upstart-crow just announced that she's sold two anthologies -- Steam Powered II and Femmes Fatales! Shiny ( Read more... )

Heads up -- Fantasy Book Critic is giving away two copies of Clockwork Phoenix 3! They also have ken_schneyer 's story Lineage posted online for free; Lineage is in CP3, so it's a first-one's-free :).

ObNote: CP3 does contain a story by loud homophobe John C Wright, too, so if that makes it no-go for you, you are warned.

(ETA: Since it looks like it's not ( Read more... )

For anyone who missed it -- after my previous post, John Ottinger III apologized, both on his blog and in comments here.Where I stand now: I am impressed with the sincerity of his reply, and with the fact that he's not making excuses, and I hope he'll continue to follow these conversations and (hopefully) find new and interesting authors to review ( Read more... )

ETA2: Two important notes:
1. johnottinger has apologized in comments here as well as on his blog. While I agree that one does not always get a cookie, I'd like to point this out as an apology that is clear and sincere in tone, without any of the hedges we've seen too often in this sort of discussion ( Read more... )