Free stories from Year’s Best Fantasy 9 anthology!

Tor is posting ALL the stories in the Year’s Best Fantasy 9 anthology (published summer 2009) for FREE. Mine was in the second installment, but you can already get it here. What you want are all the others! For example, installment 3 has one of my favorite short stories I read last year: Kij Johnson’s

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Free etext of “From the Clay of His Heart” now available

I just uploaded a free version of From the Clay of His Heart to the stories area. Check it out. The story made the Locus recommended reading list for 2008 and was included in the Year’s Best Fantasy 9 anthology published this summer.

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“From the Clay of His Heart” reprinted

I loves me golem story. It was such a joy to write. Obviously, two editors found it a joy to read as well. So it was just reprinted in Year’s Best Fantasy 9 edited by David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer and published by Tor.com. The good thing is that there is a whole boatload of other

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If you liked “From the Clay of His Heart” you can nominate for Hugo

You may nominate works for the 2009 Hugo award if you either: were an attending or supporting member of Denvention 3 (the 2008 World Science Fiction Convention); OR are an attending or supporting member of Anticipation (the 2009 World Science Fiction Convention) before January 31, 2009 If you liked “From the Clay of His Heart” and

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Press Release – Utah Author Selected for Best SFF Stories 2008

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE UTAH AUTHOR SELECTED FOR BEST STORIES OF 2008 Will Present Keys to Successful Fiction at BYU Symposium LAKETOWN, UTAH |  February 9, 2009 |  Utah author John Brown’s novelette, “From the Clay of His Heart,” has just been listed as one of the best stories of 2008 by Locus Magazine, the main

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