m. c. de marco

My shortest story yet was published today at Thaumatrope, an sf/f/h twitter fiction magazine. I dimly recall submitting it, apparently in response to a call for steampunk and/or holiday stories, but I figured Bad Elf had killed little Timmy and buried his body in the slush pile.

To submit your own 140 characters of immortal speculative prose, all you need is a twitter account.

A little horror story of mine will be appearing when least expected. More details will follow as they become available.

I got another mysterious Honorable Mention certificate in the mail yesterday. I hadn’t seen my name on the Writers of the Future blog back when the finalists were announced for last quarter, but this time when I checked back I found myself listed after all. I thought the story was pretty good, although possibly doomed by thoughtless typos, so it was a relief to find out they also thought it was passable.

I’ve been wondering what became of my WotF entry from last quarter, and today I think I found out. I got an Honorable Mention certificate in the mail, along with my SASE. This could be a stray certificate from another quarter—-my name was not mentioned on the WotF blog this time—-but the timing suggests this quarter.

I’m back on the list of honorable mentions in the Writers of the Future contest this quarter, along with at least one other Odyssey grad, Dave Hendrickson.

I got my contributor's copies of Strange New Worlds 10 this week, and Amazon claims it was published, appropriately enough, on July 10th. So shop early, shop often!

As an experiment, I’ve set up an amazon store. Only the books I’ve linked recently are in there so far.