Strange Horizons today released an all-poetry issue, complete with an extensive two part podcast, and I’m honored that my new poem “The Paper Boy” - the only new poem I produced last year - gets to be part of it. (You can read it here.)

Prompted by my buddy Dominik Parisien, this is a poem distilled from years covering the crime beat. I’ll share a ( Read more... )

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I’m pleased to announce that we’ve expanded this website’s sample platter of what’s available in our publications by just a bit more this week.

From Clockwork Phoenix 4, we’re offering Shira Lipkin’s joyful headtrip of a tale, “Happy Hour at the Tooth and Claw.” Compare her story with Ken Schneyer’s from the same volume, and you’ll have all the ( Read more... )

Last year this time I was ill and bedridden. This year, I’m simply inconvenienced thanks to a kaput computer. I consider this a step up.

In fact I was so sick at this time in 2012 that my year-end summary didn’t turn up until mid-January. At least 2013 lets me be a bit more on the ball.

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Better late than never, as they say. Over at the Mythic Delirium Books website, I'm kicking off a week of blog entries devoted to Clockwork Phoenix 4 with sights and sounds from the launch reading for the anthology. It took place Friday, July 12, 2013 at ReaderCon in Burlington, Mass. Contributors A.C. Wise, Gemma Files, Nicole Kornher-Stace, ( Read more... )

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The folks at Podcastle have adapted a second story from Clockwork Phoenix 4 to audio - this time it’s “The Wanderer King” by Alisa Alering. Click here to have a listen.

A sample from the text:


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