I got an e-mail from a nice writer over at Airship Ambassador informing me he had linked to my short Mexican steampunk story “Distant Deeps or Skies”. I also got a brief and polite rejection from Redstone Science Fiction for “Driving With Aliens in Tijuana”. Which has me thinking about hard sales, and my propensity […]

Filed under: Words on April 28th, 2010 by silviamg
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Shine: An Anthology of Optimistic Science Fiction, which contains my short story “Seeds”, has been getting tons of reviews: Scifi Wire, Barnes and Noble Blog, Bibliophile Stalker, Fantascienza, SF Revu, Fantasy Book Critic, Futurismic, SF Signal, Concatenation.

Some of the reviewers have misspelled my name (not an uncommon thing), but no matter. The latest review […]

Filed under: Words on April 27th, 2010 by silviamg
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Charles Tan was blogging the other day about people from one culture writing about people from a foreign culture. I replied to his post (which I think has several flawed assumptions), but I want to expand on a question he asks: can you ever write a book about a culture that’s not your own?
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Filed under: Words on April 21st, 2010 by silviamg
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My short fantasy story “Salt” is available at Expanded Horizons. It’s a love story.
“The Harpy” is definitely not a love story and is also out this month in the latest issue of Bards and Sages Quarterly. You can purchase the April 2010 by visiting their webpage.
Otherwise, several new reviews of Shine: An Anthology of Optimistic […]

Filed under: Words on April 10th, 2010 by silviamg
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M-Brane SF has released its latest issue, which contains a story called “The Manticore” by moi. I’m happy to see it in print since I thought it wasn’t going to sell to a science fiction publication due to having been rejected for being “fantasy” at several SF markets. The problem? It’s all based on real, […]

Filed under: Words on April 1st, 2010 by silviamg
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