New This Week: Black Sci-Fi Short Stories

I am honored to have a story in Flame Tree’s fantastic new anthology Black Sci-Fi Short Stories (Gothic Fantasy): From the online description: “A deluxe edition of new writing and neglected perspectives. Dystopia, apocalypse, gene-splicing, cloning and colonization are explored here by new authors and combined with proto-sci-fi and speculative writing of an older tradition (by W.E.B. Du Bois, Martin R. Delany, Sutton E. Griggs, Pauline Hopkins and Edward Johnson) whose first-hand experience of slavery and denial created their living dystopia. With a foreword by Alex Award-winning novelist Temi Oh, an introduction by Dr. Sandra M. Grayson, author of Visions of the Third Read more…

ON SALE: Eve of Light Audiobook Box Set

For the next month, the Eve of Light Short Story Box Set is on sale at Chirp ($6.50) and Apple ($4.99).  I will be releasing several new novellas and novels in the series over the next few months, but if you’re into audio, the box set is a great way to get acquainted with the universe. This boxset includes the following five audiobooks: THE LARK: Danny is a struggling singer willing to do almost anything to get a little exposure and keep food on the table, so she doesn’t think twice about traveling to the middle of nowhere to perform Read more…

Writers of the Future – Honorable Mention

Forgot to mention this last quarter (too busy trying to finish the latest story), but my Writers of the Future entries for the First and Second Quarters of 2020 both received Honorable Mention. Both entries are currently on submission, looking for homes. In the meantime, I’ve already submitted for the current quarter and highly recommend that all eligible SFF writers do the same.  Details can be found at the WOTF site: http://www.writersofthefuture.com

Coming Soon . . . Trinity & Its Twin: A Provocative New Volume of Poetry

Coming very soon in paperback–A subversive narrative . . . Whether one regards it as a sequence of forty-two narrative poems or the somewhat broken body of a metaphysical epic, there will be no disagreement that Trinity & Its Twin is a provocative work.   Ostensibly the fragmented tale of a homeless refugee and a runaway teenager who join a separatist religious sect, the story interweaves sociopolitical statements and philosophical ideas. Beliefs are questioned. Psychological depths, explored. Taboos, broken.   Though some may find themselves lost in a dense garden of hellish delights, others may see a darkly beautiful allegory Read more…