Bricks and Sunlight at Cast of Wonders

Cast of Wonders, the Parsec-winning YA fiction podcast, has produced my short story, "Bricks and Sunlight." This is both my first reprint, and my first audio fiction! Click here to listen.

Year-in-Review

Mary Robinette Kowal posted an interesting article: "This post! I'm promoting it, even though I've been told it's tacky to self-promote." She makes a very good argument that if you don't tell people what you've done this year, they won't just know.

Even though I doubt I'm in the running for anything this award season*, she's right. I should put up a summary. And thanks to her excellent post, if it's tacky, I get to be tacky along with a very classy woman.

So! Here's my 2014:

Novels:
Drift, from Tu Books. Kirkus Review said: "Original worldbuilding and cosmology spice up a save-the-world romantic adventure....Readers will find watching Hutchins’ unusual magical rules bring about startling consequences for family and political structure utterly fascinating."

Novelettes:
"Golden Chaos," Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, Issue # 40. Available here.

Short Stories:
"A Dragon's Doula," Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, Issue #42. Available here.

"Waterlilies," Daily Science Fiction. April 21, 2014. Available for free online here.

"Wishing Hard Enough," Leading Edge Magazine, Issue #65. February 2014.

*For readers who aren't aware, nominations for the Nebulas and Hugos are both coming up soon, making this "award season" for the SF/F genres.

Go Teen Writers Interview

I got to be on a wonderful panel with Jill Williamson at SLC ComicCon. Later, she interviewed me -- it's up on Go Teen Writers, where I talk about being a teen writer, advice for teens, and, of course turtles. They're hosting a giveaway of DRIFT, too! Hurry over -- as of this writing, there are 35 hours left to enter.

A Dragon's Doula

My short story, "A Dragon's Doula," is up at IGMS! There's a great illustration by Nick Greenwood with it. Some stories seem to come as a whole thing; this one slowly gelled from a lot of different ideas over time -- there's explosions, lots of dragons, the titular doula, and Idaho forests.

Interview + Review

The nice folks at LitPick, a site dedicated to YA books and YA readers, interviewed me.

I can't remember if I posted this before, but their website also has an amazing review of Drift up. It's extra-humbling-awesome to me that this review was written by a teen.

Hidden Paths

To my surprise and delight, more than once I've had someone e-mail me and ask why on earth my short fiction wasn't available to buy as an e-book. I've been writing short fiction long enough now that I had a nice collection of stories whose rights had reverted back to me. Today, it's available on Amazon (more formats forthcoming).

Book Description: Nine fantastical tales of fantasy and science fiction from M.K. Hutchins. Delve in forbidden jungles, travel across flesh-eating oceans, and chow down on some cryonic sushi. Originally appearing in Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show, Daily Science fiction, and elsewhere, these stories are collected here for the first time.

Included is this collection is the novelette "The Temple's Posthole", which won an IGMS Reader's Choice award and was placed on the Tangent Online Recommended Reading List.

Here's the TOC:

"The Temple's Posthole" (originally published in IGMS #32)
"Water Lilies"  (originally published in Daily Science Fiction)
"Blank Faces" (originally published in IGMS #28)
"Raspberry Pudding" (originally published in Abyss & Apex #46)
"Wishing Hard Enough" (originally published in Leading Edge #65)
"Under Warranty" (originally published in Cucurbital 3)
"Canvas" (originally published in Daily Science Fiction)
"Cryonic Sushi" (originally published in Leading Edge #60)
"Bricks and Sunlight" (originally published in Suddenly Lost in Words #3)

Much thanks to those who wrote me and nudging me toward putting this together!