stuff what I wrote last year
For whatever it’s worth, awards season is upon us, and if you are planning to nominate fiction for the Nebula or Hugo or World Fantasy Awards, then here’s a rundown of what I published last year. It’s a brief list, but I think some of the best work I’ve ever written — which makes sense, I suppose, since I should be getting better at this writing thing, yeah? No novels (but please keep an eye out for my next book, RWBY: After the Fall, on June 25, 2019!), but several short stories:
“The Land of the Morning Calm” — A Thousand Beginnings and Endings, edited by Ellen Oh and Elsie Chapman
This seems to be one of my best-received stories ever, and I hope you’ll check it out, as well as the whole anthology of Asian-inspired stories by Asian authors, which is wonderful (and is a YALSA Best Book for Young Adults title and on NPR’s list of best books). This one’s about a girl who finds out her mother is haunting the Korean MMO they used to play together.
“Kill Screen” — Mother of Invention, edited by Tansy Rayner Roberts & Rivqa Rafael
I am super proud of this story, in an anthology of “diverse, challenging stories about gender and artificial intelligence.” This one’s about a girl who resurrects her dead best friend as an A.I., recreating her likeness and personality by using recordings from her video game livestreams and their chat histories. The title references the last screen of old arcade video games when you’ve hit the last level possible before they glitch out.
Finally, two of my stories for the Serial Box series ReMade, season 2, are eligible “Power Struggles” and “Toward the Light” — though these are continuity-heavy, so probably not a good place to jump in.
If you do seek out any of these out, thank you! And thank you for your consideration.
Cheers,
Until Labor Day, Barnes & Noble is having its first 
You heard it hear last, folks! I am excited to be writing the first young adult novels in the RWBY universe, beginning with