt history involving Scapa Flow to multiverse story with Hugh Everett to a baseball fantasy that involves a witch and a DiMaggio or three to a high-tech thriller that involves some baseball and some gee whiz brain/computer interface tech and a lunch in Palo Alto, and a train ride (or maybe it’s a passenger liner) with Alfred Hitchcock. Looking forward to working on all of these works-in-progress in 2023 with all these fabulous writers. I’ll get my part done, I swear.

Awards (Finalist or Winner) received in 2022

“The Hind,” an Asimov’s Readers’ Award for Best Novelette in the magazine. The story is a collaboration with Kevin J. Anderson (award received at Chicon a year late because of Covid) “The Hind,” (collaboration with Kevin J. Anderson) is a Finalist for the Canopus Award for Excellence in Interstellar Writing. Canopus recognizes “the finest fiction and non-fiction works that expand our understanding of the challenges, opportunities, pitfalls, and rewards of interstellar space exploration.” Award made in Nairobi in February. “Billie the Kid,” Asimov’s Readers’ Award finalist for Best Novelette of 2021 in the magazine. “Billie the Kid,” from Asimov’s, a finalist for the 2022 Sidewise Award for Best Alternate History—Short form.