SHORT STORIES  

• "A Taste of Time" is available as mp3 or webpage on Escape Pod, April 2011. It was originally published in Deep Magic #24, May 2004. Rejections: 0!!!
• "Post-American Princess" was purchased by Dark Recesses, and should appear there sometime in 2011 ...
  
• "Shirley Knott" is featured in AlienSkin Magazine, autumn 2008. It even has a cute illustration!
• "Father's Footsteps" is live on the podcast Well Told Tales, September 2008.
• "Lightbringer's Class" is set in my Yeresunsa universe, and won Honorable Mention in the Writers of the Future Contest, 2007.
• "The Wolf Is Here, the Bear Is Here" won Honorable Mention in the Writers of the Future Contest, 2007.
• "The Aeon Project" won second place in the Conduit Short Story Contest, 2005.
• "Leveling Mountains" was featured in March 2005 of Aoife's Kiss, and included in the sixth Wondrous Web Worlds anthology, 2005.
• "Sunrise" was featured in Cyberpulp Magazine Issue #1, June 2004.  It can be purchased from Fictionwise or the PDA Bookstore.
• "The Blur" was published in Twilight Times, Summer 2004.
• "Decrepit" was the 90-word daily story of April 29, 2004 in Flashshot.
• "Fiction" was featured in Neverary.com (now defunct), October 2003.
• "Lightbringer's Class" was featured in Shining Waters Fantasy Literature, February 2003.

 ARTICLES and REVIEWS

• "How to Stock Your Magic-Fighting Toolkit" is about magical talismans.  Available in Fantasy Magazine, August 2011.
  
• "Down the Tube" is about film adaptations of books.  Published in The Internet Review of Science Fiction, August 2006.
• "Short Story Writing for the Novelist at Heart" was originally published in Neverary.com (now defunct), October 2004.
• Robert Jordan: Genius or Hack? is published on SFFWorld.com, January 2002. 
• Sexism in Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time is originally published on SFFWorld.com, February 2002, and later updated by me on my website.
• "Otherland: The Sea of Silver Light", by Tad Williams.  My review was published on Nabou, October 2001.

 INTERVIEWS

• Comic Dish episode #152, August 2011.
  
• Spacesuits & Sixguns, January 2008.
• Gamasutra, September 2005.

 NOVELS  

•  City of Slaves: Torth Book 1  Approx. 105,000 words, complete.  Five humans are torn from their ordinary lives and forced to survive on another world, ruled by mind readers, where keeping a secret can mean death.  Dark science fiction, unpublished.
•  Cave of Secrets: Torth Book 2  Approx. 110,000 words, complete.  After escaping slavery in the alien city ruled by mind readers known as the Torth, the group of fugitives must continue to hide and survive on an alien world. 
•  The Dead City: Torth Book 3  Approx. 126,000 words, completed in 2009.  Hunted by the powerful mind readers known as the Torth, the group of fugitives discover a secret society that can help them fight back instead of hiding.
  
•  World of Wreckage: Torth Book 4  Approx. 104,000 words, completed in 2010.  The group of escaped slaves and criminals defy the powerful mind readers known as Torth, causing a chain reaction of destruction and war.  Two books remain in the Torth series.
•  The Illusionist   Approx. 58,000 words, completed in 2001.  Young Adult /Science Fantasy.  An impoverished girl teams up with a foreign businessman to defeat their mutual enemies and restore her family's status.  Unpublished.
•  The Torth Resurgence  -- Science Fiction/Fantasy.  Approx. 113,000 words, abandoned in 1998. Two friends become heroes in parallel universes, and when they are reunited, they can no longer tolerate each other.
•  Summer of Fire   Approx. 30,000 words, abandoned in 2008.  A young aristocrat loses his family, wealth, and status all in one night, and seeks revenge. 
•  Sarah's Secrets   Completed in the early 1990s at the age of 12.  An outcast boy discovers he has powers and an alien heritage, and saves the universe.  Unpublished.
•  Salt Water   Completed in the early 1990s at the age of 12.  An outcast boy discovers his deformed half-brother living in the basement of his mansion, and must save his most hated classmate from being devoured. Unpublished.

 SCREENPLAYS

•  Eden  -- ScifFi Thriller.  100 pages, completed in 2005, awaiting time for revisions.  A team of explorerers on a newly settled planet become host bodies for intelligent alien parasites. 

 COVER ART and BOOK ILLUSTRATIONS

• Cover Art and Design for the ebook Slaves of God, by Brian Rappatta.
• Book Illustrations for Bees in My Butt, by Rebecca Shelley. Published by Wonder Realm Books, 2011 (available on the Nook, Kindle, other ereaders, and in print).
  
• Book Illustrations for We Flushed it Down the Potty, by Rebecca Shelley. Forthcoming from Wonder Realm Books, 2011.
  

 MORE

• Visit my website for book and movie reviews, my blog, some essays, short animated films, and more.

 

 

Abby is a graduate of the Odyssey Fantasy Writing Workshop and the California Institute of the Arts.  She currently works as a 2D and 3D animator in the video game industry.

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