Several bits of good short story news recently. 🙂

“Dragon Offerings” will appear in the March 2009 Tales of the Talisman. (Which remains the only magazine willing to pay in dinosaurs. (I don’t know about you, but this is a serious consideration for me when choosing a market!)

“Alien Promises” has sold to Escape Pod. (This one first appeared in Bruce Coville’s Book of Aliens. A story about what happens when you promise a friend–or an enemy–that you’ll tell them first, should the aliens finally come and offer to take you away.)

“What Fire Is” has been accepted for the fourth Tales of Valdemar anthology. (This one’s set entirely in Karse, during the time when heralds and their companions were distant demons to the north, and children were still burned for having magic.)