Category Archives: spec fic

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 (0)

housecleaning

A good deal later, I have finally brought the designs portfolio up to date. Also reordered it in reverse-chronological order so you don’t have to scroll way down to see what’s new. What’s new? Eleven books designed, laid out, and sent to press over the fall, winter, and into early spring. (There were twelve, actually, …

4 April 2012 – 7:21 AM | By AX | Posted in design, fantasy, fiction, short stories, spec fic, The Unexpected Thing | 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)

praise, belated and advance

These are lovely.   Over the weekend, I encountered a thoughtful and complimentary 1 February review of Steve Berman’s  anthology of inspirational stories for queer teens Speaking Out, released last September. On the GayYA.org blog (a resource you should bookmark right fast), Lydia Sharp writes:     And as much as I hate to play …

15 February 2012 – 11:38 AM | By AX | Posted in fiction, novelette, SF, short stories, spec fic, You Will Meet a Stranger… | Comments (0)

table of contents

Formal announcement: My next book will be a collection of short(ish) fiction that teeters along the edges between several genres. Lethe Press will issue You Will Meet a Stranger Far from Home: wonder stories on 14 July 2012. Yes, my birthday, so what, the publisher’s a dear, indulgent friend. From the preface: My first fiction …

2 February 2012 – 5:46 PM | By AX | Posted in fiction, novelette, short stories, spec fic, 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)

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)

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)

the year that was

Well, it’s a tradition, I suppose, the year-end sum up, hardly subverted by being posted on the first day of the new year instead of the last of the old. So. In 2011, I published two books, a marvel of unprecedented proportion. The New People (and its companion-between-the-covers, Brandon Bell’s Elegant Threat) made little impression …

1 January 2012 – 1:17 AM | By AX | Posted in BrazenHead, fiction, novelette, SF, short stories, spec fic, The Abode of Bliss, The New People, The Unexpected Thing | Comments (0)