Check out all the details here. This is going to be a fabulous book… I can’t wait to get my copy so I can read the shit out of these stories!

Nextly, check out the news and updates from the Things We Are Not blog. Chris is a master of publicity and is very generous with praise for his writers… he calls Brain Harvest “probably the single best venue for flash fiction,” (WOW!) and has some very kind things to say about my stories. This book is going to be so awesome, you’ll barely be able to keep your head from exploding. So be sure to buy it! And if you have some spare change in your Paypal pockets, donate a buck or two to help cover the costs of publication. Indie publishing is no easy task, friends, so if you love fiction and want to see more good stuff and less Dan Brown, please do what you can.

Thirdly, I have lots of stuff to report, but I’ve come up against a familiar brick wall… which is that I hate blogging. There. I said it. I know I have to get over it, but I just had to get that off my chest. Maybe I can blog about hating blogging. Or, better yet, maybe I can outsource blogging responsibilities to someone else. Any volunteers?

The Outer Alliance is a group of SF/F writers who have come together as allies for the advocacy of LGBT issues in literature. Made up of individuals of all walks of life, our goal is to educate, support, and celebrate LGBT contributions in the science-fiction and fantasy genres.

The Outer Alliance’s founder, Natania Barron, started the group because somehow such a group had not been started before. So? Here we are.

And all of this is a fantastic segue to something I should have done weeks ago, which is to promote the upcoming SF queer anthology Things We Are Not, in which I have a story! The anthology was curated by Chris Fletcher, editor extraordinaire of MBrane SF, and is due to be published in October of this year, I believe. Go ahead and check out the table of contents, and I hope you will consider buying a copy of the book. It’s not easy to single-handedly curate and publish a book (particularly while also running a magazine), and Chris needs all the support we can give him. Speaking of support… he’s also running a fund drive to raise money for publication costs.  You can sign up to be a sponsor and/or pay a measly dollar to vote for the cover art of Things We Are Not, a contest for which there is a PRIZE! Who doesn’t like prizes? Chris is about halfway to his fundraising goal… let’s help push him over the edge! Support small presses that publish unique writing! They can’t do it without you!