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Furnace Release Day

Today is the official release date for Furnace. You can buy it at the following places below, for wildly varying prices, of course – but if you want the best deal, IMO, get the trade paperback at Word Horde Press, because at the checkout, you’ll also be able to pick up your choice of a PDF, Kindle or ebook version at no extra charge.

Word Horde Press
 Amazon: trade paperback and Kindle
 Barnes & Noble: trade paperback

I’ve updated my Books page – I can’t tell you how thrilled I am to actually have BOOKS published rather than BOOK, which means my Books pages is no longer a terrible, hideous lie. For those of you who are secretly thinking bitch, you need to write faster (I think the same thing, believe me), it will please you to know that by the end of this year, I’ll have enough short fiction (both published and new) in reserve to come out with two more collections. That’s what happened when you keep writing stories but don’t smash them altogether into a book for at least 5-6 years – Furnace is just a portion of what I’ve done since Engines of Desire published in 2011. At any rate, that’s the longest any of us will have to wait for a book by me again. Winter may still be coming to Westeros, but in Livialand, summer has just begun.

 

 

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Some housekeeping

Furnace is now available as a trade paperback on Amazon.

It’s also available as a trade paperback at Barnes & Noble (and for a currently much cheaper price than the above site).

I’ve updated the interview section – apparently I’ve talked more about myself in the last couple of years than I thought. Well, I’m a Leo, so there you go.

And, I’ve updated the short fiction section, as it was woefully out-of-date.

Last, for those of you who are relatively new readers: I have a Patreon account, where I’m posting dark fantastical erotic stories once a month. The current batch of stories is titled Tales of the Black Century – and once I get started up with the novel, I’ll also be posting a few scenes or short chapters there as well. I’ve set it up as a subscription service, so if you’re interested, it only costs as little as a buck a month. For those who are thinking, hey, everyone else who writes erotica gives their stuff away for free!, my response is: I’m not everyone else.

 

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First review of FURNACE

Over at The Conqueror Weird website, Brian O’Connell has posted the first review of Furnace. I’ve been a bit worried that there wouldn’t be much in the way of reviews or commentary – there still may not be, as the combination of horror + sexual issues tends to shut down conversations, not start them – but if this is the most (or all) I get, I’ll be happy with it. I couldn’t ask for a better first review.

Edit to add: I also just found a short blurb for Furnace over at This is Horror.

 

 

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Pre-ordering FURNACE for Kindle

The Kindle edition of Furnace is currently only $4.99, so I would highly recommend pre-ordering now – I don’t know how long that price will last.

For those of you who are pro-ebook but anti-Kindle and/or anti-Amazon, I’ll let you know as soon as other versions on other sites become available.

 

 

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Nightmares: A New Decade of Modern Horror

Ellen Datlow announced this yesterday – Nightmares is the follow-up to her anthology Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror. I’m really thrilled to be a part of this line-up. The book will be published October 31 (of course) this year.

Table of Contents (in order of year from 2005-2015):

Shallaballah by Mark Samuels

Sob in the Silence by Gene Wolfe

Our Turn Too Will One Day Come by Brian Hodge

Dead Sea Fruit by Kaaron Warren

Closet Dreams by Lisa Tuttle

Spectral Evidence by Gemma Files

Hushabye by Simon Bestwick

Very Low-Flying Aircraft by Nicholas Royle

The Goosle by Margo Lanagan

The Clay Party by Steve Duffy

Strappado by Laird Barron

Lonegan’s Luck by Stephen Graham Jones

Mr Pigsny by Reggie Oliver

At Night, When the Demons Come by Ray Cluley

Was She Wicked? Was She Good? by M. Rickert

The Shallows by John Langan

Little Pig by Anna Taborska

Omphalos by Livia Llewellyn

How We Escaped Our Certain Fate by Dan Chaon

That Tiny Flutter of the Heart I Used to Call Love by Robert Shearman

Interstate Love Song (Murder Ballad No. 8) by Caitlín R. Kiernan

Shay Corsham Worsted by Garth Nix

The Atlas of Hell by Nathan Ballingrud

Ambitious Boys Like You by Richard Kadrey

 

 

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FURNACE

YES, FINALLY.

Out on Monday, February 15th, from Word Horde Press – you can currently only pre-order the book on their website,  but links on Amazon, B&N, and the other usual sites should be up soon. And, no ebook version yet, but that will follow shortly.

As of right now, I don’t have any reviews – if you’re a reviewer, please contact Ross Lockhart at Word Horde Press directly. He’s handling all reviews through him, and has all the galleys (I’m not in charge of any of that this time around.) Interview requests, however, can go directly to me – I already have a very large number set up, but I might be be able to squeeze a few more in over the next couple of months. You can email me at Livia.Llewellyn@outlook.com.

 

Here’s the Table of Contents, for those who are curious. FYI, there’s only one new story in here, but [almost] everything else was originally published in print only – none of these are only ONE of these stories is currently online, so you can kind of pretend they’re new! Sort of… Also, no introduction this time around, but honestly, just read Laird Barron’s intro from Engines of Desire again if you really want one, because it was fucking amazing and good for at least two collections.

Pantopticon
Stabilimentum
Wasp & Snake
Cinereous
Yours Is the Right to Begin
Lord of the Hunt
In the Court of King Cupressaceae, 1982 (original to collection)
It Feels Better Biting Down
Allochthon
Furnace
The Mysteries
The Last, Clean, Bright Summer
and Love shall have no Dominion
The Unattainable

 

 

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Yes, still alive, still writing

Over on Facebook, Laird Barron linked to my website as an example of a good author website. Whoops! And of course, now I have people very carefully inquiring as to whether or not I’m still alive because I haven’t updated this place since May. The answer is: of course, as always, I’m only dead in my heart. But my writing is still alive! Summers are just very rough for me – I don’t like doing much of anything, except drinking beer and giving the AC the stink eye. I think we’ve all been there.

Anyway, I have a number of things coming out next year, so I’ve been steadily hacking away at the project list. The two biggest things are the new collection; and on September 1, I handed in the manuscript to Ross Lockhart of Word Horde Press. The publication date is still February 2016 – I’ll post cover art as soon as I have it, and I’m hoping for galleys so I can do a give-away on Goodreads. The other big project is a 26,000 word novella titled “The One That Comes Before”, set in the same world as “Her Deepness”, which will be published in the anthology The Daughters of Inanna. That’s coming out sometime later this year or early next year from Brian Keene’s Maelstrom imprint at Thunderstorm Books. More details are right here. I’m very excited to be in this anthology, and can’t thank Brian enough for giving me the opportunity to hopefully gain some new readers – or new enemies! Either way, it’s good.

And now, it’s 12:25am, so I need to do what I always do in my slightly overheated, ant-filled apartment at this ungodly hour: sit on my couch in my underwear watching terrible seventies movies on the local stations while drinking a very wee bit of whiskey on the rocks and working on a new unspeakably filthy short story for my dark erotica project over at Patreon. Anyone who tells you the writing life isn’t full of glamor and beauty and unicorns is completely full of shit.

 

 

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Podcast infamy

“Tonight at 7pm ET, on The Horror Show with Brian Keene – Brian and Dave Thomas visit the home of Stoker Award-nominated author and editor Damien Angelica Walters, and talk to her about her books and short fiction, the challenges of making a living as a freelance editor, her unique childhood crush, and her mantra of WWLLD (What Would Livia Llewellyn Do?).”

This should be interesting…

 

 

 

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ToC for The Monstrous

A while back, Ellen Datlow took my novelette “The Last, Clean, Bright Summer” (originally published in Primeval: A Journal of the Uncanny #2) for her anthology The Monstrous, which is coming out this October. The full Table of Contents was just posted” over on Tachyon’s website. Also, as you can see, my name is on the cover – which is always thrilling, because usually I’m of of the “and others”. Then again, if my name hadn’t been on the cover, I would have told everyone I posed for the artwork. Really, that’s exactly how I look in the morning, before coffee. And, after.

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New collection coming out next year

So, I’ll be publishing my second short fiction collection, titled Furnace. It will be coming out in February 2016 from Word Horde, who have been publishing some really incredible books, like the Laird Barron tribute anthology The Children of Old Leech, and Molly Tanzer’s critically-acclaimed novel Vermilion. The ToC isn’t completely finalized, but only because two (possibly three) of the stories will be original to the collection, and I’m still working on them. I’ll post more info -full ToC, cover, blurbs, etc. – as I get it.

I’m very pleased to be a new member of the Horde!

 

 

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