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The tour for my novel The Black Fire Concerto is done (for now!) but I ain’t done with book events! I’m thrilled to be taking part in the Charm City Spec reading series at the Ivy Bookshop in Baltimore, MD, where I’ll be sharing an

Better late than never for me to “start spreading the news!” As of today I’m setting out on my first-ever mini-book tour in support of my newly-re-released novel The Black Fire Concerto!” I’ll be making a handful of stops in the great urban northeast over

First, an excerpt from the “Acknowledgements” essay I wrote for the new edition of my novel The Black Fire Concerto. The Black Fire Concerto began its life as a novelette called “The Reed Player.” This story combined two elements that did not obviously belong together:

I began 2024 with no notion that my first published novel was going to get a makeover. Lo, and behold, that day has arrived! My sidearms and sorcery secondary world zombie apocalypse novel The Black Fire Concerto spreads its black fire curse across the world

Second chances like this one don’t come around often in the publishing world. We’re less than three weeks away from the re-release of my first novel, The Black Fire Concerto. Because I’ve not had other novels published in the meantime, it’s still my first novel,

November 23, starting at 6 p.m. EST Register at Eventbrite for this free celebration CROSSPOSTED FROM C.S.E. COONEY’S BLOG Dear friends of Speculative Fiction, Indie Presses, the Weird, the Wild, and the Wonderous, greetings! It is the 26th Anniversary of Mythic Delirium Books, a micropress

2023 has been a spectacular, extraordinarily special and extremely stressful year. A whole lot happened during the past five months, with events moving faster than the speed of a blog. First, it’s high time I shared Ye Olde Annual Award Eligibility Post, both for the

Prior to this post, you’ll notice a proliferation of double posts that were simultaneously shared on both the Mythic Delirium site and this one. That’s because my home blog here had a functional “simulpost to Twitter” feature, which doesn’t work anymore because of Elon Musk-driven

The dual launch for The Twice-Drowned Saint by C.S.E. Cooney and The Collected Enchantments went really well for Anita and I, despite not having a lot of time to get ready for Boskone thanks to accumulated real-world obligations. It was great to revisit our friends

With everything I’ve had going on — starting a new career, readying a celebration of my little publishing company’s 25th anniversary, it’s nice to be reminded that I’m a writer, as well. In that spirit, I’m pleased to announce two new short story sales (that