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Floating and building, it's a quiet white surprise
I can't believe 2018 is almost over. It seemed to last twice the length of a normal year and spend most of it on fire. I have this website now where you can find my complete bibliography, not to mention the account I opened on AO3. But I care about traditions and I've kept this one since the earliest years of this journal, so here is my year-end summary for 2018.
Numerically, it was not a banner year for me. I published one piece of new fiction, albeit one that meant a lot to me:
"The Face of the Waters" in Forget the Sleepless Shores, Lethe Press, August 2018.
There was somewhat more new poetry, in a year in which more than one of my mainstay markets disappeared:
"кот древнее и неприкосновенное животное" in Animal Day II (ed. John Benson), January 2018.
"Shadow-Song" in Uncanny Magazine #20, February 2018.
"די ירושה" in Uncanny Magazine #20, April 2018.
"The Great Fire" in Not One of Us #59, April 2018.
"The Women Around Achilles" in Not One of Us #59, April 2018.
"The River Delivers Its Commission" in Not One of Us #60, October 2018.
"Nostalgia/Νέκυια" in Not One of Us #60, October 2018.
"ἄρκτος ἦ Βραυρωνίοις" in Sycorax Journal #1, October 2018.
"Acceptable Documentation" in Sycorax Journal #1, October 2018.
"Ariadne in Queens" in The Cascadia Subduction Zone 8.4, November 2018.
"A Vixen When She Went to School" in The Cascadia Subduction Zone 8.4, November 2018.
There was even a reprint:
"Like Milkweed" in Broad Knowledge: 35 Women Up to No Good (ed. Joanne Merriam), November 2018.
And a couple pieces of of fic:
"Assignment Null" (Sapphire & Steel), February 2018.
"Assignment 96" (Sapphire & Steel), July 2018.
And one delightful interview:
"An Interview with Sonya Taaffe, Author, Editor, Durian-Lover" at Jeannelle Writes, August 2018.
Mostly there was Patreon:
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973), January 2018.
The Shape of Water (2017), January 2018.
Gun Crazy (1950), January 2018.
Side Street (1949), January 2018.
Small Town Crime (2017), January 2018.
Private Hell 36 (1954), January 2018.
Black Sea (2014), February 2018.
The Heart of New York (1932), February 2018.
Boston Sci-Fi Marathon 43 [Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), The Time Machine (1960), The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958), The Lost World (1925), Marjorie Prime (2017), Bride of Frankenstein (1935), Dark City (1998), Night of the Living Dead (1968), "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" (1963), World Without End (1956), The Little Shop of Horrors (1960), Yellow Submarine (1968), 20 Million Miles to Earth (1957), Looper (2012)], February 2018.
K-19: The Widowmaker (2002), February 2018.
WarGames (1983), March 2018.
Crossfire (1947), March 2018.
Clash by Night (1952), March 2018.
Suddenly (1954), April 2018.
Manhatta (1921), April 2018.
Hell's Angels (1930), April 2018.
Out of the Fog (1941), April 2018.
Whiplash (1948), May 2018.
A Letter for Evie (1946), May 2018.
Crime Wave (1954), May 2018.
The Clay Pigeon (1949), May 2018.
Victim (1961), June 2018.
Sebastiane (1976), June 2018.
God's Own Country (2017), June 2018.
The Eternal (1998), July 2018.
Mohawk (2017), August 2018.
Persuasion (1995), August 2018.
In the Family (2011), September 2018.
I Don't Want to Be a Man (Ich möchte kein Mann sein, 1918), September 2018.
The Big Heat (1953), September 2018.
Panic in the Streets (1950) and The Killer That Stalked New York (1950), September 2018.
The Man Who Cheated Himself (1950), September 2018.
Jennifer's Body (2009), October 2018.
The Man on the Eiffel Tower (1950), October 2018.
Raw Deal (1948) and He Walked by Night (1948), October 2018.
The Hunted (1948), October 2018.
Angel on My Shoulder (1946), October 2018.
Follow Me Quietly (1949), November 2018.
Heat Lightning (1934), November 2018.
Outrage (1950), November 2018.
Kentucky Kernels (1934), November 2018.
The Divorce of Lady X (1938), December 2018.
Peach-O-Reno (1931), December 2018.
Talk About a Stranger (1952), December 2018.
The Holly and the Ivy (1952), December 2018.
But most of all there was my book, my first fiction collection in thirteen years, which I did not set out to make an assertion of queer Jewish (sea-haunted, sometimes dead) identity in this our chaos of 5778/5779, but here we are:
Forget the Sleepless Shores, Lethe Press, August 2018.
And I traveled for it and gave readings and talked about it on the radio and it got some pretty nice reviews. It is the reason I am most glad to have lived to this year.
I don't know what to say about the rest of it. Every year it feels like we wish for a better one and every year it feels like we observe with anger how much higher the tongues of a trash fire can reach. Every year feels more tiring. I see too much of what I didn't do. But I saw and made and read art this year and so did many other people and we will just have to keep it up in 2019, that it may be that better year. Besides, I want to read all of it.
Happy New Year.
Numerically, it was not a banner year for me. I published one piece of new fiction, albeit one that meant a lot to me:
"The Face of the Waters" in Forget the Sleepless Shores, Lethe Press, August 2018.
There was somewhat more new poetry, in a year in which more than one of my mainstay markets disappeared:
"кот древнее и неприкосновенное животное" in Animal Day II (ed. John Benson), January 2018.
"Shadow-Song" in Uncanny Magazine #20, February 2018.
"די ירושה" in Uncanny Magazine #20, April 2018.
"The Great Fire" in Not One of Us #59, April 2018.
"The Women Around Achilles" in Not One of Us #59, April 2018.
"The River Delivers Its Commission" in Not One of Us #60, October 2018.
"Nostalgia/Νέκυια" in Not One of Us #60, October 2018.
"ἄρκτος ἦ Βραυρωνίοις" in Sycorax Journal #1, October 2018.
"Acceptable Documentation" in Sycorax Journal #1, October 2018.
"Ariadne in Queens" in The Cascadia Subduction Zone 8.4, November 2018.
"A Vixen When She Went to School" in The Cascadia Subduction Zone 8.4, November 2018.
There was even a reprint:
"Like Milkweed" in Broad Knowledge: 35 Women Up to No Good (ed. Joanne Merriam), November 2018.
And a couple pieces of of fic:
"Assignment Null" (Sapphire & Steel), February 2018.
"Assignment 96" (Sapphire & Steel), July 2018.
And one delightful interview:
"An Interview with Sonya Taaffe, Author, Editor, Durian-Lover" at Jeannelle Writes, August 2018.
Mostly there was Patreon:
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973), January 2018.
The Shape of Water (2017), January 2018.
Gun Crazy (1950), January 2018.
Side Street (1949), January 2018.
Small Town Crime (2017), January 2018.
Private Hell 36 (1954), January 2018.
Black Sea (2014), February 2018.
The Heart of New York (1932), February 2018.
Boston Sci-Fi Marathon 43 [Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), The Time Machine (1960), The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958), The Lost World (1925), Marjorie Prime (2017), Bride of Frankenstein (1935), Dark City (1998), Night of the Living Dead (1968), "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" (1963), World Without End (1956), The Little Shop of Horrors (1960), Yellow Submarine (1968), 20 Million Miles to Earth (1957), Looper (2012)], February 2018.
K-19: The Widowmaker (2002), February 2018.
WarGames (1983), March 2018.
Crossfire (1947), March 2018.
Clash by Night (1952), March 2018.
Suddenly (1954), April 2018.
Manhatta (1921), April 2018.
Hell's Angels (1930), April 2018.
Out of the Fog (1941), April 2018.
Whiplash (1948), May 2018.
A Letter for Evie (1946), May 2018.
Crime Wave (1954), May 2018.
The Clay Pigeon (1949), May 2018.
Victim (1961), June 2018.
Sebastiane (1976), June 2018.
God's Own Country (2017), June 2018.
The Eternal (1998), July 2018.
Mohawk (2017), August 2018.
Persuasion (1995), August 2018.
In the Family (2011), September 2018.
I Don't Want to Be a Man (Ich möchte kein Mann sein, 1918), September 2018.
The Big Heat (1953), September 2018.
Panic in the Streets (1950) and The Killer That Stalked New York (1950), September 2018.
The Man Who Cheated Himself (1950), September 2018.
Jennifer's Body (2009), October 2018.
The Man on the Eiffel Tower (1950), October 2018.
Raw Deal (1948) and He Walked by Night (1948), October 2018.
The Hunted (1948), October 2018.
Angel on My Shoulder (1946), October 2018.
Follow Me Quietly (1949), November 2018.
Heat Lightning (1934), November 2018.
Outrage (1950), November 2018.
Kentucky Kernels (1934), November 2018.
The Divorce of Lady X (1938), December 2018.
Peach-O-Reno (1931), December 2018.
Talk About a Stranger (1952), December 2018.
The Holly and the Ivy (1952), December 2018.
But most of all there was my book, my first fiction collection in thirteen years, which I did not set out to make an assertion of queer Jewish (sea-haunted, sometimes dead) identity in this our chaos of 5778/5779, but here we are:
Forget the Sleepless Shores, Lethe Press, August 2018.
And I traveled for it and gave readings and talked about it on the radio and it got some pretty nice reviews. It is the reason I am most glad to have lived to this year.
I don't know what to say about the rest of it. Every year it feels like we wish for a better one and every year it feels like we observe with anger how much higher the tongues of a trash fire can reach. Every year feels more tiring. I see too much of what I didn't do. But I saw and made and read art this year and so did many other people and we will just have to keep it up in 2019, that it may be that better year. Besides, I want to read all of it.
Happy New Year.
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Thank you! I hope yours is treating you well so far.
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Likewise! I have gathered enough activation energy to push through a couple of things, of necessity; the result of one is good, and I think the other one will be all right.
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Make money, eat good things, write when you can, fight when you can; we’re glad you’re here.
(Should you elect to lean on my chest for moral support that’s also cool, but entire civilizations, languages, and diplomatic missions have gotten lost that way.)
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The very same to you. My incurable chivalry will always bring you ice.
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Happy New Year!
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That is a wonderful thing to hear. Thank you.
Happy New Year!
Likewise!
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Here's to a good 2019
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Thank you!
Here's to a good 2019
For all of us!
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Thank you. The same to you!
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Thank you! So did you!
(Also, your list of Patreon reviews reminds me that I want to watch Peach-O-Reno.)
I am delighted to promote the cult of this movie. Enjoy!
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Plus, I loved both of the S&S pieces, as you know!!
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It's astonishing (except you know it) how much surviving takes it out of a person. Thank you! I hope your own year treats you splendidly from here.
Plus, I loved both of the S&S pieces, as you know!!
It does make me happy.
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Also, thank you for pointing out Cyril Hayes a few days ago. I devoured his work in a couple of nights. AN ENGLISH MURDER is surprisingly deft.
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Thank you. Likewise!
Also, thank you for pointing out Cyril Hayes a few days ago. I devoured his work in a couple of nights. AN ENGLISH MURDER is surprisingly deft.
You're very welcome! I too read most of his novels on the day I mentioned them. He came out of nowhere for me and I'm glad he did.
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You know, he is.
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Thank you!
*hugs*