Category Archives: novella

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)

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)

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)

freshly hatched

All new and…well, not shiny, new and matte!   AX has a novella to read. Aside, that is, from the BrazenHead slushpile. A minor note: Through some eminently forgiveable oversight, the acknowledgments I meant to append to The New People were left out. So here they are: Acknowledgments Thanks to Betty Harrington for a sensitive, …

18 June 2011 – 1:30 PM | By AX | Posted in novella, Rahab, SF, The New People | Comments (0)

glimpsed in the wild

In its native environment, on the virtual shelves at barnesandnoble.com, the rare and elusive M-Brane Double: Evidence of its passage has also been discovered in the Amazon basin: And the Double has been sighted in pampered captivity, on the St Louis, MO, deck of M-Brane publisher Chris Fletcher and cover artist Jeff Lund (Jeff, let …

9 June 2011 – 7:33 PM | By AX | Posted in fiction, novella, Rahab, SF, The New People | Comments (0)

M-Brane SF Double #1

Today was meant to be the release date for M-Brane SF Double #1, partly in honor of the birthday of Jeff Lund, who created the nifty cover art and who puts up with M-Brane publisher Chris Fletcher on a daily basis. Alas, the coincidence of a tiny glitch in the cover layout (not Jeff’s responsibility) …

31 May 2011 – 6:47 PM | By AX | Posted in fiction, first look, novella, Rahab, SF, spec fic, The New People | Comments (0)

tomorrow week

The M-Brane SF Double, comprising (as has been said before) my short novel The New People bound tête-bêche with Brandon Bell’s Elegant Threat, is very nearly a real thing—an object to be held in one’s hands, caressed, fondled…read. M-Brane mastermind Chris Fletcher just released an image of the almost final wraparound cover: You still have …

23 May 2011 – 12:52 AM | By AX | Posted in fiction, novella, Rahab, SF, spec fic, The New People | Comments (0)

pub date approacheth

Over at the M-Brane SF blog, Chris Fletcher has announced a firm publication date for the M-Brane SF Double: 31 May 2011. To entice you into being among the early readers of this startling little book, Chris offers a massive trove of free electronic-form M-Brane bling to the first hundred pre-orderers, including a lifetime subscription …

1 May 2011 – 9:30 PM | By AX | Posted in fiction, novella, Rahab, SF, spec fic, The New People | Comments (0)

blurb

The inimitable and astonishing Sandra McDonald, author of the luscious collection Diana Comet and Other Improbable Tales, the science-fiction trilogy commencing with The Outback Stars, and a couple of other wonderful books I shouldn’t talk about because they’re issued under false names, has provided a lovely blurb for The New People. The New People is …

27 February 2011 – 5:33 PM | By AX | Posted in fiction, novella, Rahab, SF, spec fic, The New People | Comments (2)

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)