Tuesday, December 27, 2016

"Death and the Maiden"

A much delayed update on "Death and the Maiden," the novella accepted by Crimson Edge Publishing for the anthology Maidens and Magic. Due out early in 2017.
Here's how the cover looks:


And here's the URL for an author interview with me at ourwriteside, with thanks to CEO Stephanie  Ayers. The interview was fun, as the incestuous luxury of gabbing on about your own work always is.






Monday, December 26, 2016


Christmas and New Year wishes to all...

Sunday, December 25, 2016

Source Makes Three


Out for Christmas! Source is up in the Wildside catalogue and running.

 

Another great cover from Chris Howard. Thanks, Chris!
Now looking forward to the Final Fourth of the Amberlight books, Dragonfly, at long last teetering towards publication, in 2017.




Wednesday, August 17, 2016

Riversend at large

                                 


Riversend has been released and is visible in the Wildside Online catalogue. Link is visible here
And Carla at Wildside hopes "it's as beautiful in print as it looks on the screen." Can't wait to see my author copies. The ebook version is also coming soon.
And above is the front view again, just to look at once again. 

Wednesday, August 3, 2016

Riversend continued

Anddd now we have the almost definite full-cover picture, complete with titles etc.


And Carla the Indefatigable has sent me back the corrected proofs for a final check. Some fleas still turning up, but we are getting there.

Saturday, July 16, 2016

The Amberlight Series

Puff. Wheeze. Pant. 
 We are now embarked upon Riversend, the second book in the Amberlight series, and just finished the fortnight long proof/edit of the ms which is coming back out sometime this year (well, as soon as Carla the unlucky editor gets it past this proofing stage!) Had to make heeaaaps of micro-emendations to differentiate the three narrative voices better.
Itm, the cover art is in and the blurbs etc to go with it are sent off, so maybe soon there will be a cover to show. The cover pic, from Chris Howard, remember, looks like this?

Monday, July 11, 2016

Letters to Tiptree Strikes Again

Hully Wow! Late but still astonished I'm passing on the word from Alisa Krasnostein:  Letters to Tiptree won the Non-Fiction Locus Award for 2016.

 Scroll down through  The Locus Awards 2016 to check it out on line, but just quickly, here was the short list. Just check the competition Letters beat.


NON-FICTION
How amazing to be in a collection like this!

Wednesday, July 6, 2016

"The Horses of Buhen" is Out

Eternal Haunted Summer, the online pagan magazine, has its Summer Solstice 2016 issue out, including my story "The Horses of Buhen," the sequel to "The Price of Kush," which appeared in Milton Davis' anthology Griots: Sisters of the Spear a couple of years ago.

I'm particularly excited about this one because "Horses" is not only my first story sequel sale but a resale to a previous market (Rebecca published my story "Crow" a couple of years ago), which I've never managed before.

And excited too because Rebecca the Amazing Editor found some pix to go with  the story, like this one of the Kushite Pharaohs, (which is quite another story)
                             Statues of Kushite Pharaohs. Courtesy of wikipedia.
and particularly, one of Buhen fort, which really adds something to the effect. One picture is worth a thousand words of description for something like an Old Kingdom Egyptian fort!


Here are the links, to Eternal Haunted Summer, and to the story. Have a look at both. The EHS front page is always worth a glance.

Thursday, April 14, 2016

A Moment in Laramidia, in *Lightships and Sabers* - the cover


Just had the publisher send me a pic of the cover for the antho with "A Moment in Laramidia." Very striking. Not a lot to do with "Laramidia," but shd. certainly attract notice!



Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Letters to Tiptree cleans up well



Letters to Tiptree cleaned up VERY well in recent awards. An email from Alisa Krasnostein and Alexandra Pierce:

On a national level, we won the Aurealis Awards' Convenors' Award for Excellence, as well as the William Atheling Jr Award for Criticism or Review. On a state level, we also won a Tin Duck (awarded by the Western Australian SF community) for Best Professional Production.

Outside of Australia, we're told we were a 'close second' for the BSFA non-fiction award. 


Well earned rewards for an excellent idea and well-executed project.

And I seem to remember Alisa saying - can't re-locate the post - that the book is on Kindle this week for 99 cents. It's showing as 74US cents today, 31st March so probably correct. A real bargain!

Friday, March 25, 2016

Amberlight Live

At last! The new edition of Amberlight is live on Wildside's online catalogue.



At this point it's only the print version, though I thought originally the ebook would come up first. However, for those who like paper, here it is. For those who prefer ebooks, stick around. I have to query Wildside about where the ebook is, but they have been having such a go round with printers and post offices that I'm giving my contact person a day or two to recover.

At sometime in the not so distant future I hope to have give-away copies for draws or maybe some kind of quiz thing - but will need time to get to that which is currently earmarked for writing. To which, this morning, I have not yet got, and it's already 11am.

Tuesday, March 15, 2016

The Full New Amberlight Cover


Have received back the full version of the new Amberlight cover, the one that will be used when the book goes "live" or up on the Wildside Press online catalogue, any day now. Have been told "soon" but not, apparently just yet.
In the meantime, here's how it will all look.



 And hopefully, soon, Wildside will begin work on the ms for Riversend's reincarnation. Also hopefully, they will use my mate Chris Howard's excellent illustration for the cover art. Can't wait to see how that will look overall as well.

Saturday, February 13, 2016

"Lightships and Sabers"


Somewhat belatedly, a few more details about the news that I had a story accepted in this antho, edited by Becky Kyle and Carol Hightshoe, coming out in Spring, 2016, (though that precise date may vary with family circumstances of the publisher. )
But in the meantime, my story is included, and both editors say they loved it!

Here's the current proposed TOC

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Neck Deep In Mire-Razors Neck Deep In Mire-Razors
...................................................... Jim Reader
The Original
 ............................................S.A. Wallin
Sweetness on the Tongue 
.............................................. Isidore Nettleship
Uncertain Outcomes
.................................................. Jim Kyle
Palingenesi Agon
................................................ Carol Hightshoe
Making Mirrors 
............................................... R Joseph Maas
Camdon Cain
................................................ C.R. Asay
The Last Stop 
................................................ Jordan Legg
Heart Proof 
................................................ Holly Schofield
It’s…Complicated
................................................ Rie Sheridan Rose
Family Gathering 
................................................ Ted Pennella
A Moment in Laramidia
............................................... Sylvia Kelso
Shooting the Stars
............................................. Nicole Givens Kurtz
Longshot
............................................... Douglas A. Sanburn
The Governor
............................................... David B. Riley
We Have Always Lived in the Hamlet

................................................ James Van Pelt

Don't have a cover illustration as yet, but perhaps later, I hope. In the meantime, a pic of something related to "A Moment," if not quite the same.


 

Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Letters to Tiptree - Coda



Hot off the press:
     



Not only has Letters to Tiptree been short listed in the British Science Fiction Awards for Best Non-Fiction, it's hit the top of the best sellers in its category on Amazon. Congrats to Alisa Krasnostein and Alex Pierce!

 


Saturday, January 30, 2016

Letters to Tiptree - An Opportunity




Almost everyone reading this will recall James Tiptree Jr, aka Raccoona Sheldon, aka Alice Sheldon, and the dramatic story of her life, times and impact on SF and fantasy, especially during the "gender debates" that raged in SF in the late '60s and '70s.
Last year was the 100th anniversary of her birthday, and among other tributes, Twelfth Planet Press put out a volume of letters:  letters to Tiptree from people now in the field, describing what s/he meant to them in some way or other. Letters to and from Tiptree and other notables of the time, commentaries on Tiptree's work from more notables. The Table of Contents is an eye-popper.
Everybody from Ursula Le Guin and Joanna Russ to Gwyneth Jones and Nicola Griffith has a voice in here. Even, she added modestly, me.
Right now, the Hugo nominations for 2016 are open, voting allowed for people who attended the last SF Worldcon, or are going this year or next. Letters to Tiptree is eligible for nomination as Best Related Work this year, and to celebrate, spread the word, allow more people to collect this cluster of Good Stuff, and maybe even nominate it for a Hugo, voila!
Twelfth Planet Press are dropping the ebook price to 99 cents on Amazon and other ebook retailers. Window is open from now till March 31st 2016.
Go shop!

Friday, January 29, 2016

The Amberlight Covers - Amberlight new version


Not long received the near-final version of the new cover for Amberlight itself. Re-using Tim Lantz's excellent first cover art, with new graphics by Sam at Wildside Press. There are colour changes on the back cover too, but here's the front, just for a start.

I really like the new font for the title as well as the new layout. What does everyone else think?


Sunday, January 3, 2016

Dr. Lilian Strikes Again


Just been sent notice of a review of the Cranky Ladies of History antho, in which my Lilian Cooper story was singled out as one of the two best in the collection.
O my!


http://www.mariannedepierres.com/review-cranky-ladies-of-history-ed-tehani-wesseley-tansy-roberts//






Here's hoping Jo and Lilian wd. have been pleased...