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I appear on the following panels with, among others, Nisi Shawl and Mary Robinette Kowal.  I’m quite excited.  My first time in Portland.

Sat Nov 13, 10:00 – 11:00 a.m.: Gender and Writing
Gender free? Gender neutral? Stereotyping? How gender affects our writing. What writers do to write effectively in the opposite gender’s point of view, and whether they really do get away with it.
Nisi Shawl, Keffy R. M. Kehrli, J. A. Pitts, Craig Gidney, and Donna McMahon in Jefferson/Adams

Sat Nov 13, 12:00 noon – 1:00 p.m.: Writing the Other: Races and Cultures
Speculative fiction often takes steps toward being more egalitarian, but there are still huge challenges ahead. Issues of appropriation, respect, stereotypes, and taking chances. How to get educated and still write naturally and from the heart.
Nisi Shawl, Donna McMahon, Rory Miller, Craig Gidney, and Mary Robinette Kowal in Roosevelt.

I will be at Capclave (a con just outside of DC) this weekend.  I’m not on any panels, but I will hanging around and might have some goodies from Lethe Press!

My stories Circus Boy Without A Safety Net (reprint) and Bereft have been accepted for the YA anthology From Where They Sit:  Black Writers Write Black Youth: Collected Youth (Tiny Satchel Press).

Heear me read with a bunch of other great writers/performers on Wednesday, September 8 at the Library of Congress!

I’ve spent the past year working on the release of the new Tanith Lee collection of fiction, called Disturbed By Her Song.  It’s a collection of her channeled fiction–the French Jewish Esther Garber and half-brother Judas Garbah.  It’s beautifully written, magical, historical. strange…I can hardly wait until it hits the shelves–virtual and otherwise….

Sea, Swallow Me & Other Stories may be read as a PDF on your computer/iPad here!

Blogger Benito Corral (on DirtySexyBenny) had lovely things to say about Sea, Swallow Me.

Blogger Zahrawithaz graciously included Sea, Swallow Me in the list of More than 50 books by Queer POC.

Richard Lablonte had this this say about Best Gay Stories:

Think of this annual series, now in year two, as a starter kit for readers of gay writing, fiction and otherwise, who might not otherwisehave access to the sources from which Berman culled 18 stories. Some are erotic, some are literary, some are romantic, some dabble with fantasy, some tackle coming out – a perennial of queer storytelling. There aren’t any duds, but highlights include Sam J. Miller’s on-target tale about racial insensitivity, “Haunting Your House”; Trebor Healey’s elegiac account of a young man memorializing hislover’s death; Christopher Schmidt’s trilogy of short-shorts observing queer life, “Three Scenes”; Craig Laurance Gidney’s recasting of French poet and libertine Arthur Rimbaud, “Strange Alphabets; and David Levithan’s charming account of a teen’s babysitting adventure and his encounter with “Starbucks Boy.” Anthologies promising the “Best” are entirely subjective; for every story included there are certainly three or four just as good that don’t make the cut. But Berman – founder and publisher of Lethe Press – has a good eye for queer prose, as this quality compilation attests.

Bibliophile Stalker (aka Charles Tan) interviewed both publisher Steve Berman and myself about Lethe Press.