6 weeks/ 42 days until Worlds Divide releases! We are getting down to the final weeks!
I still have a cover reveal - ping me if you're interested in participating! I have new commissioned art to share! I have a pr3-0rder campaign to announce! Lots of good stuff coming up in the next 6 weeks!
Have you read?
Half of a green fall by Eva Papasoulioti at Small Wonders
When you fall.
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I have some new commissioned art of Nina and Corey from my YA science fiction debut in my inbox! Who's going to get to see it first? My discord! Join to get to be one of the first to see it!
My first publication in Worlds of Possibility was my flash, "W.F.A. #31" April 30, 2024 It's available as an eBook.
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Have you ever wondered about my writing process? It goes a lot like this: Peaches sits on my lap and encroaches upon my laptop and typing.
Have you read?
The Self-Made Women’s Circle by Marisca Pichette at The Deadlands
Women made to be taken apart and put back together.
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Have you read?
Dream Feast by Jarune Uwujaren at Flash Fiction Magazine
There is always a catch.
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Have you read?
Vicky Cooper by Dylan Kwok at Wyldblood Press
A story about hard choices and the perceptiveness of children.
wyldblood.com/vicky-cooper/
I only posted 7 new short story and poetry recs in February due to a lot of extra stuff going on in my life. Miss any? You can catch up at my blog (and easily read all of them this week!)
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Today's throwback story rec is For Lack of a Bed by John Wiswell. at Diabolical Plots (2021) www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-7...
I think you can still nominate this book, and you should! Such an excellent book.
Social media post by JRR Jokien. Main text: "me when any program's AI assistant asks me if I want help writing:" Below, a still from Peter Jackson's 'The Two Towers' showing Gandalf the White confronting Gríma Wormtongue, subtitled as saying "Be silent. Keep your forked tongue behind your teeth".
This, really.
Today's throwback story rec (sorry for the long break) is
If the Martians Have Magic by P. Djélí Clark at Uncanny Magazine (2021) www.uncannymagazine.com/article/if-t...
A Dress of Flowers is also available in ZNB Presents Year 1 Anthology in eBook! July 1, 2023
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That's totally fair! Frankly, even liking them there's a very narrow range of acceptable. But I understand if you're range is "none."
screenshot of the Libro FM page for E.M. Anderson's The Keeper of Lonely Spirits, audiobook narrated by David Sweeney-Bear, currently on sale for 81% off, just $5.39. Sierra from Page 1 Books says, "A quick and delightful horror-fantasy about an immortal ghost hunter dealing with a curse that banished him from his home in Ireland over 200 years ago. Romantic, heartfelt, and queer relationships, talking plants, found family, and grief healed through community. I loved the keeper and the people of Harrington so dearly "
[bill nye voice] DID YOU KNOW THAT...
the audiobook edition of my queer cozy fantasy is currently on sale for just $5.39 at @libro.fm??
David Sweeney-Bear is INCREDIBLE, do yourself a favor and go buy the audio while it's on sale!
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Happy Tuesday. I present a sun-bathing puppy on a moving blanket.
This move and copy edits has me absolutely swamped. I've haven't been able to read short fiction for posting or even keep up with throwback recs. I'll hopefully surface next week and get back to my regular schedule.
I am allergic to bananas.
I miss them.
Agreed. Blueberries.
Congrats! Can't wait to read it!
PM deal announcement against a background of line art tentacles. Announcement reads: "Amanda Helms's THE UPPER TENTACLE, pitched as a horror comedy mash-up of EVERYONE IN MY FAMILY HAS KILLED SOMEONE with H.P. Lovecraft, in which the admin for a corporate retreat and a body splitting alien team up to solve the murder of the company's president at a closed ski resort before their alien overlords inflict dire consequences for humanity's collective insubordination, to Mika Kasuga at Union Square & Co, by Paul Lucas at Regal Hoffmann & Associates (world)."
It is I, joining the ranks of those for whom design is their passion
Very happy this weirdo novella found a home with Union Square and Mika Kasuga! Thanks to @canonizer.bsky.social for connecting us!
Pink and green toned illustration on book jacket that looks like planets and comet trails with title of book: Every Galaxy a Circle by Chloe N Clark
This gorgeous new collection from contributor Chloe N. Clark is out now and you can (and should) buy it here: bookshop.org/p/books/ever... @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social. Read her SLQ story here for a taste of her excellence: www.smokelong.com/stories/a-pl...
What are y’all reading and watching this weekend?
I finished A.D. Sui's The Iron Garden Sutra and started Juliet Izon's The Encore.
[bill nye voice] DID YOU KNOW THAT...
you can read this thread for random info about my upcoming queer cozy horror THE LORD OF THE WOOD? you can even ask questions yourself if you have any
no question is too silly. in fact silly questions are preferred
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an aesthetic for E.M. Anderson's The Lord of the Wood, with images of a distant cottage on a seaside cliff, close-up of a watch, sunlight through autumn trees, a long-haired black cat lying in autumn leaves, a door in a tree trunk, close-up of snowy evergreen needles, open books, a lone oak tree, a stormy rocky shore, autumn flowers in the sunlight, and a stag in silhouette in a golden misty meadow. three text boxes read: 1) You're so much more than you think you are; 2) Then the flowers became very wild because it was early September and they had nothing to lose - Grace Paley, "September"; and 3) I need something different. I don't know what, but I need something new.
E.M. Anderson's The Lord of the Wood against a dark teal background surrounded by gold text reading: plant magic; sentient forest trying to oops! murder people; intensely homoerotic shaving scene; the one who heard the stories and the one who was in the stories; hopeless romantic who's clueless about his own sexuality; Beauty and the Beast-inspired but not a retelling; dual-POV brother and sister; love interest turning slowly into a beast; and wound-tending. The Lord of the Wood's cover is blue, paler in the center, darker at the edges, with a central image of a stag of foliage and flowers growing from a tree whose upper branches drip black ooze, with the tagline "even a beastly woodland protector needs saving..."
text post from user TorDenVeJr reading "you can't avoid your way into a life you love"
Preorder now: E.M. Anderson's The Lord of the Wood: When lonely clockmaker Arthur Throckmorton loses his way in an enchanted forest, he meets the hero of his childhood bedtime stories: the Lord of the Wood. But instead of the mythical figure of his dreams, the Lord of the Wood is a grim man turning into a beast and losing power over a dying forest. If they can't save the forest before he becomes a beast completely, Arthur will lose the man he's falling for—and never see his family again. Text is in a translucent text box against a background of a stag in silhouette standing in a misty golden meadow, with the book's cover—blue with an image of a stag of foliage and flowers growing from a tree—to the right.
hey friends! I'm going away for the weekend, BUT what if when I came back I answered any questions you had about my upcoming queer cozy fantasy THE LORD OF THE WOOD?
drop your questions here, and I'll answer them Sunday!
learn more: www.elizmanderson.com/the-lord-of-...
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