"The Flowers Where 580 Used To Be" + art giveaway!
I just sent back the first round of edits for The Wildcraft Drones, and I’m returning to my work-in-progress sci-fi novella, with a goal of querying again before summer. Lots more happening, here’s some highlights:
New Solarpunk Story: “The Flowers Where 580 Used To Be”
“I remember decades ago when this used to be 580, perching my plastic tuatara Korra on the edge of the backseat window, peering past the traffic with her at the sparkling bay. In high school, it was earsplitting demolition, then bare dirt my first year of college. I don’t know what brought me down here after I dropped out, maybe I was drawn to the vacant land because that’s what I felt like, empty and waiting for something new. Even stepping on the field with my own feet, touching its contaminated soil as I planted those first seeds with Marco’s crew, the place itself meant nothing—until you showed up in your dad’s red Ford Prakasha three days into planting...” (4000 words) Read the rest for free at Tractor Beam.
Live Instagram Reading 4/25
Tractor Beam is hosting a live reading of “The Flowers Where 580 Used To Be,” plus a Q&A, on Instagram on April 25th at 12pm Pacific. I’m excited to get to read the whole story — usually readings are limited to 5-10 minutes. Follow @tractorbeam.earth to catch it.
Art Giveaway for Bright Green Futures 2024 launch
To help promote the new solarpunk anthology Bright Green Futures 2024, I illustrated my story “Centipede Station” and I’m making three 5×7 art prints for the giveaway. To enter, you’ll need to subscribe to the Bright Green Futures podcast, which I also highly recommend, and complete a short form.
Recommended read: Down in the Sea of Angels by Khan Wong
I can’t wait for the launch of Khan Wong’s Down in the Sea of Angels, available now for preorder at bookshop.org and at your local bookstore April 22. (Same day as Bright Green Futures 2024!) Khan is a local science fiction author and a friend of mine, and his debut novel The Circus Infinite was a finalist for the Lambda LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction Award 2023 and long-listed for the BSFA Best Novel Award. Down in the Sea of Angels follows three people in San Francisco, psychically linked across different time periods in the city’s past and future. If you get your hands on a copy before I do, let me know what you thought!
Plenty more is in the pipeline for me right now, so keep an eye out for the next one, and, as always, keep it real. 🌺
T. K.