CRUEL BEAUTY is now available in Italian, and it is beautiful!
New Short Story: “The Storyteller’s Apprentice”
I have a new short story up at The Hanging Garden:
There’s a story you have wrapped around your heart. Everybody has one: a single, secret story that’s both lock and key. If you ever hear that story, it will feel deep and bright and familiar and true as the summer sky. It’s a joy that will stay with you till the end of your days, warm and bright for you to cup your hands around on the darkest days.
And the person clever or lucky enough to tell you the story? It won’t matter who he is, the cruelest king or the meanest, most common drunk. He’ll hold your heart in his hand like an acorn. That’s why people fear storytellers as much as they love them.
CRIMSON BOUND Blog Tour: Fairy Tale Inspirations
The CRIMSON BOUND Blog Tour has started! The first stop is a guest post at The Midnight Garden about the fairy tales that inspired the novel, which include a version of Little Red Riding Hood that you probably haven’t heard before. There’s also a giveaway, so make sure to check it out!
Release Party for CRIMSON BOUND
There will be a release party for CRIMSON BOUND! It will be held at Mockingbird Books in the beautiful Green Lake neighborhood of Seattle, WA, on May 5 at 7 PM.
Come if you want to get an autographed copy, and/or hear a short talk about the book.
New Short Story: “The Lamps Thereof Are Fire and Flames”
I’m thrilled to have a short story published in the latest issue of Uncanny Magazine! You can read it on the website, or purchase the entire issue as an ebook. (Kindle|Weightless Books)
THE LAMPS THEREOF ARE FIRE AND FLAMES
The second queen forbade any telling of tales or writing of histories. Sufficient to the day is the evil thereof. Let him that breaks this law see his own hands cut off before he loses his eyes.
You have taken so much more from me, my Queen. But I will tell my story anyway.
New Short Story: “CUT HER OUT IN LITTLE STARS”
I have a new short story up at The Hanging Garden:
Three sisters fell in love with a star. (This is not quite true. But wait and listen to my story.)
They lived very near the edge of the world, where the rivers run faster and faster until they fall roaring off the rim, into the infinite void. Where birds with feathers of smoke and fire build nests, and hiss at passers-by as they brood over their eggs in smoldering trees.
Where stars, sometimes, come down to visit the earth.
Crimson Bound Giveaway
Want an early copy of Crimson Bound? There’s a Goodreads giveaway running now through April 3. Five copies available! It’s healthy AND delicious!
CRUEL BEAUTY Paperback
Mark your calendars! The paperback edition of CRUEL BEAUTY will be out on April 7, and it will include a teaser for CRIMSON BOUND.
Cruel Beauty Soundtrack
Thanks to 8tracks, you can now hear the music I listened to while writing Cruel Beauty.
Short Story: “OF THE DEATH OF KINGS”
I have a new short story up at The Hanging Garden:
They like their princesses buried, in this kingdom.
Some kingdoms encase them in crystal, others sink them in pools, still others leave them lying on silk-draped beds. But here in Sendrava, they bury their princesses under six feet of earth, and they plant rose-bushes or apple trees over them.
It’s all one to the Adjudicator.