Liz Argall

Someone much smarter than I am pointed out that the work I do creating Things Without Arms and Without Legs and a few other side projects could make me eligible for Best Fan Artist categories! I had a look at the Hugo Awards and it certainly seems to fit the criteria, I don’t make a single cent from the Things, it’s all love all the time.

I had three short stories come out in 2014. I’d like to draw your attention to Falling Leaves in particular. I am very fond of all three stories, but I feel that Falling Leaves is particularly significant in terms of the complex, angry, tender and awkward friendship that it creates space for.

Short Stories

• Soft Feather Dance, Apex Magazine, September 2014
• Falling Leaves, Apex Magazine, May 2014
• Love is a Component of the Story, Daily Science Fiction, March 2014

Visual Art

• Things Without Arms and Without Legs, a comic about creatures who are kind

WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are warned that the following blog post mentions a deceased Aboriginal icon by name.

I’m honored to be part of the Cranky Ladies of History anthology from Fablecroft coming out in March 2015

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Over at the THINGS I’m trying to share snippets of my adventures in DC land and World Fantasy Con in comic form. It’s a little bit experimental and whimsical & you can tell drawings were done at crazy times of night or morning, but it’s fun to challenge myself.

It’s an interview bonanza from this gal! This time I’ve interviewed Kat Howard about “A Flock of Grief.” I recommend you read the story first.

“The Return of Things Without Arms and Without Legs, a hug for your pocket” was delightfully received at World Fantasy Con and now you will be able to get them at the Rat City Roller Girls Artsplosion on Thursday night. There will be art from all sorts of folks (derby and non-derby). It’s a Thursday night, so I’ll be training during the art opening… so if you get your time right I can say helloooo to you after practice and give you REALLY sweaty hugs!

And Rat City’s Debutant Brawl will be on Saturday. I think I’ll pay for a ticket and watch it! You can do that! Not volunteer, not skate, not officiate, just watch!!! Kinda trippy, should be a fun night. Do you want to be in my derby watching posse?

My reading at World Fantasy Con has been popped forward by half an hour!

• 10:30pm – 11:00 p.m. Thursday 6 November in the Arlington Room

I’m excited. I’m heading out to Washington DC today and I’m excited about that too. My parents lived there in the 70s and I’ve wanted to visit the Vietnam War Memorial ever since I saw a documentary about the architect , Maya Lin. She’s why I want to go to Montgomery, Alabama and see the Civil Rights Memorial.

In other news two more of my spotlight interviews are up online.

• Interview with Megan Kurashige about The Quality of Descent in Lightspeed.
• Interview with T. Kingfisher about the Dryad’s Shoe in Women Destroy Fantasy.