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Email at samcdonald (at) mac.com

About

  • Writer, speaker, instructor
  • Four times Tiptree Award Honor List 
  • Lambda Literary Award for Diana Comet and Other Improbable Stories
  • Booklist Editor's Choice, ALA Over the Rainbow book, and Rainbow Award win for Diana Comet and Other Improbable Stories
  • Silver Moonbeam Award for Mystery of the Tempest
  • Finalist, Foreword Book of the Year, for Mystery of the Tempest
  • Included in Lambda award winning anthology Take Me There
  • Veteran of U.S. Navy (commissioned officer) in Guam, Key West and more
  • Former Hollywood assistant at CBS Television and Disney Studios
  • M.F.A. Creative Writing

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On sale now

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Booklist Editor's Choice, American Library Association "Over the Rainbow" book, Rainbow Awards winner and winner of a Lambda Literary award.  This collection of whimsical and evocative stories takes readers to distant lands and unforgettable characters including Diana Comet, the beautiful adventuress with passion in her heart and secrets under her skirts.  

At Smashwords

Now in print

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Danny Kelly cares only for rock'n'roll and fast cars. Too bad he's stuck in the capital of country music and he's banned from driving until he turns twenty-one. Plus, he likes other boys, a secret he's vowed to keep until he graduates high school. Kevin Clark's gay, handsome and confident, but working with his dad's secret government organization has left him lonely. Together,  they're going after an evil force endangering cars and drivers across America.  It's going to take a weekend of car chases, fiery explosions and country-western singing to save the citizens of Nashville from certain death - but can Danny and Kevin protect their hearts and secrets as well?

Available at Amazon or Bold Stroke Books

Now in print 

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    Tons of great YA sf in this new anthology, with stories by some of my favorite authors. Stephen D. Covey (of Deep Space Industries, Inc) and I wrote about two teenagers, Min and Zack, on a disastrous first date in outer space. First kisses and zero gravity do not mix well...

     Available on Amazon

SF adventure for girls

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Annie Wu hates flying.  But she just inherited a spaceship.

She wants to make friends. Too bad her own crew hates her.

She definitely doesn't like conflict.  Look there, it's an interstellar war.

Saving the future from the past was never so hard...

On sale now at Amazon and Smashwords.

May 2013 updates

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  • Kings of Ruin is going to be an audiobook! I am very excited.
  • "A Visit to AWP" is now on Smashwords 
  • Recently I attended the Blue Heaven retreat in North Carolina. See some panorama pictures at my Facebook page.
  • My ninth novel, a thriller about veterans in Philadelphia,has been sold - very happy!  More details to come.
  • Coming soon: my story "Fleet" in the exciting new anthology We See A Different Frontier. 
  • My story "Your Final Apocalypse" was in the December issue of Clarkesworld
  • My story "Searching for Slave Leia" is in the November issue of Lightspeed and also io9.
  • Last year I attended Launchpad, the science workshop for writers, and had a great time!  Check out the photos from fellow attendee and amazing editor Ellen Datlow
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Various likes

My spouts (they know who they are), Star Wars, Stargate, Supernatural, Sherlock Holmes BBC, fanfic, being vegetarian, Hard Core Zen, and fabulous writers such as (but not limited to) James Patrick Kelly, Greg van Eekhout, Sarah Prineas, and C.C. Finlay.
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