Hi folks! It’s December, which means Award Eligibility Season(TM), among many other things.
This year has had a lot of big life changes for me with leaving Angry Robot, putting out my shingle for consulting work, and more.
Fiction
Fiction-wise, I’ve been working on new stuff that is still not quite ready to announce (the publishing life!), but for 2018, here’s what I did:
I’m the creator and lead writer on the epic fantasy series Born to the Blade, working with the amazing team of Malka Older, Marie Brennan, and Cassandra Khaw. Every episode is a novelette, and the series as a whole would be eligible for awards for Best Serialized Fiction or the like.
I wrote three episodes of the series myself:
Episode 1 – “Arrivals”
Episode 4 – “The Gauntlet”
Episode 11 – “All The Nations of the Sky”
but they’re all awesome and I hope you’ll check out the whole series if you haven’t.
I also published a Genrenauts short story (starring team logistician and all-around badass Shirin Tehrani) called “The Unlikely Turncoat” in the Outland Entertainment anthology Hath No Fury.
Podcasts
I’m also a co-host on two podcasts, which are eligible for the Best Fancast Hugo among other podcast awards.
This year, Greg and I re-booted Speculate into becoming an Actual Play RPGcast with a rotation group of SF/F professionals. It’s been an utter blast, and I hope you’ll check it out. We have two complete sessions up now and more coming.
I’ve also done some episodes of The Skiffy and Fanty Show, though not as many this year as I was focusing on my writing, etc.