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JoSelle Vanderhooft’s anthology Steam Powered: Lesbian Steampunk Stories, which contains my novelette “Sleepless, Burning Life,” is now available in e-book Nook format at Barnes & Noble. (It was already available in Kindle format on Amazon.) Fantastique Unfettered Issue 3, which contains a lengthy interview with

Tim Mullins’ cover art for Mythic Delirium 25. And here’s another illustration by Paula Friedlander, that nestles between Melissa Frederick’s poem “Venus Crossing the Sun” and Mari Ness’ poem “Raven Singing.”

Daniel Trout’s moody illustration for Florence Major’s poem “Joseph Carey Merrick.”

Paula Friedlander’s illustration for Jessica Wick’s poem “Nobody’s Song.”

Today ends up being a double-poem day. My poem “Surviving Wonderland” popped up today at the new issue of Stone Telling, which just went live. It’s a delicious looking issue, focused on myth in storytelling, with contributions by Yoon Ha Lee, Delia Sherman, Amal El-Mohtar,

Paula Friedlander’s illustration for Sonya Taaffe’s poem “The Description of a Wish.”

The third issue of the new zine Fantastique Unfettered has just become available, and it features a long interview with me about all sorts of writing-and-editing related things. Much to my delight, this isn’t the end of my interaction with Fantastique Unfettered. The next issue

My poem “Carrington’s Ferry,” the newest in my Disturbing Muses series, has sold to Strange Horizons. Good news to start the day with!

I received word this morning that my poem “The Vigil,” dedicated to Nicole Kornher-Stace (and one of the last unsold poems in the “Claire-dare” series) has sold to Amal El-Mohtar and Jessica Wick at Goblin Fruit, and will appear in their Fall 2012 issue. Most

I learned something today that leaves me especially tickled. As a part of the “Mike Allen feature” in issue 4 of Fantastique Unfettered, the zine is reprinting my science fiction novelette “Stolen Souls.” Whatever flaws it may have, this piece holds a lot of sentimental