Back in the back of a Cadillac, number one with a bullet I’ve got a reprint in Lightspeed.*
“The Magician’s Apprentice”, a story completed at Clarion, published by Weird Tales and nominated for a Shirley Jackson, is free to read at Lightspeed! Wrote this in 2010 and I’m still fond of it in 2017, which is all one can ever ask for, really. Please enjoy a story about growing up, magic, comfort food, and the strong bonds we can make with our teachers. Feel-good tale of the year**.
Readers, please be reminded that you can support this truly excellent magazine what bothered to publish me for a mere $3.99, an amount of dollars that nets you not just my story but those by this month’s authors. I haven’t read them all yet or they haven’t landed, but you’ll be getting the likes of Tobias S. Buckell, Genevieve Valentine and a whole host of truly talented others. Lightspeed will give you all these stories cheap as free anyway, but I encourage you to toss money its way, it is a good thing.
(As ever whenever this story pops up, I remember how indebted I am to Dale Bailey, the Clarion instructor for that week and a truly superhuman being.)
* The actual lyrics.
** It is not the feel-good tale of the year.
july-angel Asks:
tazmuir Said:
Thank you so much for your Extremely Nice Words, which mean a great deal to me – making people feel things with a capital FEE is honestly the best thing I can ever hope to achieve. I figured your message was an extremely good jumping-off-point to note:
1. I’m so grateful for everyone who reads my writing and gets something out of it, even if that writing is the Animorphs parody I wrote when I was eleven years old that solely makes fun of the X-Files movie, a cultural touchstone that has not aged well;
2. I haven’t abandoned my fannish writing, and though TSG may not appear in the same format as before (I’m so happy fandom lately has taken to posting “What Would’ve Happened” outlines) it ain’t dead;
3. There are links in my ABOUT page to all my current work, though I gotta update it with a couple of reprints coming out that are nice and accessible. I am partcularly fond of the Pseudopod podcast done of a horror short story I did a few years back, “The Magician’s Apprentice”, read by the absolutely incredible Louise Ratcliffe;
4. Lastly, the reason why I have been inactive is because I have spent every spare moment of my last year that I could finishing up an extremely large project. I can only reassure you that this has been the inactive silence before a garbage storm of such huge and rubbishy proportions that it will make people reverent. I have been creating a huge trash receptacle, packed full of refuse. If you have ever enjoyed my bin leavings before, I can only assure you that this debris tub* is FOR YOU.
* I wrote a novel.