Two Publication Updates & Some Writerly Silliness

[babarnett]

1) My story "God's Gift to Women" is now up on Daily Science Fiction's website for your reading pleasure/critical dismemberment. It's flash length, so it's a quick read. In other words, if you haven't read it already, what's the holdup?

2) Over the weekend I got a look at the TOC for Wilde Stories 2011: The Year's Best Gay Speculative Fiction, which puts me in some rather fine company:

"Love Will Tear us Apart" by Alaya Dawn Johnson
"Map of Seventeen" by Chris Barzak
"How to Make Friends in Seventh Grade" by Nick Poniatowski
"Mortis Persona" by Barbara A. Barnett
"Mysterium Tremendum" by Laird Barron
"Oneirica" by Hal Duncan
"Lifeblood" by Jeffrey Ricker
"Waiting for the Phone to Ring" by Richard Bowes
"Blazon" by Peter Dubé
"All the Shadows" by Joel Lane
"The Noise" by Richard Larson
"How to Make a Clown" by Jeremy C. Shipp
"Beach Blanket Spaceship" by Sandra McDonald
"Hothouse Flowers: or The Discreet Boys of Dr. Barnabas" by Chaz Brenchley

Of the short stories I've read over the past year, Alaya Dawn Johnson's "Love Will Tear Us Apart" was one of my absolute favorites, so getting to appear alongside it adds an extra dollop of awesome to the awesome sauce that was being included in this book in the first place.

3) As I've mentioned before, my muse is a surly plumber named Jim Bob. A friend recently posted a link to this comic, which makes Jim Bob look like quite the charmer in comparison. (potentially NSFW, especially if you go poking around the rest of the website)

Comments

[bogwitch64.livejournal.com]

[babarnett.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the sparkles!

[jakobdrud.livejournal.com]

Congrats on having the story up! And thanks for posting the link to that comic. Today, for the first time in a long time, I learned something new about ostrich-hunting :-)

[babarnett.livejournal.com]

That's what I'm here for. Education. :)

[jenniferkoliver.livejournal.com]

Massive congratulations on the Wilde Stories 2011!

And I just read "God's Gift to Women". Oh my word, I was snickering from the first line to the punch-line. Genius concept, and fab character voices. :D

[babarnett.livejournal.com]

Thanks!