Slow Moving

LCRW 48 comes along very slowly caused entirely by my laptop keyboard and trackpad no longer communicating with the computer. Who knew that could happen? The post Slow Moving first appeared on Small Beer Press.

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Jun 21, 2024
Sooner or Later in New StoryBundle

Sarah Pinsker’s award-winning debut collection Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea is one of thirteen books in Catherine Lundoff and Melissa Scott’s newly launched Pay-What-You-Want 2024 Pride Bundle. The bundle is available for 31 days — t...

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May 31, 2024
Kathleen at the Brisbane Writers Festival

Kathleen will be on a couple of panels at the Brisbane* Writers Festival this coming weekend. We went to that festival I think a couple of times and loved it. Kathleen is on not just one but two panels with Naomi Novik whose Scholomance books I whole...

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May 30, 2024
10 Great Fantasy Book Series Without Romance

Love to see Nicole Kornher-Stace’s Archivist Wasp (and its sequel, Latchkey) on this list of 10 Great Fantasy Book Series Without Romance by Mary Kassel on Screenrant along with books such as The Goblin Emperor, and books by Pratchett, Le Guin, and m...

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May 30, 2024
eLCRW in the EU

Over at Weightless Michael has found a way — with help from our friends at Interzone — to make LCRW available as an ebook in both the EU and the UK using Payhip. I am very grateful to everyone that 1) there’s a solution and 2) it was implementable. I...

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May 20, 2024
Kathleen Jennings at the Brisbane Square Library

Brisbane Square Library has booked Kathleen Jennings for a local launch event for her debut collection, Kindling on Friday 14 June, 6 p.m.* AEST (Australian Eastern Standard Time). * Flat Earthers please note the time is local, no matter where you li...

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May 17, 2024
Lost Places is a Locus Award Finalist

Delighted to see Sarah Pinsker’s Lost Places is a finalist for the Locus Award for best short story collection — along with one of her stories and one novelette.* Small Beer is a finalist which I take it to mean that all of our 2023 titles were much...

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May 14, 2024
Mass MoCA & Me

This past weekend Kelly and I and our kid (cropped out of photo above) went to Mass MoCA. I think this might be the first museum I’ve been to since the start of the Covid pandemic and the first time I’ve been to a museum since I came down with Long C...

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May 06, 2024