Category Archives: novella

dispatch from the unholy head of brass

The third novella from BrazenHead, The Grigori by Joshua Skye, has gone to press. The book-book should start showing up for sale in the usual on-line places within a week or so, while the e-book will take a little longer. Mr. A lurks in the derelict grand hotel, a haunt of junkies and their dealers, …

16 November 2012 – 11:46 PM | By AX | Posted in BrazenHead, fantasy, novella | Comments (0)

Time Will Be! declares the Head of Brass

An unveiling: The cover of the third BrazenHead novella, due this November, The Grigori by Joshua Skye. The Grigori is a chilling dark fantasy set in contemporary Pittsburgh, where a good cop and a teenage runaway encounter something, someone, awe-inspiring and terrible in the ruins of a derelict hotel. After reading Josh’s haunting tale, you’ll …

1 August 2012 – 10:24 AM | By AX | Posted in BrazenHead, fantasy, novella, spec fic | Comments (0)

Time Is! Proclaims the Head of Brass

A welcome: BrazenHead’s second title, the deceptively simple, intensely peculiar post-apocalyptic fantasia Green Thumb by Tom Cardamone, is now available in print, soon in e-book. To whet your appetite, three reviews: Publishers Weekly, 11 June 2012 Benito Corral Reviews, 27 June 2012 Out in Print Queer Book Reviews, 30 July 2012 Further praise from luminaries …

31 July 2012 – 11:34 AM | By AX | Posted in BrazenHead, fiction, novella, SF, spec fic | 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)

the occult head of brass presents

Green Thumb by Tom Cardamone, second in the BrazenHead series of exceptional novellas of queer speculative fiction. Mutability blooms in the Florida Keys after the Red War. The genie boxes created King Pelicans with single human hands to rule the ruins of half-drowned Miami…and other, stranger persons. Slavers roam the deep waters offshore, taking captives …

28 March 2012 – 1:01 PM | By AX | Posted in BrazenHead, novella | 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)

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)