Category Archives: spec fic

demon child

Of the four anthologies Steve Berman is currently putting together for Prime Books, I was to begin with only confident of producing a story for one: Handsome Devil (despite what the announcement on the far side of that first link says, the book was represented to me as concerning incubi). And so I did, “The …

8 November 2012 – 11:15 PM | By AX | Posted in fantasy, short stories, spec fic | Comments (0)

news from the subcontinent

It’s just been confirmed that “Two Dead Men,” second-written of my tales from the subcontinent, will appear in the Fall 2012 issue of Icarus alongside a new story by that capricious sodomite Hal Duncan and who knows what all other wonders. Apparently not (yet) the editor/publisher, who a week ago was still scouting to fill the …

6 August 2012 – 1:07 AM | By AX | Posted in short stories, spec fic, Tales from the Subcontinent | 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)

publication day

And so today, my mumblety-fifth birthday (but more worthy of commemoration as Jane and Charlotte’s eleventh), You Will Meet a Stranger Far from Home officially begins its journey into the great world. (The print edition, that is. E-books will become available in a matter of weeks, I expect.) Fare well, little book of wonder stories, …

14 July 2012 – 2:04 AM | By AX | Posted in short stories, spec fic, You Will Meet a Stranger… | 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)

out of the bronze age

I am very pleased to report my second sale to that estimable online ’zine dedicated to spec-fic stories of awkward lengths, GigaNotoSaurus. What an excellent message to find when I surfaced from an eighteen-hour bout of copyediting. Editor Ann Leckie has requested small but consequential revisions to the MS but is confident enough of my …

27 June 2012 – 11:34 AM | By AX | Posted in fantasy, fiction, historical fantasy, novelette, 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)

notice

Publishers Weekly, trade journal of the US book publishing industry, reviewed You Will Meet a Stranger Far from Home in the 14 May issue. Nice review, much appreciated. Although I can’t figure out how the reviewer got the impression all the stories were linked in any manner other than being written by the same guy. …

15 May 2012 – 5:55 AM | By AX | Posted in BrazenHead, fiction, short stories, spec fic, work in progress, 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)