It has been a while since the last time I’ve updated this blog, mainly due to my full-time job. I have finished three non-fiction books (!), all out in the next six months, and finding the time to write has been a challenge. But, as it often happens in life, it is in this period that I got a quite impressing string of acceptances.
- The most important: I won the 2016-2017 Canopus Award for Excellence in Interstellar Writing, announced on July 21 (http://canopus.100yss.org/?page_id=415), in the category of original short fiction.
- I got into two more SFWA pro-markets (yay!): Flame Tree Press (publishing in their April Newsletter) and Cast of Wonders (I have just signed the contract, for a YA horror piece that should be aired at some moment in 2020).
- I also managed to crack a few markets I especially like and that had eluded me so far, such as Andromeda Spaceway Magazine (with a poem), StarShipSofa, and Weirdbook (also with a poem).
- A reprint of medieval horror has been accepted by The Copperfield Review, one of my favourite historical fiction venues.
Last but not the least, I am presenting for the first time in a Worldcon, albeit I am listed with my legal name and not under this byline (it is non-fiction, hence the choice). I can’t wait to be there!