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Snowpocalypse: Tales of the End of the World Release!

Many thanks to Scott Woodward and Clint Collins of Black Mirror Press for including my story "Breath Across the Mouth of a Bottle" in their debut anthology, SNOWPOCALYPSE: TALES OF THE END OF THE WORLD. It's available now from Amazon in both ebook and paperback.

The full table of contents:

"White" by Eddie Newton
"The Last Winter Buck" by Matthew Shoen
"The Wind Whispers, 'Witiko'" by Jennifer Loring
"Dead England" by DJ Tyrer
"The Snowman" by Llanwyre Laish
"Snoe" by Mark Lynch
"The Snow Woman" by S...

Cover Reveal: Tiger's Watch by Julia Ember

Today, I'm excited to participate in the cover reveal for Julia Ember's new YA Fantasy TIGER'S WATCH, coming August 2017 from Harmony Ink Press. I'm totally bummed that this is a full year away from being on my shelf, because it sounds amazing. Julia Ember is one of the amazing authors who has really heeded the call of "We Need Diverse Books" by writing compelling and beautiful fantasy with LGBT+ characters in settings that draw from cultural sources other than Medieval Europe. If you haven't...

Starward Tales Release!

The anthology STARWARD TALES is now available, featuring my science fiction Cassandra retelling, "As Dust Rolls Toward the Mountains." STARWARD TALES is a collection of short stories, poems, and visual art retelling legends, myths, and fairy tales as science fiction, published by Manawaker Studio.
Below is an excerpt of my story, "As Dust Rolls Toward the Mountains." This story was originally published in Kasma SF Magazine in April 2014, and I'm thrilled that editor CB Droege thought it was a...

Story Behind the Story: It Pours

I took as many classes from Stephen Graham Jones as I could while I was at CU Boulder. Though probably best known for his new novel Mongrels , Stephen has a ridiculously long list of short fiction publications, many of which are very short flash or experimental pieces. One night I went to a faculty reading, where he shared a brilliant little flash story, and admitted afterward that he had written it during the commercial break while watching Star Trek. After his section of the reading was ove...

What Does it Actually Mean to "Edit" an Anthology?

Today is release day for my anthology Speculative Story Bites , and I'm fully aware that most of the people in my life have no idea what I actually do as an editor and publisher. My colleague and friend Rhonda Parrish also wrote a great blog on this topic, answering the question, “So like, you just fix all the typos and then you get to have your name on the cover?”

The short answer: no, that's not what an anthology editor does at all.

First of all, this particular anthology is a bit of an oddbal...

Interview with Hayley Stone, author of Machinations

I know Hayley Stone because we both participated in a very cool writing mentorship program called PitchWars, in which aspiring writers are paired up with a more established writer to work on their novel manuscript and get it ready to submit to agents. Alas, my satirical science fiction novel,The Edge of the Universe, did not find an agent through this contest (in fact, I'm still working on ironing out the kinks my mentor helped me uncover), but Hayley did find an agent and a book deal. She's...

Cover Reveal: Virtue of Death by Randi Perrin

Cover Reveal

Title: Virtue of Death

Series: Earthbound Angels #1

Author: Randi Perrin

Release Date: August 20, 2016

Presented By: Itsy Bitsy Book Bits

Synopsis: At eighteen, Sera Moore chose to go to culinary school while a higher power selected her to become an angel, specifically, an angel of death. Now, twelve years later, Sera’s a successful baker during the day and performs her angelic duties at night. The only thing missing in her life is a man, but the last thing she wants is to fall head ov...

Story Behind the Story: Working Like a Dog

I promised you gratuitous corgi pictures, didn’t I? Well, here we go. Although, since this is a story about a corgi, they’re not really that gratuitous.

“Working Like a Dog” is another absurdist story — I was really into that for a while, and maybe it’s what I’m better at than straight-up fantasy and science fiction. For some reason, my husband and I used to make jokes about our corgi getting a job or helping out around the house, and one day I just took that joke and ran with it.

I guess we...

Story Behind the Story: Fun(draising) with Meteoroids

My story "Fun(draising) with Meteoroids" is an absurdist science fiction story told in epistolary format: a series of letters and emails between a NASA representative and an average Joe. This story appeared in the anthology Dear Robot: An Anthology of Epistolary Science Fiction , edited by Kelly Ann Jacobson, which is available in paperback via Amazon. My Clarion classmate, and all-around awesome guy, Zach Lisabeth did quite a thoughtful analysis of the story on his blog.

The seed of this story...

Who Am I, Anyway?

Hello, world. I'm Sarena Ulibarri, and I'm a fantasy and science fiction writer, as well as the Editor-in-Chief of a small publishing house called World Weaver Press. I've maintained this website for a few years now, mainly as a list of my short fiction publications, but I've decided to try this blogging thing in order to better showcase my own work, as well as the work of the many amazing writers I call friends.

So what can you expect from this blog?
News about my upcoming (or past)...