Category: publication news

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I’ve been without internet most of the day today (oh how terrible to be denied all the comforts of civilization!), so I’m late in announcing this. Nonetheless, I’m extremely happy to point out that my story The Last Free Bear is currently up at Heroic Fantasy Quarterly. Due to the aforementioned lack of internet I haven’t gotten to read the rest of the issue yet, but everything on the table of contents looks great.

I know that I’m supposed to say that my stories are like my children and I love them all equally, but… that would be a lie. This is one of my favorites among all of the stories I’ve ever written. In fact, I’m inclined to say that this is my very favorite story in which (spoiler) the protagonist is eaten by a bear.

A Polar Bear
Not as nice as she looks.

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This was part of a response I got today from an agent who had requested a partial of The Failed Apostle:

[F]rom a market perspective, the SF framework around the low-tech fantasy-like world is a tough sell–you need readers who like both SF and fantasy and the overlap between the genres is surprising small.

I found this to be a surprising statement. Perhaps its because I love a crunchy SF shell around a chewy fantasy center. Perhaps its because many of my favorite books fall into this slot–I’m thinking especially of Gene Wolfe’s Book of the New Sun, and all of LeGuin’s Ekumen novels. I don’t doubt the agent’s judgement of the market–she’s in a much better position to know than I am–but I’m still a little taken aback that this is considered a hard genre to sell.

(It’s also likely that you need to be really good to pull this off, and I suppose that it’s possible I’m not as good as Wolfe or LeGuin yet. I suppose.)

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Cover for The Taint

I’m happy, nay, ecstatic to report that The Taint released today at Lyrical Press. You can download the ebook in a variety of formats via that link, though you can also get the book at Amazon (for Kindle owners), Barnes & Noble (for Nook owners), and several other online storefronts.

In honor of this auspicious occasion, I’m guest blogging over at the Lyrical Press blog, and will have several posts up there over the next few weeks.

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So I’ve been interviewed for the first time in my life as a professional writer. (Cue sound of trumpets and champagne glasses tinkling.) Unfortunately for your monolingual English speakers (and you polyglots without the knowledge of glorious Dacia), the interview was conducted in Romanian, and is only available at Societatea Română de Science-Fiction şi Fantasy.

Here’s a link to the interview itself
And here’s a related post at the blog of Cristian Tamaş, who led the interview.

If there is sufficient demand, I suppose I could translate myself back in English… but maybe I appreciate the mystique.

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This evening I finished what should be my final edits on The Failed Apostle. I may still fiddle a bit with the all-important first chapter, but for all practical purposes this is the final draft of this novel. I’m done.

Within a week I hope to have queries hurtling across the interwebs (or plodding through the postal system, as the case may be).

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I just got cover of my forthcoming horror novella from the publisher.

Cover for <i>The Taint</i>

I really love the lettering in the title. The graveyard is not precisely as I pictured it (the tomstones should really be wooden crosses), but given the limitations of stock photography, I’m more than happy to live with it.

Publication is expected in August, my editor tells me. More news forthcoming.