- From the President by Cat Rambo
- Floating Strawberry Waffles: Astronaut Dr. Kjell Lindgren Visits the Nebula Conference by Kate Baker
- My First Nebulas: or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Con by J. R. Dawson
- When Does a Story Infringe? (Part Two) by Stanley Schmidt
- On Selling Books at a Con: Strength in Numbers by L. J. Cohen
- Author Website Essentials by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam
- Ask E&N by Erin Underwood & Nancy Holder
- Lateral Thinking for Writers by Aidan Doyle
- A Crash Course in Burns by Erin Cashier
- The Advantages and Disadvantages of Internet Content Mills by John Walters
- Building Your Promotional Bridge by Sarah Craft
- I’m Afraid You’ve Got Pirates: Dealing With (Potential) Internet Copyright Infringements by C. E. Petit
- Bragging Rights: A Comprehensive Look at SFWA Services by Kate Baker
Flash Fiction Online Issue #54 March 2018
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe March 2018 Issue of Flash Fiction Online Fantasy, science fiction, horror, and literary short fiction for the modern reader.
A selection of literary short stories from Flash Fiction Online curated by Editor-in-Chief Suzanne W. Vincent.
The authors represent some of our favorite fantastic ladies working in fantastical fiction. And we’re pleased to welcome three of our authors back to FFO: Rebecca Birch, Samantha Murray, and Maria Haskins. We’d also like to introduce Helen French and her story “Dragon Meat” to our pages along with an interview by Editor-in-Chief Suzanne W. Vincent.
Rebecca Birch: “Eye of Wood, Heart of Stone”
Maria Haskins: “The Ghost in Angelica’s Room”
Helen French: “Dragon Meat”
Samantha Murray: “Duck, Duck, Duck”
Jason S. Ridler’s FXXK WRITING is back and this time featuring an interview with Spencer Ellsworth. Terrific writing advice for and from a realist.
An editorial from Editor in Chief, Suzanne W Vincent.
Enjoy!
Shimmer Magazine – Issue 42
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #42 of Shimmer contains the answer
to life, the universe, and everything. Promise.
The Triumphant Ward of the Railroad and the Sea by Sara Saab
Almost everyone I entertain over a frosted fifth of vodka — bottle balanced precariously on a foldout tray, half my attention on keeping it upright — wants to know how I became a competitive eater. Also, how I found myself living on the Dbovotav Coastal Express.
They Have a Name For That by Sara Beitia
Mother insists everyone always said what an attractive quartet the family was, and there’s a stair wall lined with years of family portraits to bear this out. And now Cal and her groom will have children of their own, probably immediately, and they’ll be beautiful, of course, because Calliope won’t have it otherwise, and somehow that’ll settle it, because her life is a fairytale, so she can’t conceive otherwise. It’s not her fault.
The Imitation Sea by Lora Gray
You find the dead Angel at five a.m. in the slurry of broken bottles and rotting fish on the Lake Erie shore. It almost looks human in the morning light, a ten-year-old, maybe eleven, boyish, face bloated, limp and blue and doughy.Â
If a bear… by Kathrin Köhler
You know in the same way that anyone who lives in an isolated village in a deep-shadowed wood knows anything: it’s been repeated so often you’ve choked on it since you were a child. One day a bear will show up at your doorstep.
Locus March 2018 (#686)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe March 2018 issue of Locus has interviews with James Gunn and Angela Slatter and a spotlight on Tricia Reeks of Meercat Press. The issue lists US and UK forthcoming books titles through December 2018. Grand Master Ursula K. Le Guin is remembered with an obituary, photos, and appreciations and reminiscences from friends and colleagues.
News includes the Nebula Awards Ballot, Machado’s Crawford win, the Stoker Awards final ballot, the ALA Awards, coverage of harassment in children’s literature, the Kate Wilhelm Solstice Awards, and much more. The column by Cory Doctorow is entitled “Let’s Get Better at Demanding Better from Tech”.
Other obituaries remember Victor Milán and Dallas Mayr, aka Jack Ketchum. Reviews cover new titles by Sofia Samatar, John Kessel, Kelly Robson, Aliette de Bodard, Jane Yolen, Corey J. White, Martha Wells, Jack McDevitt, C.J. Cherryh, Kelly Barnhill, and Hillary Monahan.
Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 138
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedClarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction (new and classic works), articles, interviews and art.
Our March 2018 issue (#138) contains:
* Original fiction by Kij Johnson (“Tool-Using Mimics”), Juliette Wade (“The Persistence of Blood”), Izzy Wasserstein (“Unplaces: An Atlas of Non-existence”), Xiu Xinyu (“Farewell, Adam”), and E. Lily Yu (“The No-One Girl and the Flower of the Farther Shore”).
* Reprints by Kage Baker (“Are You Afflicted with Dragons?”), Rich Larson (“God Decay”).
* Non-fiction by Carrie Sessarego, an interview with Jo Walton, an Another Word column by Cat Rambo, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.
Galaxy’s Edge Magazine: Issue 31, March 2018
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedA Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy
ISSUE 31: March 2018
Mike Resnick, Editor
Taylor Morris, Copyeditor
Shahid Mahmud, Publisher
Stories: Michael Haynes, Robert Jeschonek, Nancy Kress, Matt Dovey, Brennan Harvey, Regina Kanyu Wang, Robert Silverberg, Larry Hodges, George Nikolopoulos, Robert J. Sawyer, Jon Lasser, Steven H Silver, Orson Scott Card
Serialization: Daughter of Elysium by Joan Slonczewski
Columns by: Robert J. Sawyer, Gregory Benford
Recommended Books: Bill Fawcett and Jody Lynn Nye
Interview: Joy Ward interviews Greg Bear
Galaxy’s Edge is a Hugo-nominated bi-monthly magazine published by Phoenix Pick, the science fiction and fantasy imprint of Arc Manor, an award winning independent press based in Maryland. Each issue of the magazine has a mix of new and old stories, a serialization of a novel, columns by Robert J. Sawyer and Gregory Benford, book recommendations by Bill Fawcett and Jody Lynn Nye and an interview conducted by Joy Ward.
Heart’s Kiss Magazine: Issue 7, February 2018
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedA Magazine Celebrating Romance
New York Review of Science Fiction #345
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedSpecial Novels and Opioids Issue: Lee Weinstein: Opiates and fantastic literature; Brian Stableford: Cinderella & the rise of the novel; Darrell Schweitzer: The H.G. Wells Problem; Nader Elhefnawy: Technologism Booming and Busting; Sandra Lindow on Ellen Klages and Naomi Kritzer; Martin Morse Wooster on Frank Robinson; David Mead on T. Allen Diaz and Todd McCaffrey; Peter Rawlik on The Lovecraft Squad; Michael Andre-Driussi on the comedic Strugatskys
Apex Magazine Issue 105
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedApex Magazine is a monthly science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine featuring original, mind-bending short fiction from many of the top pros of the field. New issues are released on the first Tuesday of every month.
EDITORIAL
Words from the Editor-in-Chief — Jason Sizemore
FICTION
A Witch’s Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies — Alix Harrow
Work, and Ye Shall Eat — Walker McKnight
Ghost Marriage — P. Djeli Clark
Excerpt: Return to the Lost Level — Brian Keene
NONFICTION
Interview with Alix Harrow — Andrea Johnson
Interview with Cover Artist Justin Adams — Russell Dickerson
A Discussion with Tal M. Klein, Author of The Escrow Punch — Lesley Conner
COLUMNS
Between the Lines with Laura Zats and Erik Hane
Page Advice with Mallory O’Meara and Brea Grant
The Dark – Issue 33
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedEach month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Edited by award winning editors Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Sean Wallace and brought to you by Prime Books, this issue includes two all-new stories and two reprints:
“Molting Season” by J.B. Park
“Harvest Song, Gathering Song” by A.C. Wise (reprint)
“He Dies Where I Die” by Michael Harris Cohen
“My Sister’s Omen” by Kristi DeMeester (reprint)
Locus February 2018 (#685)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe February 2018 issue of Locus magazine is the annual Year in Review issue with essays, the Locus 2017 Recommended Reading List, and book and magazine summaries tracking the progress of the industry over the year.
The issue also features an interview with Carrie Vaughn, and news including Peter S. Beagle’s induction as a SFWA Grand Master, the Philip K. Dick Award nominees, the Tiptree Fellowship winners, the Stoker Preliminary Ballot, and more. The column by Kameron Hurley is entitled “What I’ve Learned About Being a Writer”.
Breaking news: Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018), with extensive coverage to follow in the March issue. Other obituaries remember Douglas Quinta Reis and Raul Fiker. Reviews cover new titles by Vandana Singh, Jo Walton, Carmen Maria Machado, Ursula K. Le Guin, John Kessel, Charles Stross, Nadia Bulkin, Joe Hill, Adrian Tchaikovsky, T. Kingfisher, Myke Cole, Molly Tanzer, David Walton, Tom Sweterlitsch, Sue Burke, Sarah Jean Horwitz, Kelly Barnhill, Steven Brust, Gregory Manchess, and many others.
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 93 (February 2018)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedLIGHTSPEED is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF–and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy, and folktales.
This month, we have original science fiction by Ashok K. Banker (“The Goddess Has Many Faces”) and Bogi Takács (“Four-Point Affective Calibration”), along with SF reprints by Tobias S. Buckell (“Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance”) and Nalo Hopkinson writing with Nisi Shawl (“Jamaica Ginger”). Plus, we have original fantasy by Cassandra Khaw (“The Quiet Like a Homecoming,” with a cover illustration by Sam Schechter) and Rahul Kanakia (“A Coward’s Death”), and fantasy reprints by Jeffrey Ford (“The Seventh Expression of the Robot General”) and Malinda Lo (“One True Love”).
All that, and of course we also have our usual assortment of author spotlights, along with our book and media review columns. We also have a feature interview with Carmen Maria Machado.
For our ebook readers, we also have our usual ebook-exclusive novella reprint (“The Charge and the Storm,” by An Owomoyela) and an excerpt from R.A. Salvatore’s new novel, CHILD OF A MAD GOD.
Nightmare Magazine, Issue 65 (February 2018)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedNIGHTMARE is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE’s pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror.
This month, we’ve got original fiction from Theodore McCombs (“Six Hangings in the Land of Unkillable Women”) and Emily B. Cataneo (“Seven Steps to Beauty for a Girl Named Avarice”), along with reprints by Laura Anne Gilman (“Exposure”) and Joe McKinney (“Sabbatical in the Ohio Methlands”). Douglas Wynne brings us the latest installment of our column on horror, “The H Word,” plus we have author spotlights with our authors, and Terence Taylor reviews a pair of new horror novels.
Flash Fiction Online Issue #53 February 2018
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe February 2018 Issue of Flash Fiction Online Fantasy, science fiction, horror, and literary short fiction for the modern reader.
A selection of literary short stories from Flash Fiction Online curated by Editor-in-Chief Suzanne W. Vincent.
The authors represent a wide range of both styles and backgrounds, bringing this issue a powerful combination of heartfelt emotion and beautiful prose.
Yoko Morgenstern: “The Comedian”
Sean Vivier: “The Hole Where Andy Used to Be”
Audra Kerr Brown: “Royce Is Not My Father”
Lillian Ward-Packard: “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow”
Jason S. Ridler’s FXXK WRITING: WRITING WITHOUT A MAP is another no-holds-barred, realistic yet empathetic look at what it means to be a working writer in today’s ultra-competitive and less than lucrative fiction market. Writing advice for and from the realist.
An editorial from Editor in Chief, Suzanne W Vincent.
Cover art by Dario Bijelac.
Enjoy!
Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 137
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedClarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction (new and classic works), articles, interviews and art.
Our February 2018 issue (#137) contains:
* Original fiction by Carolyn Ives Gilman (“Umbernight”), Julie Novakova (“Deep Down in The Cloud”), Robert Reed (“Obliteration”), and A Que (“The Power is Out”).
* Reprints by Joe R. Lansdale (“Soldierin””) and Pat Cadigan (“The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi”).
* Non-fiction by Julie Novakova, an interview with John Kessel, an Another Word column by Fran Wilde, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.
The SFWA Bulletin Issue 210/211
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe SFWA Bulletin is the official publication of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) and is published quarterly. This issue features:
Space and Time Magazine Issue #130
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe Winter 2017 issue of Space and Time Magazine.
This issue features fiction by Esther Scherpenisse (“Long For This World”) and Fraser Sherman (“The End of the World on The Cutting Room Floor”), an author self-portrait by Daniel Braum, poetry by Samuel Minier and Jamal Hodge, and more!