Work Log

Reviews (on thewell-roundedgeek.blogspot.com)

Amour (movie)
Couch by Benjamin Parzybok
Existence by David Brin
Moranthology by Caitlin Moran
Singularity Sky by Charles Stross
Burn by James Patrick Kelly
Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks
Museum of Seraphs in Torment by David Pinault
Katabasis by Robert Reed
Jerome and the Seraph by Robina Williams
Once Upon a Clockwork Tale (anthology w/ Robin Wyatt Dunn)
The Panopticon by Jenni Fagan
Neptune’s Brood by Charles Stross
The Darwin Elevator by Jason Hough
Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas by John Scalzi
In Her Eyes by Seth Chambers
The Tenth of December by George Saunders
A Stranger in Olondria by Sofia Samatar
The Regime by Jaimie M. Engle
Sword and Sorceress 28, Elisabeth Waters, ed.
Unidentified Funny Objects 2, Alex Shvartsman, ed.
Brief reviews of Hugo-nominated pieces for 2014 (Goodreads)
Fish Tails by Sheri S. Tepper
The Great Leap of Shin by Henry Lien
The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
Dead Reign by T. A. Pratt
A Trio of Fantasy Stories by Women: Elizabeth Bear, Alyssa Wong, and Ursula Vernon
Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
Uprooted by Naomi Novik
Review: The Slow Regard of Silent Things by Patrick Rothfuss
Review, Connie Willis’s Crosstalk
Review, PROOF anthology by 30th Street Fiction
Review, Lanark: A Life in Four Books, by Alasdair Gray
What I Did on My Summer Vacation – 2019 Irish WorldCon panels (blog 9/19)
Review, Moonshadows collection, by Lela E. Buis
Under Darker Suns by Martin M. Clark – Review
Review: The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
Review: Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh

Member, Critters Workshop since 4/13

Essays, Editor’s Notes, Third Flatiron anthologies (33) – 25,000

Stories written, word counts

2011
Jam Night – 602
Office Politics – 1800
Good Bloodlines – 3600 – Accepted by Sorcery & the Far Frontier antho

2012
Braces – 3000 – Accepted by May-December for Fresh Blood antho
A New Shop – 1650 – pub’d by Hogglepot Journal (charity)
Hela’s Brain – 2360. Revised, to 2800 (3/13), 3800 (9/13) – Accepted by Salgado for Issues of the Future antho (2018)
Hogmanay Y2K or: Pay it Backward – 1500
Home and Garden Show – 2200, revised to 3400 9/13
Everybody Ought to Have a Maid – 1900 – Accepted by Bards & Sages Q
Flash piece: Letter to Santa – 225
J.I.T.? – 2560
Love Is In Your Future – 3000 – Accepted by Come to My Window antho, Song Stories Press

Mountain Ma’am Series

Mountain Ma’am – 2620 – self published on Amazon
Whalebone Corset – 3400
Hell and Earth (aka The Chimera and the Coin) – 3532
Skunks v. Woodpeckers – 1941
Raised by Wolves – 2900 – Accepted by Bloodbond, pub 11/2015
Frank and Jesse – 2940
Doc Frain – 3500

Novellas, Dragon Stead Series

Erenarch Academy: Under the Dragon Banner – 20K
Miranda of Daris – 25,350

Pub’d by World Castle, then self reprinted

2013
Mémé – 4100 – Accepted by Latchkey Tales antho, reprinted by Shoreline of Infinity
The Wet at the Top of the Stairs – 2600 – Accepted by InfectiveInk (no $)
Sluicing the Acqua – 5000 – Accepted by The Colored Lens
Abraham Lincoln and the Triplets of Belle Town – 3000
98 Aprils – 1000 – Accepted by Mad Scientist Journal
Rage, Rage, Against the Dying of the Age – 5000
The Yir of Myrcenaries – 5300
Thanks, I Just Ate – 900, revised to 1500 7/13
Fogged – 3500
The Chosen (rev’d, Electra Had a Daughter) – 4300 – Accepted by PerihelionSF
Codename VJ (novel #1, first draft) – 50000

2014
Lost in Heaven – 3600
Ever Eager-Eyed – 2800 – Accepted by Arcane Arts antho
Recurring Cauchemar – added to novel 4,000
Tipping Point: Adverse Possession – 3600
Novel adds – 9,500
Pretty Pauline – 3400
Logical Phlogiston – 3200 – Accepted by Arcan Arts antho
Slow Stepper – 3600 – Accepted by Stupefying Stories
Mythos story – 3500
Flash pieces: Yellow is the New Black, The 16th of December, Considerations of Having Royalty as Namesake – Accepted by Dear Robot antho

2015

This Too Shall Pass (Mtn Maam series) – 3300
The Horrible and Terrifying Deeds of Alcofribas the Bold, son of the Widow Althea – 2600   (won 2017 MileHiCon blind read, also Writers of the Future Honorable Mention 3Q 2017)
Banish Mishanter – 2700
Dreams of Rain – 3600
Quantum Bounce – 2800
Novel #2 – Violet Rain – 36000
Flash: Aromatherapy: Redolence
Late to the Dance – 2100

2016

Dante’s Ride- 2500
Tower of Souls – 700 – Accepted by Farther Stars Than These ezine (no $)
Drabbles – 500
Tiny Bubbles – 2600
Horoscope Update – 1000
Novel #1 adds – 10000
Flossing – 500
Ten Lords a-Leaping – 1300
The Great American Eclipse of 2017 – 750

2017

Story collection (MM) synopsis – 500
The Girl and the Hollow Tree – 2200
Wee’re in the Money – 600
I Met Him at the Poison Store 700
Another Roadside Infraction 700
Snapdragon and Foxglove 2500

Hela’s Brain – 4000 – Accepted by Issues of Tomorrow: A Science Fiction Antho (Indie Authors Press)

Adds – Violet Rain (novel #2) 14000

2018

Adds – Codename VJ (novel #1) 3000, Violet Rain (novel #2) 22500, Tipping Point (+3900, to novelette length)
Eggs for Breakfast – 5100
Laxmi’s Stowaway – 4200 (Flight Anthology, 30th Street Press)

2019

Sekhmet and the Red Dress – 2200
The Children’s Crusade – 3250
How to House-Sit for Your Witch Friend – 800
Why P.I.s are Named Red – 600

2020
Unwinding Novel #0 – in extremis start (NaNo) – 10000
P for Poinsettia – 1250

2021

Unwinding novel #0, cont. – 9500
Stacked Deck (tarot tale) – 500

2022

Your Mother Should Know – 4250
Outlook Good – 2500
NaNoWriMo – 16,000 – toward new novel

2023 and 2024
NaNoWriMo – 60,000 toward new novel

Total (est.) – 600K