Now I can see the earth below me

[sovay]

I see it's time once again for those end-of-year summaries. Here's what I had published this year:

"Catullus V.101" in Lost and Lonely (ed. John Benson), January 2013.
"Atque in Perpetuum" in Lost and Lonely (ed. John Benson), January 2013.
"Deinde Centum" in inkscrawl #5, January 2013.
"The Wearing Season" in Through the Gate #2, January 2013.
"The Color of the Ghost" in Archaeopteryx #1, February 2013.
"A Find at Þingvellir" in Archaeopteryx #1, February 2013.
"Anthemoessa on the Main Line" in Moral Relativism Magazine #5, March 2013.
"Ψάπφοι Σελάννα" in Apex Magazine #47, April 2013.
"Delenda" in Not One of Us #49, April 2013.
"The Ceremony of Innocence" in Mythic Delirium #28, April 2013.
"Mercury Retrograde Theatre" in Through the Gate #3, May 2013.
"Censorship" in The Cascadia Subduction Zone 3.3, July 2013.
"The Marriage He Saw Beneath the Shade" in The Cascadia Subduction Zone 3.3, July 2013.
"Cuneiform Toast" in Mythic Delirium 0.1, July 2013.
"Larva" in inkscrawl #6, August 2013.
"Mari Mild" in Through the Gate #4, August 2013.
"And Black Unfathomable Lakes" in Not One of Us #50, September 2013.
"Exauguratio" in Goblin Fruit #31, October 2013.
"Hamsa" in Interfictions #2, October 2013.
"Hypnos and Thanatos" in Mythic Delirium #29, November 2013.

There was even a reprint:

"The Boy Who Learned How to Shudder" in Aliens: Recent Encounters (ed. Alex Dally MacFarlane), July 2013.

And a piece of nonfiction:

"Sonya Taaffe Remembers Dr Fiveash" in The Lexington Colonial Times, October 2013.

And Strange Horizons was nominated for a Hugo, which was pretty cool.

I don't like to report on pieces before they're accepted or even published (see: a magazine to which I had sold three poems folded this summer and I am still trying to re-place two of them), but I am proud that in July I finished my first full-length story in five years and that further short fiction followed. I submitted a second collection of short fiction to one publisher in July and I am working on assembling a third collection of poetry to show to another. Anybody's guess how that will pan out, but it matters to me that I am making the effort. And for the first time in my life I tried writing for radio, which I am going to be annoyingly pleased about for a while.

I wrote vows and a wedding contract with derspatchel. I'm not sure if that goes on my CV.

All things considered, this was not a bad year.

Comments

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

A liminal year. May wonderful things lie just beyond the threshold, and far into times to come.

Nine

[sovay]

A liminal year. May wonderful things lie just beyond the threshold, and far into times to come.

Thank you. A lot of this year was about crossing thresholds; I like what was on their other sides. I don't plan to stop moving.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

A wedding adds an automatic +100 to any year.

(I like the breadth of themes and publications this year, though--way to go!)

[sovay]

A wedding adds an automatic +100 to any year.

Hee. Thank you. Next This year we get an anniversary!

(I like the breadth of themes and publications this year, though--way to go!)

(Thank you! I am ambitious for 2014!)

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

That's a respectable list! Wishing you a good New Year.

[sovay]

That's a respectable list! Wishing you a good New Year.

And you, too! Your work this year was not inconsiderable.

[domparisien.livejournal.com]

You had some mighty fine poems. My personal favorites are Exauguratio and Hamsa.

[sovay]

You had some mighty fine poems. My personal favorites are Exauguratio and Hamsa.

Thank you. I am very glad they resonated with you.

You were no slouch this year, either!

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Glad you had such a year. Best wishes for the next one.

Good luck with the collections and all the rest.

[sovay]

Good luck with the collections and all the rest.

Thank you!

[gwynnega]

Quite an impressive year!

[sovay]

Quite an impressive year!

Thank you! I want to see what I can do with this next.