FICTIONISTA
There are only a few days left to get in on the incredible Kickstarter action with full frontal geeky goodness in the form of GEEK LOVE, a 200-page, hard-bound, full-color collection of geeky, erotic stories and illustrations, photographs and comics. This one will include the brand-spanking(!)-new Camille Alexa story “Goodness, Her Tail.”
So many of the Hip Kitties and the Cool Cats are involved in this project, I can’t even list them all. Meeeeeow!
At long last! A new Matty and the Mandroid story has been written, set 
among the Twelve Domed Cities of Mars. The first two — “The Clone Wrangler’s Bride” and “Droidtown Blues” — are still available online for free-range reading.
This new anthology, SHANGHAI STEAM (a Wuxia/Steampunk mash-up) promises to be Awfully Good Fun. A full table of contents has been revealed:
“Heroes can save the world, but villains can CHANGE it. . . .”
Now available in print, the new Super anthology WHEN THE VILLAIN COMES HOME. This one opens with my story “Pinktastic and the End of the World“!
After a year or so of novelizing, I spent the first half of 2012 revelling — yes! revelling! — in short story writing. Following, as it has, the long delicious slog of writing novels, shortfic feels self-indulgent, almost decadent.
Of course the side effect of spending some time on short form writing means I have a fair number of stories forthcoming in print hither and yon. Wuxia clones, virtual reality, rural apocalypse survivors, ghost dogs, beautiful alien babes from spaaaace . . . I’ve been splashing around in the genre fiction pools with no small amount of glee.
I’ve always been something of a non-traditionalist when it comes to genre 
classification and venue, so I’m very much looking forward to seeing my story “A Good Thing and a Right Thing” appear in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine about the same time my story “Light as Air and Death” will be coming out in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine.
Of course it’s still me, so expect Ancient Norse gods, despondent gunslingers, Gold Rush madness and human sacrifice and archaeological ruins.
Now, back to novels.
My story “Down Where the Best Lilies Grow” will appear in a new Year’s Best anthology featuring Canadian writers.
From the site:
Canadian speculative fiction has been increasingly recognized internationally for the calibre of its authors and their insight into the nature of social and religious identities, the implications of new technologies, and the relationship between humankind and its environments.
At their best, these stories disrupt habits, overcome barriers of cultural perception to make the familiar strange through the use of speculative elements such as magic and technology. They provide glimpses of alternate realities and possible futures and pasts that provoke an ethical, social, political, environmental and biological inquiry into what it means to be human.
Selkies and mermaids . . . sirens and sea monsters . . . myth and magic . . . Ocean Stories explores both the beauty and the dangers found beneath the sea.
Featuring Tales by:
Camille Alexa * Mike Allen and Charles M. Saplak * Paul L. Bates * Laura Blackwell * Rebecca L. Brown * Thomas Canfield * Stoney Compton * Vonnie Winslow Crist * Jennifer Crow * Eric Del Carlo * Mary Peace Finley * Jennifer Greylyn * Katie Hartlove * Nick Kimbro * Adam Meyer * Gregory L. Norris * Christine Rains * Carla Richards * Holly Schwartz-Coignat * Tricia Scott * J. Michael Shell * David Andrew Sklar * James Targett * Joshua Wolf
Suction Cup Dreams: An Octopus Anthology presents eleven stories about the most fascinating of marine animals, the noble octopus. Due for release in July 2012, this book is the premiere anthology of obsolescent.info and will be available at fine bookstores nationwide and online.
Table of Contents (in no particular order)
“Unearthly Pearl” – Brenda Anderson
“Daughters of Tethys” – Camille Alexa
“Empathy Evolving as a Quantum of Eight-Dimensional Perception” – Claude Lalumière
“Talk to Us” – Danna Joy Staaf
“The Octopus Garden” – D. Thomas Minton
“Three-Hearted” by Elizabeth Twist
“A Stranger Returns From An Unexpected Trip to the South China Sea” – Henry W. Ulrich
“Vulgaris” – Ives Hovanessian
“Obey the Octopus” – Joe Jablonski
“Venus of the Waves” – Karen Munro
“A Late Season Snow” – T.E. Grau
More from the publisher’s site.
The table of contents for the forthcoming anthology WHEN THE VILLAIN COMES HOME has been announced. This one contains my supervillain story “Pinktastic and the End of the World.” I always look forward to appearing alongside Jay Lake, who wrote the introduction for my collection, PUSH OF THE SKY. Up, up, and away!
From the site:
Come with us while we explore villains of all stripes — sons and daughters, lovers and fighters, minions and masterminds, in this giant volume of thirty great stories by award winners, rising stars, and bold new voices.
Camille Alexa – Pinktastic and the End of the World
Erik Scott de Bie – Hunger of the Blood Reaver
Chaz Brenchley – Villainelle
Eugie Foster – Oranges, Lemons, and Thou Beside Me
David Sakmyster – Prometheus Found
Marie Bilodeau – Happily Ever After
Richard Lee Byers – Little Things
K.D. McEntire – Heels
Peadar Ó Guilín – The Sunshine Baron
Jim C. Hines – Daddy’s Little Girl
Ari Marmell – Than to Serve in Heaven
Karin Lowachee – The Bleach
Jay Lake – The Woman Who Shattered the Moon
Julie Czerneda – Charity
J.M. Frey – Maddening Science
Clint Talbert – Birthright
Rachel Swirsky – Broken Clouds
Tony Pi – The Miscible Imp
Leah Petersen – Manmade
J.P. Moore – Lord of the Southern Sky
Ryan McFadden – Back in the Day
Todd McCaffrey – Robin Redbreast
Erik Buchanan – Cycle of Revenge
Gregory A. Wilson – The Presuil’s Call
Rosemary Jones – The Man With Looking-Glass Eyes
Gabrielle Harbowy – Starkeep
Ed Greenwood – A Lot of Sly Work Ahead
Mercedes Lackey / Larry Dixon – Heir Apparent
Chris A. Jackson – Home Again, Home Again
Steve Bornstein – The Best Laid Plans
My story “And All Its Truths” is coming out today in the 
SUBVERSION anthology. Reviewers already have nice things to say about this antho and this story, which is lovely and delicious.
Lineup includes stories by Jessica Reisman, Shanna Germain, Cat Rambo, Wendy Wagner, Kay T. Holt, Caleb Jordan Schulz, Melissa S. Green, Daniel José Older, Kelly Jennings, Barbara Krasnoff, Natania Barron, Jean Johnson, C.A. Young, Timothy T. Murphy, and RJ Astruc & Deirdre M. Murphy.
Ever wondered what I looked like in a mohawk? Ever wondered if my twang emerges more when I talk about growing up in Austin, Texas? Here’s a book trailer for SUBVERSION which may answer all your questions, or stir up a pot of new ones. . . .
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From the Machine of Death site:
“ These pictures are of the press kit for the upcoming Italian version of MOD1, La Macchina della Morte! … I hope the book does well in Italy when it comes out next year! Tell all your friends in Italy to buy a copy!
Oh and if you have friends in Germany, tell them to buy one too, when the German edition comes out in January.
Oh and if you have friends in Spain, tell them to buy one of the Spanish versions too.
If you have friends in France, you might as well tell them too.
Ditto for all your friends in Croatia, Korea, Japan, and Israel.
That’s right — there will be eight different foreign editions of MOD1 coming out next year across the world. . . ”
Machine of Death opens with my story “Flaming Marshmallow and Other Deaths.” This one has already appeared in audio at Escape Pod and in print in my collection, PUSH OF THE SKY. Fly, little story! Fly!