sand·box (sănd′bŏks') n.
A low box filled with sand for children to play in.
A litter box.
Welcome to my self-promotional sandbox.
I write science fiction and fantasy, but I've been known to dabble in
mainstream and mysteries. My short stories have appeared in The Magazine
of Fantasy and Science Fiction,
Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, The Year's Best SF,
and other fine venues. If you've got the time, you can read some of them in the
Stories section.
This just in: Gary Wolfe of Locus Magazine called me "one of the most promising"
of the new short story writers. (Full review
here.) Now if only I knew what I was promising.
My first novel, Pandemonium, will be published by Del Rey Books
on August 26, 2008—details to come.
By the way?
Hell has frozen over. I decided to start blogging. I call it
My Dinner with Andre the Giant.
You can contact me at
daryl.gregory@gmail.com
New News
Finally, a date with my publisher
Just got news that we have an official publication date for Pandemonium,
my first novel: August 26, 2008. You can even
pre-order the book on the Del Rey/Random House website for only $13,
a move recommended only
for the brave at heart, or people who are my mother. I mean, there's not even a
cover for it yet—so ordering now is the very definition of buying it sight
unseen.
This is not the cover, but an image I've been using on my PR
materials, but it's all I've got for now:
Hanging out with my betters
This spring a couple of my stories will be appearing in a few "best-of"
anthologies. “Dead Horse Point” will be appearing in
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 2, edited by
Jonathan Strahan. “Unpossible” will be in
Fantasy: The Best of the Year, 2008 Edition, edited by Rich Horton, and in
Year’s Best Fantasy #8, edited by David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer.
Both those stories were listed in Locus Magazine's
Recommended Reading List for 2007.
Last, a little Hebrew grammar lesson
My story "Second Person, Present Tense" is now appearing on the Israeli SF
webzine Bli Panika,
which translates as "Don't Panic." I can't read a word of it, but my thanks to
the translator, Ehud Maimon, and Bli-Panika's editor Rami Shal'heveth, who
provided very cool illustrations for the story.
— Daryl, 2/4/2008
And the Not So News
For those of you who like buying day-old bread and whiffing the milk
jug after its expiration date, check out the Not
So News. Highlights: