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Small Press Week: Zoom

My company, World Weaver Press, is participating in Small Press Week, an initiative helmed by Upper Rubber Boot Books to promote small press publishing. However, it's release day for HE SEES YOU WHEN HE'S CREEPIN': TALES OF KRAMPUS, so I'm bringing today's Small Press Week post over to my personal blog because I want to stay on Krampus's good side and let him have the spotlight.

The topic for today says this: "Every Tuesday is #newreleasetuesday, but this Tuesday is for featuring all of...

Three Question Interviews with Adventures in Zookeeping Contributors

In case you missed my post last week, Adventures in Zookeeping is the newest MileHiCon fundraiser anthology, edited by Sam Knight and published by Villainous Press. They were nice enough to include my story "The Fourth Lemur." I asked some of the other authors about their stories, their writing, and their favorite memory of the zoo. My answers are at the bottom!C S Peterson, "The Jeweled Black Quaver"
Describe your Adventures in Zookeeping story in one sentence.
In "The Jeweled Black Quaver" Ra...

Adventures in Zookeeping Release Party

Last weekend was MileHiCon, one of my favorite local SFF conventions. I was on a couple of panels this year, but the real highlight of the convention was the release party and reading for ADVENTURES IN ZOOKEEPING, an anthology that includes my story "The Fourth Lemur." This is the second of the charity anthologies (all proceeds go back to MileHiCon) put together by Sam Knight that I was lucky enough to be included in. In fact, last year after releasing SIDEKICKS, Sam Knight asked for suggesti...

Interview with S. D. Grimm, author of Scarlet Moon

S.D. Grimm is another of the amazing writers I know from PitchWars, a mentorship and agent-pitching program I participated in a couple of years ago. She managed to snag a publishing deal with Gilead Publishing for her young adult fantasy novel Scarlet Moon , which was just released. She's stopping by my blog today to talk about her book and her path to publication.

Sarena Ulibarri: What was your inspiration for writing Scarlet Moon?
S.D. Grimm: I love animals. The novel I wrote prior to this one...

An Apocalypse Without Green Chile: A Character Interview with Rhona Long, Protagonist of MACHINATIONS and COUNTERPART

“An SF techno-thriller with heart and soul.” – Alex Bledsoe, author of The Hum and the ShiverToday I'm talking to Rhona Long, the protagonist of MACHINATIONS and COUNTERPART. She's the leader of an underground resistance against a deadly machine uprising, and she is just the kind of badass you want on your side when the robots go wrong. A couple of months ago, I interviewed author Hayley Stone, but now I've managed to access an exclusive portal into the story world in order to ask Rhona a few...

Story Behind the Story: Regarding the Incident on the Yellow Planet

At the 2014 MileHiCon, I went to a panel titled "So You Want to be in an Anthology." I expected this to be a discussion of how to find and submit to anthologies, tips for making it through the slush pile, maybe even methods for approaching anthology editors who don't hold open submissions sessions. There was a little bit of that, but what it turned out to be was an exclusive opportunity to submit to a charity anthology—the only ones allowed to submit to it were the people who attended the pan...

Interview with Jessica Cluess, author of A SHADOW BRIGHT AND BURNING

I've been pining for this book ever since I first heard it announced, and I was lucky enough to win an advance copy. It definitely lived up to all the hype! A Shadow Bright and Burning is like a Lovecraftian Harry Potter, with some shades of a not-as-graphic version of Penny Dreadful (it is YA, after all). It's dark and beautiful, with characters who will haunt your thoughts long after you set the book down.

Jessica Cluess was a year ahead of me in the Clarion Workshop; she attended in 2013 an...

Interview with Dianna Sanchez, author of A Witch's Kitchen

I first met Dianna Sanchez through the extended network of the Clarion Workshop, and was thrilled to learn her novel was coming out soon from Dreaming Robot Press, a small press located in New Mexico (where I live and where I run my small press). I had the chance to chat with both Dianna and her editor last month at Bubonicon, Albuquerque's local science fiction convention.

If you're unfamiliar with the Clarion Workshop, it's a six-week intensive writing boot camp taught by some of the finest...

Three Question Interviews with Snowpocalypse Contributors

Recently, Black Mirror Press released the anthology Snowpocalpyse: Tales from the End of the World , including my story "Breath Over the Mouth of a Bottle." I asked some of the other writers in this anthology to answer a three question interview about their story, their writing, and the worst snowstorm they've ever experienced. Turns out they're all witty and well-published, and their snowstorm memories will give you the chills. My own answers are at the bottom.
S.B. McCauley, "The Snow Woman"
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Starward Tales Goodreads Giveaway

From now until September 28, 2016, you can enter to win one of three copies of STARWARD TALES, a collection of short stories, poems, and visual art retelling legends, myths, and fairy tales as science fiction. This collection, published last month, features my story "As Dust Rolls Toward the Mountain," a Cassandra retelling set in the Colorado mountains as an asteroid hits the Earth.

(What's the Cassandra myth? Read about it here.)

Other contributors include Danielle Airola, Francis W. Alexande...