Well, let me tell you this was a wild, life-altering year: My partner traveled over 1000 miles to live with me. I found out I had a low-grade cancerous pancreatic tumor and had a Whipple, one of the most complex abdominal surgeries (period!) and the most invasive surgeries I’ve had in my life at the start of October. I’m still in recovery and will be for the next year before I’m normal-normal. In March, I started working full-time at Wizards of the Coast and became a Visual Designer for Magic: The Gathering. A little out of order but whatever. And that isn’t even the half of it but thats all I’ll share for now.

Here’s some more of my work that released this latter half of the year!

Honored to be in Deep Dream: Science Fiction Exploring the Future of Art edited by Indrapramit Das, a fantastic speculative author who I’ve admired for a long time. The story I have in this collection is called No Future But Infinity Itself which follows a guardian-artist and his wife in a far future world where he must make mass-scale art to dissuade a remnant humanity from unearthing its past mistakes. The book copy:

In this volume from the Twelve Tomorrows series, Deep Dream, ten writers imagine the different ways in which art forms might evolve, devolve, shift, and transform in the decades and centuries to come. They consider how the rapid progress of technology will interact with different mediums of art or give rise to new ones, and what the lives and inner worlds of different kinds of artists might look like in the future as they adapt to rapidly shifting eras amidst anthropogenic global threats like climate change and fascism. 

Also astounded that my story The Blade and the Bloodwright was chosen for The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2024 edited by Hugh Howey, John Joseph Adams! I’ve coveted being in one of these collections and it feels good for one of my favorite stories to be acknowledged by these editors. Still amazed by this lol. And the back copy:

“These are dangerous stories. The kind that warp reality and threaten to change the world” warns guest editor Hugh Howey in his introduction. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2024 promises a treasure trove of audacious characters, daring worldbuilding, and twisted realties. A sibling duo of supernatural hitmen. A traveling spellbreaker and his trusty alligator mount. Superheroes registering for work. Sentient spaceships with an AI-human interface grow up together with their human pilots. From a Korean folk-tale retelling about the goddess of shamans, to a car, resurrected from obsolescence via automancy, for a road trip from California to Maine, these are stories that, for Howey, “challenged my worldview, that made me exercise new mental muscles, and that brought me to tears.”

I don’t want to repeat myself so check my earlier post here for all my work that came out/was forthcoming by March.

Happy end of year, winter, whatever