Works published, works read, work done
Here’s a brief review of 2023, in lists.
Works published
“Our First Mercy” (Flametree Press, February 2023 newsletter; Read online)
“Artist in Residence” (Luna Station Quarterly #53; March 2023; Read online)
“Our Forests” (All Worlds Wayfarer #14; March 2023; Buy online)
“Max Iterations 1000” (The Flash Fiction podcast; June 2023; Listen online)
“Solace” (The Horror Library vol. 8; Dark Moon Books, 2023; Buy online)
“Out of Bounds” (The Future Fire #66; July 2023; Read online)
Translations in Fantasmagoriana Deluxe (Dark Moon Books, November 2023; Buy online)
Works read
My favorites this year in fiction and non-fiction, in no particular order.
Fiction:
“Convenience Store Woman” by Sayaka Murata
“Tales from the Loop”, “The Electric State”, and “Things from the Flood” by Simon Stålenhag
“Transit” by Anna Seghers
“The Bird’s Nest” by Shirley Jackson
“The Clackity” by Lora Senf
Non-fiction:
“The High Sierra: A Love Story”, Kim Stanley Robinson
“Evocative Objects” edited by Sherry Turkle
“Digital Minimalism” by Cal Newport
“Dopamine Nation” by Anna Lembke
“The Shallows: What the Internet is doing to our brains” by Nicholas Carr
“The Underworld” by Susan Casey
Work done
I had a productive and inspiring year.
I wrote a bunch of new short stories, started querying a novella, and have a first draft for an Middle Grade horror novel I wrote during NaNoWriMo.
Back in March I was approached about translating some classic ghost stories from German into English. That was absolutely delightful! The stories I translated are now published (in “Fantasmagoriana Deluxe”) in English for the first time.
I went to one writing conference and to one academic conference and am returning to my academic roots: I was approached about writing a scholarly article for a science fiction handbook, which I started working on in November. I also took some classes: Statistics and Probability (I am a qualitative researcher at heart, but want to broaden my horizon and learn more about quantitative methods) as well as General Psychology – always useful!
And with this: happy new year!
