Category: Publishing

  • Copyediting

    Yesterday I got the copyedited manuscript of One for Sorrow in the mail.  Today I began going through it, checking everything out, correcting anything that needed correcting, adding/excising, etc.  I’m almost halfway done with it after a few hours, but my head is hurting something fierce, so I’m taking a break for the day and…

  • Map of Seventeen

    I found out this past weekend that my novelette, “Map of Seventeen”, will be published in the next installment of Viking’s YA anthology series that editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling are putting together.  So far Ellen and Terri have edited three in this series:  The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest, The Faery Reel:…

  • Vintage

    If you’re looking for a good ghost story, you should buy Steve Berman’s new novel Vintage.  Steve sent me an advanced reader’s copy of the book a little while ago, and it was remarkable:  a supernatural love story that’s scary as hell. 

  • Interfictions

    I’ve certainly been writing a lot about anthologies that are out or that are coming out in the near future recently, and here’s another one, Interfictions, due out next month from Small Beer Press.  It has a gorgeous cover, and the editors, Delia Sherman and Theodora Goss, have gone above and beyond and around and…

  • Best American Fantasy

    Another anthology of the “Year’s Best Fantasy” you may be asking?  Yes, but, if we can judge by the contents of the recommended reading list for the Best American Fantasy, which has gone live recently, it’s probably not like any of the current anthologies that present themselves as Year’s Bests.  My story, “The Creation of Birds”, which appeared…

  • Disasters happen

    The new issue of Ideomancer has appeared, featuring the previously mentioned hyper-text project Ben Rosenbaum arranged between himself, myself, Elad Haber’s self, Megan McCarron’s self, Greg Van Eekhout’s self, Tim Pratt’s self, and Kiini Ibura Salaam’s self.  Skip on over to read “23 Small Disasters”, and let us know what you think (unless you hate…

  • Judges needed

    Judges are needed for storySouth’s 2007 Million Writers Award.  The award honors the best short stories published online in the previous year.  This is an award Richard Bowes, a noted speculative fiction writer, won last year with his story “There’s a Hole in the City”, which had been published in Scifiction.  Because the award considers stories…

  • More good news

    I found out yesterday my story, “In Between Dreams”, will be included in the Solaris Book of New Fantasy, which will appear in December 2007.  It’s another of the stories I wrote while in Japan.  It seems more of those will soon be appearing.  I’m beginning to get excited for others to read them.  I’ve…

  • Books do come true…

    One for Sorrow is available for pre-purchase at Amazon.com now.  It is SO weird to have an entry to myself in an online bookstore.  I bet it’ll be even weirder to see the actual book on a store bookshelf at the end of this summer when the book comes out.  There is even a page…

  • 23 Small Disasters

    News came yesterday that a hypertextual flash fiction project called “23 Small Disasters” created by myself, Elad Haber, Greg van Eekhout, Meghan McCarron, Tim Pratt, Benjamin Rosenbaum (who conceived the idea), and Kiini Ibura Salaam was sold to Ideomancer, where it will serve as an entire month’s issue. Way cool.  I’m excited to see what people will make of it.