08/06/2022 - Finches gets nominated for World Fantasy Award
Very exciting news! Finches was nominated under the Novella category. I'm planning to be in New Orleans to see the results this November!
02/04/2022 - Support the Death's Garden Revisited Kickstarter and
get my essay 
Loren Rhoads, editor, writer and most excellent cemetery tour host, is currently running a Kickstarter for an anthology of essays on authors' personal relationships with cemeteries and graveyards. Called Death's Garden Revisited, if published, it will include an essay from me! Support her campaign to learn more about meaningful and unusual cemeteries, which will also get you a copy of the book. The cover is shown to the right.
02/04/2022 - Recording of my reading at Story Hour on 1/26
The link to me reading my short story, The Mouse, is up from Story Hour on 1/26 is up on Facebook!
01/24/2022 - Bird-themed featured shelf on Smashwords
Smashwords is running a bird-themed featured shelf this week from Jan 23–28. It includes lots of lovely books with avians, including mine, Finches! They even made a cute promo graphic for it (below).
01/15/2022 - Short story reading at Story Hour
Happy New Year! I'll be reading this 7PM PST, January 26th on Story Hour alongside Michael Merriam. Come join us on Facebook or Zoom for an hour of genre fiction!
10/09/2021 - Finches reading today & essay on John Scalzi's The Big Idea!
I'm reading from Finches at
Alley Cat Bookstore &
Gallery today. Please come by if you can! I'll be giving away
three signed copies of my book to lucky attendees. An essay I wrote
about one of the central ideas behind Finches also went up on
John Scalzi's The
Big Idea.
10/07/2021 - Interview with Paul Semel!
I was interviewed by the lovely Paul Semel over on his website about
Finches. Check
out the full text here.
10/01/2021 - FINCHES IS HERE!
Finches, my first book, is here! Vernacular Books put up a lovely announcement page for it with ordering information for Indiebound, Smashwords, Amazon and Barnes & Noble. My brief introduction to Malaysia, the setting of Finches, is also available as a free electronic pamphlet. It may be downloaded via this link.