Welcome to my website. I'm a fantasy and science fiction writer who moonlights as a software engineer by day. My work has been published or is forthcoming in a number of places so far, such as Interzone and Realms of Fantasy.

I also review fiction--I used to be a reviewer for Tangent Online, and I'm currently working for The Fix Online, TTA Press' review venue. (Just to clarify, since I've started using review quotes in my bibliography: the fact that I work for The Fix doesn't influence the people who review my short fiction there. The Fix is a group of semi-independent reviewers managed by the superlative Eugie Foster; if the reviewer does know me personally, then he won't get assigned a review of my story. It's only fair, after all.)

Where I will be

10/17/2008-10/21/2008:Third Villa Diodati workshop, Nice, France.

10/29/2008-11/03/2008:World Fantasy Convention, Calgary, Canada.

News

11/05/2008: Issue 15/16 of Electric Velocipede, which contains my short story "The Dragon's Tears" is now available. Go here to order.

11/01/2008: My short story "Dancing for the Monsoon" has sold to Abyss & Apex.

10/16/2008: You can now read "Autumn's Country" online. Go here.

10/15/2008: I've sold my SF short story "They Come Bearing Gifts" to Interzone, to appear in a forthcoming issue.

09/29/2008: My story, "Autumn's Country", published in the 30th issue of Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, has garnered an Honourable Mention in Datlow's, Link's and Grant's Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Twenty-First Annual Collection.

08/08/2008: My novelette "Beneath the Mask, a sequel to "Obsidian Shards", has sold to Beneath Ceaseless Skies.

07/25/2008: "The Lost Xuyan Bride" and "Obsidian Shards" both received an Honorable Mention in Gardner Dozois's The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection.

06/15/2008: Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #35, which contains my short story "Dragon Feasts", is now available. Go here to order it.

05/14/2008: My story "Desaparecidos" has sold to Realms of Fantasy. This is my third SFWA-qualifying sale (after "Horus Ascending" in IGMS, and "Obsidian Shards" in Writers of the Future). Very, very cool.

05/08/2008: My stories "The Lost Xuyan Bride" and "Deer Flight" came respectively 6th and 7th in the Interzone 2007 Readers' Poll. Wow. My thanks to everyone who voted for those!

04/16/2008: My story "Butterfly, Falling at Dawn", has sold to Interzone.

04/11/2008: My story "Horus Ascending" is now live at Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show.

03/08/2008: My story "Blessing the Earth" has sold to Tales of Moreauvia, a magazine of historical fantasy and alternate history.

02/28/2008: My story "The Tamarind House" has sold to Paper Blossoms, Sharpened Steel, an anthology of Eastern-inspired fantasy.

02/10/2008: I will be attending Orbital, the 2008 British Eastercon, held March 21-24 at the Radisson in Heathrow. If you're around, come by and say hello.

02/03/2008: I've made my second professional sale !! (by SFWA standards): Intergalactic Medicine Show has accepted my short story "Horus Ascending" for their Summer or Fall issue.

01/25/2008: My story "Through the Obsidian Gates, is now available for sale on Anthology Builder, a site that offers you to build your custom print anthology.

01/17/2008: My story "Ys" has sold to Interzone.

11/08/2007: Issue 213 of Interzone, which contains my story "The Lost Xuyan Bride", is now available.

11/01/2007: My story, "The Dragon's Tears", has sold to Electric Velocipede.

10/30/2007: My story, "The Dancer's Gift", has sold to Fictitious Force.

10/26/2007: My story, "Sea Child", is now up at Coyote Wild. Click here to read it.

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