Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam

First, this post is late. I meant to write it sooner–I usually love reflecting back over the past year–but a death in my family slowed my writing to a terrible crawl. I’ve been avoiding much that I meant to do. But an email from Sunil Patel, an editor of Mothership Zeta, with whom I published a 2015 story, spurred me to go ahead with it. After all, late is better than never.

Writing-wise, 2015 was a good year. My biggest news: I signed with agent Ann Collette for my first novel. I also published 19 original stories, 5 reprints, and one essay for Lightspeed’s Queers Destroy Science Fiction! special issue.

I’m going to highlight the originals, all of which are eligible for Best Short Story. One of these stories, “Everything Beneath You,” is on the longlist for the British Science Fiction Association Awards; another Beneath Ceaseless Skies story, “A Careful Fire,” is on the SFWA Recommended Reading List. My humorous sex ghost story “Sleeping with Spirits” (see what I did there?) is on the Tangent Recommended Reading List.

• “In the City of Martyrs”—The Toast (December 2015)
  
• “A Careful Fire”—Beneath Ceaseless Skies (October 2015)
• “Sleeping With Spirits”—Mothership Zeta (October 2015)
  
• “Husband Wife Lover”–PRISM International (October 2015)
• “The Centaur’s Daughter”–A cappella Zoo (October 2015)
  
• “Sisters”–Scheherazade’s Bequest (August 2015)
  
• “The Hanging Tree”—Transition (Summer 2015)
  
• “The Devil’s Hands”–Black Static (July 2015)
  
• “No Eyes”—PsychoPomp (July 2015)
• “The Girl with Golden Hair”—Beneath Ceaseless Skies (June 2015)
  
• “Trickier With Each Translation”–Lightspeed: Queers Destroy Science Fiction (June 2015)
• “Doors”–Interzone (May 2015)
• “Dance Our Shoes to Pieces”—Farrago’s Wainscot (April 2015)
  
• “The Way of Things”—Crack the Spine (April 2015)
• “Blight”—Escape Pod (March 2015)
  
• “Six Ways to Break Her”—SmokeLong Quarterly (January 2015)
• “Nostalgia”–Interzone (January 2015)
• “He Came From a Place of Openness and Truth”—Lightspeed (January 2015)
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• “Everything Beneath You”—Beneath Ceaseless Skies (January 2015)