Well, that was a year, wasn't it? Lots of political bullshit in the United States; I knew it was going to be bad, but the degree of badness still managed to surprise me. (And here I thought I was cynical!) Lots of institutional industry bullshit (I don't have much remaining faith in SFWA, I hate IP farms masquerading as magazines, and I am getting…

My short story "Matches" appears in the first issue of Ashton House Magazine. The print publication aims to include many genres of pulp. My near-future P.I. story aims to hit at least a couple of those genres and sits alongside some recognizable names from last century. "Matches" is my angry-at-the-adoption-industry story. Angry at plenty of other things, too, but for this one adoption was at the core.

On Animal Noir and collaborative authors

Earlier today, SFWA made two announcements about the upcoming Nebula Awards. The first included this wording: Works that used LLMs at any point during the writing process must disclose this upon acceptance of the nomination, and the nature of the technology’s use will be made clear to voters on the final ballot. Needless to say, this is a Choice, coming from an organization for writers, many of whom are currently part of the Anthropic class action lawsuit.