Celebrating the NPR Best of 2018

Tue 27 Nov 2018 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , , | Posted by: Gavin

Half-WitchToday NPR posted their endlessly fascinating year-end book concierge and I am elated to find that two of our titles are included.

But first, have you tried it? There are 32 filters and I am going to try every one of them, but not right now, as I have to ship ship ship books from our recent sale — so yay and thanks to everyone who ordered and I hope you enjoy the books!

But, look: who doesn’t need a Rather Short book sometimes? And then winter is great for Rather Long books. There are 3 or 4 books in the Comics I want to read and I love that Shobha Roa’s excellent Girls Burn Brighter is the first title that pops up in the Eye-Opening Reads. I could go on (and point out faves such as Sofia and Del Samatar’s Monster Portraits) but, really, NPR have set you up here. Hope you enjoy playing with it as much as I do.

The two Small Beer novels that are included are:

John Schoffstall, Half-Witch

Terra Nullius: A NovelClaire G. Coleman, Terra Nullius

I posted two tweets after finding out these two books were on the list. They are quite understated because if I tried to encapsulate my joy in discovery I would have exploded the 280-character limit and perhaps my laptop, too.

While I tend to think the books we publish are some of the best I read each year, I never know how the world will take them. Some books land well, some don’t. Some find their readership over years, not months. It is at once a joy, a vindication, a relief, and an inspiration to see these books read and put forward — among hundreds of other great books — as some of the best of the year.

We will raise a glass tonight to these authors and to all the authors who send us or let us publish their books. Thanks again, Claire and John, hope you celebrate, too!


Viral Swedes

Tue 27 Nov 2018 - Filed under: Not a Journal.| Posted by: Gavin

I think this sentence smashing together two recent news stories is the most-read sentence I’ve written, at least so far. I wrote 2-3 versions in, say a minute, read it out loud, left the full stop/period off on purpose, and fired it off. Closed the twitter tab on Firefox, did some task at work. Checked on it five minutes later and maybe 3 people had liked it and I figured, ok, as per usual I thought that might have been more popular, but I guess not.

I finished up whatever work I was doing on October 25th (besides despairing about the USA and the world, which is an everyday rather than a specific day thing), drove home, and walked over to pick up our kid from school.

After dinner I looked at twitter and that tweet had 1.6k likes, which is something like 10 times more than 99.9% of everything posted and right then and there (after marveling over it and telling Kelly about it) I began to really understand how twitter makes money. Millions of people write on it for . . . free. I don’t support websites that ask writers to write for free and I think Facebook is a sucking deathhole that wants to kill the web and extract money from as many people as possible, but I so enjoy Twitter: I follow people I know, and many more that I don’t, an unwieldy slowly built-up group of writers, musicians, artists, booksellers, journalists, and many random people that I don’t know and can’t really remember why I follow them. I drop and add people (sometimes the same ones) all the time. I like the account that posts antique fruit paintings but I can’t take most of the satirical ones. Sometimes I use the phone app — although it really is the mindkiller — and sometimes I use the chronological bookmark someone made (thank you!). I usually open it at least once a day — although I spend a lot less time on my laptop during the weekend so sometimes I’ll happily skip a day or two — and see what’s going on. And all those smart, funny people are right there, writing things that will spread out from wherever they are and maybe — as the tweet below did for apparently 800,000+ people — pop up on twitter for me to enjoy. Lucky me.


4-Day Sale

Fri 23 Nov 2018 - Filed under: Not a Journal., | Posted by: Gavin

What it says on the tin: 4-Day Sale: 25-80% off regular prices. Prices include shipping — so please order 2-100 titles!


2018 by the Numbers

Mon 19 Nov 2018 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , , , , , , , | Posted by: Gavin


Before this week disappears I wanted to post about the year in Small Beer. The year out in the world is very dark although I refuse to be pessimistic about the present and the future. I believe everyone rises together and that working with that in mind is the way to live. One of the ways I can deal with all the crap right wing antihumanists are throwing at us around the world — besides going to protests, calling politicians, tweeting in desperation, lying on the floor, donating to nonprofits, and listening to audiobooks instead of the news — is to keep making things. Some of those things go out into the world, some of them are breakfast, some of them are ephemeral toys me and my kid make. The biggest things I make, with Kelly and the work of many other people, come out from Small Beer Press.

Every year I want to look back and see that we’ve published stories I haven’t read before — seems like a good place to throw in a reminder that we’re always looking for work by women and writers of color; our submissions are always open and we still ask for paper subs because there are two of us and we want to read everything.

So, in 2018 we published 2 issues of our million-year-old zine — still the best zine named after Winston Churchill’s Cobble-Hill Brooklynite mother, Jennie Jerome — LCRW and 6 diverse and fascinating books. To break down the books a little:

7 starred reviews — feel free to grab the illo above and put it into the hands of Netflix, review editors, &c.
5 US debuts
3 novels, 3 short story collections
3 women, 3 men
1 translation
2 NPR Best Books of 2018
1 Washington Post Best of the Year
plus 4 reprints:
— Sarah Rees Brennan, In Other Lands, 3rd printing, June 2018
— Kij Johnson, At the Mouth of the River of Bees, 5th printing, June 2018
— Kelly Link, Stranger Things Happen, 9th printing, November 2018
— Naomi Mitchison, Travel Light, short run reprint, November 2018
Somewhat related: 1 MacArthur Fellowship (so we had a sale — sort of still going)

The books:

Ambiguity Machines & Other Stories by Vandana Singh
“Magnificent.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review), Top 10 SF, Fantasy & Horror Spring 2018
“hopeful, enriching” — Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal

The Invisible Valley: a novel by Su Wei, translated by Austin Woerner
“pleasantly picaresque” — Publishers Weekly
“complex, colorful characters” — Kirkus Reviews
“shocking and gritty” — Library Journal
“lushly atmospheric and haunting novel” — Booklist

Half-Witch: a novel by John Schoffstall
NPR Best Books of 2018
“Genuinely thrilling.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“a marvel of storytelling” — Amal El-Mohtar, New York Times Book Review

Alien Virus Love Disaster: Stories by Abbey Mei Otis
“A breathtaking reading experience.” — Booklist (starred review)
“An exciting voice. . . . dreamy but with an intense physicality.” — Washington Post “5 best science fiction and fantasy novels of 2018”

Terra Nullius: a novel by Claire G. Coleman
NPR Best Books of 2018
Stella Prize finalist
“Imaginative, astounding.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Highly recommended.” — Library Journal (starred review)

An Agent of Utopia: New & Selected Stories by Andy Duncan
“Zany and kaleidoscopic.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Evocative, playful, and deeply accomplished.” — Booklist (starred review)

The zine

fiction: 9 women, 3 men
nonfiction: 1 woman
poetry: 3 women, 2 men
2 first publications

So far next year, besides helping with the ongoing progressive revolution, we’re planning on making many Small Beer things including 2 (or maybe 3) issues of LCRW and at least 3 books:

1 debut
1 novel, 2 short story collections
2 women, 1 man
4 Reprints
— Laurie J. Marks, Fire Logic, January 2019
— Laurie J. Marks, Earth Logic, February 2019
— Sofia Samatar, Tender: Stories, trade paperback, April 2019
— Sarah Rees Brennan, an, In Other Lands, trade paperback, September 2019

And one or both of us are planning to be at Boskone (Boston, February), AWP (Portland, OR, March), WisCon (Madison, WI, May), Readercon (Boston, July), Brooklyn Book Festival (September), & maybe more, who can say?

We published a lot of things to read this year and we know at least 2 people (us!) loved them. Hope you get a chance to read and enjoy them, too.


Holiday Deadlines 2018

Thu 15 Nov 2018 - Filed under: Not a Journal., | Posted by: Gavin

Boom! Holiday Shipping Deadlines! Our office will be closed from December 21 – January 2, 2019. It is unlikely we will ship over that period. Weightless Books is there for you: 24/7/365.

tl;dr order now

Here are the last order dates for Small Beer Press — which, in case you’re thinking about waiting until the last minute to order some Vandana Shivas are about the same as every other biz in the USA. Dates for international shipping are also here.

All orders include free first class (LCRW) or media mail (books) shipping in the USA.

But: Media Mail parcels are the last to go on trucks. If the truck is full, Media Mail does not go out until the next truck. And if that one’s full, too, . . . you get the idea. So, if you’d like to guarantee pre-holiday arrival, please add Priority Mail:

Domestic Mail Class/Product Deadline
 Media Mail (estimate, not guaranteed) Dec. 14
 First Class Mail (LCRW only) Dec. 20
 Priority Mail Dec. 20
 Priority Mail Express Dec. 22

Order a book today!

Just like to read a book, don’t care about a ding or two?


A Star Sooner

Thu 15 Nov 2018 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , | Posted by: Gavin

The first trade review is in for Sarah Pinsker’s debut short story collection, Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea and it is a star from Publishers Weekly! Next year’s going to be all Sarah, all the time: her debut novel Song for a New Day comes out later in the year from Ace. What fun! For the moment, here’s the review:

This beautiful, complex debut collection assembles some of Nebula winner Pinsker’s best stories into a twisting journey that is by turns wild, melancholic, and unsettling. In the opening story, an injured farmer adjusts to living with a cybernetic arm that thinks it is a stretch of road in Colorado. “In Joy, Knowing the Abyss Behind” tells the story of a woman piecing together her husband’s enigmatic past after a stroke leaves him speechless. “No Lonely Seafarer” pits a stablehand against a pair of sirens as he attempts to save his town from its restless sailors. In all of Pinsker’s tales, humans grapple with their relationships to technology, the supernatural, and one another. Some, such as Ms. Clay in “Wind Will Rove,” are trying to navigate the space between technology as preservation and technology as destruction. Others, such as Kima in “Remembery Day,” rely on technology to live their lives. The stories are enhanced by a diverse cast of LGBTQ and nonwhite characters. Pinsker’s captivating compendium reveals stories that are as delightful and surprising to pore through as they are introspective and elegiac.


Andy Duncan, An Agent of Utopia

Wed 14 Nov 2018 - Filed under: Not a Journal., | Posted by: Gavin

An Agent of Utopia cover - click to view full sizeA year or so ago when I scheduled the release date of An Agent of Utopia I didn’t realize it would coincide with one of the most stressful days of the year but now that the mid-term elections are mostly done (ha), here’s something I’ve been looking forward to writing on the release of Andy Duncan’s second North American/third collection:

Andy Duncan is one of those people in the background helping everyone along. He’s the hardest working man in show business! He’s a great teacher. He’s lively on social media and at conventions and conferences. He has been a local news reporter, written for trucking magazines, and has a fun book on Alabama Curiosities. Should you get a chance to hear him read you should take it as he is a fabulous storyteller. One year at the World Fantasy Awards everyone sang him a song. How many people has that happened to? One.

Enough chat? Listen to Jonathan Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe chat with Andy on Episode 340(!) of the Coode Street Podcast.

Andy Duncan is not, he’ll happily admit, the fastest writer in the world and for a couple of years I kind of thought this book might be the one that got away. 

In March 2012 Kelly was the Guest of Honor at the ICFA conference in Florida and she and I chatted to Andy and Sydney and had a grand old time. (Sydney/ICFA arranged for babysitting so that I could go to the banquet: now that’s looking after people with kids in tow!) A few days later Andy messaged me on Facebook — perhaps the worst way (involving words) that I can be contacted; I’d be happy if FB disappeared completely — and mentions Beluthahatchie and Other Stories is out of print and maybe we could talk . . . so I emailed him and with a click and a zoom, eighteen months fly by and we have a signed contract. 

Eighteen months? I’m slow with contracts (I have to find time to stop and think about every word), but eighteen months is far longer than most of our contracts. Who can say why. Weren’t we all filled with joy and delight all through 2012, 2013, and 2014? Hmm. So at last it was signed, a check delivered, and I added the book to our schedule. Then . . . I pushed it back, and back, and eventually I moved it to the theoretical category until one happy day in August 2016 while we were visiting family in Scotland Andy emailed the title story and with that, suddenly, the book was done. 

An Agent of Utopia is a wide-ranging collection and, as Matthew Keeley notes in his Tor.com review, “The title story of the new collection is, oddly enough, perhaps the least characteristic in the collection.” He goes on to say “An Agent of Utopia must rank as one of this year’s best collections. It’s on bookstore shelves now and deserves to be on your shelves soon” a lovely sentiment I agree with. If you can’t get Andy Duncan to come and spin a dozen tales just for you, pick up the book instead.

Read a story:

Unique Chicken Goes in Reverse
Slow as a Bullet
Close Encounters

 


Air Logic on Edelweiss + Updated Cover

Tue 13 Nov 2018 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , | Posted by: Gavin

Air Logic cover Laurie J. Marks’s final Elemental Logic novel will be going out to reviewers by the end of the month — reviewers who like electronic versions can go right now this very instant directly to Edelweiss.

And: Here’s Kathleen Jennings’s near-final cover for Air Logic. This series just knocks me over every time I go back to it. If it’s new to you, you have a huge immersive compulsively readable story to dig into. As Delia Sherman says,

“If you’ve been looking for an exciting, thoughtful, queer, diverse, politically aware, complex, timely, beautifully written saga of a fascinating world and set of characters, here it is.”

The ebooks of the first 3 books are available now and the reprint dates (at last!) for the first two books, Fire Logic and Earth Logic, are below.

Reviewers, booksellers, librarians, lend me your ears! We are going to make a fuss about this series and this book!

Book 1 Fire Logic — January 22, 2019 — Edelweiss

Book 2 Earth Logic — February 19, 2019 — Edelweiss

Book 3 Water Logic — Edelweiss

Book 4 Air Logic —June 2019 — Edelweiss

And, fingers crossed, Laurie will be at WisCon to launch it!


Vote? Vote!

Tue 6 Nov 2018 - Filed under: Not a Journal.| Posted by: Gavin

Hey readers in the USA, please go out and vote today!


An Agent of Utopia

Tue 6 Nov 2018 - Filed under: Books| Posted by: Gavin

trade paper · 288 pages · $17 · 9781618731531 | ebook · 9781618731548

Signed copies available.

Locus Award finalist

“What might well be the collection of the year.”
— Gary K. Wolfe, Locus, Recommended Reading List

“A wildly varied and consistently brilliant collection.”
— B&N, Favorite Science Fiction & Fantasy Books of 2018

Interviews:

Andy Duncan has shamelessly told flat-out made-up stories for twenty years, and this book right here is the evidence.

In the tales gathered in An Agent of Utopia: New and Selected Stories you will meet a Utopian assassin, an aging UFO contactee, a haunted Mohawk steelworker, a time-traveling prizefighter, a yam-eating Zombie, and a child who loves a frizzled chicken—not to mention Harry Houdini, Zora Neale Hurston, Sir Thomas More, and all their fellow travelers riding the steamer-trunk imagination of a unique twenty-first-century fabulist.

From the Florida folktales of the perennial prison escapee Daddy Mention and the dangerous gator-man Uncle Monday that inspired “Daddy Mention and the Monday Skull” (first published in Mojo: Conjure Stories, edited by Nalo Hopkinson) to the imagined story of boxer and historical bit player Jess Willard in World Fantasy Award winner “The Pottawatomie Giant” (first published on SciFiction), or the Ozark UFO contactees in Nebula Award winner “Close Encounters” to Flannery O’Connor’s childhood celebrity in Shirley Jackson Award finalist “Unique Chicken Goes in Reverse” (first published in Eclipse) Duncan’s historical juxtapositions come alive on the page as if this Southern storyteller was sitting on a rocking chair stretching the truth out beside you.

Duncan rounds out his explorations of the nooks and crannies of history in two irresistible new stories, “Joe Diabo’s Farewell” — in which a gang of Native American ironworkers in 1920s New York City go to a show — and the title story, “An Agent of Utopia” — where he reveals what really (might have) happened to Thomas More’s head.

Table of Contents

An Agent of Utopia
Joe Diabo’s Farewell
Beluthahatchie
The Map to the Homes of the Stars
The Pottawatomie Giant (World Fantasy Award winner)
Senator Bilbo
The Big Rock Candy Mountain
Daddy Mention and the Monday Skull
Zora and the Zombie
Unique Chicken Goes in Reverse
Slow as a Bullet
Close Encounters (Nebula Award Winner)

Advance Praise & Reviews of Andy Duncan’s Stories

“A sui generis author of speculative fiction, Andy Duncan gives us a beautiful new collection of stories in An Agent of Utopia. Hopping from Thomas More’s England to Flannery O’Connor’s South to Hell, Duncan’s charmingly colorful stories blur the lines between history, alternate history and the subtly fantastic.” — Angela Matano, Best Holiday Books, Campus Circle

“Andy Duncan – in what might well be the collection of the year – invoked everyone from Sir Thomas More to Zora Neal Hurston in An Agent of Utopia, which also brought together some of his most evocative tales about the hidden corners of Americana, from an afterlife for Delta blues singers to the travails of an aging UFO abductee.” — Gary K. Wolfe, Locus

“Andy Duncan writes SF in a distinctive voice–big ideas hidden inside stories that read like tall tales told on the porch. But this collection shows that he has multiple strings to his bow.” — Benjamin Wald, SF Revu

“An essential introduction to one of the great tellers of fantastic tall tales.” — Graham Sleight (Ten books of the year, Locus)

“Andy Duncan’s charming and affable stories abound with hidden depths, and An Agent of Utopia is no different, with a dozen stories, including a pair of originals that are generating a lot of buzz.” — Tim Pratt, Locus

“Andy Duncan’s first North American collection since 2000, An Agent of Utopia (Small Beer) mixed new, recent, and older material in a book that showcased why he is a treasure.”
— Jonathan Strahan, Locus

“Reading Duncan can feel like being taken on a tour of your own dusty attic and being shown treasures you didn’t know you had.” — Chicago Tribune

“Must rank as one of this year’s best collections. It’s on bookstore shelves now and deserves to be on your shelves soon.” — Tor.com

“Whatever the topic, all of Duncan’s fictions are united by an evocative, playful, and deeply accomplished storytelling style. Highly recommended for fans of Kelly Link or other slipstream writers, and for any reader looking to lose themselves in an engaging and fun reading experience.”—Booklist (starred review)

“Zany and kaleidoscopic, the 12 stories in Duncan’s third collection draw on Southern traditions of tall tales and span time periods, continents, and the realm of human imagination to create an intricate new mythology of figures from history, literature, and American folklore. . . . This is a raucous, fantastical treat.”
— Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“There are few contemporary writers in any genre as immediately identifiable by voice alone as Andy Duncan. . . . with his wry sense of absurdity. . . . ‘The Map to the Homes of the Stars’ describes a pair of teen friends who cruise around listening to Aerosmith or the Beatles while mapping out the homes of girls as though they were Hollywood celebrities, until one of them unexpectedly escapes with one of the girls, leaving his friend, years later, to muse on the map his own life has followed. It’s not really fantastic at all, but it feels like the most personal tale in the book, and it captures, as movingly as anything in this brilliant collection, the distance between the dreams and legends we inherit and those that we make for ourselves.”
— Gary K. Wolfe, Locus

“A rare book that blends fun with fury and tomfoolery with social consciousness.”
— Kirkus Reviews

“Andy Duncan is a writer’s SFF writer—his short fiction has earned him a Nebula Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Award, and three World Fantasy Awards and won him endless praise from genre giants like Gardner Dozois, Nancy Kress, Michael Swanwick, and Jonathan Strahan. Now, Small Beer press has assembled his most noteworthy stories—along with two new tales—into a wildly varied and consistently brilliant collection drawing from tall tales and legends of old, and featuring a Utopian assassin, an aging UFO contactee, a haunted Mohawk steelworker, a yam-eating zombie, Harry Houdini, Thomas More, and more.”
— Joel Cunningham, B&N, Favorite Science Fiction & Fantasy Books of 2018

“An Agent of Utopia is all the proof you’ll need to see that Andy Duncan is one of the very best short story writers in Science Fiction, Fantasy, or anywhere else. It’s a sure bet that you’re holding in your hand the best story collection of the year.”
— Jeffrey Ford, author of A Natural History of Hell

“Duncan will get you to bust a gut laughing. He’ll make you teary, and put a shiver up your spine. But most importantly, his stories ask questions you might not know how to answer, and leave you looking inside yourself long after you’ve read the last line of his singing prose.”
— Lara Elena Donnelly, author of Amberlough

“Andy Duncan’s unique voice shines through in his third collection. You’ve not read him yet? Shame on you! Go out now and buy An Agent of Utopia: New and Selected Stories. You’ll thank me.”
— Ellen Datlow, award-winning editor.

“Andy Duncan is one of the most hilarious and poignant writers of short stories that we have. He effortlessly forges dreamlike and nightmarish tales with wit and wisdom that rivals Mark Twain.”
— Christopher Barzak, author of Wonders of the Invisible World

“Andy Duncan is the Andy Duncan of Andy Duncanland, and we are all lucky to have access to that fabled locale via the portal between his brain and these pages. The stories in this collection drip with magic and mayhem and time and place and personhood, along with the most creative cussing this side of anywhere. Each one is a microcosm, a moment from our own history, real or imagined, passed along to us by a master storyteller.”
— Sarah Pinsker

“Andy Duncan is the best storyteller of our generation. Every page is breathtaking, down-to-earth magical.” — Ellen Klages

“Andy Duncan’s work bursts on the tongue. Every word is a rhythm, perfectly shaped to thrum in the throat, to twang in the mouth, to dance on beats of breath. His dialogue drums savory dialects. His prose is a brass instrument, trumpeting stories like songs. Like blues, like jazz, his stories are written to an American tempo, her checkered history, her bright syncopation, her Southern storytellers and conjuring women. He is a musician, magician, mythmaker, a raconteur of marvels.”
— Rachel Swirsky

“Mesmerizing.” — Ed Park, Los Angeles Times

“Duncan shows an hallucinatory grasp of idiom, of place-setting tact, an actor’s clarity at the rendering of voice.” — John Clute, Washington Post Book World

“There’s no good name for what Andy Duncan does. . . . Duncan’s imagination runs through that fertile ground previously tilled by artists such as Harlan Ellison, Ray Bradbury, Shirley Jackson and Poe.” — Mark Hughes Cobb, The Tuscaloosa News

“Duncan’s short stories are marvels of setting and diction.” — Michael Berry, San Francisco Chronicle Book Review

“Virtually unclassifiable . . . as powerful as any from Richard Powers or Rick Moody, T. C. Boyle or Steve Erickson … a bizarre blend of Faulkner and Hemingway with touches of Tennessee Williams and Kurt Vonnegut.” — Gary S. Potter, Charleston Post and Courier

“You’re likely to be laughing one moment, in awe the next and perhaps horrified before the tale is done. Few authors can pull off such delicate tonal balances in a short story, although William Faulkner achieved it more than once … Will satisfy any reader brave enough to handle the strange places Duncan visits, the places between disturbing fantasy and ruthless reality.” — John Mark Eberhart, The Kansas City Star

“Stunningly beautiful.” — Sean Melican, BookPage

“Duncan is often most comfortable when working in the rich tradition of the American folk tale, crafting shrewd and funny stories of the intersection between the modern world and folk traditions and superstitions, particularly those of Appalachia and the American South, but … he also has other strings to his bow, and a surprising depth of range as a stylist. … Whichever critical pigeonhole you try to push Andy Duncan into, he remains one of the best and most original writers in the business.” — Gardner Dozois

“Wonderful.” — Nancy Kress · “Wonderfully demented.” — Michael Swanwick · “Excellent.” — Rich Horton · “Superlative.” — Paula Guran · “Superb.” — Jonathan Strahan · Brilliant.” — Mary Anne Mohanraj · “Genius.” — Nick Gevers · “Irresistible.” — Ernest Hogan · “Knockout.” — Tim Pratt · “Powerful.” — Fiona Kelleghan · “Amazing.” — Patrick O’Leary · “Unique.” — Steven H. Silver

“Duncan has amassed a record of superior work out of all proportion to mere number of pages gathered between boards. He feels like an essential, towering part of the fantastika landscape, his every story eagerly awaited.” — Asimov’s Science Fiction

“Fantasist and folklorist, he takes premises that are not made up, or at least are not made up by Andy Duncan . . . and creates new and strange stories out of them, which nevertheless tell the truth about the way things happened.” — Christopher Cobb, Strange Horizons

“Duncan gives us the oldest form of fantasy, the legend, or folk tale: not just the childish folk legend of fireside entertainment but the one that has taken on enough mythic resonance to seem real.”  — Sherwood Smith, author of King’s Shield

“A new writer who, like Dylan, gathers up traditional materials and twists them into something new.” — Paul McAuley, author of Austral

About the Author

Andy Duncan’s short fiction has been honored with the Nebula, Sturgeon, and multiple World Fantasy awards. A native of Batesburg, SC, Duncan has been a newspaper reporter, a trucking-magazine editor, a bookseller, a student-media adviser, and, since 2008, a member of the writing faculty at Frostburg State University in the mountains of western Maryland, where he lives with his wife, Sydney.

 


World Fantasy 2018

Fri 2 Nov 2018 - Filed under: Not a Journal., | Posted by: Gavin

Down in Baltimore the 2018 World Fantasy Convention is in full swing this weekend and I’m delighted to say that more than a handful of Small Beer authors and their books are there. Chris Logan Edwards of Tigereyes Books has the following titles in stock (along with all the other goodies that he carries!) and many of those authors will be stopping by to sign:

Nathan Ballingrud, North American Lake Monsters
John Crowley, The Chemical Wedding
Andy Duncan, An Agent of Utopia
Jeffrey Ford, A Natural History of Hell
Eileen Gunn, Questionable Practices
Kij Johnson, At the Mouth of the River of Bees and The River Bank
Christopher Rowe, Telling the Map
Delia Sherman, Young Woman in a Garden