So it's been some months since the last time I posted here. The last post mentioned mentioned how Christopher Golden had been nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for his story in my anthology, What the #@&% is That? So I guess it's somewhat fitting that all these months later I am posting that "Little Widow" by Maria Davhana Headley--a story she ( Read more... )

Huge congratulations go out to Christopher Golden, whose story "The Bad Hour" in the What the #@&% is That? anthology--coedited by myself and John Joseph Adams--has made the final ballot fpr Super Achievement in Short Fiction for the 2016 Bram Stoker Awards. On a personal note, this marks the first time a story from one of my anthologies has made ( Read more... )

So in my life, I can only recall being approached for blurb twice. Both times this actually happened with one of RoF's current Nebula nominees, Christopher Kastensmidt.  I had actually forgotten about both times, but as you might imagine, I've recently been swapping a number of emails with Chris.  During the course of these emails, something ( Read more... )

The 2010 Nebula Award Nominations have been announced, and we here at Realms of Fantasy are thrilled that two stories have made the final ballot. In the short story category, we have “How Interesting: A Tiny Man” by Harlan Ellison. And in the novelette category, we have “The Fortuitous Meeting of Gerard van Oost and Oludara” by Christopher ( Read more... )

Today is Release Day for Ken Scholes' Lamentation.  While I'm happy for Ken, today is also very cool for yours truly.  The first time Ken wrote a story in the world of the Named Lands, it happened in a short story called "Of Metal Men and Scarlet Thread and Dancing With the Sunrise," a story that I pulled from the RoF slush back in 2005.  We ( Read more... )

This is the first book I've read in 2009.  I've decided to keep a count this year, something I've actually never done before.  I was going to keep count last year, but decided it was a bad year to keep track of books read because I was so engrossed in reading all the stories ever published in Realms of Fantasy (btw, I haven't forgotten about those ( Read more... )

So I knew the date was coming up soon, though not precisely when.  I meant to crunch the numbers to figure out exactly when it would be, but it kept slipping my mind.  But I finally remembered to do it today.  So, as of 12 days ago I've now been at Realms of Fantasy longer than my predecessor.  Where does the time go?  So of the three people to ( Read more... )

So last night I went to the Tor.com party in NYC.  There were some free ARCs there, including Ken Scholes' Lamentation.  Of course I snagged a copy, and having heard (and confirmed) I was given props in the acknowledgments page, I immediately proceeded to flip to the kind scribbles of one Mr. Scholes.

So here is what Ken kindly wrote to me and ( Read more... )

I'm always pleased when Shawna takes one of my slush survivors.  So yesterday I was pleased eight times over when Shawna took eight such stories.  I noted all sorts of milestones and such in yesteday's post, but now that I have a little distance yesterday's excitement, I noticed a few other things:

1) The numbers: Every so often the topic of  ( Read more... )

Hey Folks,

Shawna has made her latest picks.  Take a look and see why I'm sooooooooooo thrilled:

--"Super.Family" by Ian Donald Keeling (previous contributor)

--"The Unknown God" by Ann Leckie (slush survivor!)

--"Father Pena's Last Dance" by Hannah Strom-Martin (slush survivor!  first pro sale! And we now have our first story for our Halloween issue! ( Read more... )