It’s mid-December as I write this, and I am just back from a wonderful quick getaway to Ucluelet on Vancouver Island. (I had a birthday. I hid.) This recap of October and November is a bit late, but I’ll use that birthday as an excuse.
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It’s the season of nominating stories and making recommended reading lists. My awards eligible stories from the past year are here:
My Awards Eligible stories from 2018.
My latest columns at B&N SciFi & Fantasy
- My October short fiction roundup.
- My November short fiction roundup.
- So You’ve Decided to Read a Sci-Fi or Fantasy Novella…
Short story roundups & reviews on my blog:
- My 2018 Reading Recommendation List.
- My October short fiction roundup.
- My November short fiction roundup.
- Novels, novellas, novelettes, short story collections and anthologies I read and loved in 2018
Stories in the wild
Ten Things I Didn’t Do at Pseudopod, wonderfully narrated by Rebecca Wei Hsieh, and with some very nice commentary by Alasdair Stuart.
A Doorway Left Ajar in Martian Magazine.
The Maker – available now in the anthology The Internet Is Where the Robots Live Now from Paper Dog Press. Buy it from Paper Dog Books / Amazon.com / B&N.
Margaery the Wolf – available now in See the Elephant Magazine Issue 4. Buy it from Metaphysical Circus Press / Weightless Books / Amazon.
The Librarian – in Cast of Wonders, wonderfully narrated by Katherine Inskip. Listen / become a patron on Patreon / subscribe to the podcast.
Big Bad – my October story for The Word Count Podcast. Read it / Listen to it. (Included in Dark Flash 3 – details below.)
New self-published book!
My latest flash fiction collection Dark Flash 3, with all the stories I wrote for R.B. Wood’s Word Count Podcast this year, is now available (it’s even available in paperback from Amazon):
- From Smashwords / Apple iBooks / B&N / Kobo /
- From Amazon: US / UK / CA / AU / DE / FR / ES / IT / NL / JP / BR / MX / IN
Story sales
- My flash story “Mother’s Love”, which made it to the final in Cast of Wonders flash fiction contest, will be appearing on a future episode of the podcast.
Reviews & mentions
- Charles Payseur includes my story It’s Easy to Shoot A Dog from Beneath Ceaseless Skies (read it) in his October column “X Marks the Story” at The Book Smugglers.
- A.C. Wise also reviews It’s Easy to Shoot A Dog in her column “Words For Thought” for Apex Magazine.
- Three of my stories from 2017 are included on this awesome list by Michael Matheson: Firstborn – Capricious, The Wayfinder & His Sister – Cast of Wonders, When Mama Calls – Bracken, July 2017
- So grateful for this mention: my story The Root Cellar from Beneath Ceaseless Skies (read it) was mentioned by author Fran Wilde on her blog – An Incomplete List of What I Read & Loved This Year and What I Wrote – 2018 Edition
- It’s Easy to Shoot a Dog is on The British Science Fiction Association’s amazing list of recommended short fiction from 2018.
Bits & bobs
My flash fiction collections Dark Flash and Dark Flash 2 are now available in paperback from Amazon (they were already available as ebooks, of course).
Maria Haskins 