Mike Allen has put together a great StoryBundle, The Twisted Folklore Histories Bundle, which includes not just one but two Small Beer titles, Isabel Yap’s award-winning debut, Never Have I Ever and Elwin Cotman’s Dance on Saturday. It’s a good time...

Kelly will be at Book Moon tomorrow, Saturday, Feb. 17, from 3-5 p.m. signing The Book of Love (and so on), saying hello, and passing out cookies. Drop by if you can! More events. (Cambridge, Natick, Portland, San Francisco, Seattle, Atlanta, online....

We published Ayize Jama-Everett’s 4th and final Liminal novel, Heroes of an Unknown World, a year ago today. Good and thoughtful review by Jenny Hamilton just recently popped up on Strange Horizons: The decision is shocking, and it highlights one of...

Tonight, weather willing, Kelly will launch her new book, her first novel, The Book of Love, at Books Are Magic in Brooklyn. (All her tour dates are here.) It is an amazing novel, has received the kind of reviews an author might dream of and I love t...

Some years ago I got a positive result on my test to see whether they will print anything in the AWP listings of exhibiting publishers: On Wednesday afternoon I realized the 2024 AWP Conference & Bookfair would just be beginning. Pre-pandemic, pr...

Excellent that the search function, while messy, thanks Google, still works well enough for me to find this rather than having to page down through the Not Journalling Updates Page. I was putting together the Book Moon monthly bestseller list for Loc...

Kelly’s new (first!) novel, The Book of Love (reviewed today by Ron Charles in the WaPo) comes out next Tuesday and very appropriately she will be at Books Are Magic with Hilary Leichter in Brooklyn to launch it. Since we don’t host readings at Book...

Next Wednesday Isabel Yap will be reading in New York as part of the Fantastic Fiction at KGB Reading series hosted by Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel:​​​ Isabel Yap & Randee Dawn, February 14th, 2024, 7pm ET. KGB Bar 85 East 4th Street New York...

My sister Sareen McLay is Writer of the Week at the The People’s Friend. If you’re in the UK you’ll know the mag, the “world’s longest running weekly women’s magazine and number one for quality fiction every week.” Long term LCRW readers might rememb...

In 2023 we (only) published four books and I’m happy to see three of them are on the Locus Recommended Reading list. The one title missing is Ayize Jama-Everett’s series capper Heroes of an Unknown World—at least The Last Count of Monte Cristo, his g...