I’m pleased to announce that my story, “Legend of the Secret Masterpiece,” will appear in the upcoming steampunk-wuxia anthology, Shanghai Steam. It’ll be released at World Fantasy Convention, November 1-4, 2012.

From ancient China to a future Mars, from the British Empire to the Old West, 19 authors show you worlds with alcohol fuelled dragons, philosophical automatons, and Qi-powered machines both wondrous and strange in tales of vengeance, paper lantern revolutions, and flying monks.

Shanghai Steam is a unique mashup of steampunk and the Chinese literary genre known as Wuxia (loosely translated as martial hero).

Stories by:

Camille Alexa, Shen Braun, Amanda Clark, Ray Dean, Tim Ford, Laurel Anne Hill, Minsoo Kang, William H. Keith, Crystal Koo, Frank Larnerd, Emily Mah, Derwin Mak, Brent Nichols, Frances Pauli, Jennifer Rahn, Tim Reynolds, Julia A. Rosenthal, Nick Tramdack, K. H. Vaughan.

This was my Week 6 Clarion West story, so big thanks to Charles Stross and all my CW2011 classmates who helped me workshop this tale!