Myth, the Universe, and Everything

While doing some random internet searching, I discovered that Rosalind Casey one of the students from this past year's England Trip (who, in our trip role-playing game, we cast as the Victorian incarnation of The Slayer), has several poems published! Her most recent, "At the Woodcutters," appears in the current issue of Goblin Fruit (alongside Coyote Wild contributor Shweta Narayan). Her earlier work has been published in the San Antonio Express News and Mind Flights. All three pieces are very mythic and/or folkloric, and very good. I'm sure it's not news for her any more, but -- congratulations, Rosalind!

Also while searching the web, I discovered that Coyote Wild has changed its format. The old archives are still intact, just a little bit hard to find. ("Nomi's Wish" is still available here.)

The last two days have been fuller than I'd anticipated, leaving me little time to post here. (Tonight, my poor vampire character in a Dogs in the Vineyard game was almost slaughtered by zombies. This took time.)

But I do need to post my lovely news! "Nomi's Wish" has found a home! In August, the story will be appearing in Coyote Wild, an online magazine of speculative fiction, poetry, and nonfiction that publishes monthly. "Nomi's Wish" is appearing in the teen issue, guest edited by Sherwood Smith and a number of teen readers. I am absolutely honored that they selected my story; "Nomi's Wish" is the story I've written that I still think is my best, and is certainly the one closest to my heart.

This also ties into Monday's conversation (and I'm thrilled how many people posted there with insightful comments!), because I didn't know that "Nomi's Wish" was a YA story. I didn't necessarily think it wasn't YA, but I was just thinking of it as a story about two sisters, most of which happens when one has graduated from college and the other has graduated from high school. They're both, in theory, adults. But the story of their relationship, and the parts of the story that delve into their histories growing up together, are the core of the story--and they must have hit a chord with the teen readers selecting the stories! I've sent "Nomi's Wish" to adult magazines before with no luck and I suspect that this is because, all along, I didn't realize it was a YA piece.

So I'm incredibly tickled with my August. "Nomi's Wish" will be on Coyote Wild, "The Best Things Get Better with Age" will be in Serenity Adventures, and "Don't Let Go" will be in the ransom anthology (which has a title I don't yet know) edited by Dylan Birtolo (eyezofwolf). What a fun time!