Captain! The men have found something!




The VanDermeers were good enough to give me a copy of Fast Ships, Black Sails when they were in town for the Weird Tales event a week back. Featuring stories by Elizabeth Bear, Carrie Vaughn, Michael Moorcock, Garth Nix, Naomi Novik, and a host of others (including me with my very first sale!), it's been great subway reading. Some copies have already materialized on the "street".

My story, "Skillet & Saber" is kind of like an episode of Iron Chef as directed by Sam Peckinpah and featuring pirate cooks. How many uses can you find for an old mango pit? There's drugs, mayhem, and a recipe for eating your own boots. It's educational -- though rereading it now makes me squeamish 'cause it relies a bit too much on the "Texas aw'shucks" for its dramatic tension.

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