Eligibility Post

I am eligible for awards in the short story category, and upon the urging of my Clarion smacklings, I'd like to throw my porkpie hat into the ring:

The year 2020 has been a tirefire, yet the most writing I have ever done. My up-and-coming stories won't be out until the beginning of next year, so I have two offerings.

Cossmass Infinities published a fantasy short, "heartsob playplayplay promisegift," in issue #3 in September of this year.

In a fae-scoured Earth, Caitlin plays several dangerous games with her fae counterpart, Aisling, in order to win her family back. But when stories and your own imagination can be turned against you, when even hope itself can lead you astray, what else is left?

Lamplight published a horror short, "Menobezoar," in Volume 9, issue 2 in December of this year.

Stephen receives an unusual offer, to help his brother Joe overcome all the things holding him back: his rage, his paranoia, his self-loathing. All it takes is for Stephan to eat the nails, wires, and metal shards of his brother's sins.

Who am I

Freelance Writer

Speculative fiction and nonfiction author

Media critique essay, "Where Will You Place Us When We Are Dead?" in Strange Horizons

In creating a fictional afterlife, creators can inadvertently erase or flatten the complicated issues of identity, ethnicity, and culture. Using American Gods, The Good Place, What Dreams May Come, and Soul as examples, we poke at how different fictional afterlives can enact this erasure through their own worldbuilding.

"See With Your Eyes, Not With Your Hands" in Nightmare 105 Reviews/recs: [1]

"When I was a boy, my left hand grew a cluster of tiny eyes..."

"A Glut of Nothing, and Yet... Something" in Cossmass Infinities, issue 5

Jenny came to this southwest town to drink herself to death and get away from people, but an information singularity, the Glut, threatens to suck in the world, but worse, brings Tara into Jenny's life. Jenny can't tell which she's afraid of more.

"Unnamed" in Cast of Wonders 451 Reviews/recs: [1] [2]

Huìhuì Ga̅o has lost her name. No one remembers it, not her friends, not her teachers, not even her parents or cousin Katherine. The unnaming begins to unravel her, making her less, until it gets worse...

"The Absentee Library" in the Buckman Journal 005

To Zari, Vellichor, the City of Books, is akin to heaven. To her sister, Nadia, Zari and Vellichor represents her discarded potential, her failures as the unaccomplished younger sibling. So when Nadia goes to Vellichor to find her missing sister, she learns that book-loving people are really really weird, especially when they start turning into books themselves!

"Menobezoar" in Lamplight, volume 9, issue 2

"heartsob playplayplay promisegift," published in Cossmass Infinities, issue 3

Book review of C Pam Zhang's "How Much of These Hills Is Gold" in Strange Horizons

In C. Pam Zhang's debut novel, Chinese-American siblings Lucy and Sam struggle to understand their place in America during the Gold Rush era, who they are in relation to each other, and who they are in relation to being a permanent Other.

"Adrift," sci-fi short story published in Flame Tree Press's Robots & Artificial Intelligence anthology

With the Charon half-destroyed near Mars, the lone survivor, teenager Percy Winters, falls into despair. The ship's AI, Hayden, does everything he can to keep Percy alive, even if it means going against her wishes.

Clarion West 2019 graduate

Copy editor for Angry Hamster Publishing

Afterlife: Wandering Souls quickstart
Afterlife: Wandering Souls, surreal tabletop rpg

Copy editor for Magpie Games

Supplement for the Masks rpg, Masks: Unbound
Zombie World, card based tabletop rpg

Contract Writer for Fantasy Flight

Adventure writer for the Force & Destiny core book Star Wars rpg
Content writer for Star Wars rpg supplement, Special Modifications
Content writer for Star Wars rpg supplement, Endless Vigil
Content writer for Star Wars rpg supplement, Fully Operational
Content writer for Star Wars rpg supplement, Unlimited Power
Content writer for Star Wars rpg Era supplement, Rise of the Separatists
Content writer for Star Wars rpg Era supplement, Collapse of the Republic
Content writer for Genesys rpg supplement, Shadow of the Beanstalk
Content writer for Legend of Five Rings rpg supplement, Emerald Empires
Content writer for Legend of Five Rings rpg supplement, Path of Waves
Content writer for Legend of Five Rings rpg supplement, Celestial Realms

Copy editor for John Wick Presents' 7th Sea, Second Edition rpg

Heroes & Villains
Nations of Theah, Volume 1
Nations of Theah, Volume 2
Crescent Empire
Lands of Gold and Fire
Copy editor for up and coming rpg supplement (pub date TBD)

Writer for Cortex Prime

Stretch Goal writer for Prime Spotlight Volume Three Cortex Kickstarter

Writer for Fate of the Remnants

Content writer for the dark fantasy Fate RPG setting
Monthly updates available on patreon

Writer for TableStar Games

Content writer for the mobile tapper, Idle Outbreak
Available on iTunes

Contract Writer for Wyrd Miniatures

Primary writer, "Northern Aggression" adventure for Through the Breach rpg
Writer for Through the Breach rpg supplement, A Night in Rottenburg
Writer for untitled Through the Breach rpg supplement (pub date TBD)

Contract Writer for Watchtower Games' Fallen

Wrote and designed some of the Story Cards
Project fully funded on Kickstarter

Contract Writer for Rumpus' iPhone game Mo'Monsters

Provided world-building and story background
Provided sample NPCs and location descriptions

Contract Writer for Blue Shell Games' iPhone game "TinyTown"

Provided NPC dialogue
Provided quest descriptions
Designed tutorial

Game Writer for EA Mobile/Centerscore Studios' mobile phone game titles

Primary writer for Surviving High School '08
Supplementary writer for Surviving High School '09
Peer editor for Surviving Hollywood
Supplementary writer and editor for Surviving High School for iPhone

Head Writer for Hazmat Games' mobile phone titles

Level design and story design for Pegasus Lost
Level design and story design for Pegasus Lost prequel
Level design and story design for Zombie Noir, Chapter 1
Level design and story design for Zombie Noir, Chapter 2

Miscellaneous work

Rulebook editor for TableStar Games
Wrote and designed "The Stink", a Dungeons & Dragons adventure in Dungeon magazine #105
Wrote "The Spirit Speaker", a Dungeons & Dragons article in Dragon magazine #323
Wrote "Dead Factions", a Dungeons & Dragons article in Dragon magazine #339
Designed fan-playbook "The Radio" for the small press RPG Apocalypse World

Contact me

mail: monte.lin.mail@gmail.com
twitter: @Monte_Lin

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