Cat Girczyc

News! Amazing Stories has picked this up for their Year's Best!

Merriment by Cat Girczyc - FREE STORY - Amazing Stories A happy tale for the Christmas season, holiday greetings to you all!, and finally, an SFnal explanation of where that Jolly Old Elf really came from. At

Hi-ho-ho! My Santa origin story Merriment is available for free on amazingstories.com/2025/12/merr...

Merriment by Cat Girczyc - FREE STORY - Amazing Stories A happy tale for the Christmas season, holiday greetings to you all!, and finally, an SFnal explanation of where that Jolly Old Elf really came from. At

Hi-ho-ho! My Santa origin story Merriment is available for free on amazingstories.com/2025/12/merr...

Hampton Court cooking in Tudor times

Big feast tomorrow- prep today!
My place is the opposite of the Tudor kitchens in Hampton Court Palace :)

a cartoon turkey holding a pie and a pumpkin with the words happy thanksgiving behind it ALT: a cartoon turkey holding a pie and a pumpkin with the words happy thanksgiving behind it

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving!

Merriment recording

Happy to have done the voiceover for my story Merriment for Amazing Stories it was quite the experience. I’m better at talking than editing sound so I did it all in one file. Took me about 7 tries but the final had no mistaken words etc. I used Audacity which is a fairly…

Santa and reindeer ornament

Happy to have done the voiceover for my story Merriment for @amazingstories.bsky.social it was quite the experience. I’m better at talking than editing sound so I did it all in one file. Took me about 7 tries but the final had no mistaken words etc. Pic is a crazy 🎄 Santa & reindeer ornament

Very cool 👍🏻

Humble Book Bundle: Martha Wells' Murderbot and More by TOR Fall in love with Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries series—the engine behind the hit AppleTV adaptation—and help support World Central Kitchen.

This is the last day for the Murderbot + Witch King and my other fantasy Humble Book Bundle: www.humblebundle.com/books/martha... We've raised $89,000 in donations for World Central Kitchen so far!

Sounds like great fun!🤩

Silvia Moreno-Garcia

New novella! "The Lure of Stone" by Silvia Moreno-Garcia! buff.ly/34Ehvmc

In light of DragonCon nonsense, it is worth posting:

Escape Artists, the parent org of Pseudopod, does not accept subs generated by automated or machine-learning methods. This policy is based on copyright law and a commitment to protecting authors' original, human-created work.

Mine has a budding career in film cause my anecdotes from the years in tv trenches were better than my tech writer years! Sigh…

Signed contract this week!
Ho Ho Ho :) Amazing Stories Magazine

Presentations not on replay but I’m happy to give them again to Cons or universities/ schools that request them.

With my name it’s inevitable unless they check.

My least favorite awards show was an Aurora one where I was a finalist. The person announced my name so badly that I didn’t recognize it! So embarrassing as my kid & friends were there.

Sorry to hear this. Hope you heal quickly

I’ve tried it- my first script reader told me it’s a novel … 😮‍💨 so I’m going back to pre-planning

Congratulations!🎉

My garden plot is delightful for moths & butterflies & big black dragonflies

Getting ready to cheer on all the finalists and winners at tonight’s #HugoAwards

This is mine - a mere cabbage moth but on a great background

Excellent!

#worldcon2025 just purchased a couple of lovely mugs and some magnets. Even virtual participants can get great souvenirs

Thanks for your pro moderation skills! It was great fun!

It was a tad wonky but with the help of Worldcon volunteers I did the first hour!pic is sunflower from my community garden

It’s today! Really hoping the hosting platform works right for me!

Seattle WorldCon August 2025