News
- 3/28/2013 – “Little Grace of the House of Death” received the Drabblecast People’s Choice Award for Best Story of 2012!
- 3/11/2013 – The When the Villain Comes Home anthology with my “Oranges, Lemons, and Thou Beside Me” is a 2012 ForeWord Book of the Year Award Finalist in the Short Stories (Adult Fiction) category!
- 1/1/2013 – I was interviewed by Maggie Slater for issue #44 of Apex Magazine.
- 8/19/2012 – Mortal Clay, Stone Heart and Other Stories in Shades of Black and White won the 2012 eFestival of Words Best of the Independent eBook Award in the Best Short Story Collection category!
- 5/25/2012 – “Requiem Duet, Concerto for Flute and Voodoo,” published in Daily Science Fiction, was named a 2011 Million Writers Award Notable Story!
- 4/21/2012 – I was interviewed by Kayelle Allen for Romance Lives Forever.
- 3/17/2012 – “The Wish of the Demon Achtromagk” received the Drabblecast People’s Choice Award for Best Story of 2011!
- 2/1/2012 – For the month of February, I and over a dozen other writers are putting together a HUGE multi-author book giveaway contest, “Crossing the Streams.” Check out my Book Giveaway page for details.
- 1/4/2012 – Returning My Sister’s Face was reviewed by Asian American Literature Fans and Diabolical Plots reviewed “Requiem Duet, Concerto for Flute and Voodoo.”
- 11/21/2011 – The Dragon and the Stars anthology with my “Mortal Clay, Stone Heart” won the 2011 Aurora Award in the category of “Best English Related Work”!
- 10/4/2011- Fantasy Matters and Myriad Spheres reviewed “Requiem Duet, Concerto for Flute and Voodoo.”
- 9/5/2011 – MTV interviewed me as the Director/Editor of the Daily Dragon.
- 1/13/2011 – Charles Tan interviewed me for the Nebula Awards.
- 11/17/2010 – Returning My Sister’s Face and Other Far Eastern Tales of Whimsy and Malice will be used as a textbook at the University of California, Davis, this winter quarter for ASA 189B: Asian American Literature, Popular Fiction, and Racial Representation.
- 11/5/2010 – The Dragon and the Stars was reviewed by Gardner Dozois in Locus.
- 8/25/2010 – Returning My Sister’s Face and Other Far Eastern Tales of Whimsy and Malice will be used as a textbook at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee this fall for English 243: Introduction to Literature by Women.
- 8/10/2010 – “Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest“ is a finalist for the WSFA Small Press Award.
- 7/28/2010 – David Steffen interviewed me for Diabolical Plots.
- 6/8/2010 – Writer Hank Quense interviewed me for his blog.
- 5/25/2010 – My reading of Ellen Kushner’s “Honored Guest” is now up at PodCastle.
- 5/15/2010 – “Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast” won the 2009 Nebula Award for Best Novelette!
- 5/3/2010 – David Steffen listed “Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast” at the #1 spot on his “Best of Escape Pod” top-ten list in Diabolical Plots.
- 4/13/2010 – “Within Your Soul I Sightless See” and “Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest” received honorable mentions in The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Two, edited by Ellen Datlow.
- 4/4/2010 – “Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast” is a finalist for the 2010 Hugo Award in the Novelette category.
- 3/23/2010 – C. Dennis Moore featured me as a special guest on his website.
- 3/22/2010 – In part 2 of a thoughtful examination of all of the 2009 Nebula finalist works, Kate Milford reviews the novelettes (including “Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast”) on her blog, The Clockwork Foundry.
- 3/9/2010 – “Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast” received a glowing review from Scott D. Danielson at SFFAudio.com.
- 3/8/2010 – Returning My Sister’s Face received a fabulous review from Nin Harris in M/C Reviews.
- 3/7/2010 – “Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast” made Tangent’s 2009 3-Star Recommended Reading List.
- 3/5/2010 – Returning My Sister’s Face received a glowing review from Ken Schneyer.
- 3/4/2010 – “Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast” was recommended by Aaron Hughes as his Story of the Week pick for Feb. 25, 2010, at Fantastic Reviews Blog.
- 3/3/2010 – I was a panelist for this week’s Mind Meld at SF Signal: “If your work couldn’t have been on the ballot this year, what work would you have liked in its place?”
- 2/19/2010 – “Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast” was nominated and is a finalist for the 2009 Nebula Award in the Novelette category.
- 2/11/2010 – Jeff VanderMeer included Returning My Sister’s
Face in his lineup of the “Best of 2009″ at Locus.
- 1/24/2009 – “Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast” was nominated and is a finalist for the 2009 BSFA Award in the Short Story category.
- 12/18/2009 – My reading of S. Hutson Blount’s “Littleblossom Makes a Deal with the Devil” is now up at Escape Pod.
- 11/29/2009 – Nora Heineman-Fleck included “Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast” in her selection of “The Best Podcasted Short Fiction of This Year” at Inkstain.
- 11/12/2009 – Craig Laurance Gidney reviewed Returning My Sister’s Face at Fantasy With Bite.
- 11/9/2009 – Bards and Sages Quarterly named me their Author of the Year for 2009.
- 11/4/2009 - Rich Horton highlighted “Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast” as one of his favorite novelettes from the 2009 Interzone offerings.
- 10/3/2009 – “Beautiful Summer” received an honorable mention in The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One, edited by Ellen Datlow.
- 9/15/2009 – Returning My Sister’s Face was reviewed by Erzebet YellowBoy in issue #8 of Cabinet Des Fées.
- 9/13/2009 – “Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast” in Apex Magazine was reviewed by Kimberly Lundstrom in The Fix.
- 9/11/2009 – My author’s notes for “Beautiful Winter,” published in issue #13 of OSC’s InterGalactic Medicine Show, are now up at the editor’s blog.
- 8/23/2009 – I was invited to do a cameo for the HG World: Original Zombie Horror Serial podcast. Listen for me in episode #2 as a newscaster!
- 8/18/2009 – My convention schedule for Dragon*Con over Labor Day weekend is now up. I’ll have Anthology Builder scavenger hunt buttons to give away. Collect them for free anthologies and gift certificates! And I’m donating a hardbound copy of Returning My Sister’s Face signed by both myself and the cover artist, Ahyicodae, to the charity auction. Proceeds will benefit the Georgia Chapter of the American Alzheimer’s Association.
- 7/14/2009 – “Daughter of Bótù” received an honorable mention in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois.
- 6/4/2009 – My cameo for Scott M. Sandridge’s podcast novel, The Silverblade Prophecy, is now up (ep. 14). Listen for me as Imana!
- 5/20/2009 – I was a panelist for this week’s Mind Meld at SF Signal: “The Perfect SF/F/H Books to Give to People Who Don’t Read SF/F/H.”
- 5/12/2009 – Gardner Dozois described “Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast” as “an elegantly strange slipstreamish fantasy” in his review of Interzone #220 in the May 2009 issue of Locus.
- 5/5/2009 – Fantasy Magazine invited me to write an OutlantaCon convention report for them, and it’s now up: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.
- 4/14/2009 – I’ll be at OutlantaCon 2009, May 1-3. Check out my appearances page for my panel schedule. Hope to see you there!
- 4/3/2009 – Returning My Sister’s Face was reviewed by Holly Phillips at Fantasy Magazine and by Stephanie at Someone’s Read it Already.
- 4/2/2009 – My reading of “The Archer of the Sun and the Lady of the Moon” from Returning My Sister’s Face is now available to the public for listening or download.
- 4/1/2009 – I’ll be at Frolicon 2009, April 9-12. Check out my appearances page for my panel schedule. Hope to see you there!
- 3/8/2009 – Scott M. Sandridge invited me to do a cameo role for his podcast novel, The Silverblade Prophecy. Listen for me in episode 14 as Imana!
- 3/5/2009 – Returning My Sister’s Face was reviewed by Elizabeth A. Allen at The Fix and more reviews of IZ220 and “Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest” are up at Black Gate and KEylmann-Report (in German).
- 3/1/2009 – Returning My Sister’s Face: And Other Far Eastern Tales of Whimsy and Malice is now officially released (click for table of contents). The virtual launch party was co-hosted by LiveJournal and Facebook.
- 2/4/2009 – More reviews of IZ220 are up at Suite 101, SF Crowsnest, SF Revu, Bugpowderdust, and Velcro City. And Aliette de Bodard recommends “Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast.”
- 1/19/2009 – Returning My Sister’s Face and Other Far Eastern Tales of Whimsy and Malice was reviewed by Publishers Weekly.
- 1/19/2009 – “Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast” was recommended by Jason Sanford as his Story of the Week pick and issue #220 of Interzone was reviewed by the Barking Dog, Sci-Fi Gene, Garbled Signals, and Best SF Reviews.
- 1/8/2009 – The Killers anthology (Swimming Kangaroo Books, 2008), with my story, “Beautiful Summer,” is a finalist in the 2nd Annual Black Quill Awards in the category of “Best Dark Genre Fiction Collection.”
- 10/30/2008 – “The Center of the Universe” received an honorable mention in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois.
- 10/29/2008 – Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Vonda N. McIntyre will be writing the introduction for Returning My Sister’s Face and Other Far Eastern Tales of Whimsy and Malice.
- 10/24/2008 – The cover art for Returning My Sister’s Face and Other Far Eastern Tales of Whimsy and Malice will be the beautiful piece “Kitsune” by Ahyicodae.
- 10/15/2008 – Triangulation: Taking Flight, with “The Life and Times of Penguin,” was reviewed by SF Crowsnest and The Fix.
- 9/30/2008 – “The Music Company” and “Year of the Fox” received Honorable Mentions in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2008: 21st Annual Collection, edited by Ellen Datlow, Gavin Grant, and Kelly Link.
- 9/15/2008 – “Daughter of Bótù” was recommended by Aaron Hughes as his Story of the Week pick at Fantastic Reviews Blog.
- 5/16/2008 – My short story collection Returning My Sister’s Face and Other Far Eastern Tales of Whimsy and Malice will debut in hardcover March, 2009, from Norilana Books and in trade paperback June, 2009.
