The apocalypse is a Big Deal

By which I mean, The End is Now is a Kindle "Big Deal" (99 cents!) until January 25th.

My story in this anthology, "Twilight of the Music Machines," also made it onto Tangent's "Recommended Reading" list for 2014. Those who like this sort of thing, etc.

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Friday, January 09, 2015

anthologies, apocalypse, recommendations, science fiction

The End is Now, again, and Mirror Dance

The autumn issue of Mirror Dance is up, and The End is Now, the second book in The Apocalypse Triptych, is now available. I edited the former,  I'm in the latter, and both, in my humble opinion, are excellent. Happy reading!

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Monday, September 01, 2014

anthologies, apocalypse, editing, Mirror Dance, writing

March News

• ~ The Spring 2014 issue of Mirror Dance is now online, with (as usual) a fantastic mix of familiar names and exciting newcomers.

• ~ The March 2014 issue of Niteblade is also online, and Mirror Dance readers should recognize - or will recognize, after our summer issue - every name on the poetry page. ;-) And when you're done reading the lovely poetry, you can slide over to the fiction end of things and check out my fairy-tale retelling, "Godfather."

• ~ The End is Nigh, co-edited by John Joseph  Adams and Hugh Howey, is officially now in Kindle and trade paperback. In addition to my "Houses Without Air," this anthology is full of stories from awesome writers like Seanan McGuire, Ken Liu, Jake Kerr, Sarah Langan, and Paolo Bacigalupi. 

Later this month, my story "The Sons of Zeruiah" will be published in King David and the Spiders from Mars. Four new poems will also be featured in the revived Flytrap.

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Saturday, March 01, 2014

anthologies, apocalypse, editing, Mirror Dance, Niteblade, publishing

I, for one, welcome the oncoming apocalypse

My new story, "Houses Without Air,” will be published in THE END IS NIGH, the first volume of The Apocalypse Triptych, edited by John Joseph Adams and Hugh Howey. The book goes on sale March 1, but is available for pre-order now.

Here’s the cover copy:

Famine. Death. War. Pestilence. These are the harbingers of the biblical apocalypse, of the End of the World. In science fiction, the end is triggered by less figurative means: nuclear holocaust, biological warfare/pandemic, ecological disaster, or cosmological cataclysm.

But before any catastrophe, there are people who see it coming. During, there are heroes who fight against it. And after, there are the survivors who persevere and try to rebuild. THE APOCALYPSE TRIPTYCH will tell their stories.

Edited by acclaimed anthologist John Joseph Adams and bestselling author Hugh Howey, THE APOCALYPSE TRIPTYCH is a series of three anthologies of apocalyptic fiction. THE END IS NIGH focuses on life before the apocalypse. THE END IS NOW turns its attention to life during the apocalypse. And THE END HAS COME focuses on life after the apocalypse.

THE END IS NIGH features all-new, never-before-published works by Hugh Howey, Paolo Bacigalupi, Jamie Ford, Seanan McGuire, Tananarive Due, Jonathan Maberry, Robin Wasserman, Nancy Kress, Charlie Jane Anders, Ken Liu, and many others.

"Final  Exam" will also be reprinted in Wastelands 2, the follow-up to JJA's very successful Wastelands anthology, coming February 2015. The table of contents is crazy impressive! 

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Wednesday, February 19, 2014

anthologies, apocalypse, publishing, weird fiction, writing

The Mammoth Book of Steampunk

Super exciting news, everybody! "The Celebrated Carousel of the Margravine of Blois" will be reprinted in The Mammoth Book of Steampunk. Check out the link for the full TOC and cover art. It's gorgeous!

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Tuesday, June 28, 2011

anthologies, publishing, steampunk

Playthings of the Gods

Yesterday marked the release of Drollerie Press's Playthings of the Gods, an anthology of Greek myths retold for a YA audience. My story, "Naxos," retells the story of Ariadne, Theseus and Dionysus on the island of Naxos--in Wisconsin, with an all-female cast. Check it out!

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Wednesday, February 16, 2011

anthologies, publishing

Is that a fever-induced hallucination, or are you just happy to see me?

I'm running a temperature and breathing at about half-capacity, courtesy of a lot of stuff in my lungs that shouldn't be there. Also, fever + cold medicine = Dream Logicz!!!

Dream Logicz!!! are great for writing. Not so great for editing and submitting before anthology deadlines. Not so great for getting the spring issue of Mirror Dance properly assembled.

And I just spilled hot tea on my keyboard.

I think this is the universe trying to tell me to go back to bed.

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Friday, February 26, 2010

anthologies, Cthulhu fhtagn, editing, plague, writing

Hint Fiction Anthology

Check out these guidelines for an anthology of "hint fiction"--flash fiction in twenty-five words or less.

Sounds like a challenge to me! :-)

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Monday, August 03, 2009

anthologies, flash fiction, recommendations, writing

In a coffee shop...

...where I stopped today for a cup of ice water, there were two anthologies on a shelf; one, a collection of Irish playwrights including the brilliant Oscar Wilde, and the other, The Best of Every Day Fiction including work by yours truly. This made my day, though it took me until I finished my ice water to notice Every Day Fiction because I was busy gushing over Wilde.

According to the sticker on the front, the copy of EDF includes work by local author Greta Igl. As the annoying dolls in Disney World sing, "It's a small world after all..."

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Saturday, July 11, 2009

anthologies, Every Day Fiction, flash fiction, that's MY name on the ballot

Thoughtcrime Experiments

Congratulations are in order for my sister, Therese Arkenberg, and the other authors and artists whose work appears in the online anthology Thoughtcrime Experiments. Check it out--it's well worth a read.

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Monday, April 27, 2009

anthologies, fiction, reading, recomendations, short story

No "Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2008"

I am saddened, to say the least.

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Tuesday, January 13, 2009

anthologies, fantasy, fiction, horror, reading