2023 is, somehow, almost over, so it’s time for an eligibility post!
If you only read one thing I published this year, please consider my debut novel AN UNCOMMON CURSE, which I self-published in April. It can be found at all of your favorite ebook places https://books2read.com/u/bzKXBj
This book is what happens when I decide to take two of my favorite things – fairy tales and musical theatre – and combine them in a fantasy novel! It’s a hopeful story, full of friendship. While it does stand alone, more books set in this world are coming! Book two will, hopefully, be out in the first half of 2024.
I also had eleven poems published this year:
“A Moon Witch at the Apiary” originally published in Strange Horizons, December 2023
“Even Muses Hunger” originally published in Eye to the Telescope Issue 50: Food & Feasting, October 2023
“Dinner, Overlooking the Sea” originally published in The Cozy Cosmic, October 2023, Underland Press
“Mnemosyne” originally published in Star*Line 46.4, October 2023
“Scattered” originally published in Star*Line 46.4, October 2023
“Shears” originally published in Small Wonders, September 2023
“The Oceanographer Waits” originally published in Seers and Sibyls, September 2023, Brigids Gate Press
“Two Sisters” originally published in Star*Line 46.3, July 2023
“Green” originally published in Mirror Dance, May 2023
“Proteus Wonders” originally published in Star*Line 46.2, April 2023
“A Moon Witch on the Seashore” originally published in Solarpunk Magazine Issue #8, March 2023
And seven short stories (with an eighth still to come in December):
- “Fears of Tactile Truth” originally published in Dark Void Magazine, July 2023
- “Refraction” originally published in Solar Flare, July 2023, Zombies Need Brains
- “Those Unmade and Those Between” originally published in In Another Time, July 2023
- “Wandering” originally published in Crimson Bones, June 2023, Brigids Gate Press
- “Snow Like Pink Pepper” originally published in Metaphorosis, June 2023
- “Shaping” originally published in Wyldblood Press, May 2023
- “A Small Creature, Amid Trees” originally published in Bioluminescent: A Lunarpunk Anthology, January 2023, Android Press
Thank you so much for reading.
Devan Barlow 