parallelograms over the entryway
Happy incipient Memorial Day (or, if you're in the UK, happy incipient bank holiday)!
My story Flannelfeet is out in the world, just in time for the long weekend. This is the 2020 portal fantasy adventure of an extremely practically minded Wisconsin teenager. (She's from Toronto City, a northeast Wisconsin hospital town that would be the biggest municipality in its county if it actually existed.)
"Flannelfeet" was commissioned for Frivolous Comma's Children of Imagined Worlds series. My earlier musings about the story featured a college student. I aged Emy down from those first notes in response to the commission. There's some definite irony in this meta-fictional fact! I'm glad I made the change: it snaps the question of whether to return, one of the key questions of any portal fantasy, into brilliant focus.
On the collection front, North Continent Ribbon has a release date--August 20th--and the paperback is now available for preorder. (Ebook and internet bookstore links are coming, do not fear!) My editor and I have been plotting all sorts of interviews and readings, about which more anon. The one thing I can tell you now is that I'll be reading in the Fantastic Fiction series at the KGB Bar in Manhattan on April 9, 2025. This strikes me as improbably glamorous (it's also an excuse to visit my nieces). If you, too, would like some improbable glamor in your life, do join me!
Meanwhile, Gennoveus has been providing some more probable glamor:
Yours faithfully,
Ursula.