2/27/2026
My latest novella Meissen Eyes is with a beta reader! At 39k, it’s another long one and I love how it’s turned out. It started 12 years ago as a short story that didn’t work, which absolutely makes sense when I realize how many words it took to write this story. I truly can’t get over how good it feels. And! And! Now I’m 2/3rds of the way through a redraft of another novella The Waterhoarder and the Drought Lily. I’m not sure what’s going on, but it’s novellas all the way at the moment!
Latest Short Fiction Publication
First Lines
“Forty Seconds to Looking Glass Road”
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Standing in Jorge’s hidden garden, with its water-impoverished stand of willow trees, Carl wasn’t so much surprised as resigned. The Quinone family curse had struck again. This time it was in the form of a sealed glass booth, seven feet tall and three feet wide, set on an empty stretch of the Chihuahuan Desert—a trip to Looking Glass Road via Texas public lands.
A strange truth: Carl was now the only Quinone left living in Alpine.
“Goodbye,” Mama had said all those weeks ago, as though she were just heading out for another drive, as though there wasn’t a nurse standing nearby.
“Goodbye,” Jorge had repeated today. (Continue here…)
Latest Books
Latest Book Written by Julie C. Day
The Rampant—A Lambda Award Finalist
The Rampant (Aquaduct Press), my dark fantasy novella, was a Lambda Literary Award finalist.
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What others are saying
“Equal parts playful and heartbreaking, this apocalyptic novella offers one-of-a-kind answers about the end of the world…This clever and surprisingly fun take on the rapture is the perfect theological horror story.”
— Publishers Weekly
Latest Book Edited by Julie C. Day with Essential Dreams Press
Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology—A Bram Stoker Award Finalist
Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology (Essential Dreams Press), my latest editorial foray is a Bram Stoker Award finalist and on the 2025 Locus Recommended Reading List
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