A Busy Year on the Writing Front

A Busy Year on the Writing Front

Nonfiction/Essays

• Los Angeles Times: “What my son with Down syndrome taught me about baseball — and life” (https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2022-10-03/a-father-a-son-and-an-almost-perfect-day-of-baseball )
• “The Spruce Goose, the Hollywood Stars, and America’s Nazis” (From Earth to the Stars blog) (https://fromearthtothestars.com/2022/08/04/the-spruce-goose-the-hollywood-stars-and-americas-nazis/ )

3) “Q&A with Rick Wilber on ‘Blimpies’”  (From Earth to the Stars blog https://fromearthtothestars.com/2022/03/17/qa-with-rick-wilber-3/ )

Fiction Sold or Published in 2022

• “The Greeter” (short story, with Lisa Lanser Rose, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, forthcoming in 2023)

• “The Storyteller” (novelette, Merciless Mermaids anthology, WordFire Press, forthcoming in 2023)

• “The Goose” (novella, Asimov’s Science Fiction, July/August 2022)

• “Blimpies” (novella, Asimov’s Science Fiction, March/April 2022)

Fiction Submitted

• “The Death of the Hind” (novella, with Kevin J. Anderson)
• “To the Mean” (short story)
• “The Hill and the Stars” (novel)
• “The Donkey’s Hind” (short story)

Work in Progress

• Media Matters (college textbook, 2^nd edition, with John Saunders of University of Alabama-Huntsville)
• Encyclopedia updates on baseball/science fiction
• “The Civil Servant” (science fiction, with Joe Haldeman, a novel? A novella? We’re working on it)
• “Insensitive Sounds” (novel)
• Collaborations in the works with a handful of other writers, ranging from WWII alt history involving Scapa Flow to multiverse story with Hugh Everett to a baseball fantasy that involves a witch and a DiMaggio or three to a high-tech thriller that involves some baseball and some gee whiz brain/computer interface tech and a lunch in Palo Alto, and a train ride (or maybe it’s a passenger liner) with Alfred Hitchcock. Looking forward to working on all of these works-in-progress in 2023 with all these fabulous writers. I’ll get my part done, I swear.

Awards (Finalist or Winner) received in 2022

• “The Hind,” an Asimov’s Readers’ Award for Best Novelette in the magazine. The story is a collaboration with Kevin J. Anderson (award received at Chicon a year late because of Covid)
• “The Hind,” (collaboration with Kevin J. Anderson) is a Finalist for the Canopus Award for Excellence in Interstellar Writing. Canopus recognizes “the finest fiction and non-fiction works that expand our understanding of the challenges, opportunities, pitfalls, and rewards of interstellar space exploration.” Award made in Nairobi in February.
• “Billie the Kid,” Asimov’s Readers’ Award finalist for Best Novelette of 2021 in the magazine.
• “Billie the Kid,” from Asimov’s, a finalist for the 2022 Sidewise Award for Best Alternate History—Short form.