PW Star!

Mon 30 Jul 2018 - Filed under: Not a Journal., Claire G. Coleman, starred review| Posted by: Gavin

Sliding in here from sunny yet muggy San Diego to share my delight that Claire G. Coleman’s forthcoming debut novel Terra Nullius has received a starred review from Publishers Weekly:

“Coleman stuns with this imaginative, astounding debut about colonization. . . . Coleman universalizes the experiences of invaded indigenous populations in a way that has seldom been achieved. Artfully combining elements of literary, historical, and speculative fiction, this allegorical novel is surprising and unforgettable.”
— Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)

Read the full review here and follow the author on twitter here.

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Last Invisible Valley Event!

Fri 27 Jul 2018 - Filed under: Not a Journal.| Posted by: Gavin

Tomorrow evening at 7 p. m. at the Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle, Austin Woerner will conclude his successful and fun US tour celebrating the publication of his translation of Su Wei’s first novel, The Invisible Valley.

After this event Austin will be returning to teach at Duke Kunshan University in Shanghai and won’t be back here for a bit so don’t miss this chance to hear more about the ins and outs of translating this huge, immersive perfect summer read!

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About Air Logic

Fri 27 Jul 2018 - Filed under: Not a Journal.| Posted by: Gavin

And we’ve just added a little bit of actual description about Air Logic . . .

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Tender a WFA Finalist!

Thu 26 Jul 2018 - Filed under: Not a Journal., Awards, Sofia Samatar| Posted by: Gavin

I am delighted to see that among all the happy finalists for this year’s World Fantasy Awards is Sofia Samatar’s debut collection Tender. 

If you’re curious and would like to read a few of the stories from this wide-ranging collection, here are just a few:

How to Get Back to the Forest

An Account of the Land of Witches

Meet Me in Iram

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Read, Share, Eat Better Sandwiches

Wed 25 Jul 2018 - Filed under: Not a Journal.| Posted by: Gavin

Today in celebration of LCRW38 going out into the world — which includes the latest iteration of Nicole Kimberling’s cooking column, “Comfort Food” — we’re putting one of my favorite columns by Nicole online, How to Seduce a Vegetarian from LCRW 29.

It’s not that I’m looking to seduce any vegetarians, vegans, or anyone else, rather it has some top tips for making your sandwiches better, a subject very close to my heart. Enjoy!

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How to Seduce a Vegetarian

Wed 25 Jul 2018 - Filed under: Free Stuff to Read, cooking, LCRW 29, Nicole Kimberling| Posted by: Gavin

This is LCRW Cooking Columnist Nicole Kimberling’s third column for LCRW and was originally published in LCRW 29. Check out the first, Sending All Your Love—In the Form of Brownies Through the Mail, and the second, Feeding Strays.

Step One: Find Likely Candidate

In years past, finding a vegetarian to seduce was more difficult than it is today. Back when vegetarianism existed mainly as a symptom of some sort of religion, a VILF-hunter could go weeks, even years, without making contact with a likely target.
Fortunately, today things are different. Now, even straight men can be found abstaining from plate-loads of surf, turf and sky. So pick a non-meat eater that you like the look of and invite him or her to hang out sometime, like at a park or something. Choose a venue that allows you to bring your own food. This is key because to claim the love of vegetarians you must prove that you can, and will, feed them.

With vegetarians so varied and bountiful, one would think that ensnaring one for a night, or perhaps even a lifetime of passion would be easy.

This is not so.

For the vegetarian is, by nature, likely to be choosy and have what we in the world of professional cooking call, “standards.” You might have to try a few different leads before one takes the bait. In this case the bait will be a cold sandwich, which you will prepare and then present to your vegetarian, proving that you have the goods to make him or her happy.

Read more

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A Breathtaking Reading Experience

Tue 24 Jul 2018 - Filed under: Not a Journal., Abbey Mei Otis, starred review| Posted by: Gavin

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Clarion

Mon 23 Jul 2018 - Filed under: Not a Journal., Clarion, Kelly Link| Posted by: Gavin

Following Christopher Barzak, Holly Black, Mat Johnson, and Kij Johnson’s instructor weeks, Kelly and I are off to teach the final two weeks at the Clarion Writers Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop in San Diego, CA. Clarion, like their lovely Seattle neighbor, Clarion West, is great fun and quite an intense amount of work between the critique workshops in the morning, the one-on-one conferences in the afternoon, and reading the stories for the next day’s workshops. See you in 2 weeks!

 

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Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 38

Thu 19 Jul 2018 - Filed under: LCRW| Posted by: Gavin

2018. 62 pages. Ebook ISBN: 9781618731487

Something to dive into. Sneaked out into the world in July 2018. New fave stories by new fave writers.

In LCRW 39 your neighbor’s secrets are exposed. Yours too, sorry. Whereas in LCRW 38 it is the pure fictive product poured upon the page, dried in the sun, and brought to you by the lovely people at your local indie bookstore.

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A. B. Young’s story “Vain Beasts” is one of 12 winners of the $2,000 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. The prize includes publication in The PEN America Best Debut Short Stories anthology published by Catapult.

Reviews

“I was very impressed the last time I saw a Jo­anna Ruocco story in Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, and her latest such, “Stone, Paper, Stone”, in #38, does not disappoint, either. . . . Also in LCRW is S. Woodson’s first sale, “Lime and the One Human”, and it’s rather a delight. . . .”
— Rich Horton, Locus

“Read it slowly and savor the language. . . . The fiction concludes with “Lime and the One Human” by S. Woodson -+- Lime is a fairy who ruins a plant in the garden of a human named A.E. Erskine so that she could make herself a dress. He captures her and asks her to grant him a wish (mainly to restore the plant). She is defiant at first. But as she gets to know Erskine things change. This was a delightful little ‘fairy story’ which was a lot of fun to read. This is S. Woodson’s first story in print. It’s so good, I will put her on my short list for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer next year.” — SF Revu

Table and Chairs of Contents

fiction

Ellen Rhudy, “The Remaining”
James L. Cambias, “René Descartes and the Cross of Blood”
Emily B. Cataneo, “Bears at Parties”
A. B. Young, “Vain Beasts”
Sarah Monette, “The Oracle of Abbey Road (Blackbird Singing in the Dead of Night)”
Joanna Ruocco, “Stone, Paper, Stone”
S. Woodson, “Lime and the One Human”

nonfiction

Nicole Kimberling, “Comfort Food”
About the Authors

poetry

Neile Graham, “About God(s)(desses), Parts 1 & 2”

cover

Joamette Gill, “Metsona”

About

This is Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet issue number 38, July 2018. ISSN 1544-7782. Ebook ISBN: 9781618731487. Text: Bodoni Book. Titles: Imprint MT Shadow. LCRW is (usually) published in June and November by Small Beer Press, 150 Pleasant St., #306, Easthampton, MA 01027 · smallbeerpress @ gmail.com · smallbeerpress.com/lcrw. Printed at Paradise Copies (paradisecopies.com · 413-585-0414). Subscriptions: $20/4 issues (see page 45 of the print issue for options). Please make checks to Small Beer Press. Library & institutional subscriptions are available through EBSCO. LCRW is available as a DRM-free ebook through weightlessbooks.com, &c.

This issue is the first to be available at Moon Palace Books (3032 Minnehaha Ave., Minneapolis MN 55406 · moonpalacebooks.com) yay & thanks, mighty indie booksellers!

Contents © 2018 the authors. All rights reserved. Cover illustration “Metsona” © 2018 by Joamette Gill (joamettegil.com). Thank you, generous authors and artists.

In among these dark days we celebrate Juan Martinez’s Best Worst American: Stories winning the inaugural Neukom Institute Literary Arts Debut Award for Speculative Fiction. Yay! Also: Jeffrey Ford’s A Natural History of Hell: Stories was a finalist for the Ohioana Award and Sofia Samatar’s Tender: Stories is a finalist for the British Fantasy Award.

Please send submissions (we are always especially seeking weird and interesting work from women and writers of color), guideline requests, &c. to the address above. Peace.

About these Authors

James L. Cambias is a science fiction writer and game designer. Originally from New Orleans, he was educated at the University of Chicago and lives in western Massachusetts. His novels include A Darkling Sea, Corsair, and the forthcoming Arkad’s World. His short stories have appeared in Nature, F&SF, and several anthologies. He is a partner in Zygote Games and his most recent game (for Pinnacle) is Weird War I.

Emily B. Cataneo is a writer and freelance journalist currently based in Raleigh, NC. Her fiction has appeared in magazines such as Nightmare Magazine, The Dark, and Interfictions. She has reported for venues NPR and the Financial Times on three different continents. She is graduate of the Odyssey and Clarion Writers Workshops, and is currently pursuing her MFA at North Carolina State University. She likes hats, crafts, history, and dogs.

Joamette Gil is a queer Afro-Cuban cartoonist best known for her work as P&M Press, publisher of Power & Magic: The Queer Witch Comics Anthology, Power & Magic: Immortal Souls, and Heartwood: Non-binary Tales of Sylvan Fantasy.

Neile Graham has a trophy (which came attached to a World Fantasy Award) for her work writer-wrangling for the Clarion West Writers Workshop. She also has a well-autographed Meritorious 2nd Banana from the Locus Awards. In addition to collecting these objects, she has two new poetry collections coming out in 2019: The Walk She Takes and Cedar and Stone. She is ecstatic about all of these things and delighted to be here in LCRW.

Nicole Kimberling lives in Bellingham, Washington, with her wife, Dawn Kimberling. She is a professional cook and amateur life coach. Her first novel, Turnskin, won the Lambda Award and she is also the author of the Bellingham Mystery Series.

Sarah Monette and Katherine Addison are the same person. She grew up in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, one of the three secret cities of the Manhattan Project. She has a B.A. from Case Western Reserve and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Despite being summa cum laude, none of her degrees is of the slightest use to her in either her day job or her writing, which she feels is an object lesson for us all. She currently lives near Madison, Wisconsin. Her novels include Melusine, The Virtu, The Mirador, Corambis, and Locus Award winner The Goblin Emperor (published as Katherine Addison). She has two short story collections, The Bone Key and Somewhere Beneath Those Waves, and has co-written three novels and a number of short stories with Elizabeth Bear, the most recent of which is An Apprentice to Elves. Twitter: @pennyvixen; Patreon: pennyvixen

Ellen Rhudy (ellenrhudy.com | @ilifi) lives in Philadelphia, where she works as an instructional designer. If you ever happen to be in Eastern Europe she recommends you visit Mavrovo—it is a town of real charm and not easily forgotten. Her work has previously appeared in LCRW no. 15 and is forthcoming in cream city review.

Joanna Ruocco is the author of several books, including, most recently, Dan, The Week, and Field Glass, written with Joanna Howard. She is an assistant professor in the English Department at Wake Forest University.

S. Woodson lives in Virginia and is a graduate of the Hollins University M.A. in Children’s Literature program. She’s written a handful of Twine games, but this is her first story in print. You can find her on Twitter @Citrushistrix.

A. B. Young learned to tell stories from playing with Barbies. She learned to tell stories well at California College of the Arts. She now teaches kids how to read stories and write essays about them as a high school Media and English teacher. This is her first published story.

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Abbey Mei Otis Tour Dates

Thu 19 Jul 2018 - Filed under: Not a Journal., Abbey Mei Otis, readings| Posted by: Gavin

There will be Minneapolis and more dates added later in autumn but for the moment here are the dates for Abbey Mei Otis’s tour next month behind her debut Alien Virus Love Disaster.

I saw Abbey read at our AWP reading with Juan Martinez and many others in Tampa earlier this year and she was a standout so I highly recommend putting on your jetpack and getting to one of these fab indie stores to see her:

Tue., 8/14, 7 p.m.
Mac’s Backs-Books on Coventry
1820 Coventry Road, Cleveland Heights, OH 44118
216.321.2665

Wed. 8/15 7:30 p.m.
Two Dollar Radio HQ
1124 Parsons Ave., Columbus, OH 43206
614-725-1505

Thu 8/16/18, 7 p.m.
Literati Bookstore
124 E Washington, Ann Arbor, MI 48104
734.585.5567

Tues. 8/21/18, 7 p.m.
Scuppernong Books
304 S. Elm St.
Greensboro, NC 27401

Wed. 8/22/18 7 p.m.
Flyleaf Books
752 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd., Chapel Hill, NC 27514
919-942-7373

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Claire G. Coleman on the Book Podcast

Tue 17 Jul 2018 - Filed under: Not a Journal., Claire G. Coleman| Posted by: Gavin

Here’s fascinating interview with Claire G. Coleman to whet your appetite for her forthcoming debut Terra Nullius:

Terra Nullius is a work of speculative fiction written by Claire Coleman, a writer from Western Australia who identifies with the South Coast Noongar people. It is a story exactly as we know it. No speculation required. A story so familiar, until it’s not.

Read more about Claire Coleman here and listen to the interview here.

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In Other Lands in Teen Vogue

Thu 12 Jul 2018 - Filed under: Not a Journal., Sarah Rees Brennan| Posted by: Gavin

Teen Vogue are such a strong voice for justice these days so it is a huge thrill to see In Other Lands on this list: “10 Queer Reads Perfect for Any Time of the Year:”

“Unbeknownst to the majority of mankind, a hidden magical realm populated by fairies, elves, and even mermaids touches the human world. In order to cross over into it, a human must be among the select few who can see the wall straddling both worlds. Snarky and friendless, Elliot unexpectedly discovers he is one of these lucky ones and once he passes over into the magical Borderlands, he kicks off on an adventure that ultimately changes the course of his life, and the world, forever. Told in irreverent, rolicking prose, readers follow Elliot as he enrolls in magical school, befriends humans and magical beings alike, explores his budding bisexuality, and comes of age, finally adding emotional maturity and poise to his considerable smarts. While Elliot’s character can be cluelessly obnoxious when he uses snark and sarcasm as a defense mechanism, he always reads as wholly authentic, a young man learning his place in a quickly changing landscape. Sarah Rees Brennan knows how to engage readers with her fresh prose style and a innovative new take on the fantasy novel.”

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Upcoming

Sat 7 Jul 2018 - Filed under: Not a Journal., Abbey Mei Otis| Posted by: Gavin

Curious about Abbey Mei Otis’s debut collection, Alien Virus Love Disaster, coming next month?

Good news: you can read two of the stories right now and two more will be published online on storied sites we admire very much: one on Electric Lit and one on Guernica — Check out “Poet Wrestling with the Possibility She’s Living in a Simulation.”

Abbey’s work is the pure product and right of this very moment. Here are the stories that are available right now: Blood, Blood on Strange Horizons & Sweetheart on Tor.com. You can preorder Alien Virus Love Disaster here, it comes out August 14.

 

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British Fantasy Awards

Fri 6 Jul 2018 - Filed under: Not a Journal., Awards, Sofia Samatar| Posted by: Gavin

I’m delighted to see Sofia Samatar’s collection Tender is one of five very strong finalists for the British Fantasy Award for Best Collection. It is always an honor to have a book in the running for an award, so yay, and thanks British Fantasy Awards for some good news!

Best Collection
· Norse Mythology, by Neil Gaiman (Bloomsbury)
· Strange Weather, by Joe Hill (Gollancz)
· Tanith by Choice, by Tanith Lee (Newcon Press)
· Tender: Stories, by Sofia Samatar (Small Beer Press)
· You Will Grow Into Them, by Malcolm Devlin (Unsung Stories)

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Get Free Advance Copies An Agent of Utopia on LibraryThing

Fri 6 Jul 2018 - Filed under: Not a Journal., Andy Duncan, Free books| Posted by: Gavin

You, you, you and fourteen other lucky winners will be holding free advance uncorrected copies of Andy Duncan’s forthcoming An Agent of Utopia on LibraryThing.

US-only this time since these are print copies, sorry international readers, just can’t do the $20 per book mailing 🙁

Enter here!

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Readercon 2018

Thu 5 Jul 2018 - Filed under: Not a Journal., John Schoffstall| Posted by: Gavin

We will be at Readercon in Quincy, MA, next weekend and hope to see you there. While neither Kelly nor I are on panels, we will have a couple of tables in the Dealers Room — nope, not at this time ready for that but by July 13th I expect I will be! — and many, many good people will be there. One of those people will be John Schoffstall, whose first novel, Half-Witch, comes out next week so we will find some way to celebrate that!

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Indie Next & EWGC

Tue 3 Jul 2018 - Filed under: Not a Journal.| Posted by: Gavin

Next Tuesday I’m hoping to participate in the Early Words Galley Chat and talk to any librarians (and everyone else) on Twitter who have (or might) read Claire G. Coleman’s Terra Nullius and nominate it for LibraryReads list. The nomination deadline for September titles is July 20. Librarians, please do consider this title!

Before that, though, comes the Indie Next deadline: which is July 9th for September titles. It’s been a while since we had an Indie Next title*, maybe too long! Indie booksellers, please consider this title for a nomination!

Here is it on Edelweiss.

* Book Sense Picks:

The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories
John Kessel

Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead
A. DeNiro

Magic for Beginners
Kelly Link

* Book Sense Notable Books:

Mothers & Other Monsters
Maureen F. McHugh

Perfect Circle
Sean Stewart

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Abbey Mei Otis on the Weekly Reader & in Locus

Mon 2 Jul 2018 - Filed under: Not a Journal.| Posted by: Gavin

In the run up to the publication of Abbey Mei Otis’s debut Alien Virus Love Disaster Abbey is interviewed this week by Dakota VanLinden on KMSU’s Weekly Reader.

And the collection gets a lovely big review by Gary K. Wolfe in Locus:

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