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JoSelle Vanderhooft’s anthology Steam Powered: Lesbian Steampunk Stories, which contains my novelette “Sleepless, Burning Life,” is now available in e-book Nook format at Barnes & Noble. (It was already available in Kindle format on Amazon.)

Fantastique Unfettered Issue 3, which contains a lengthy interview with me about poetry, fiction, editing, personal stuff, the works, is now available at Amazon.com. (It was already available at Barnes & Noble.)

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Tim Mullins’ cover art for Mythic Delirium 25.

And here’s another illustration by Paula Friedlander, that nestles between Melissa Frederick’s poem “Venus Crossing the Sun” and Mari Ness’ poem “Raven Singing.”

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Daniel Trout’s moody illustration for Florence Major’s poem “Joseph Carey Merrick.”

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Paula Friedlander’s illustration for Jessica Wick’s poem “Nobody’s Song.”

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Today ends up being a double-poem day.

My poem “Surviving Wonderland” popped up today at the new issue of Stone Telling, which just went live. It’s a delicious looking issue, focused on myth in storytelling, with contributions by Yoon Ha Lee, Delia Sherman, Amal El-Mohtar, Sonya Taaffe, Erik Amundsen, Shira Lipkin and many others. The issue also contains a creepy recording I made to go with my poem, and a few thoughts I shared on the poem in a round table discussion. There’s also a review I wrote of the poems (and just the poems) in Not One of Us 45.

And, coincidentally, my poem “Heart’s Delight” (a Claire-dare poem prompted by Nicole Kornher-Stace) appears in Not One of Us 46, which is being mailed to subscribers this week. There’s also work from Patricia Russo, Rose Lemberg, Sonya Taaffe, Erik Amundsen and more. If it’s not on its way to you, here’s where you go to fix that.

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Paula Friedlander’s illustration for Sonya Taaffe’s poem “The Description of a Wish.”

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Just a reminder to folks that you have until Oct. 1 (this coming Saturday) if you want to submit poems to be considered for Mythic Delirium 26. Guidelines are here.

I haven’t been as ruthlessly efficient this reading period as I was with the last one. To my knowledge I’ve read every submission sent in from Aug. 1 through the first week of September, but I haven’t made decisions on every single one, which is why some of you haven’t gotten responses yet; so, my apologies for that. I hope to have answers to everyone within a couple weeks after the submission window closes.

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The third issue of the new zine Fantastique Unfettered has just become available, and it features a long interview with me about all sorts of writing-and-editing related things.

Much to my delight, this isn’t the end of my interaction with Fantastique Unfettered. The next issue will contain my poems “Binary” (on which the cover art is based,) “Seed the Earth, Burn the Sky,” “Sisyphus Crawls” and my sf novelette “Stolen Souls.” Woo-hoo!

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My poem “Carrington’s Ferry,” the newest in my Disturbing Muses series, has sold to Strange Horizons. Good news to start the day with!

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I received word this morning that my poem “The Vigil,” dedicated to Nicole Kornher-Stace (and one of the last unsold poems in the “Claire-dare” series) has sold to Amal El-Mohtar and Jessica Wick at Goblin Fruit, and will appear in their Fall 2012 issue. Most excellent.

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