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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Novels:

The Burning City. Chicago: Agate Bolden, 2010.

Detective Frankenstein. Minneapolis: Graphic Universe, 2011.

The Goblin King. Minneapolis: Graphic Universe, 2009.

Moonshine: a Novel. New York: Thomas Dunne /St. Martin’s, 2010.

Racing the Dark. Chicago: Agate Bolden, 2008.

The Summer Prince. New York: Scholastic, 2012. (Forthcoming)

Wicked City: a Zephyr Hollis Novel. New York: Thomas Dunne, 2012. (Forthcoming)

Short stories and articles:

“Among Their Bright Eyes.” Fantasy Magazine (Issue #4). 2006. Print.

“Down the Well.” Strange Horizons. August 2008. <http://strangehorizons.com/>.

“Far and Deep.” Interzone (Issue #221). March/April 2009. Print.

“Love Will Tear Us Apart” in Black, Holly, and Justine Larbalestier, eds. Zombies vs. Unicorns. New

York: Margaret K. McElderry, 2010. Print.

“A Prince of Thirteen Days” in Black, Holly, and Ellen Kushner, eds. Welcome to Bordertown: New

Stories and Poems of the Borderlands. New York: Random House, 2011. Print.

“The Revenant of Tokyo Bay: Godzilla and the Japanese Ghost.” The Internet Review of Science Fiction,

March 2004.  <http://irosf.com/>.

“The Score” in Sherman, Delia, and Christopher Barzak, eds. Interfictions 2: an Anthology of Interstitial

Writing. Boston, MA: Interstitial Arts Foundation, 2009. Print.

“Shard of Glass.” Strange Horizons. February 2005. <http://strangehorizons.com/>.

“A Song to Greet the Sun.” Fantasy Magazine. Fall 2009. <http://www.fantasy-magazine.com/>.

“Their Changing Bodies.” Subterranean Magazine. Gwenda Bond, ed. Special YA issue. Summer 2011.

<http://subterraneanpress.com/magazine/summer-2011/>.

“Third Day Lights.” Interzone (Issue #200). September/October 2005.

“The Yeast of Eire.” Strange Horizons. September 2009. <http://strangehorizons.com/>.

Awards and honors:

Finalist for the 2011 Carl Brandon Society Parallax award for novel Moonshine.

Finalist for the 2011 Carl Brandon Society Kindred award for novel The Burning City.

Top Ten finalist for the 2010 Million Writers Award for short story “A Song to Greet the Sun.”

Winner of the 2008 Gulliver Travel Grant from the Speculative Literature Foundation.

Finalist for the 2006 Carl Brandon Society Parallax award for short story “Shard of Glass.”

New York City in the 1920s

This talk discusses the historical research that informed my novel Moonshine. The twenties began the era that we think of as truly modern, and New York City was at the vanguard of the social and political movements that defined the period. This talk would focus on the roles of women, immigrants and the changing values of the time. I also discuss fashion, politics and the neighborhoods of the city, with an engaging visual component and ample time for questions. In the end, I relate this survey of the twenties in New York City to larger issues of researching and writing historical novels.

How to write a novel

This talk is designed to appeal to young, creative students who have considered fiction writing but not be entirely sure how to tackle something as long or complex as a novel. This will cover at a basic level the genres, structures and writing styles of a modern novel, and will conclude with a general discussion of the business of writing (critique groups, agents, publishers, etc.) My aim with this talk is to give students practical information and inspiration—exactly what I would have benefited from at that age. This will include a visual component.

Fiction writing workshop

I am also available, with sufficient preparation time, to hold a fiction workshop with a group of students who have pre-submitted works of 5,000 words or less (narrative non-fiction would also be accepted). The students will read each other’s work and we will discuss them in the critique session of 1 to 2 hours. The aim is to help students develop skill with giving and receiving constructive criticism, as well as providing some external motivation to push themselves as writers.

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In addition to the foregoing, I can tailor my presentations to the needs of the school. Other possibilities include speaking more generally on my career path as a writer, why I have chosen the genres of young adult and speculative literature, race and gender issues in my particular fields, and where to find inspiration.

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