Category: writing career

Here are some things that I wrote in 2015. Well, that isn’t quite right. Here are some things I wrote that were published in 2015.

1. “Meat and Greet” (fiction) in InterGalactic Medicine Show (January 2015)
2. “5 Things I Wish I Could Tell My 20-Year-Old Self (About Writing)” over on the Write Life blog (March 2015)
3. “Guest Editorial: Sneak Invasion, Revisited” (nonfiction) in Analog Science Fiction (March 2015)
4. “Handheld Electronic Games from the Decade of Excess” over at SF Signal (April 2015)
5. “Gemma Barrows Comes to Cooperstown” (fiction) in InterGalactic Medicine Show (May 2015)

I think I had more fun writing the nonfiction pieces, which helps to explain my plans for writing in 2016.

In addition, I was invited to be a guest on a couple of podcasts in 2015.

1. The Three Hoarsemen, Episode 18, hosted by John E. O. Stevens, Fred Kiesche, and Jeff Patterson (January 2015).
2. The Functional Nerds, Episode 226, hosted by John Anealio and Patrick Hester (March 2015)

I enjoyed being part of both of these excellent podcasts, and am grateful to John, Fred, Jeff, John, and Patrick for inviting me.

Happy New Year, everyone!

I was delighted this morning to learn that my story, “Gemma Barrows Comes to Cooperstown” made Tangent Online’s Recommended Reading List for 2015. This is the second story of mine to make this list. Back in 2013, my story, “The Negative Impact of Climate Change on the Unusual Beasts of the World” also made the list.

“Gemma Barrows” was the lead story in the May 2015 issue of InterGalactic Medicine Show. It was the first time I had the lead/cover story in any magazine. My thanks go out to Edmund Schubert for taking the story. Thanks are also due to Juliette Wade, and Jay Werkheiser, both of whom gave me good feedback on the story as beta-readers.

Many of my friends have stories on Tangent’s recommended reading list this year, including Bud Sparhawk, Alvaro Zinos-Amaro, Jay Werkheiser, Alethea Kontis, Liz Argall, and Allen Steele. I’m sure I’m forgetting some others, but it is a long list. Congratulations to everyone.

My meta-fictional zombie story, “Meat and Greet,” originally published in Issue 43 of InterGalactic Medicine Show earlier this year is now available for free on IGMS’s site. This is the story that I sold on the basis of a reading I gave at the World Fantasy Convention last year. If you are interested in reading something of mine, go check it out.

The entire Issue 43 is currently free on the site, as are a few other odds and ends, including an interview I did with Ken Liu a few years back. You can find them all on the free issues page.

I am delighted to announce that Issue #45 of InterGalactic Medicine Show is out today, and that my story “Gemma Barrows Comes to Cooperstown” is the cover story for this issue. This is the first time any story of mine has been the cover story. What’s more, the amazing cover art for this issue was done by Eric Wilkerson, who as it happened, also did the cover for my favorite IGMS story, “Sojourn in Ephah” by Marina J. Lostetter.

As Edmund Schubert write in his editorial, this is my 4th story in the magazine, but my very first cover story. Edmund published my very first professional story way back in 2007, and I am so glad to have “Gemma Barrows” appear here.

Yesterday, on Twitter, I promised some exciting writing news:

Some exciting writing news coming tomorrow. Stay-tuned.

— Jamie Todd Rubin (@jamietr) June 23, 2014

This morning, I am delighted to tell you that I have a new column at The Daily Beast which debuted early this morning. My column, currently biweekly centers around “quantified self.” For those not familiar with the term, think: FitBits, JawBones, food trackers, calorie counters, and all of the other ways that we track things about ourselves to learn and improve.

My first column, “How I Wrote 400K Words in a Year” focuses on how I’ve used data to improve as a writer, and offers tips for others who might want to do the same.

It was pretty cool waking up this morning to find my article featured on the Daily Beast‘s home page:

This column marks another step in my writing career, an outlet for writing a column on how we can use data to improve, in front of what has to be the largest audience I’ve had thus far. I am grateful to Tessa Miller, my editor at The Daily Beast (and who I’d previously worked with over at LifeHacker) for giving me this opportunity, and providing helpful tips on my first article.

So, if you have some time today, head on over to The Daily Beast and check out my column. And by all means, let me know what you think.

Back at the beginning of this year, IGMS: Big Book of SF Novelettes was released in paper and e-book. It contains a bunch of novelettes that appeared in the pages of InterGalactic Medicine Show and among the stories, is my very first published story, “When I Kissed the Learned Astronomer.”

That anthology recently received a stunning audiobook version courtesy of SkyBook Media. Last night, for the first time, I got to listen to a professional voice actor read one of my stories. The reading, done by Paul Boehmer, was amazing and I listened raptly to the story, as if coming to it for the first time.

The anthology (and audiobook) contain stories by Brad Torgersen, Mary Robinette Kowal, Aliette de Bodard, Eric James Stone, Orson Scott Card, and Marina J. Lostetter, among others. If you are interested in hearing what my story sounds like, you can grab a copy of the audiobook from Skybook, or Audible.

The paper and e-book versions of the anthology are available on Amazon.