My short play Industriously Yours (written as Miss Camille Alexa) is a winner of the STEAM Fest Stempunk play contest!  Along with Nick of Time by Mister Drew Davis and The True History of Henry Rayne and the Airship Pirates, Industriously Yours will be performed at the 2010 Steampunk Festival, AKA the Steampunk Theatre Entertainment Art & Music Festival (or STEAM Fest).

 

the play:

 

In hopes their daughter will forget her Attachment to Rupert, a young man of dubious Social Standing, Cecile’s parents have sent her for an extended stay of no certain duration to the Sisters of the Blessed Cog in a remote mountain abbey. Cecile, decidedly sick of mountain air, yodeling goatherds, and Rupert’s absence, writes in turn various relations and acquaintances requesting materials for a Very Secret Project. Soon Gretna Green and Rupert are just a few stitches, some begging, and some well-timed blackmail away. . .

 

The Academy Theatre, Avondale Estates, June 19th-20th 2010 just outside Atlanta, GA.  More information here.

Cover art: Broomstick Aviation by Nicc Balce

 Crossed Genres Year One  anthology is out, a volume of 2009’s favorites from each issue.  Representing the Child Fiction issue is my story,  “The Good Old-Fashioned Kind of Water.”   Go!  Buy!  Read!  Enjoy!

Wishing everyone the best of everything in 2010 with help from Paul Kipfer & Auguste Piccard, here pictured preparing to enter the stratosphere on May 27, 1931.

 

“Exploration is the sport of the scientist.” – Auguste Piccard

Rich Horton summarizes his Fantasy Magazine 2009 faves.  Sandwiched between stories by talented authors Kathleen Cheney and Catherine Cheek is “Shades of White and Road.”  He says:   Also from April, Camille Alexa’s playful “Shades of White and Road” tells of a woman running away from home only to be followed by living objects such as a suitcase — which all begins to make sense when she meets a rascally man on her way and returns to the city to confront her parents, who grow houses.

“Shades of White and Road” also got a mention during Fantasy Magazine’s “Blog for a Best Of“.  My huge thanks for the very nice words on my work to Todd Wheeler, Aaron Polson, and Catherine Gardner.

Listen to the audio of Mr. Lake’s “The Future by Degrees,” as read at OryCon by myself, M. K. Hobson, Mary Robinette Kowal, David Levine, Jeff Soesbe, and Dave Goldman.

And some contributor copies have arrived!  A GORGEOUS hardcover beauty of a book, Origins (Hadley Rille, 2009), and the quirky but also beautifully-appointed The Book of Tentacles (Sam’s Dot, 2009).  The second opens with my poem, “A Lady’s Quick Reference Note on the Tentacle” (written as Miss Camille Alexa):

. . . tentacles are elongated boneless flexible organs
found on some creatures, especially invertebrates,
and in the leaves of many carnivorous plants–
in particular those carnivorous plants
spontaneously swelling to enormous size
in putrid roadside ditches near nuclear facilities . . . 

More on the book’s web site:  http://tentaclepower.com/

 

ABYSS & APEX MAGAZINE OF SPECULATIVE FICTION   is giving away a free copy of my book, PUSH OF THE SKY.

 ”Post early and often.” — straight from the horse’s mouth.  At ‘em, at  ’em.

Sci-Fi Authorfest III Booksigning
More science fiction authors than you can shake a light saber at! Guests include:

Lilith Saintcrow (Flesh Circus, Orbit)
Thomas Harlan (Land of the Dead, Tor)
David Levine (Space Magic, Wheatland Press)
Brent Weeks (Beyond the Shadows, Orbit)
Camille Alexa (Push of the Sky, Hadley Rille Books)
Barb and J. C. Hendee (In Shade and Shadow, Roc)
Devon Monk (Magic in the Shadows, Roc)
Brenda Cooper (Wings of Creation, Tor)
Kristine Kathryn Rusch (Diving into the Wreck, Pyr)
Dean Wesley Smith (numerous Star Trek novels)
Nina Kiriki Hoffman (Fall of Light, Ace)
Mike Shepherd (Undaunted, Ace)
A. M. Dellamonica (Indigo Springs, Tor)
Timothy Zahn (Odd Girl Out, Tor)
Alma Alexander (Cybermage, Harper Teen)
Louise Marley (the Singers of Nevya series)
Ru Emerson (the Bard’s Tale series)….and Pyr senior editor Lou Anders.

Sunday, November 29th @ 4pm Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd. (800) 878-7323