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My “Tour of the Abattoir” audio column for Larry Santoro’s Tales to Terrify horror podcast skipped the month of September so that I could finish novel edits for The Black Fire Concerto, coming very soon as an e-book from the fine madmen at Black Gate.

UPDATE 10/17: Claire Cooney’s response to this meme can be found here, and there’s a roundup by Rose Lemberg of several more here. UPDATE 10/11: Juliette Wade’s response to this meme can be found here. UPDATE 10/10: Nicole Kornher-Stace’s response to this meme can be

I’ve also updated the Clockwork Phoenix guidelines. Though this too is still a bit of a work in progress.

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Reposted from Update #12 of the Clockwork Phoenix Kickstarter. Hi, folks! I hope you’re having a good weekend and getting to enjoy some of the Olympics. We’re battening down for the final stretch. There’s only 10 days left and we’ve still got a long way

…which was the only place where it could be found until I reposted it just now. I’m not even certain if Christina or I still have copies. GODBODY By Christina Sng and Mike Allen Shark soldiers descend the Great One’s gullet, teeth painted for battle,

This handsome new hardcover short story collection from British puckster (prank-star?) Ian Watson…. …contains the wacky novelette that he and I co-wrote, “Dee-Dee and the Dumpy Dancers,” accurately described by The Guardian as a “bizarre vision … featuring aerial ballet and alien turkeys.”

A new issue of Goblin Fruit is always a reason to celebrate. And I’m delighted that this issue’s guest artist is none other than longtime Mythic Delirium contributor Paula Friedlander. Goblin Fruit co-editor Amal El-Mohtar is also a contributor to the latest issue of Mythic