I’m so pleased to announce that two new stories by yours truly will be available in March. It took me a long time to find home for them, and I can’t be more pleased to finally be able to share them. Stay tuned for the links. Vedritsa of the River A c...
Adriana KantchevaAuthor of speculative fiction.Hello, , and welcome to another installment of my newsletter.Let's dig in!What I've been up toStill up to my ears in drafting the new novel. I’m putting all my focus into this one project for now.In Marc...
Adriana KantchevaAuthor of speculative fiction.Hello again, ,It just goes to show that one should not send out newsletters when one's children are doing their best to be a distraction. Here's the excerpt I forgot to insert:Today's excerptBut my breat...
Adriana KantchevaAuthor of speculative fiction.Hello, , and welcome to another installment of my newsletter.Let's dig in!What I've been up toUp to my ears into drafting a new novel. Over ten thousand words already written.Also, putting last touches o...
Last month, I recapped the best and worst of 2024. Now I’m moving on to what I hope 2025 will bring. Dare I hope for a completed first draft of a novel? Dare I hope for a submission-ready manuscript of my long-worked-on epic fantasy novel? These are...
Adriana KantchevaAuthor of speculative fiction.Hello, , and welcome to another installment of my newsletter.Let's dig in!What I've been up tobeta-reading a friend’s manuscriptgathering my thoughts about a new manuscript of my own I’m about to startpu...
Each year, as December comes around, I look back at the year that is about to finish and take stock of how I feel about it. Am I left bewildered by how time has slipped between my fingers so? Or does it feel like I’ve taken my time to live through ea...
Adriana KantchevaAuthor of speculative fiction.Hello, , and welcome to another installment of my newsletter.Let's dig in!What I've been up to latelyIn September and October I was lucky enough to attend the Milford conference and a gathering of the Vi...
It’s Halloween today. Though traditions involving dressing up and knocking on doors for treats have existed all over Europe for centuries, Halloween—as is today—was just an overseas echo when I was growing up in Bulgaria in the ‘90s. In Germany, wher...
In May, I mentioned that I’m seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. I was coming close to finishing a long-standing novel project. By long standing, I mean 12 years. Now that I’ve admitted it, I’m cringing. Dear future agent, it’s not how long I...
Recently, my short story “Salvaged”, originally published in Escape Pod in October 2022, was translated into Bulgarian (by me) and published on Valentin D. Ivanov’s podcast “Българска Фантастика”, a podcast for Bulgarian SFF. This was a milestone for...
It’s the beginning of May, and one-third of the year is gone. It’s time for a short retrospective. Life has been unpredictable these past few months, just like the weather. Where I live in the Black Forest region of Germany, after a nice, warm March...
Well, look at that! It’s New Year’s Eve. How did that happen? (I know exactly how it happened, and where the months went.) It’s high time I returned to my somewhat neglected blog. Since it’s that special last evening of the year, a very apt topic wou...
Six more months have rolled by since my last post. I’ve been quiet on account of the complexity of my life gathering and swelling like a tidal wave. This wave will settle in a couple of weeks, so look out for a longer post later in the summer with so...
Trigger warning: mention of sexual assault This post is not directly about writing, though writing it seems to signify to me I have come closer to healing and closure. The reason I will share something so sensitive is that, first, I don’t think such...
