A few links --Lethe Press sale and Mike Allen book!
Two things to promote today.
First: Wizards Tower Books is having an awesome Pride Month sale on Lethe Press titles! There's some awesome stuff here, including Catherine Lundoff's past works, her latest short story collection, and her novel Silver Moon. Which, as some of you may know, began as a novella in my lesbian werewolf anthology Bitten by Moonlight. I haven't had a chance yet to read the expanded version, but I know it's great. And I know you should get it.
If I may also point out, you can also find another familiar face at the sale. Me! Yes. Heiresses of Russ, the "best of" lesbian spec fic anthology Steve Berman and I edited last year, is there too, at a good discount.
Now for the slightly uncomfortable part. I was...um. Significantly less than awesome about promoting Heiresses when it came out late last year, due to a life situation I've blogged about before and won't bore you with again. I really deeply regret this, not only because I feel like I neglected a baby, but because this is one of the best books I've ever been involved in. Every story in this is strong and beautiful, and a wonderful expression of the diversity of women who love women. Some of them are by familiar faces, like Catherine and Rachel Swirsky, and Steve Berman (his story in this is hands-down the best lesbian story I have EVER read, and I wish I'd edited the book it appeared in), and Ellen Kushner. Others are by newer faces like Nora Olsen, Zen Cho (of Steam-Powered 2 fame), and Csilla Kleinheincz (who is known more in Hungary than in the USA). I really do hope you check it out, even though I should have told you to much, much sooner.
In fact. If you do, tell me here. I don't usually do this anymore because I lack the time and spoons, but I was designing a necklace based on Rachel Swirsky's Nebula Award-winning piece "The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen's Window." It was half-finished when the stuff that went down went down, and I've been dying to complete it. I'll do so and post a picture. Buy a copy (at Wizards Tower, please!), and tell me about it here, and I'll enter you in a drawing to win it. :) I can actually get to the post office now that I can actually get to it during the hours it's actually open (why South Florida's POs are never open when people aren't working, I will never understand.) To tantalize you, the materials are: red glass flowers, garnets, lots of silver, and some very nifty scrabble tiles...
But you'll just have to guess at the rest for now. In any case, yeah. Heiresses was a finalist for this year's Golden Crown Literary Award along with Hellebore & Rue, which I edited with Catherine Lundoff (who is now all over this post). Neither placed, but I was very honored to have them appear on the list and regret how distracted I've been to have not told you about this honor.
2) Sleepless, Burning Life,
timeshark
's amazing novelette that appeared in Steam-Powered I is now a stand-alone book over at Amazon with a spiffy intro by
shadesong
. I hope you all get this, too. I'm trying to think of something to encourage you to get it, but so far, no ideas. Hmm... Anyway, this is one of the coolest stories I've excepted for any of SP's three volumes. It's certainly the weirdest. Think, if you haven't read it yet, of the best elements of creation mythos, B action movies, and clockpunk (yes I really did say B action movies) all wound up tight with a very astonishing ending.
:) Go ye forth and buy, as the goblins said. Or was that just "come buy, come buy." (Then again, maybe this isn't the best sales pitch...heh.)
First: Wizards Tower Books is having an awesome Pride Month sale on Lethe Press titles! There's some awesome stuff here, including Catherine Lundoff's past works, her latest short story collection, and her novel Silver Moon. Which, as some of you may know, began as a novella in my lesbian werewolf anthology Bitten by Moonlight. I haven't had a chance yet to read the expanded version, but I know it's great. And I know you should get it.
If I may also point out, you can also find another familiar face at the sale. Me! Yes. Heiresses of Russ, the "best of" lesbian spec fic anthology Steve Berman and I edited last year, is there too, at a good discount.
Now for the slightly uncomfortable part. I was...um. Significantly less than awesome about promoting Heiresses when it came out late last year, due to a life situation I've blogged about before and won't bore you with again. I really deeply regret this, not only because I feel like I neglected a baby, but because this is one of the best books I've ever been involved in. Every story in this is strong and beautiful, and a wonderful expression of the diversity of women who love women. Some of them are by familiar faces, like Catherine and Rachel Swirsky, and Steve Berman (his story in this is hands-down the best lesbian story I have EVER read, and I wish I'd edited the book it appeared in), and Ellen Kushner. Others are by newer faces like Nora Olsen, Zen Cho (of Steam-Powered 2 fame), and Csilla Kleinheincz (who is known more in Hungary than in the USA). I really do hope you check it out, even though I should have told you to much, much sooner.
In fact. If you do, tell me here. I don't usually do this anymore because I lack the time and spoons, but I was designing a necklace based on Rachel Swirsky's Nebula Award-winning piece "The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen's Window." It was half-finished when the stuff that went down went down, and I've been dying to complete it. I'll do so and post a picture. Buy a copy (at Wizards Tower, please!), and tell me about it here, and I'll enter you in a drawing to win it. :) I can actually get to the post office now that I can actually get to it during the hours it's actually open (why South Florida's POs are never open when people aren't working, I will never understand.) To tantalize you, the materials are: red glass flowers, garnets, lots of silver, and some very nifty scrabble tiles...
But you'll just have to guess at the rest for now. In any case, yeah. Heiresses was a finalist for this year's Golden Crown Literary Award along with Hellebore & Rue, which I edited with Catherine Lundoff (who is now all over this post). Neither placed, but I was very honored to have them appear on the list and regret how distracted I've been to have not told you about this honor.
2) Sleepless, Burning Life,
timeshark
's amazing novelette that appeared in Steam-Powered I is now a stand-alone book over at Amazon with a spiffy intro by
shadesong
. I hope you all get this, too. I'm trying to think of something to encourage you to get it, but so far, no ideas. Hmm... Anyway, this is one of the coolest stories I've excepted for any of SP's three volumes. It's certainly the weirdest. Think, if you haven't read it yet, of the best elements of creation mythos, B action movies, and clockpunk (yes I really did say B action movies) all wound up tight with a very astonishing ending. :) Go ye forth and buy, as the goblins said. Or was that just "come buy, come buy." (Then again, maybe this isn't the best sales pitch...heh.)
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