Whee!

Tue 14 Aug 2018 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , , | Posted by: Gavin

Alien Virus Love Disaster cover - click to view full sizeAnd off it goes! Today we are publishing a fantastic first book of stories, Alien Virus Love Disaster by Abbey Mei Otis. This book tore into our hearts and then knocked our heads off. This is contemporary fiction through an sf&f lens. Things drop out the sky, there are aliens, there are crappy jobs, there are families doing what it takes to not lose the family house. Booklist gave it a starred review (you can read that here), Everdeen Mason liked it (as per the Washington Post Book World), and Brit Mandelo just reviewed it (“It’s a collection that will keep your heart half in your throat and half in your toes, and I recommend it”) yesterday on Tor.com.

At AWP this March Abbey was part of a huge group reading with Juan Martinez and a number of Black Ocean and Third Man Books poets and writers at a bar in Tampa, FL, and she was amazing. Being a young and enthusiastic author Abbey is on tour starting tonight. Later in autumn she’ll be reading at Malaprop’s and then — if all goes well — Moon Palace in Minneapolis. Don’t miss her!

You can read 3 stories now:

The title story — as recommended by Dan Chaon — on Electric Lit’s Recommended Reading.
“Blood, Blood” on Strange Horizons.
“Sweetheart” on Tor.com.
Prefer print? Read “Rich People” in the new issue of Tin House.

So here’s your chance to catch an author at the start of it all. Get ye to a bookstore and see Abbey Mei Otis’s August 2018 Debut Tour

Tue., 8/14
7 p.m. reading & signing
Mac’s Backs-Books, 1820 Coventry Road, Cleveland Heights, OH 4411 · 216.321.2665 · Facebook

Wed. 8/15
7:30 p.m. reading & signing
Two Dollar Radio HQ, 1124 Parsons Ave., Columbus, OH 43206 · 614-725-1505 · Facebook
Thu 8/16
7 p.m. In conversation with Sam Krowchenko
Literati Bookstore, 124 E Washington, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 · 734.585.5567 · Facebook
Tues. 8/21
7 p.m. reading & signing
Scuppernong Books, 304 S. Elm St. Greensboro, NC 27401 · Facebook
Wed. 8/22
7 p.m. reading & signing
Flyleaf Books, 752 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd., Chapel Hill, NC 27514
Sun., 9/30
3 p.m. In conversation with Nathan Ballingrud
Malaprop’s, 55 Haywood St., Asheville, NC 28801