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Kickstarter Recommendation: Shatter the Sun anthology

| October 23, 2024

I’ve gotten a ton of anthologies and novellas from Neon Hemlock, and now they’re running a Kickstarter for a new anthology, Shatter the Sun! The anthology will collect stories, a poem, a game, and a comic (and possibly more) in the queer sword and sorcery genre. You can back the Kickstarter for just this anthology or […]

Kickstarter Recommendation: This is Your Bike on Plants

| September 25, 2024

Microcosm Publishing and Elly Blue’s upcoming installment in the Bikes in Space series is This is Your Bike on Plants, and it’s on Kickstarter right now! If you’ve never read one of the Bikes in Space series, you can read my review of one of the earlier volumes, Bikes Not Rockets, here! I’ve also had a […]

Review of Strange Locations

| September 11, 2024

The Strange Locations anthology, edited by Marissa Van Uden (Apex Book Company, 2024), is a limited release collection of dark speculative travel guides told in microfiction format. Tiny and beautifully crafted, each of these thirty brief tales hints at a larger story of an unusual place. There were a few pieces that really stood out […]

Coming Later in 2024: Two Stories in Rescuing Curiosity!

| June 19, 2024

During the 2024 WriteHive online conference, they announced the table of contents for the upcoming Rescuing Curiosity anthology, and I’m pleased to say that TWO of my stories made the list! “It Can’t Be Sunday Everywhere at Once” is a sci-fi story involving refugees on a long-term space voyage and how one young woman came up […]

Kickstarter Recommendation: The Neurodiversiverse Anthology

| May 1, 2024

If you’re interested in stories told by and about neurodiverse people, check out The Neurodiversiverse anthology Kickstarter! It’s got an amazing list of included authors, and in addition to the anthology, there are all kinds of cool rewards for backers at various levels!

Kickstarter Recommendation: Bitter Become the Fields

| March 27, 2024

Horns & Rattles Press is currently funding their Bitter Become the Fields anthology, which is a horror anthology filled with stories featuring flora and fungi! The list of authors is pretty exciting, including some recent names in the horror genre and other names who are sure to hold that status in the future! The Kickstarter for Bitter […]

Review of The Hitherto Secret Experiments of Marie Curie

| February 28, 2024

The Hitherto Secret Experiments of Marie Curie, edited by Bryan Thomas Schmidt and Henry Herz (Blackstone Publishing, 2023), is a speculative fiction anthology that blends historical fact about Marie Curie’s life as a young woman and fantastical, science fiction, and horror elements to present new and intriguing experiments a young Marie might have undertaken. Most […]

Kickstarter Recommendation: Bikes in Space 11!

| February 14, 2024

The Kickstarter for volume 11 of Bikes in Space has launched. I’m a fan of this series from Microcosm Publishing, and I’m pleased to announce that my story, “The Storyteller,” will appear in Bikes, the Universe, and Everything! The theme for this volume is bikes and books, so I wrote a post-apocalyptic story in which bikes […]

Kickstarter Recommendation: Wyoming

| January 24, 2024

If you like the idea of a nonlinear choose-your-own-adventure anthology, check out the Kickstarter for Wyoming, which is exactly that. It involves 35 authors writing pieces that can branch off of one another, creating an interactive reading experience that can take many paths. Backers of the Kickstarter will get early access to the anthology’s contents […]

Kickstarter Recommendation: Aether Beyond the Binary

| January 17, 2024

If you’re looking for an awesome anthology to back, check out Aether Beyond the Binary from Duck Prints Press! It’s got aetherpunk (magic-powered technology) stories with characters outside the gender binary. In addition to the anthology, there are a bunch of great add-on items, from stickers to wands, along with more things to read! This Kickstarter […]