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I’m pleased to be able to show off the cover artwork for Mythic Delirium 26. Not long now at all until it’s introduced into the postal system bloodstream. If you want to subscribe or need to renew, now is a good time, click here to

Three months later than I originally planned, I’ve finished converting Clockwork Phoenix 2: More Tales of Beauty and Strangeness to e-book format. It’s available now on Amazon for Kindle and will soon be available in EPUB and MOBI format at Weightless Books. Between reacquainting myself

Here’s Paula Friedlander‘s illustration for G.O. Clark‘s “Lost in the Static.” For even more of Paula’s work, here she is at artistrising.com, Cafe Press, and Etsy. This ends the preview for this week. You can see the issue’s complete table of contents here. If you

Here’s Daniel Trout’s illustration for “The Forest King” by Alexandra Seidel. (Intriguingly, this is a case of art begetting art begetting art; Alexa’s poem was in turn inspired by this painting by Anita, also included in the issue in a b&w version.) Don’t want to

Here’s Paula Friedlander‘s illustration for “Tryptich: an Offering of Fruit” by Dan Campbell. Full table of contents viewable here. If you don’t have a subscription and want one, or you need to renew, click here.

I’m pleased to be able to announce the official table of contents of the next issue of Mythic Delirium. Myths and Delusions • Editorial • 2 Plutoid • John Philip Johnson • 3 Lost In the Static • G.O. Clark • 5 Grant Proposal •

I’m proud to be able to announce that two stories from Clockwork Phoenix 2: More Tales of Beauty and Strangeness are going to be included in David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer’s Year’s Best Fantasy 10, forthcoming from Tor.com. They are the novelette that opens

So I kicked off the month with both a new issue of Mythic Delirium 25 out in print the first volume of Clockwork Phoenix re-released as an e-book. I started out making Clockwork Phoenix directly available for Kindle, but if you would rather support a

I made my first venture into the much-hyped e-book rush this past week with a new edition of the first volume in my best-known anthology series, Clockwork Phoenix. It’s fascinating to be able to see results in real-time in a way you can’t with print

I’ve posted two new featured poems on the Mythic Delirium website. The first comes from New York Times bestseller (and to think, I knew her when, hee) Catherynne M. Valente, along with audio of her reading this challenging new piece. The poem appears in our