I’m looking forward to my second StokerCon on June 15-18 in Pittsburgh. I’m participating in two events on Saturday:
9 am – Author Reading
with Sarah Read, Zachary Rosenberg, & Tamika Thompson
12pm – “Listening to the Voices in Your Head: Crafting Point of View”
with Douglas Ford, Ruthann Jagge,, Joseph Scipione, Catriona Ward, & Valerie B. Williams
Weird Horror has posted my short story “The Getaway” (Issue #6) to read online.
“The person stood in the front yard, hunched over, their shoulder blades poked through their long scraggly hair. Strange that I missed it before, but they were oddly colorless—the whole image oddly colorless, like it was taken at twilight or before sunrise. I zoomed in and the image jumped to the porch swing, the black windows behind it, the big round clock beside the door. I dragged my finger on the screen, almost expecting the lawn to be empty—the figure just a glitch or my imagination.
But there they were.”
Looking forward to celebrating the new Philadelphia Barnes & Noble and Independent Bookstore Day with Main Point Books. Come say hi!
Barnes & Noble Philadelphia Grand Reopening
Book Signing
Friday, April 14, 5-7pm
1708 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, PA
Independent Bookstore Day at Main Point Books
Book Signing
Saturday, April 29, noon-2pm
116 N. Wayne Ave, Wayne, PA
Saturnalia is coming to the UK in October 2023. Check out this brand new trailer and cover, as revealed by Waterstones:
I’m excited to join the Rooftop Reading series in Brooklyn on March 28!
Rooftop Reading Series
with Julia Bartz, Fran Hawthorne, and Nicholas Kaufmann
Tuesday, March 28, 7pm
Barrow’s Intense Tasting Room, 86 34th StreetBrooklyn, NY
Tickets available here. (Note: ticket website has yet to be corrected to March 28)
This June, I’m relaunching my four-week course on structuring the novel at the Writing Co-Lab.
This course—open to those who have yet to start writing, and those who are revising full-length drafts—uses readings, writing exercises, and outline workshops to help you write a detailed synopsis for your work-in-progress.
Four Wednesdays, June 7-28
Online: 8:30-10pm, EST
$250
I calculated our reunion was
In March 2022, Weird Horror published its sixth issue, which includes my story “The Getaway.” It’s inspired by one of my favorite MR James stories, “The Mezzotint,” and captures some of the particular horror of the last couple years. Here’s a snippet:
Print and digital copies are available via the Weird Horror website.
“I calculated our reunion was low-risk—we had quarantined and tested, and if we did get sick, we probably wouldn’t die. Still, I was nervous, double-checking the address, reviewing the different routes, reloading the GPS results. The app showed a grayish, fuzzy photo of the house—taken, I figured, from one of those cars with a camera on top. Compared to the listing photo, the house appeared malnourished, infirm.
That’s when I saw the figure.”
Saturnalia’s audio publisher is offering a 50% discount until January 27. Get the audiobook for only $10!
I’m very excited that Verve Books is bringing Saturnalia to UK and commonwealth readers. A paperback original, e-book, and audio edition will arrive in fall 2023. Here’s some more from The Bookseller announcement:
The book was recently selected as One to Watch in 2023 by the Evening Standard, and Best Fantasy novel of 2022 by Vulture in the US.
Editor Jenna Gordon said: “The Verve team are so excited to be bringing Saturnalia to UK readers. It’s an unsettling and urgent novel that draws on timely anxieties about the future and speaks to a moment when we’re seeing people, particularly younger generations, turning to magic, fantasy and the supernatural as a means of escaping an increasingly unstable reality.”
Feldman comments: “This book is set in my hometown, but it’s about an urgent global question: how can we create a future during what feels like a slow apocalypse? I’m thrilled that Verve is bringing the Saturnalia carnival to UK readers.”
Read more here, and stay tuned for a cover reveal.
Dear friends voting on awards this year: I’m pleased to share my eligible work for 2022.
Short Fiction:
“The Boyfriend Trap” (4,800 words)
“Who do you want to be close to when you’re feeling afraid?”
Asimov’s Science Fiction, Jan/Feb 2022
–> SFWA and HWA members: email me for a PDF reading copy.
“The Annual Conference of the Ladies in White” (997 words)
“Their faces are ghastly and pretty. Their flesh hangs like fine lace. I grab my keys and run.”
Flash Fiction Online, April 2022
“The Sorcerer’s Test” (3,400 words)
“She took what came to her. What would a girl like her dream about, anyway?”
The Sunday Morning Transport, October 2022
Novel:
Saturnalia
“It’s the not the life I planned for, telling fortunes during the end of days, but clients are plentiful.”
Unnamed Press, October 11, 2022