http://faerye.net/tag/small+towns Posts tagged with "small towns" - Faerye Net 2013-01-30T07:56:54+00:00 Felicity Shoulders http://faerye.net/ http://faerye.net/post/small-towns-available-to-read-online "Small Towns" available to read online! 2013-01-30T07:56:54+00:00 2013-01-31T21:03:20+00:00 <p>Because I am not the sort of person who likes to hear half a story myself, I don&#8217;t like putting others in that situation. Therefore, when I chose to read my novelette &#8220;Small Towns&#8221; at the <span class="caps">SFWA</span> Northwest Readings this month, I decided to plop the full text online for everyone to finish reading, whether they made it to the event or not! It&#8217;s a very different sort of story from &#8220;Conditional Love&#8221;, the other story I&#8217;ve <a href="http://felicityshoulders.com/fiction/conditional-love/" target="links">made available online</a>, and I like the contrast quite a bit.</p> <p>&#8220;Small Towns&#8221; is a historical fantasy novelette, first published in the January/February 2012 issue of <a href="http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/" target="links"><em>F&amp;SF</em></a>. Thanks to the kind offices of my co-protagonist <a href="http://wonko.com" target="links">Ryan Grove</a>, it&#8217;s available <a href="http://felicityshoulders.com/fiction/small-towns/">as a web page</a> or you can download the <a href="http://felicityshoulders.com/fiction/small-towns/small-towns.pdf"><span class="caps">PDF</span></a> or <a href="http://felicityshoulders.com/fiction/small-towns/small-towns.epub">ePub file</a>.</p> <p>Here&#8217;s the teaser for those who didn&#8217;t make it to the readings:</p> <blockquote> <center><b>Small Towns</b></center> <p>When Jacques Jaillet was a small boy, he brought home a pocketful of sand from the seaside and dribbled it slowly onto the floorboards of his little room. He made long avenues and cottage roofs, rows of shops, garden walls, a church with a fragment of shell for the tower. Then, for no reason he could later recall, he took a deep breath and blew it all away, the shapes and the order, the grains themselves skittering under the baseboard, gone forever.</p> <p>When Jacques returned to his market town in 1918, past his middle years, it looked as if here, too, a monstrous child had finished playing and had blown the town, the streets, the houses and shops from the face of the Earth.</blockquote></p> <p>Go and <b><a href="http://felicityshoulders.com/fiction/small-towns/">read the rest!</a></b></p> http://faerye.net/post/readings-ahoy Readings ahoy! 2013-01-28T19:42:43+00:00 2013-01-28T19:42:57+00:00 <p>Somehow I&#8217;ve neglected to remark on it here, but if you are in Seattle or Portland this week, you should stop by and hear me read in the <a href="http://www.sfwa.org/for-readers/sfwa-northwest-reading-series/" target="links"><span class="caps">SFWA</span> Northwest Reading Series</a>!</p> <p>I&#8217;m reading at 7 pm on:<br /> <b>Tuesday, January 29</b> in Kirkland, WA at the Wilde Rover Irish Pub, with host <a href="http://www.kittywumpus.net/blog/" target="links">Cat Rambo</a> and fellow reader <a href="http://www.gralinnaea.com/" target="links">Grá Linnaea</a>.</p> <p><b>Wednesday, January 30</b> in Portland, OR at McMenamin&#8217;s Kennedy School, with host <a href="http://www.jimkelly.net/" target="links">James Patrick Kelly</a> and <a href="http://www.gralinnaea.com/" target="links">Grá Linnaea</a>.</p> <p>And if you can&#8217;t come, there&#8217;ll be a little free fiction (to relieve a cliffhanger) online&#8230;stay tuned! Many thanks to <span class="caps">SFWA</span> and to Jim Kelly for this opportunity!</p> http://faerye.net/post/interview-about-small-towns-on-the-fsf-blog Interview about "Small Towns" on the F&SF blog 2012-02-10T15:50:11+00:00 2012-02-10T15:50:35+00:00 <p>I was asked to do an email interview about &#8220;Small Towns&#8221;, my novelette <a href="http://faerye.net/post/small-towns-on-shelves-in-januaryfebruary-issue-of-fsf" target="links">currently available in the January/February <em>Fantasy and Science Fiction</em></a>. Assistant Editor Stephen Mazur has posted the interview over at the <a href="http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/blog/2012/02/09/interview-felicity-shoulders-on-small-towns/" target="links"><em>F&amp;SF</em> blog</a>.</p> <p>I was really glad to have the opportunity &#8212; writing this one was interesting and unusual, and I hope readers are interested in the extra information.</p> <p><a href="http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/blog/2012/02/09/interview-felicity-shoulders-on-small-towns/" target="links">Go and see!</a></p> http://faerye.net/post/small-towns-on-shelves-in-januaryfebruary-issue-of-fsf "Small Towns" on shelves in January/February issue of F&SF! 2012-01-03T16:29:21+00:00 2012-01-13T10:09:16+00:00 <p>My <a href="http://faerye.net/post/firsts-in-which-i-make-another-sale" target="links">first published novelette</a>, first published fantasy, and first published historical fiction are all out on newsstands today and they are all the same thing: &#8220;Small Towns,&#8221; published in the January/February 2012 issue of <a href="http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/" target="links"><em>The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction</em></a>!</p> <center> <p><img src="http://faerye.net/media/Jan-Feb2012+cover_small.jpg" /></center></p> <p>I hope all my stories have their own flavor, but this one is particularly idiosyncratic and I&#8217;m quite proud of it.</p> <p>Here&#8217;s the beginning, to whet your appetite:</p> <blockquote> <center><b>Small Towns</b></center> <p>When Jacques Jaillet was a small boy, he brought home a pocketful of sand from the seaside and dribbled it slowly onto the floorboards of his little room. He made long avenues and cottage roofs, rows of shops, garden walls, a church with a fragment of shell for the tower. Then, for no reason he could later recall, he took a deep breath and blew it all away, the shapes and the order, the grains themselves skittering under the baseboard, gone forever.</p> <p>When Jacques returned to his market town in 1918, past his middle years, it looked as if here, too, a monstrous child had finished playing and had blown the town, the streets, the houses and shops from the face of the Earth.</blockquote></p> <p>I hope you&#8217;ll go out and buy the magazine at your local newsstand or Barnes &amp; Nobles. Portlanders, <a href="http://www.richscigar.com/index.htm" target="links">Rich’s Cigar Store</a> has copies!</p> <p><strong>Edited 1/13/12:</strong> <em>F&amp;SF</em> is <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Fantasy-Science-Fiction-Exclusive-Digest/dp/B004ZFZCKY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1326476276&sr=8-1" target="links">available for Kindle</a>, as well!</p> http://faerye.net/post/firsts-in-which-i-make-another-sale Firsts! (In which I make another sale) 2011-07-14T19:26:06+00:00 2011-07-14T19:26:12+00:00 <p>It&#8217;s not easy opening a securely closed envelope while carrying the rest of the mail, a set of keys, and a plastic bag full of Chinese takeaway. But sometimes it&#8217;s worth it! Teasing open this particular envelope yielded me an acceptance letter from none other than <a href="http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/" target="links"><em>The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction</em></a>, more commonly known as F&amp;SF!</p> <p>This sale marks <em>several</em> firsts for me. It&#8217;s my <strong>first fantasy sale ever</strong>, and my first novelette sale! (For those of you not up on our obscure lingo, that means it&#8217;s longer than my previous short fiction sales &#8212; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novelette" target="links">over 7500 words</a>.) It&#8217;s also my first sale to this excellent magazine.</p> <p>The novelette in question is called &#8220;Small Towns&#8221;, and it&#8217;s set just after World War I in Europe. So I suppose it will be my first published historical fiction, as well! I am proud and excited &#8212; thanks to everybody who read this story and believed in it, especially my critique group and Ryan!</p> <p>As soon as I know more about when this story is coming out, I&#8217;ll pass it on here. <em>&Agrave; la prochaine!</em></p>