by Lucy A. Snyder | Oct 23, 2016 | Columns, Horror World News
On October 17th, Jolly Fish Press announced that it has ceased book production and will stop doing business entirely at the end of the month. JFP was a trade fiction and nonfiction publisher founded in 2012. Some of their horror/dark fantasy authors included L.K....
by Lucy A. Snyder | Oct 16, 2016 | Columns
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing: Traitor to the Nation: Vol. 1: The Pox Party tells the story of Octavian, a young slave boy who’s a living experiment conducted by the Novanglian College of Lucidity. Octavian’s life as an experiment began when the head of the...
by Lucy A. Snyder | Oct 15, 2016 | Columns, Horror World News
A new, diverse steampunk anthology titled Steampunk Universe is currently being crowdfunded on Kickstarter. The campaign has been live for a little over a week and it’s 45% funded. Edited by Sarah Hans, the anthology will feature the work of Ken Liu, Jody Lynn...
by Lucy A. Snyder | Oct 12, 2016 | Columns
My poem “The Scientist’s Paramour” is out in the new October/November double issue of Asimov’s Science Fiction. The editors have billed this as their “slightly spooky” issue: The magazine is jam-packed with stories about ghosts,...
by Lucy A. Snyder | Oct 12, 2016 | Columns
Most avid fiction fans have probably read plenty of fix-ups, but they might not know the term for this type of book. A fix-up is a collection of short fiction in which the stories are linked so that the whole thing works as a coherent piece of long fiction. In other...
by Lucy A. Snyder | Oct 11, 2016 | Columns, Horror World News
I’ll have a brand-new Jessie Shimmer story in the anthology Shadowed Souls, which will be released on November 1st. Co-edited by Jim Butcher and Kerrie L. Hughes, the book also features stories by Seanan McGuire, Kevin J. Anderson, Rob Thurman, Tanya Huff, Kat...