Category Archives: design

year-end sum up

Gregorian year 2012 was, on a number of personal levels, profoundly horrible, demoralizing, debilititating. But those are the exact personal levels I believe it unseemly to talk about in public, so you, Dear Reader, are spared endless litanies of woe and humiliation. Be reassured, however, that Misses Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë, and I, remain …

1 January 2013 – 2:40 AM | By AX | Posted in BrazenHead, design, fiction | Comments (0)

to print, to print

Although not officially on sale until the 14th, You Will Meet a Stranger Far from Home has gone to press. Primarily so that publisher Steve Berman can schlep printed copies north from New Jersey next week for display on the Lethe Press table at Readercon in Burlington, Mass. (Sell many copies to discerning con-goers, little …

2 July 2012 – 6:43 PM | By AX | Posted in design, fantasy, fiction, Lethe Press, short stories, spec fic, You Will Meet a Stranger… | Comments (0)

Steve Berman day at s&p.com

Every day is actually Daulton and Steve day, of course. But above and beyond all that, today saw receipt of contributor copies of Steve’s new anthology of stories for gay teens (and teens at heart, and gays at heart), Boys of Summer, available any week now—or RIGHT NOW direct from the publisher. My contribution is …

27 April 2012 – 2:46 PM | By AX | Posted in design, fantasy, fiction, short stories, spec fic, YA | Comments (2)

housecleaning

A good deal later, I have finally brought the designs portfolio up to date. Also reordered it in reverse-chronological order so you don’t have to scroll way down to see what’s new. What’s new? Eleven books designed, laid out, and sent to press over the fall, winter, and into early spring. (There were twelve, actually, …

4 April 2012 – 7:21 AM | By AX | Posted in design, fantasy, fiction, short stories, spec fic, The Unexpected Thing | Comments (0)

return to Astreiant

Nicolas Rathe and Philip Eslingen are back! And I am really very extremely pleased to be involved in their renascence. Point of Hopes, the novel in which Rathe, Eslingen, and the great city of Astreiant were introduced, was the second collaboration of science-fiction novelist Melissa Scott and her partner, Lisa A. Barnett, following by several …

25 February 2012 – 8:43 PM | By AX | Posted in design, fantasy, fiction, Lethe Press, recommendation, spec fic, work in progress, You Will Meet a Stranger… | Comments (0)

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)

sundries

A few things going on. Seem to be in the process of making BrazenHead’s first acquisition, a little book the choice of which may surprise some people who know me. It surprises me. More dirt when the contract is issued/signed. Trying to complete a short story for an anthology whose editor has graciously extended the …

9 July 2011 – 1:49 PM | By AX | Posted in BrazenHead, design, fiction, short stories, The Abode of Bliss, The New People | Comments (0)

newish designs

Hmmm. I notice I haven’t updated the designs page since March. And yet I have not been idle on that front in the intervening months. So here are five: Several others are more or less done (Coast to Coast by François L’Erotique; my own The Abode of Bliss; Wilde Stories 2011, edited by Steve Berman; …

18 June 2011 – 11:08 AM | By AX | Posted in design | Comments (0)

site housekeeping update

I have added an entry for The Abode of Bliss on the books page as well as giving it its own page. My efficient WordPress guru added a thumbnail ikon in the visual-navigation column on the left of the front page. Additionally, a few new books have been added to the designs pages since the …

13 March 2011 – 3:04 PM | By AX | Posted in design, fiction, The Abode of Bliss | Comments (0)

design news & reading recco

Jesse Bullington, author of The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart and The Enterprise of Death, has written a perceptive and complimentary review of Livia Llewellyn’s Engines of Desire for on-line ’zine Innsmouth Free Press. I’m particularly chuffed that Jesse begins his review with a shout-out to the fantastic imagery of cover photographer Katharina Fösel …

10 March 2011 – 1:51 PM | By AX | Posted in design, Lethe Press, short stories | Comments (0)