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Fiction by Mary E. Lowd Published in 2023

This has been a busy year, and I’ve had a lot of fiction published — 3 novels, 3 novellas, a short story collection,  23 short stories, and a poetry collection. Except where marked otherwise, pieces were originally published in Deep Sky Anchor or by Deep Sky Anchor Press.

Everything on this list can be read for free online at the links provided, except for You’re Cordially Invited to Crossroads Station and Hell Moon.

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After the Crash

I feel like such a fool now for letting FurPlanet sit on Commander Annie & Other Adventures for almost four years, patiently waiting and defending their delinquency and lack of communication to my friends.

There are so many moving pieces and fiddly bits involved in getting more than a decade’s worth of work almost instantly republished. It’s a lot. Continue reading “After the Crash”

Things You Don’t Need to Tell an Author

When my Entangled Universe trilogy came out from Aethon books, a number of people felt the need to pop up and tell me they wouldn’t be buying it, because that publisher only sells through Amazon, and they hated Amazon more than they cared about reading my fiction.

Now people are telling me they won’t read my fiction because of my stance on AI. Okay. No big deal. Continue reading “Things You Don’t Need to Tell an Author”

Always Loved Octopi

You don’t want to tangle with an octopus in a snowball fight. Unless you’re an octopus too, or maybe a spider or centipede or something, there’s NO WAY you have enough arms to keep up.

As someone who loves octopi so much that my mom let me skip a day of school as a teen to go to an aquarium and stare at a sleeping one for three hours in a wind tunnel while it twitched precisely once, it really means a lot to me how much better AI is getting at drawing them. Continue reading “Always Loved Octopi”