Hi! I’m Shira. I write stuff. Here’s info on some of it.
Stuff you can read now!
* “Wool and Silk and Wood” in Electric Velocipede #15/16, November 2008
* “Unruly Harvest” in Polu Texni, December 2008
* “The Angel of Fremont Street” in ChiZine, January 2009. This has been nominated for the Million Writers Award.
* “When Her Eyes Open” in Lone Star Stories, February 2009; it was reprinted in the 2009 Eaton Science Fiction Conference’s speculative poetry sampler, and has been nominated for the Rhysling Award.
* “Twelve” in Cabinet des Fees, March 2009
* “Fortune” in Ravens in the Library: Magic in the Bard’s Name, the S.J. Tucker benefit anthology
* “Tea with Nanahuatl” in Everyday Weirdness
Upcoming in Dead-Tree or Pixel Format
* “Flying Lessons”, a webcomic with Charity Larrison, July 2009
* “Valentines” in Interfictions 2, November 2009
* “Nine Things About Oracles” in Electric Velocipede #20
* “And to My Wife” in Electric Velocipede #20
* “The Portal to Heaven” in an upcoming issue of Electric Velocipede (2010)
Also!
Shayara
Is an urban fantasy illuminated manuscript (as it’s not 100% illustrated, I don’t know that you can call it a webcomic). It is in process, and will resume posting when I have a decent backlog. Stay tuned! Look for a bunch of goodies scattered around the site as the story progresses. (Read Shayara posts on LiveJournal!)
Wind Tunnel Dreams
Is a loosely interconnected community-funded story system. Every so often, I do a week or a month of daily flash fiction or a five-day short story, often inspired by sponsors’ prompts. This is my day job. Please throw in a few dollars if you like the stories! I love getting prompts, and I love getting fanart.
Wind Tunnel Dreams has been nominated for the Rose and Bay Award for Crowdfunded Fiction.
And Many More
Places You Haunt is the Vegas fiction, and Walking on Water is the Vegas autobiography. Seizure Lass is the medical memoir. Questions about anything else? Ask!
Special Projects
* There will be a story-by-subscription in 2009. Details forthcoming.
* Blogathon 2009: raising money for the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center. Sponsor me!
* Shayara jewelry and soundtrack in process!
If you want to contribute art to any project, or have an idea for a collaboration, e-mail me at shadesong AT gmail.com!
Where Else am I?
You can find me at Facebook. You can be my fan there, too. I’m on Twitter, but only rarely use it. Not on MySpace. 