3.22.19 6 days to go: An ‘Across the Universe’ spotlight on Jody Lynn Nye
In honor of our OMG WE GOT FUNDED NOW LET’S HIT STRETCH GOALS OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS ALSO NOW SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN* excitement for our speculative fiction, alternate universe book of Beatles short stories, Across the Universe, I am spotlighting one of our already-committed authors each day. All of our authors should be committed,…
Read More3.22.19 ‘Across the Universe’ Beatles Spec-Fic Anthology Now Open to Submissions – UPDATED
The anthology I am co-editing with Michael Ventrella, Across the Universe, is now open for submissions! Through a Kickstarter campaign (which successfully reached two stretch goals by the time it ended March 28), we were able to raise enough to go ahead with this project, and we have confirmations from authors Spider Robinson, David Gerrold,…
Read More3.21.19 7 days to go: An ‘Across the Universe’ spotlight on Keith R.A. DeCandido
In honor of our OMG WE GOT FUNDED NOW LET’S HIT STRETCH GOALS OVER THE NEXT SEVEN (OR SIX) DAYS* excitement for our speculative fiction, alternate universe book of Beatles short stories, Across the Universe, I am spotlighting one of our already-committed authors each day. All of our authors should be committed, but one at…
Read More3.20.19 8 days to go: An ‘Across the Universe’ spotlight on Cat Rambo
In honor of our 8-days-and-counting* to either being fully funded or fully irritated that we weren’t fully funded for our speculative fiction, alternate universe book of Beatles short stories, Across the Universe, I have decided to spotlight one of our already-committed authors each day. All of our authors should be committed, but one at a…
Read More3.19.19 9 days to go (still): An ‘Across the Universe’ spotlight on David Gerrold
In honor of our 9-days-and-counting* to either being fully funded or fully irritated that we weren’t fully funded for our speculative fiction, alternate universe book of Beatles short stories, Across the Universe, I have decided to spotlight one of our already-committed authors each day. All of our authors should be committed, but one at a…
Read More3.18.19 9 days and counting: ‘Across the Universe’ spotlight on Spider Robinson
In honor of our 9-days-and-counting to either being fully funded or fully irritated that we weren’t fully funded for our speculative fiction, alternate universe book of Beatles short stories, Across the Universe, I have decided to spotlight one of our already-committed authors each day. All of our authors should be committed, but one at a…
Read More3.06.19 Too Many Sympathy Cards: On Losing Two Inspirational Friends
Too many sympathy cards. One is too many. Two to honor departed friends, in the space of just a few weeks, is completely horrid. But I want people to know about two people who, while I wasn’t in regular touch with them for some years, were still important to me – and who have now…
Read More3.05.19 Admiration: Lois Duncan, Weaponizer of Feminism
Of all the writers who left the earliest, most significant handprints in my undried childhood cement, none leap to mind faster than Lois Duncan. Her dark, young adult worlds – published in an era when YA dark fiction was more anomaly than rule – sparked a fire in me for the weird, the twisted and…
Read More2.26.19 Meet the Beatles anthology: “Across the Universe”
Words are flowing outLike endless rain into a paper cupThey slither wildly as they slip away across the universe — The Beatles, “Across the Universe” Now the story can be told: I am delighted to announce that I will be co-editing a brand-new anthology for Fantastic Books, Across the Universe: Tales of Alternative Beatles (working…
Read More2.25.19 The joys of taking books on vacation
One of the great joys of vacation, for me, is a chance to arrive at my location and dive into a book. It sounds counter-intuitive — to travel hours in order to disappear into yet another world — but I just adore traveling through a city or the countryside, finding a perfect location, and getting…
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