My nihilistic little tale of magical worlds and giant spiders has been published at Fantasy Magazine! I give you...

"Crystal Halloway and the Forgotten Passage."

Kinda in love with this piece. Not gonna lie.

If you're wondering where all this came from, there's also an author spotlight interview with me in this issue, wherein I ramble about magical worlds, corn mazes, and My Little Pony.

Enjoy!

So I leave for Disney World Friday morning at WHY GOD WHY o'clock, with my mother and my youngest sister in tow. Thank the stars we're flying Virgin America Main Cabin Select, which means I'll be able to climb onto the plane and lose consciousness before we even leave the tarmac. It may be the only thing that saves the lives of all those people in Orlando.

My mother and sister are so excited I'm not sure they're breathing anymore. I think they may be existing on pure anticipation. Which is a pretty neat trick, if you can pull it off. I can't. I still require food, and caffeine, and naps. Beautiful naps.

And here is the current shape of my 2012, with travel dates and everything. Beautiful travel dates. Hope to see you sometime in the months to come.

2012

Publications:
"The Flower of Arizona," February 2012.
Discount Armageddon, March 2012.
"We Will Not Be Undersold!", March 2012.
Blackout (as Mira Grant), May 2012.
Ashes of Honor, September 2012.

"Rat-Catcher," middle 2012.
"Laughter at the Academy: A Study in the Development of Schizotypal Creative Genius Personality Disorder (SCGPD)," late 2012.

Travel:
Fly home from DisneyWorld, January 1, Orlando FL.
Conflikt, January 27-29, Seattle WA.
Consonance, March 2-4, Newark CA.
San Diego International Comic Convention, July 11-14, San Diego CA.
Confluence, July 27-29, Pittsburgh PA.
Chicon (WorldCon 2012), August 30-September 3, Chicago IL.
World Fantasy Convention, November 1-4, Toronto.
Windycon, November 8-11, Chicago IL.

No fixed deadline/being written/unsold:

"Fiber"
"Daughter of the Midway, the Mermaid, and the Open, Lonely Sea"
"These Antique Fables"
"Pixie Season"
Sparrow Hill Road
"Velveteen Presents Victory Anna vs. All These Stupid Parallel Worlds."
"Velveteen vs. The Uncomfortable Conversation."
"Velveteen vs. The Fright Night Sorority House Massacre Sleepover Camp, Part III."
"No Place Like Home"
"Stingers and Strangers"
"Loch and Key"
"In Sea Salt Tears"
Midnight Blue-Light Special
The Chimes at Midnight
"San Diego 2014"
"Misfit Toys: A Chronicle of the Velveteen War"
Parasitology
Echo
"How Green This Land, How Blue This Sea"