Wooh! TOC for Retro Spec: Tales of Fantasy and Nostalgia! (Click on the link for more info about the stories.) It’s scheduled for an October 2010 release!

Jude-Marie Green, “Hula Hoop”
Robert Borski, “Invasion, 1955”
Neil Coghlan, “Storm on Fifth Avenue”
K.M. Praschak, “Rain Goddess: The Dust Bowl, 1930s”
Lyn C. A. Gardner, “The Mustache”
Bruce Boston, “beat people”
Leonard Richardson, “The Day Alan Turing Came Out”
Brian Rosenberger, “These United States of Frankenstein: Meltdown”
Jennifer Rachel Baumer, “New and Improved”
Amanda C. Davis, “Sparks between Our Teeth”
Cliff Winnig, “R101 Is Burning”
Todd Wheeler, “Dreams like Snowflakes”
Karen A. Romanko, “Zeb”
Cat Rambo, “Ticktock Girl”
Lon Prater, “All That Remains Is the Middle”
Don D’Ammassa, “Slipstream Fiction”
G. O. Clark, “Putting off the Past”
Marge Simon, “The Fix”
Nancy Ellis Taylor, “The Last Time I Was in Vienna”
C.D. Covington, “U8: Alexanderplatz (1989)”
Dayle A. Dermatis, “The Devil Went down to the Sunset Strip”
Paul Abbamondi, “Art Deco and the Infestation of New America”
Ann K. Schwader, “The Darkness Whispers”
Brenta Blevins, “Mercury 13–And Beyond”
David D. Levine, “Nucleon”

I’m delighted to announce my very first podcast publication!

Not only that, but it’s a resale (can’t call it a reprint, can I?) of my first professionally published story. “What Dragons Prefer” is a short fantasy tale with a wicked twist at the end. It first appeared in Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Fantasy Magazine in 1996.

You can listen to “What Dragons Prefer” here or download it for future audio pleasure on your computer or iPod.

Because, that’s right, it’s free! So go forth and enjoy!

Great news! The anthology Fabulous Whitby, which contains my story “Proof of Devotion” (which I wrote all the way back in 2002 at the Oregon Coast Writers Master Class!), is finally available! ::squee bouncity::

Right now, amazon doesn’t seem to be supporting it well: amazon.com doesn’t list it at all, and amazon.co.uk and amazon.ca are listing it as out of stock or whatnot.

The good news is, you can order it from a place called York Publishing Services out of the UK.

The better news is, they charge only $3.99 to deliver to the US, which is the same as what they charge to deliver in the UK (using the current exchange rate). That’s right—international shipping is the same as UK shipping!

Click on the link above to go to the Fabulous Whitby order page. I’m soooo excited about this one. I’m in an anthology with Liz Williams and Esther Friesner and Cherith Baldry and Jay Lake andandand…!

Haunted Hearts and Sapphic Shades: Lesbian Ghost Stories just got a fantastic review from Rainbow Reviews! Mine was one of the four stories specifically mentioned; the reviewer called it “the unexpectedly romantic heart-wrenching ‘Some Old Lover’s Ghost.’”

::beam::

Haunted Hearts and Sapphic Shades: Lesbian Ghost Stories is now available to order at amazon and will be released on May 15! This one contains “Some Old Lover’s Ghost,” a story I just had a blast writing. (Plus it’s so nice to be listing some new spec fic sales and releases along with all the erotica and romance, if only for variety!)

I’m delighted to report that my story “If the Shoe Fits” will appear in the DAW anthology The Trouble With Heroes, edited by the incredible Denise Little. I wrote the story at an anthology workshop in Oregon that she co-ran with Dean Wesley Smith (with able assistance from Kristine Kathryn Rusch).