Category Archives: Lethe Press

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)

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)

march writing update 2

It has been confirmed. This coming August, Lethe Press will issue The Abode of Bliss: ten stories for Adam, a book I wrote a very long time ago. The back-cover précis: Explaining himself to himself and to the man he loves, Ziya tells Adam the stories of his life: A bilingual childhood and youth in …

7 March 2011 – 1:34 PM | By AX | Posted in fiction, Lethe Press, short stories, The Abode of Bliss, Turkey | Comments (0)

More Design News

My second book design of 2011 has gone to press: Crossing and Other Plays by C.E. Gatchalian. In process for Lethe Press’s Tincture imprint, Blame It on the Raging Hormones, a novel by Nathan Goh, coming in February. Coming from Lethe in March, the latest title from legendary writer of homoerotic historical fiction Erastes, Mere …

28 January 2011 – 3:50 PM | By AX | Posted in design, Lethe Press | Comments (0)

New Design

First design of the new year: Wonder, a novel by Dan Boyle, now available from Lethe Press.

18 January 2011 – 3:06 PM | By AX | Posted in fiction, Lethe Press | Comments (0)

Happy New Year

I was pleased to learn, on the evening of the last day of the old year, that a little story I wrote last fall has been accepted for publication—another excuse to pop open the bubbly! “The Arab’s Prayer” will appear electronically in the second-anniversary issue of Christopher Fletcher’s ’zine M-Brane SF (#24), due around the …

1 January 2011 – 7:59 AM | By AX | Posted in BrazenHead, fiction, Lethe Press, novella, SF, short stories, spec fic | Comments (0)