y first published piece of fiction, "The Things that Get You," won Glimmer Train's Very Short Fiction Award in the winter of 2000-2001 and appeared in Issue 42 (Spring 2002). Another short piece, "A Push-Reel Mower's Rumination on Mowing the Lawn in the Gas-Powered Age," appeared on McSweeney's Internet Tendency in the summer of 2006. A new story, "Interviews After the Revolution," will appear in Interfictions 2, due to be published by Small Beer Press at the end of 2009.

My first novel, Spaceman Blues: A Love Song, came out from Tor Books in 2007. Click here to read the first chapter.

My second novel, Liberation: Being the Adventures of the Slick Six After the Collapse of the United States of America, is out now, also from Tor Books. Click here to read the first chapter. Click here to hear a reading from the book, backed up by outstanding musicians.

The website io9 ran a very nice review of Liberation in June 2008 and featured it in a terrific post about science fiction books that cover the demise of America and a post about post-apocalyptic picaresque. The Edmonton Journal also ran a nice review on October 12, 2008. On October 30, 2008, the Las Vegas Weekly ran a very nice review and posted an audio clip of a reading from a couple pages of the book having to do with Las Vegas. On November 19, 2008, Cory Doctorow wrote up a deeply flattering review on Boing Boing, and a review by the inimitable Jeff VanderMeer appeared in The Believer in February 2009. Interviews about the book have appeared on Bookslut, Amazon, Huffington Post, the Mumpsimus, and the radio shows Fictional Frontiers and Changesurfer (thanks, everyone!).

Also, here are four short stories written at the behest of the Las Vegas Weekly.

I am represented by Cameron McClure at the Donald Maass Literary Agency.

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