Realms of Fantasy: A Retrospective
I don't blog here much anymore. Alas, there is very little free time in my life these days and over the years this LiveJournal has seen less and less love and affection from yours truly. But for a long time it did have one specific use that kept it relevant: I would post my blog entries on my retrospective series for Realms of Fantasy.
Well that series ended a while back but I'm happy to be posting about my RoF Retrospective series one more time as I tell you that the book Realms of Fantasy: A Retrospective is now available for purchase in both paperback and Kindle editions. As those you familiar with this blog and the retrospective series know, back when I worked for this magazine I assembled a complete set of RoF and decided to read every story because I decided that was the only sensible (or perhaps insane) thing to do. From there I blogged about every last issue and story (about 100 issues and 600 stories) over the course of several years. Now Warren Lapine, of my former publishers for Realms of Fantasy, has collected all of these entries into book and put it out through his publishing company.
And as a super happy bonus, we have recruited none other than Shawna McCarthy to write the foreword. Shawna is the founding editor of the magazine, the only person to be involved with every last issue, and she also happens to be the person who first hired me onto the magazine. This project would not feel right without her participation, so I'm thrilled to have her aboard.
While each entry is still availabe for free on my blog, many of these entries have been updated and/or revised, so I consider this book the author's preferred edition. Shawna's foreword and my introduction are also both exclusive to the book. Each entry also comes with that cover to that specific issue, and I've been told by Warren that in paperback form this feature will be in color. If you're fan of Realms of Fantasy, this book marks the perfect posthumous chapter to this wonderful magazine as you get to explore each story through the eyes of one of the magazine's editors.
Workong on it was always a labor of love, but I'm glad that Warren approached me to publish this as a book. I hope those are interested enjoy it.