Four Events in May: 2 Physical, 2 Virtual
May 19th, 7-8 PM Eastern, livestreamed on twitch.tv/csecooney!
Mary Soon Lee is a Grand Master of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association, and winner of the AnLab Readers’ Award, Dwarf Stars Award, Elgin Award, Rhysling Award, and Utopia Award. An illustrated edition of her epic fantasy The Sign of the Dragon was published in January 2025. She hides behind a cryptically named website (marysoonlee.com) and BlueSky account (@marysoonlee.bsky.social).
Here’s Mary’s website: https://marysoonlee.com/
Here’s the webpage for The Sign of the Dragon: https://marysoonlee.com/book/the-sign-of-the-dragon/
Here’s the Amazon page for The Sign of the Dragon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1625674910/
And here’s the Bookshop.org page for The Sign of the Dragon: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-sign-of-the-dragon/b252dfb097be2837
Here’s the webpage for How to Navigate Our Universe: https://marysoonlee.com/book/how-to-navigate-our-universe/
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We Demand Stories about Non-Tolkien Fantasy Worlds (Physical)Terry Pratchett once said that ‘J.R.R. Tolkien has become a sort of mountain, appearing in all subsequent fantasy in the way that Mt. Fuji appears so often in Japanese prints.” But the world is bigger than Middle Earth and many artists write stories from a perspective where, instead of Mt. Fuji, they see Mount Kilimanjaro, Mauna Kea, the Andes, or other landmarks. We demand stories that expand their worldbuilding beyond Tolkien- to Asia, Africa, the Americas and elsewhere. We demand stories that take us out of fantasy’s comfort zone.
This is a ticketed event! Sign up for the event and buy your tickets here, and meet us in Brooklyn!
C. S. E. Cooney & Mike Allen in Conversation (Virtual)Authors C. S. E. Cooney and Mike Allen are long-time friends, with an adventurous history in publishing.
At various times in their careers, they’ve co-written poems, edited each other’s work, workshopped each other’s stories, and Cooney pretty much blames Allen for most of her publishing successes: including Bone Swans: Stories, a Mythic Delirium publication (Mike Allen, publisher), and World Fantasy Award-winning collection.
Now they’re in conversation about their latest novels: C. S. E. Cooney’s Saint Death’s Herald (Solaris Books) and Mike Allen’s Black Fire Concerto (Ruadán Books). Years ago, Cooney was editor of a much earlier edition of Black Fire Concerto, and this year, she was honored to narrate Mike’s deeply revised, and wildly macabre Ruadán edition.
In this book talk, Cooney and Allen will be interviewing each other about process, plot, and publishing. (And probably more!) (Not necessarily in that order!)
Stream us LIVE at twitch.tv/csecooney on May 30th, 8 PM Eastern—and join us in the chat, if you happen to have a Twitch account.
This event is FREE, but if you could take a moment and sign up for the free ticket on Eventbrite, we can get a sense of who’s coming—and that just makes us more excited to see you all!
Book Talk with Caitlin Rozakis at Word BookstoreRSVP at Word Bookstore at this link!
Two parents and their recently-bitten-werewolf daughter try to fit into a privileged New England society of magic aristocracy. But deadly terrors await them – ancient prophecies, remorseless magical trials, hidden conspiracies and the PTA bake sale.
New York Times best-selling author Caitlin Rozakis writes fantasy with a satirical twist and a cozy heart. Her debut novel is Dreadful, but turned out not to be dreadful at all. Her contemporary romance novella Leah’s Perfect Christmas, written as Catherine Beck, was adapted as the Hallmark Channel Original Movie Leah’s Perfect Gift. After graduating from Princeton, she has had too many career changes, including mechanical engineering (cut short after the murderous robot incident), finance (amortizing tequila receivables is not as fun as drinking tequila), the American Museum of Natural History (who knew emus had birth certificates?), and a number of marketing positions, some at companies you may have even heard of. Her latest book is The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association.
In conversation with…
C. S. E. Cooney is a two-time World Fantasy Award-winning author, a Rhysling Award-winning poet, a game designer, an audiobook narrator, and the singer-songwriter Brimstone Rhine. Find her on social media via her LinkTree https://linktr.ee/csecooney
