Category Archives: Lethe Press

spring, huh?

And yet I look out my window to snow flurries. Feh. Well, if we must go by the calendar (Gregorian/Persian/Bahá’í), Happy Northern-Hemisphere Spring (I’ll believe it when I’m not wearing longjohns and fuzzy slippers), Nowrūz, and Naw-Rúz. Slightly belated on the first two, sorry. I have been ill and distraught in a distressing number of ways …

21 March 2013 – 10:38 PM | By AX | Posted in Deprivation, fiction, Ireland, Lethe Press, short stories | 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)

the occult head of brass speaks

BrazenHead news: Our first release, Dayna Ingram’s exhilarating Eat Your Heart Out, is a finalist for the Golden Crown Literary Society’s Goldie Award in Speculative Fiction. Alas that BrazenHead is competing against our corporate overlords at Lethe Press, which has two titles (both of which I also designed) in contention for the same prize: Hellebore …

11 June 2012 – 4:19 AM | By AX | Posted in awards, BrazenHead, Lethe Press, novella, spec fic | Comments (0)

excellent news

To my mind one of the strongest of all the books I’ve designed for Lethe Press, Livia Llewellyn’s Engines of Desire: Tales of Love and Other Horrors, is on the just announced short list for the 2011 Shirley Jackson Award in the category of Single Author Collection. Livia’s gorgeous and troubling long story “Omphalos,” first …

22 April 2012 – 8:46 PM | By AX | Posted in awards, fiction, Lethe Press | 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)

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)

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)

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)

dispatch from the occult head of brass

Several months later than I expected, BrazenHead has signed up (well, the contract hasn’t been issued/signed, but I’m working on that) its first title: Eat Your Heart Out by Dayna Ingram A breakneck tale of kick-ass, wise-ass, sexy-ass lesbians and ZOMBIES, Eat Your Heart Out opens on what promises to be another tediously annoying day …

31 July 2011 – 2:24 PM | By AX | Posted in BrazenHead, fiction, Lethe Press, novella, short stories, spec fic, The Abode of Bliss, Turkey | Comments (0)

divers notes

Multiple Lambda Award-winning writer Michael Thomas Ford—most notorious, perhaps, for the essay collection Alec Baldwin Doesn’t Love Me and its sequels and the multi-volume Jane Austen-as-vampire spectacular commencing with Jane Bites Back, but treasured as well for many other books of fiction and non-fiction for adults and young people—has this to say about The Abode …

20 March 2011 – 5:14 PM | By AX | Posted in fiction, Lethe Press, SF, short stories, The Abode of Bliss, Turkey | Comments (0)