Saturday, July 13, 2024

The Merchant Of Venus

 My story "The Merchant Of Venus" is now available in Brave New Girls: Chronicles Of Curious Girls Who Create!

These middle grade anthologies feature teenage girls in STEM and the proceeds go to The Society Of Women Engineers Scholarship Fund, so I'm always excited to have a story in one.

My story this time is the culmination of a couple separate notes that have been in my ideas folder for quite a while. The first was the title, a play on the Shakespeare play, although I was never quite sure what I wanted to do with that title. I just liked it.

The second was Saul Goodman from Better Call Saul if he was a robot. Again, more of a concept than an actual idea.

And then there was this joke: what did the salesman say at the Shakespearean camping supply store's year end sales event? Now is the winter of our discount tents!


Thursday, July 4, 2024

Lovecraft, Actually

 My story Lovecraft, Actually is now available in Necronomi-romcom!

It is hard to talk about exactly what inspired my story because it involves the twist at the end, but the basic idea is that scene in Love, Actually with Andrew Lincoln at the door with the cards… but he is a queer lady trying to communicate with the cosmic horror creature that is about to sacrifice her girlfriend.