Thanks For Your Consideration
Easy reference for the author's awards-eligible works.
10 Works published in 2022
“The Origin of the Deadlands”
First published in The Deadlands (Twitter account) (31 Oct 2022)
Genre(s): flash fiction, micro fiction
Wordcount: 202 (eligible for most Flash or Short Story categories)
A very brief summary of how The Deadlands came to be, written for The Deadlands magazine.
“Oversharing”
(01 Feb 2022)
Genre(s): flash fiction, short fiction, speculative fiction, horror, body horror
Wordcount: 670 (eligible for most Flash or Short Story categories)
A human transforms after one of life's unpleasant interruptions.
“Indie Files: Make the Most of New Book Announcements”
First published in SFWA.org (18 May 2022)
Genre(s): non fiction, self-publishing
Wordcount: 950 (eligible for most Flash or Short Story categories)
Announcing a new book or showing off a new cover can get you a spike of attention. Tips to capitalize on that momentary boost.
“Gort, Cinder, and Sphinx”
(05 Jul 2022)
Genre(s): anthology, science fiction, short fiction, speculative fiction
Wordcount: 3,450 (eligible for most Short Story categories)
Two planet jackers get a dangerously irresistible contract offer from an anonymous client.
“Singing the Ancient Out of the Dark”
(01 Jul 2022)
Genre(s): short fiction, science fiction, Co-writing, Lightspeed Magazine
Wordcount: 4,100 (eligible for most Short Story categories)
A mercenary archivist will stop at nothing to capture the history of a lost colony for the first time. But will the colony's ghosts capture her first?
“The Glow Keeper”
(10 Mar 2022)
Genre(s): Science Fantasy, science fiction, speculative fiction
Wordcount: 4,100 (eligible for most Short Story categories)
A cozy, low-stakes story about the glow keepers that tend the precious floating pumpkins, to keep the skies lit and the airways marked for Peridot's airships.
“The Application of Strawberry Lip Gloss in a Low-Gravity Environment”
(01 Sep 2022)
Genre(s): science fiction, Science Fantasy, short fiction
Wordcount: 4,700 (eligible for most Short Story categories)
A young bounty hunter takes on a shipmate to help make ends meet.
“Love & Pickpockets”
First published in Facets: Tales of Peridot (30 Jan 2022)
Genre(s): Science Fantasy, science fiction, self-publishing, short fiction
Wordcount: 8,000 (eligible for most Novelette categories)
Talis tries to blend in at an aristocratic party where an expensive new prize is being shown off to the well-to-do. But she isn't there for the star of the show. She'll have to use her wits and her wiles to get the host's son to show her the rest of the estate's treasures so she can steal what she was sent for, all while struggling to breathe in a gods-rotted corset.
“Gods-Rotted Escort Mission”
(30 Jan 2022)
Genre(s): short fiction, Science Fantasy, science fiction
Wordcount: 12,000 (eligible for most Novelette categories)
The crew of Wind Sabre must protect two young lovers long enough to collect the bounty on them
Cast Off
Book Three of The Peridot Shift (06 Dec 2022 | Robot Dinosaur Press)
Genre(s): Science Fantasy
Wordcount: 122,340 (eligible for most Novel categories)
With the very survival of Peridot at stake, the crew of Fortune’s Storm sets upon a quest to reclaim pieces of the planet’s trapped soul before they can be seized by those who would sacrifice everything and everyone in their race for power over everything.
The Peridot Shift is eligible for Best Series
Flotsam, Salvage, and Cast Off
This series contains 3 entries for a total of 391340 words.
On a planet cracked open by ancient magic, outlaws and pirates are the only ones with what it takes to save Peridot from its next apocalyptic threat.