For Your Award Consideration...

Now that 2013 is over, it's the season of award nominations.For those of you who might be

nominating work for the Nebula and Hugo Awards, here are my own offerings:

Novels:

• The Children of Kings (with Marion Zimmer Bradley), DAW, 3/13
• Collaborators (as Deborah Wheeler), Dragon Moon Press, 5/13
• The Seven-Petaled Shield, DAW, 6/13
• Shannivar, DAW, 12/13

Novelette:

• “Among Friends” (Quakers, the Underground Railroad, and a slave-catching automaton), F & SF (3-4/13)

Short story:

• “The Hero of Abarxia”, When The Hero Comes Home 2, ed. G. Harbowy, Dragon Moon Press
• “Pearl of Tears,” Sword & Sorceress 28, ed. E. Waters, MZB Literary Works Trust

All Sorts of Great News

... some about my work, others just plain delicious. This week's round-up:

The latest Sword and Sorceress, just released, includes my story, "Pearl of Tears." It's a companion piece or reflection of "Pearl of Fire" from S & S XXII. The narrator, and the consequences of her actions, wouldn't leave me alone. The anthology is available in ebook and print editions from the usual places.

From Book View Cafe, a delicious and awesomely wonderful anthology of "author's favorite" stories (edited by me and Pati Nagle). "From the fantasy and science fiction of our roots to steampunk, romance, historical and mainstream; from humor to life’s hardest challenges, across the spectrum from light to dark. Stories by Ursula K. Le Guin, Vonda N. McIntyre, Marion Zimmer Bradley, and many more." Here's the link to order it or download a sample story. The Table of Contents:

On The Cover of the Next F & SF

This is the issue that will contain my story, "Among Friends." And it's the first time my name has appeared on the cover of the magazine. I find myself unexpectedly but quite delightfully excited to see it!

Here's the Table of Contents. Doesn't that make you want to run out and buy the issue?

NOVELETS

• “Among Friends” by Deborah J. Ross
• “Solidarity” by Naomi Kritzer
• “The Assassin” by Albert E. Cowdrey
• “The Lost Faces” by Sean Mcmullen

SHORT STORIES

• “The Cave” by Sean F. Lynch
• “Code 666″ by Michael Reaves
• “What The Red Oaks Knew” by Elizabeth Bourne And Mark Bourne)
• “The Boy Who Drank From Lovely Women” by Steven Utley
• “The Long View” by Van Aaron Hughes
• “The Trouble With Heaven” by Chet Arthur

POEMS

• “Dislocated Heart/A Starpilot’s Post-Operation Note” by Robert Frazier

DEPARTMENTS

• Books To Look For by Charles De Lint
• Books by James Sallis
• Plumage From Pegasus: Kozmic Kickstarter by Paul Di Filippo
• Films: All Man-eaters Great And Small by Kathi Maio
• Coming Attractions
• Curiosities by Richart A. Lupoff

The Children of Kings sighting!

Total author squee: the first glimpse of the actual book (at the DAW office, even if I don't have it in my hands):