Category: Publishing
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Sneak Peeks of Before and Afterlives (The Language of Moths)
Over the next couple of weeks, I’ll be posting previews from the 17 stories in my new short story collection, Before and Afterlives. If you like what you read, take a hop over to your favorite online bookseller and purchase either the print book or the e-book, and leave a review when you’re finished reading. It…
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Sneak Peeks of Before and Afterlives (A Resurrection Artist)
Over the next couple of weeks, I’ll occasionally be posting previews from the 17 stories in my new short story collection, Before and Afterlives. If you like what you read, take a hop over to your favorite online bookseller and purchase either the print book or the e-book, and leave a review when you’re finished reading.…
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Before and Afterlives Arrives
My first full length short story collection, Before and Afterlives, released this week! I’m sort of over the top excited by that, because since I was a teenager, I imagined my first book being a collection of short stories, something in the vein of Ray Bradbury or Shirley Jackson, but contemporary in style and setting. They…
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Interfictions goes online
Another new development for 2013 is that Interfictions, the anthology series that Delia Sherman launched first with co-editor Theodora Goss and then with me as co-editor of the second volume, will be moving into an online incarnation, including poetry, nonfiction, fiction, and hybrids forms. Fiction editors are myself and Meghan McCarron. Nonfiction and poetry editor…
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Before and Afterlives Coverings
I’m so excited to see my full length collection of short stories, Before and Afterlives, coming together in advance of its March 2013 release. Below is the pre-visualisation for the cover, front, back and spine, by the book’s designer. It will of course later have a description of the contents added to the back and…
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The Birthday of Birds and Birthdays
Birds and Birthdays has officially released into the wild. It’s been available directly from the publisher for the past couple of weeks, but will be appearing in other marketplaces now, like Amazon.com (where they say it’ll take 1 to 3 weeks to get the book, but that’s only because they’ve just recently placed orders for stock with the publisher…
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Birds and Birthdays Cover Copy
Just received the cover copy for BIRDS AND BIRTHDAYS, which will be out next month (already!). Here’s the publisher’s book description: Remedios Varo, Leonora Carrington, Dorothea Tanning: three of the most interesting painters to flourish in male-dominated Surrealism. This is Christopher Barzak’s tribute to them: three stories and an essay that enter into a humane…
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The 24 Hour Brother
Just a heads up for interested readers: my short story, The 24 Hour Brother, is now available to read in the new issue of Apex Magazine. You can read it by clicking here. The story is an odd one. Two things formed the story initially: one for form, one for feeling. 1.) I’d been wanting…
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Pre-viewing, pre-ordering, pre-mourning
There have been lots of pre-reviews of this anthology popping up in the past month or two, all of them positive. I’m happy to be included in this review as one of the reviewer’s “favorites”. If you go to Amazon.com right now, you can pre-order the book at an extremely reduced price. Incidentally, this story…
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Another piece of the map
For those of you who may have read the vignettes in Map for a Forgotten Valley that I published last month, another piece of that map has recently been published by Muse, a Cleveland magazine. You can read the whole issue of Muse by visiting their website and downloading the pdf of the issue. Along…