Australian horror, new myths
Tags: BCS, Livia Day, Midnight Echo, Mythic DeliriumActually, last week was all about Australia mystery as Livia Day’s A Trifle Dead shot to the top of the charts here no doubt helped by the booktrailer. If only books came with cake. Yum. Anyway, this week we added the new issue, #9, of Midnight Echo, the magazine of the Australian Horror Writers Association. Seems like a steal at $2.99 US for 100 pages or horror stories, interviews, &c. Also this week, the indefatigable Scott Andrews sent us the latest issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #127, featuring stories by Greg Kurzawa and Dan Rabarts.
Perhaps the biggest news this week was Mythic Delirium Books‘s launch of their two new titles: Clockwork Phoenix #4 edited by Mike Allen, and the (re)launch of Mythic Delirium #0.1 (Ken Liu et al), wherein the 15-year-old speculative poetry journal relaunched (thanks to their excellent Kickstarter) as a quarterly digital magazine that mixes poetry with offbeat fiction. Annual subscriptions to the new Mythic Delirium are only $9.95 for 4 issues.
I’m happy to say we sold tons of the paper edition of Clockwork Phoenix #4 at Readercon and hope readers here will check it out, too.
BTW: here’s Weightless on Twitter.
New Icarus, Nancy Kress, J. M. McDermott, Weird Tales
Tags: Ann VanderMeer, Apex Book Company, Clockwork Phoenix, Icarus, J. M. McDermott, Lethe Press, Mythic Delirium, Nancy Kress, NYRSF, Small Beer Press, Weird TalesEveryone but everyone is reading Irregulars right now. How about you? (I know what our #1 March bestseller is going to be!)
We have a couple of interesting new books this week that hit a lot of our readers’ interests: sf, glbt sf&f, & weird stuff. While I can’t guarantee the weirdness quotient will be high enough for you, there’s a good chance it will be in J. M. McDermott‘s new collection of stories: Disintegration Visions. As Apex Book Co. puts it:
“‘Sometimes it’s not what you say, but how you say it.’ These are the words of Crawford Award-nominated fantasy author J.M. McDermott (Last Dragon and Never Knew Another). McDermott says it with aliens, magical frogs, and the Berlin wall.”
SF&F readers of all stripes can pick up the latest issue of Icarus which features Scot D. Ryersson, James Bennett, Alex Jeffers, Warren Rochelle, and Steve Berman. “Plus all our usual sweets—reviews, gossip, and Tom Cardamone’s column on forgotten gay books.” Icarus is quarterly and you can subscribe here.
Nancy Kress’s latest collection Fountain of Age comes out from Small Beer Press in a couple of weeks. We have an exclusive on the ebook until then. You can also go ahead and listen to two of the stories “End Game” and “The Kindness of Strangers” and read the awesome caper (and Nebula Award winning) title story here. There will be another story on the Small Beer podcast next month.
In other Small Beer news, we dropped the price of Lydia Millet’s The Fires Beneath the Sea to $6.99—the paperback edition comes out next week and we have the second novel in the series, The Shimmers in the Night coming out in July. (Things get dark!)
And the very first Big Mouth House title is about to come out in paperback: Joan Aiken’s The Serial Garden: The Complete Armitage Family Stories. That’s a book we’re very proud to have published. We still get emails from people telling us how happy they are to have it. (Which is how we felt when we were working on it and when we published it, too.)
Last week we added the second Clockwork Phoenix anthology with critically-acclaimed and award-nominated stories by Claude Lalumière, Leah Bobet, Marie Brennan, Ian McHugh, Ann Leckie, Mary Robinette Kowal, Saladin Ahmed, Tanith Lee, Joanna Galbraith, Catherynne M. Valente, Forrest Aguirre, Gemma Files and Stephen J. Barringer, Kelly Barnhill, Barbara Krasnoff and Steve Rasnic Tem (quite a few faves in there) as well as the latest issue of that stalwart of the field, Weird Tales. Issue #359 (!) is the last to be edited by Ann VanderMeer and includes an interview with Laird Barron and stories by Stephen Graham Jones, Evan J. Peterson, Tom Underberg, Leena Likitalo, Joel Lane, and Conrad Williams and more.
And that’s it for this week. Next week: magazines! Locus, Lightspeed, Apex, Clarkesworld, and many more. After talking to David Hartwell, Alex Donald, and Kevin Maroney at ICFA, it looks like we’ll be adding The New York Review of Science Fiction quite soon. The more the merrier!
I also backed a recent Kickstarter (I love Kickstarter—I think we found a potential Small Beer project for it) by the people at Logoswitch which might mean we have a new logo for Weightless. They’re doing 50 logos in 50 days (eek!) so we’ll see what happens. You never know!
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Rifter 10! Here!
Tags: Aqueduct Press, Ginn Hale, Mythic Delirium, Rifter
Wow, what a ride! Hundreds of readers are right now reading the final installment of Ginn Hale’s epic, The Rifter. What more can we say? Not much, besides thanking Ginn and everyone at Blind Eye for being so lovely to work with. Michael and I will miss the excitement of Rifter day on the second Tuesday of every month and I hope Ginn’s readers will stick around and try some of the other books around here.
Besides the above, we’re adding three more Aqueduct Press titles, including the extremely popular, Writing the Other by Nisi Shawl and Cynthia Ward.
And now that it’s December, you can pick up the 2011 Working Writer’s Daily Planner ebook for 99c. (There will be a 2012 edition which will appear just before 2012!)
Last week we got an email from Jason Lundberg in Singapore asking if we’d like to carry his new collection, Red Dot Irreal, so here it is!
We also talked more with Tachyon Publications and it looks like we will be adding their excellent titles here soon. Feel free to suggest additions to the site—or to suggest to your favorite publisher that their books might make a good fit with Weightless.
We’re also proud to bring you new ebooks and a subscription from Mike Allen, the indefatigable publisher of Mythic Delirium. We are launching MD’s first electronic subscription as well as two issues, #20, and the latest issue, #25, featuring Catherynne M. Valente, Sonya Taaffe, a translation by Lawrence Schimel, Jeannine Hall Gailey, Darrell Schweitzer, Mary A. Turzillo, and more.
Besides all that we have the first volume in the ground-breaking, genre-bending, boundary-pushing Clockwork Phoenix anthology series, featuring many favorite authors, including: Catherynne M. Valente, David Sandner, John Grant, Cat Rambo, Leah Bobet, Michael J. DeLuca, Laird Barron, Ekaterina Sedia, Cat Sparks, Tanith Lee, Marie Brennan, Jennifer Crow, Vandana Singh, John C. Wright, C.S. MacCath, Joanna Galbraith, Deborah Biancotti and Erin Hoffman.