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I am a Second Place winner of the Writers of the Future Contest (volume XXIII), a 2008 Prix Aurora Awards nominee in the category of "Best Short-Form Work in English" for my novelette Metamorphoses in Amber, and a nominee for the 2009 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, which will be voted on and presented at Anticipation in Montreal this August.

A revised version of "Dynamics of a Hanging" will be appearing in The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, a reprint anthology edited by John Joseph Adams, Night Shade Books.

Coming September 2009

The game is afoot! Night Shade Books is proud to present the improbable adventures of the world's greatest detective... mystery, fantasy, science fiction, horror; no genre can escape the esteemed detective's needle-sharp intellect and intuition.

This reprint anthology showcases the best Holmes short fiction from the last 25 years, featuring stories by:

Stephen King	Tim Lebbon	Anne Perry
Bradley H. Sinor	Edward D. Hoch	Vonda N. McIntyre
Darrell Schweitzer	Mary Robinette Kowal	H. Paul Jeffers
Barbara Roden	Anthony Burgess	Stephen Baxter
Laurie R. King	Geoffrey A. Landis	Amy Myers
Peter Tremayne	Sharyn McCrumb	Michael Moorcock
Dominic Green	Barbara Hambly	Tony Pi
Chris Roberson	Naomi Novik	Rob Rogers
Mark Valentine	Tanith Lee	Neil Gaiman
Robert J. Sawyer

The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
John Joseph Adams
978-1-59780-160-7
September 2009
TP - 350 pages - $15.95

For a quick sampling of my past work, try these links to a few free online stories.

Metamorphoses in Amber, Abyss & Apex #24 (2007, novelette/contemporary fantasy, links to site)
  Nominated in the 'Best Short-Form Work in English' category, 2008 Prix Aurora Awards

The Stone Cipher, Writers of the Future Vol. XXIII (2007, novelette/contemporary fantasy, links to PDF)
  Second Place, the Writers of the Future Contest, Q1 2006

Silk and Shadow, Beneath Ceaseless Skies #11 (2009, short story/dark fantasy, links to site)

Come Frost, Sun, and Vine, Tales of the Unanticipated #29 (2008, short story/high fantasy, links to PDF)

The Pinocchio Cantatas, Tales of the Unanticipated #28 (2007, short story/urban fantasy, links to PDF)

Zeno's Last Paradox, Abyss & Apex #16 (2005, short story/historical fantasy, links to site)

 

	"Metamorphoses in Amber" (reprint), The Best of Abyss & Apex, Volume One, Hadley Rille Books (April 22, 2009, novelette/contemporary fantasy)
	"Come-From-Aways", ON SPEC #76 (Spring 2009, short story/science fiction)
	"Stilts and Straw", Flashing Swords #12 (2009, short story/sword stilt & sorcery)
	"Tekkai Exhales His Avatar", Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show #11, March 2009 (short story/science fiction)
	"Silk and Shadow", Beneath Ceaseless Skies #11, February 26, 2009 (short story/fantasy)
	"Sphinx!", AGES OF WONDER, DAW (short story/historical fantasy)

	"Dynamics of a Hanging" (reprint), The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (September 2009, short story/mystery)
	"The Shadow-Witch", CINEMA SPEC, Raven Electrick Ink (3rd Quarter 2009, flash/dark fantasy)
	"Cygnet's Shadow", ON SPEC (TBD, short story/high fantasy)
	"The Paragon Lure", Alembical 2 (TBD, novella/contemporary fantasy)