In the interest of convenience and self-promotion–always a treat when those two collide–I’m posting a link to my most recent short story, Simulacrum.

For those of you keeping track, Simulacrum was a finalist for Diagram Magazine’s Innovative Fiction Award. Accolades are nice when they come, because they never come often enough.

Onward. We’re switching to a new server–this means more speed and less impatience (theoretically). This should also mean more frequent updates (theoretically). Can I use graduate school as an excuse for the sporadic postings? I didn’t think so. There is some law–”law” in the this-always-happens sense, not in the legal sense–that states a project will always take whatever length of time is given.

At first, I thought “Well, duh.” But at second, I thought “Hmm.” Maybe that explains my inability to finish anything early, school-wise. Having established my own (successful) deadlines for nearly seven years, I’m shocked at my procrastination. Then it hit me: they were my deadlines. The old anti-authoritarian streak rears its rebel head.

An example of what happens when bad writing meets bad everything else:

One last thing, and it’s kind of important: the publication date for Memphis is Burning has been pushed to early 2011. The good news is we’re getting galleys early. So I can post potential covers, and you can comment as needed.