Sent out one of our infrequent newsletters with a few Small Beer updates but also this pre-US election request: If you are eligible to vote in the USA, I hope you have already voted for Harris/Walz or have a plan to do so tomorrow. If you are voting,...

LCRW 49 is nearing completion, although Kelly’s in Seattle today, so, no, it won’t be quite ready for a bit yet. In the meantime, I’m emailing 10.1 million subscribers to see if they’ll renew — with a note that, hey, we appreciated that past subscrip...

It’s a dozen years since we published our first Kij Johnson collection, At the Mouth of the River of Bees, and I’m delighted to say that last month we received copies of the sixth printing. Today is the one-year anniversary of Kij’s wide-ranging seco...

Every October I think, Darn it, should have posted about our scary books so instead of occasionally thinking that for the next two weeks here’s a skeleton’s handful of scary books all pretty much guaranteed to be a mistake to start reading after 10 p...

December 2024 Pomegranate Hearts. Hannah and Grackle, Lost in the Woods. The post Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 49 first appeared on Small Beer Press.

This is LCRW Cooking Columnist Nicole Kimberling’s sixth column for LCRW originally published in LCRW 32. Asparagus photo by Dawn Kimberling. A couple of years ago I happened to be in Europe during the Easter season. Specifically, I was right at the...

LCRW 48 has gone out into the world to subscribers, contributors, reviewers, readers, surprised people, & so on. I’ll put the table of contents below. I am almost sure it is final. Nicole Kimberling’s column is an especially good one and in keepi...

Joan Aiken’s daughter, Lizza, posted on Bluesky that today, September 4th, is Joan Aiken’s Centenary. Lizza keeps her excellent Wonderful World of Joan Aiken site going as well as ensuring new editions of Joan’s work keep coming out. I’m delighted to...

Good news for Anya Johanna DeNiro whose short novel OKPsyche has been chosen as the winner of the Blurred Boundaries Award at this year’s Subjective Chaos Kind of Awards. You can read more about the awards here and here are the rest of this year’s wi...

I was just listening to Alisa Alering talk with Lindsay Hunter about her debut novel, Smothermoss — which has a great cover — on Lithub and thought you might enjoy it, too. You might remember Alisa had a great story in a LCRW 43. Alisa Alering on Bei...