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Cover reveal

Very pleased to reveal the cover design for the Trade edition of ‘Shadows & Tall Trees 7’ coming March 2017. Art by Yaroslav Gerzhedovich. Design by Vince Haig.

The hardcover will have a completely different cover.

 

Review of ‘Almost Insentient, Almost Divine’

Acep Hale reviews DP Watt’s ‘Almost Insentient, Almost Divine’ over at Lovecraft eZine and calls it “A collection that will be treasured by readers for decades to come.”

 

http://bit.ly/2ecHHal

Simon Strantzas on Weird fiction

Weirdfictionreview.com sat down with this year’s guest editor, Simon Strantzas, to ask how he selected works for YBWF3, how he views the Weird fiction genre, and what he’s currently working on. It’s a great and insightful interview. Highly recommended!

http://bit.ly/2doMnLl

PW review of ‘Singing’

Publishers Weekly reviews Sunny Moraine’s “Singing With All My Skin and Bone.”

http://www.publishersweekly.com/97809...

Now shipping – Year’s Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 3

** Year’s Best Weird Fiction Vol. 3 **


 


Now available in hardcover


(as well as trade and eBook)


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Guest-edited by Simon Strantzas, the third volume of the Year’s Best Weird Fiction is now available in hardcover, trade-paperback, and eBook editions. This volume features work from Robert Aickman, Matthew M. Bartlett, Sadie Bruce, Nadia Bulkin, Ramsey Campbell, Brian Conn, Kristi DeMeester, Brian Evenson, L.S. L.s. Johnson, Rebecca Kuder, Tim Lebbon, Reginald Oliver, Lynda E. Rucker, Robert Shearman, Christopher Slatsky, DP Watt, Michael Wehunt, Marian Via Rivera-Womack, and Genevieve Valentine.


 


Copies will be going out to subscribers soon.


At 382 pages this is our biggest, most ambitious volume to date.


 


Please click the links below to order your preferred edition.


 


http://amzn.to/2cIGmHd (eBook)


http://amzn.to/2cbdFhC (hardback via Amazon)


http://amzn.to/2cMdjnl (trade via Amazon)


http://bit.ly/2crfSMs (hardback via Undertow)


http://bit.ly/2cIHMl7 (trade via Undertow)


Also available at BN.com, as well as all Amazon sites, U.K. etc.

First review of Year’s Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 3

The first review of Year’s Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 3 is in, and it’s a good one! http://paulstjohnmackintosh.com/categ...

Update on Shadows & Tall Trees 7

As way of an update, (since a few of you have asked), I just have to say that the quality of submissions–over 600 total–to Shadows & Tall Trees 7 is uniformly excellent. I have to make some very tough choices here. (I may have to increase the page count). I’ve already turned down a number of terrific stories that are sure to find good homes elsewhere. And I hate disappointing writers, friends, and colleagues who have sent in good work.


 


I have about 100 more submissions to read that arrived in the last 2 days. If you sent something earlier than that then it is in my “second read” pile.


 


Thanks to everyone who showed interest in the book.

Undertow at CanCon

For folks attending CanCon next weekend, you can grab some Undertow titles at Pat Flewwelling‘s Myth Hawker table. Stop by the table and check out the wares.

YBWF3 Dust Jacket

Here is the almost final version of the dust-jacket wrap for the hardcover edition of the Year’s Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 3. Pretty sweet, huh? Yes, you read correctly – hardcover. If the hardcover performs well I will likely offer all future Undertow titles in hardcover. Our paperback subscription proved very popular, and I may consider a hardback subscription if enough folks are interested. YBWF3 will likely be available the first week of October. You are going to love it.

Update on Shadows 7

Just an update on Shadows & Tall Trees 7. I am receiving an average of 18 submissions a day, so it is likely going to take some time, given my Year’s Best reading, to read through and respond to everything. Please be patient.


 


And I’m still seeing a lot of submissions not adhering to the guidelines. Specifically, no multiple submissions, and no familiar tropes, i.e. vampires, zombies, and werewolves. I do not want to see them. Period.


 


I thank you for your patience, and your interest.