News - a record of world domination unfolding in real time
- October 30, 2011: Bad news! "Neighbors: A Definitive Odyssey," my fine tale of adventure and intrigue set inside a dictionary, will not appear in "Liminality: Tales from the Borders of Speculative Fiction" because the publisher has pulled the anthology. Good news! "Neighbors: A Definitive Odyssey," my fine tale of etc. etc., will instead appear in "WTF?!," an anthology from the wise folks over at Pink Narcissus Press.
- October 25, 2011: The wonderfully warped people at Brain Harvest will publish "The Expurgated Version," a flash piece of mine, on November 27th. You may run around in circles until then in fervid anticipation.
- August 22, 2011: Go read "Get Happy" and, well, get happy. Then go read my new author interview at F&SF, where I talk about "The Ramshead Algorithm" and give you further glimpses into the questionable milieu that is my imagination.
- August 12, 2011: Every Day Fiction and Quantum Kiss, two online magazines that host some of my free online fiction, are having some hosting difficulties. As long as these sites are down, email me with the name of the free online story (or stories) you can't access, and I'll send it/them to you. Sorry for the trouble!
- July 21, 2011: You all DID know that Julia Rios interviewed me as a bonus feature in my ebook, right?
- July 1, 2011: Witness my F&SF debut! "The Ramshead Algorithm" is available now, in their July/August issue.
- June 21, 2011: Despite the fact that I am not Canadian, I've sold "Get Happy" (one of my many former Honorable Mentions in the WOTF contest) to AE: The Canadian Science Fiction Review. (But I've visited Canada twice. Maybe that was enough?)
- June 18, 2011: Surprise! The KJ Kabza omnibus, "In Pieces," is now available at Smashwords. Contains new stories! New author interview! New story notes! And a pile of Flare and Panache! All for just 3 bucks—impulse buy it today!
- June 17, 2011: I'm sharing an F&SF table of contents with Peter S. Beagle, Peter David, and Robert Reed! SQUEEEEEE.
- May 6, 2011: Big Pulp will be publishing my fantasy story "The Idiot," in which an unlikely savior steps in to help an even unlikelier victim, in their March 2012 issue. And you did know that the anthology "Like Heaven and Hell" is now for sale, right?
- April 12, 2011: Review copies of "Like Heaven and Hell," a Circlet Press ebook anthology of angel and demon erotica, are now available! Want to read and review my story "Switch," among others? Drop me line. And check out the cover below. Pretty schweet, eh?
- April 11, 2011: Bee-tee-double-you. The Library of Science Fiction & Fantasy Press has taken my story "Neighbors: A Definitive Odyssey" for the anthology "Liminality: Tales from the Borders of Speculative Fiction." Good thing too. If a story set inside a dictionary isn't liminal, I don't know what is.
- March 3, 2011: I'll be danged. I've just sold my fantasy novelette, "The Ramshead Algorithm," to The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction!
- February 23, 2011: My latest fantasy flash piece, "Hero," is now up at Every Day Fiction. Read! Care!
- February 8, 2011: My story "Switch" will appear in an erotic anthology from Circlet Press entitled "Like Heaven and Hell," which will feature sexy tales of queer angels and demons. So if you want to read a story about angels boinking, I've got your number.
- January 11, 2011: Every Day Fiction has accepted another of my flash pieces, "Hero," while New Myths has bumped back my upcoming piece, "Scales Made Manifest," to March 1. Meanwhile, I've updated the featured reprint, so you can check that out while you wait.
2010
- November 18, 2010: I recently got word that I'm a Finalist in the Writers of the Future Contest for the third quarter of 2010. To celebrate, I offer you a newly published flash piece, "One Year Later."
- November 8, 2010: Double double story story update update! Both "Boulder No. III," which shows you a side of Sisyphus you've never seen before, and "The Perfect Find," in which one family can't see the line between trash and treasure, are now live.
- October 13, 2010: You may now go dig the fanciful little flash "How the Snake Got the Fork in His Tongue" and offer an encouraging/excoriating opinion with Every Day Fiction's comment feature.
- October 11, 2010: www.kjkabza.com: now interdigitated with occasional doodles of random weirdo crap! Because "I think your website needs some pictures or something" [source: friend].
- September 27, 2010: Every Day Fiction (who brought you such fine tales as "Flow," "Epiphany Sale," and "One-Sided") has agreed to publish my tongue-in-cheek Just-So Story homage, "How the Snake Got the Fork in His Tongue."
- September 21, 2010: Did you miss the part where Flash Fiction Online published "Now Open" earlier this month? If so, that's okay. I won't tell anyone. (But you better go read it now, before anyone notices your lapse in vigilance.)
- August 26, 2010: On December 1, New Myths will be publishing the tragic, fantastic "Scales Made Manifest," which last year received an Honorable Mention in the Writers of the Future contest—and Flash Fiction Online has accepted the tongue-in-cheek "Now Open" (publication date TBD). I must be twice as awesome as usual today.
- August 6, 2010: Another one of my flash fiction pieces, "One Year Later," has been accepted by the brand-spankin'-new Daily Science Fiction. At the time of this posting, the magazine has not yet launched, but you can keep an eye on it here.
- July 5, 2010: The Beneath Ceaseless Skies reading at Readercon has been scheduled for Friday, July 9 at 6 p.m. See me there!
- April 9, 2010: Available as a Kindle download or in dead-tree format: my latest story, "Ovum Tempi," appearing in Bards and Sages Quarterly. Buy a hard copy now! (Then sell it on Ebay in 50 years. Or whatever.)
- March 25, 2010: Beneath Ceaseless Skies has finally published my steampunk romance, "The Leafsmith in Love." Read! Care!
- March 11, 2010: I'll be reading from "The Leafsmith in Love" at Readercon, so if you missed me at Boskone, here's your chance!
- February 27, 2010: My little mircoflash piece "Forever in Heaven" was abruptly accepted yesterday and published today. (That was fast.) Read! Care!
- February 10, 2010: My scifi flash fiction piece "One-Sided" is now up at Every Day Fiction. Read! Care!
- February 1, 2010: My SF flash piece "One-Sided" has been accepted at Every Day Fiction and is slated to appear on February 10th.
- January 25, 2010: If you're going to Boskone, come see me at the Beneath Ceaseless Skies reading (Saturday, February 13 at 5 p.m.), where I'll be reading an excerpt from an upcoming story, "The Leafsmith in Love."
- January 3, 2010: I have joined the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), which means I am now a professionally recognized nerd. (It also means that, if I wanted to, I could totally use the internal member directory to look up Larry Niven's phone number. Sugoi!)
- January 1, 2010: www.kjkabza.com is now fully live and waiting for your desultory perusal. You may now go read the pages, click the links, and bask in my minimalist design aesthetic.
2009
- December 1, 2009: "You Don't Know Where That's Been" is now live at Spaceports and Spidersilk. Read it soon! Spaceports and Spidersilk doesn't archive their content.
- October 27, 2009: Gnomon Copy is printing my business cards. (I should give you one. They look swank.)
- September 24, 2009: Received an Honorable Mention in the Writers of the Future Contest for the third quarter (Q3) in 2009.
- September 17, 2009: "The Leafsmith in Love," a romantic steampunk fairytale, has been accepted by Beneath Ceaseless Skies.
