UFO10 Kickstarter is Live

September 16, 2025

We’re finally back for the tenth volume in the iconic UFO series! It’s been three years since the last volume as I am super overworked but I just couldn’t let the series languish. We got exciting new (and returning) headliners and, as always, will open our doors to newer writers with a submission window once we fund.

Please help spread the word of this campaign far and wide, and consider preordering your copy this way — it’s the most efficient way to help us rather than waiting for the book to become available online and in stores.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ufopublishing/unidentified-funny-objects-10?ref=d7pen6

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UFO10 Kickstarter Coming Soon!

August 31, 2025

I’ll be launching a UFO10 Kickstarter campaign in September! Please follow this link and click Notify me on launch. Even if you do not generally back campaigns on Kickstarter, we’d like as many people to click this as possible to show others that there’s interest in the book and the campaign. So it’s a small way to help that costs you nothing. 🙂

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ufopublishing/unidentified-funny-objects-10

I already have a fistful of headliner stories in hand, with more surely to come by the time we launch. Not announcing them yet, but it’s fiction from people you should be very excited to read.

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Worldcon 2025 Schedule

August 13, 2025

As per the previous post, I will spend much of my time at the Card Advantage Games booth, but here are also some panels, signings, readings, etc. where you can find me in the coming days. Please do say hi if you see me! I am friendly and (mostly) house-broken.

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Introducing Reclusion the video game!

August 13, 2025

In January of this year I joined the new and exciting video game studio, Card Advantage Games, as a Narrative Director. I’ve been working with amazingly talented group of people on our first game — a mashup of science fiction, historical fantasy, and our protagonist’s personal growth.

This week we’ve unveiled the game and will show off an early demo at the Seattle Worldcon. We will soon have the demo video available online as well, so those who can’t attend in person are able to check it out. For now, you can visit our website and follow our social media channels.

But that’s not all! We’ve teamed up with some amazing award-winning and best-selling authors to write stories set in the world of Reclusion and produced a collectable hardcover anthology which you can only get your hands on at exclusive CAG appearances, the first of which is Worldcon!

The book includes stories by Esther Friesner, Alan Dean Foster, R.R. Virdi, Julia Vee, and me. Stop by our booth at Worldcon to get your copy, but hurry because we’re sure to run out of the daily allotment quickly.

Not going to Worldcon or missed your chance? No worries–you can get a FREE ebook of the anthology any time. Simply visit our website and join he mailing list. The EPUB file will be automatically sent to you.

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UFO10 Cover Reveal

July 31, 2025

I’m finally–finally!–moving forward with the next installment in the UFO series. Headliner invitations are going out. We plan on having a Kickstarter campaign in October and, contingent on funds raised, an open submissions window in December.

We have a small team of associate editors. If you wish to get involved by helping with any aspect of the project (reading submissions, graphics design, marketing, etc.) please let me know. These are volunteer positions, though all artists and authors contributing work are getting paid. I’ve raised the pay rate to 12 cents per word for this volume.

Stay tuned for one more really exciting anthology announcement from me in August!

Submission guidelines:

UFO Series

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The Middling Affliction releases in Bulgarian Translation

July 26, 2025

THE MIDDLING AFFLICTION releases in Bulgarian translation next month! Издателство Протон publishes a mix of translations and Bulgarian authors. I’m in good company as the other American authors they publish are Heinlein and Silverberg!

I don’t envy any translator the task to bring all shades of meaning of the title to another language. In Bulgarian, the title will be THE HALF-MAGE EPIDEMIC.

I will be attending Bulgacon and Sofia Book Festival in September to help promote the release.

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New publication: “Serpent Carriers” by K.A. Teryna

July 1, 2025

“Serpent Carriers” by K.A. Teryna is live at Clarkesworld today!

This absolutely brilliant long novelette is perhaps the most complex translation I’ve had to perform to date, but it is well worth it! I can’t wait for everyone to read this story.

https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/teryna_07_25/

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Balticon 2025

May 20, 2025

Come see me in Baltimore this weekend!

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Short Story Good News Roundup

May 18, 2025

There are several short story-related bits of good news from the past few weeks. Here goes:

  • My 2700-word short story “Life in the Future” has been accepted at The Daily Tomorrow. Publication date is pending but you can subscribe to their free newsletter here. You will receive a daily story tidbit, and my story will eventually be available in this format too.
  • My 11,000-word alternate history novelette about Olga of Kiev, “The Messenger Birds,” will be published in August. More details on that are forthcoming.
  • “Serpent Carriers,” a 15,000-word SF novelette by K.A. Teryna (translated by me from Russian) will be published at Clarkesworld, likely in the next couple of months. Another short story by K.A. Teryna has also sold to a top-tier pro venue, and I’ll announce the details when we eventually receive the contract.
  • My flash story “The Traveling Fair” will be a part of a live performance by Liminal Tales in the UK. The theme is The Bizarre Bazaar and you can watch the trailer here.
  • “Good Stories” by Ken Liu, originally published in my The Digital Aesthete anthology, has won the inaugural Art of the Near Future Award. Congratulations, Ken! You can read “Good Stories” here.

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Spidersong Flash Fiction Collection Published

April 18, 2025

Order Spidersong by clicking here.

I have a new short story collection out today! This little book collects 31 of my flash fiction stories. Many but not all of them were available in my two full-size short story collections, but I thought it was interesting and fun to have a little book just for people who want to read flash, and to gather many previously uncollected stories therein.

I love writing very short stories, and many of mine used to be available online for free. But Daily Science Fiction archive seems to be gone, and Nature put most of their content behind a pay wall, so this is now going to be the best way to access the stories.

I made the book very inexpensive: it’s just $2.99 for the ebook (which is also included in Kindle Unlimited), or $9.99 for the paperback.

This was also the way for me to experiment with smaller size books, perfect for novellas and other shorter projects. This book is 4.25 x 7 inches, which makes it fairly close to the old-school pocket paperbacks no one seems to be printing anymore. Here it is with the “standard” size 5.5 x 8.5 paperback for comparison.

So, please grab a copy for your collection and please leave a review on Amazon and/or Goodreads as those really help drive confidence and sales. I’d appreciate it!

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