32,000 words. Beginning of chapter 9, which means I’m back on track wordcount-wise. Nezahual and Teomitl are back to their old habits. Fun. *sadistic author*

It’s that time of the year again: beginning of the Nebula voting period, and of the nominations for a number of things (Hugo, Nebulas, BFSA awards)… I haven’t started up my reading yet, but I soon will.

And here’s my 2010 list of published things (which doubles as achievements for the year):

Short stories:
-”Age of Miracles, Age of Wonders”, Interzone, issue 230, September 2010
-”As the Wheel Turns”, GUD magazine, issue 6, September 2010
-“By Bargain and by Blood”, Hub Magazine, issue 108, January 2010
-”Desaparecidos”, Realms of Fantasy, June 2010 issue
-”Father’s Last Ride”, The Immersion Book of Science Fiction, September 2010
-”Father’s Flesh, Mother’s Blood”, Dark Futures, September 2010
-“Melanie”, Realms of Fantasy, February 2010
-“Memories in Bronze, Feathers and Blood”, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, issue 45, June 2010
-”The Shipmaker”, Interzone, issue 231, September 2010

Novelettes:
“Eye of the Destroyer”, Blood and Devotion, Spring 2010
“Fleeing Tezcatlipoca”, Space and Time, issue 111, Spring 2010
“Silenced Songs”, Music for Another World, August 2010
“The Church of Accelerated Redemption” (with Gareth L. Powell), Shine: An Anthology of Optimistic SF, Spring 2010
“The Jaguar House, in Shadow”, Asimov’s, July 2010
“The Wind-Blown Man”, Asimov’s, February 2010

-Novel
Servant of the Underworld, Angry Robot, October 2010 (fantasy)

You can find a number of them online (I’ve linked where applicable). If I were to strongly push for something, it would be “The Jaguar House, in Shadow”, my Xuya-cum-Jaguar-Knights alternate history (eligible in the novelette category).
I also like the two Interzone short stories quite a bit, especially “The Shipmaker”, but at the moment they’re not eligible for the Nebulas by virtue of having had UK publication only (though insofar as I can tell, Hugos are fine).

I have also uploaded Servant of the Underworld, “The Jaguar House, in Shadow”, “As the Wheel Turns” and “Desaparecidos” up on the SFWA forums (since to-date, those four are the ones that have received Nebula nominations).

As usual, if you’re voting for any of those and want to read something in there, feel free to contact me.

I’ve just submitted two short stories. Been a long time since I haven’t done that.
In other news, my 2011 schedule is filling up (can’t say anything yet, but some sekrit event is definitely on the cards)

And 1,000 additional words on the novel, bringing me to 30k or something like that (right now, the novel’s in two pieces, of which one is on a computer and one on my neo). I was complaining to the H about feeling bored with the whole thing, and he looked at me and said, “yup, that seems like the right time for you to say so.” Guess it’s official: we have entered the Terrible Middles.

Still trying to select which stories to pimp for the Nebulas. The novelette’s pretty much self-explanatory (“The Jaguar House in Shadow” got good reviews, a mention in Rich Horton’s year-end summation, and high visibility); the novel’s easy, as I only published one this year. The short story… I’d want to plump for “The Shipmaker”, but the odds are it won’t be eligible for the Nebulas (it’s been published in the paper edition of Interzone, but not in e-version, and I’m not sure fictionwise will have the e-version up by the end of December). So it’s a choice between “Memories in Bronze, Feathers and Blood” (how can you not like Aztec steampunk, plus it got a number of good reviews), and “As the Wheel Turns” (my Chinese reincarnation short story published in GUD, which has a more original structure, more lyrical language and who’s left a lasting impression on the couple of people who’ve read it).

Decisions, decisions…