Author Archives: AX

pimpin’

Half an hour ago I was unaware of the existence of the Edge Awards. Twenty minutes ago I was informed I’m a nominee. My book, that is: The Abode of Bliss, up against six other works of book-length fiction for “Favorite Gay Book – Fiction” of 2011. (I believe the other six are proper novels—I …

19 February 2012 – 9:09 PM | By AX | Posted in The Abode of Bliss | Comments (0)

praise, belated and advance

These are lovely.   Over the weekend, I encountered a thoughtful and complimentary 1 February review of Steve Berman’s  anthology of inspirational stories for queer teens Speaking Out, released last September. On the GayYA.org blog (a resource you should bookmark right fast), Lydia Sharp writes:     And as much as I hate to play …

15 February 2012 – 11:38 AM | By AX | Posted in fiction, novelette, SF, short stories, spec fic, You Will Meet a Stranger… | Comments (0)

table of contents

Formal announcement: My next book will be a collection of short(ish) fiction that teeters along the edges between several genres. Lethe Press will issue You Will Meet a Stranger Far from Home: wonder stories on 14 July 2012. Yes, my birthday, so what, the publisher’s a dear, indulgent friend. From the preface: My first fiction …

2 February 2012 – 5:46 PM | By AX | Posted in fiction, novelette, short stories, spec fic, You Will Meet a Stranger… | Comments (0)

another

Belatedly (the book was originally scheduled for this past November), I’ve been informed the second of three stories I wrote last year has found its first home. “Ban’s Dream of the Sea,” a story I like better today than I did when I wrote it, will appear in Steve Berman’s anthology of marine fantasies The …

27 January 2012 – 10:48 PM | By AX | Posted in fiction, Lethe Press, short stories, spec fic | Comments (0)

dispatch from the uncanny head of brass

BrazenHead’s second release can now be announced: Green Thumb by Tom Cardamone Mutability blooms in the Florida Keys after the Red War and the genie boxes. King Pelicans with the brains of scientists and a single human hand in place of one webbed foot rule the ruins of half-drowned Miami. Slavers roam the deep waters …

26 January 2012 – 12:41 AM | By AX | Posted in BrazenHead, fiction, novella, spec fic | Comments (5)

two things

A nice review of Dayna Ingram’s Eat Your Heart Out, the first release from BrazenHead (exceptional novellas of queer speculative fiction), posted two days ago on the Edge Media network: Despite sounding like clichéd fanfiction written by a horny devotee, “Eat Your Heart Out” is tender yet ruthlessly gruesome. Front cover design for Wilde Stories …

7 January 2012 – 9:23 AM | By AX | Posted in BrazenHead, design, fiction, Lethe Press, short stories, spec fic | Comments (0)

the year that was

Well, it’s a tradition, I suppose, the year-end sum up, hardly subverted by being posted on the first day of the new year instead of the last of the old. So. In 2011, I published two books, a marvel of unprecedented proportion. The New People (and its companion-between-the-covers, Brandon Bell’s Elegant Threat) made little impression …

1 January 2012 – 1:17 AM | By AX | Posted in BrazenHead, fiction, novelette, SF, short stories, spec fic, The Abode of Bliss, The New People, The Unexpected Thing | Comments (0)

best of the year?

Oh, unlikely. But still a flattery: my bite-size science fiction story of the very near future, “The Arab’s Prayer” (M-Brane SF #24, January 2011), has been selected for reprint in Steve Berman’s Wilde Stories 2012: The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction. A book I will most likely copyedit, design, and lay out. Meta or what? …

25 November 2011 – 10:37 PM | By AX | Posted in Lethe Press, music, SF, short stories, spec fic | Comments (0)

can haz story sale?

Possibly my favorite of the stories I’ve written in the last two-three years, “Tattooed Love Boys,” has just sold to GigaNotoSaurus. What’s a GigaNotoSaurus, you ask, besides an oddly capitalized giant carnivorous dinosaur? An intriguing webzine dedicated to the notion that science-fiction and fantasy stories want more meat on their bones than allowed by the …

2 November 2011 – 11:06 PM | By AX | Posted in fiction, novelette, spec fic | Comments (0)

spectacular news from the oracular head of brass

Publishers Weekly, trade magazine of the publishing world, has reviewed BrazenHead’s upcoming first release, Dayna Ingram’s Eat Your Heart Out, and it’s a RAVE. Sex, violence, and horror combine in a ridiculously entertaining novella of lesbians and zombies, which kicks off Lethe’s new Brazenhead imprint. Read the whole review here, read more about Eat Your …

24 October 2011 – 7:23 PM | By AX | Posted in BrazenHead, novella | Comments (0)