FICTIONISTA
The table of contents has been revealed for the next Tesseracts anthology, #19. Happy to say this one includes my short bit of happiness and light, “A Week in the Superlife.”
Very pleased with this piece, as it has very little (if any) death and destruction. Sometimes the world collapses at the personal level, and all there is left to do after a day saving people is head to your local dive bar and sing Billie Holiday karaoke.
Toasted Cake podzine today released my reading of Jessica Reisman’s short story “Boneshadow.” As always, I’m honored to have been asked to read such swell works by swell authors for such a swell audio zine. “Bone Shadow” first appeared in Phantom Drift.
Direct link to the mp3 of Toasted Cake #145: Boneshadow by Jessica Reisman, read by Alex C. Renwick
Awesome to announce the forthcoming appearance of my story “A Peripheral Vision Sort of Friend” in the Blurring the Line anthology. A study on the compelling nature of nihilism and self destruction in the face of instinctive self preservation and the desire for better circumstances. Inspired by at least a dozen versions of the Susquehanna River region’s Suscon Screamer folklore.
Due out late 2015.
Hellyeah! Exile’s NEW CANADIAN NOIR is a thing! Includes my Montreal noir short story “Three-Step Program.” I hereby dub this one Mo-No, a thrilling new frontier in pulp fiction.
From the release:
Old vines and older grudges tangle in the Okanagan Valley. An elderly widow, eking out a living collecting detritus, seeks to avenge the murder of her friend. A love-weary security guard clashes with bounty hunters. An ursine meth-cooker faces even stranger creatures on the frozen tundra of Nunavut. As the dead walk and the living despair, a private detective unravels a bizarre mystery. In The Exile Book of New Canadian Noir, the whole spectrum of the noir esthetic is explored: from its hardboiled home in crime fiction to its grim forays into horror, fantasy, and surrealism…
It looks like my hoof-princess sea-witch warzone story “Over a Narrow Sea” has surfaced from the archives to appear in this week’s issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Head over there to check it out, or read it directly on the site.
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This Tuesday @7pm, drop by Beulahland & hear me read my latest Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine story, “Lovely Young Losers.”
Noir… at a bar… in Portland. It’s all you need, baby.
July 1, 2014 @ 7pm
Beulahland: 118 NE 28th Avenue in Portland, Oregon
I’ll be in gorgeous San Francisco this year for Litquake, a “nine-day literary spectacle for booklovers, complete with cutting-edge panel discussions, unique cross-media events, and hundreds of readings.” Come hear me read alongside Tim Pratt and Claude Lalumière as we celebrate the recent release of SUPER STORIES OF HEROES AND VILLAINS, now out from Tachyon.
From the Litquake site:
“Whether it’s poets reciting in a cathedral, authors discussing science versus religion in a library, or novelists reading in a beekeeping supply store, the goal remains the same: whet a broad range of literary appetites, present the literary fare in a variety of traditional and unlikely venues, and make it vivid, real, and entertaining. Now grown to the largest independent literary festival on the West Coast. . . “
Come help celebrate the launch of the supernew superanthology SUPER STORIES OF HEROES & VILLAINS! I’ll be reading from my story “Pinktastic and the End of the World” this Thursday, August 22 at 7pm at the Cedar Hills Powell’s Books here in sunny Portland.
From the Powell’s Site:
Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd. Beaverton, OR
Discover the origins of caped crusaders and their ingenious nemeses, uncover their terrible secrets, and witness their victories and defeats. With hard-hitting stories from masters of the genre and fresh new talents, Super Stories of Heroes and Villains (Tachyon Publications) is a vastly adventurous anthology collecting some of the most exciting and original superhero stories of the past few decades. Editor Claude Lalumière and contributors Camille Alexa (Push of the Sky) and Chris Roberson (The Dragon’s Nine Sons) will be on hand to share their stories of heroes and villains.
See you there!
Salty Salt Sue met Fat Johnny Little at a card game so hot it burned a girl, the sultry Louisiana night dampening her clothes, making her tingle from the waist down. She sat next to Vinnie DeLuca, who bore a passing resemblance to Dillinger—his pencil moustache and fancy cigar and straight flush minus one—with her knee crooked over the arm of his chair like she could keep her legs anchored solid that way, keep everything from going south. . .
My story “Hardly Never in Vegas” is out today in Nautilus Magazine. Incredible illustrations by Angie Wang.
My eensy-weensy backwards-unfolding fable of love and death is out today! “Three Times” officially sees the light of day alongside a bevy of other tales of beauty and strangeness in CLOCKWORK PHOENIX 4.
Kindle Price $4.99
Canada $5.07
UK £3.28
Watch Weightless Books for e-book editions in alternate formats.
Trade Paperback $15.95 (Discounted at some stores)
Amazon.com
Amazon.ca
Amazon.com.uk
Barnes & Noble
Powell’s
Indiebound
Don’t see it on the shelves at your local store? Ask for it.
If you want to get a signed copy direct from the editor, go here.
