Flute and Harp Play in Combined Suite of Volumes

Another excursion down memory lane, this time to two years in the past with a story, “Flute and Harp,” accepted for a future copy of HELIOS QUARTERLY. It would be a reprint, originally published in WHISPERS AND SHADOWS (Prime Books, 2001) as well as part of my 2017 novel-in-stories, TOMBS: A CHRONICLE OF LATTER-DAY TIMES OF EARTH, but there was one catch: due to backlogs it most likely wouldn’t appear until mid-2021 (cf. August 12, June 17 2019, et al.).

But of course things change. First, on July 26 this year: This is Olivia, the publisher behind Aurelia Leo (formerly Radiant Crown Publishing).

I’m writing to you all to ask if you’d be interested in having your work bound into a new anthology project.

It would contain the stories featured in the illustrated anthology projects UCHRONIA & HYPERION & THEIA, as well as MYSTIQUE.

The new anthology would be tentatively named UCHRONIA: ALTERNATIVE HISTORIES & ALTERNATE WORLDS, with new cover art by J. Querioz (unless our agreement falls through).

And now today’s (August 20) email: You’re one of twenty-three authors that expressed some interest in this reprint anthology (that will contain a handful of new stories that don’t fit properly anywhere in the publication schedule anymore).

Unfortunately negotiations fell through with J. Queiroz. However, I now plan to repurpose some of Stefan Paris’s illustrations used in the original edition of UCHRONIA. That or pay for 2-3 black and white illustrations to keep the feel of the older works. Send any recommendations my way.

You can share the cover, your story, and release date of January 4, 2022 now if you’d like! But if you give me about two weeks, I’ll have a pre-order up and an ARC ready that may be more useful to share.

Included: a contract, now signed and sent back, as well as the cover which is rather cool! And so, too, a hoped-for release date the first week of next year, with more details to come.