2001 News

August 19, 2001

The Snowlost/Exile on Vlahil has finally hit the beach. That means we released it, and you can buy it right now from us. Yes, you can. It's two volumes packaged like an ACE Double. (For you youngsters, that means it's two books in one, and they are upside-down to each other with separate covers. Read one, close book, flipp'er over, and you're ready to read again!)

Foot fetish in a science fiction book? Eeyewww! Yeah, me too. But the bad guy in Autumn World has the pedal perversity going on. I'm sure it was his bad childhood and all that time he spent looking at his mother's feet. As if you knew anything about it. Well, read it for yourself in the book, then.

Trash literature you should not ignore. We have a western out, you know, and it's a fantasy, too. GASP!, you say. Yes, it's true. The Legend of Lejube Rogue is a WESTERN FANTASY, two trash literatures rolled into one. When are you guys going to grow up and read real books? Well, in the mean time, read Lejube Rogue and get double your significant other eye-rolling dollar.

What's coming up? Lots. Betwixt and Between, speculative fiction from Rector & Johnson has some missing italics. Once we fix that, it's on to the press. The Sound of Dead Hands Clapping from Mark Rich has had two new stories added. It's true! and once we get them vetted, he's off to the press, too. He did his on art for the cover, and it's all screamy-scary-cool in a very modern kind of way. Starrun by Your Publisher and Your Dark Lord of the Comics is being laid out right now and checked for annoying errors like the splash page being all stretched out of shape for no known reason. It'll be our first comic book ever, so yum-doodle, and we can hardly wait. Finally—and I put it last because its editor took a jab at me in his editorial in Tales of the Unanticipated #22, due out at Easter and available at this website after Easter weekend—Somehow It Fits: The Tales of the Unanticipated Interviews is going through some style-sheet conflicts ("That's a collection, so it belongs here." "Yes, but it's part of a series, so it belongs here." "Can't we put it in both places?" "No, because then we'd have to duplicate duplicates for all the authors." "How about we delete this interview?" "Yeah, good idea. Cut it.") and then it's out, with amazing art by Rodger Gerberding for the cover and for each and every interview.

May 23, 2001

The clean-up continues…

• More content added to the pages for our three new books. (see Feb. 11)
• We finally installed the Tales of the Unanticipated cover graphics.
• More information on the "Comics—the Jazz of Literature" project.
• A new rant.

April 13, 2001

We've added a few new features for our readers.

• Rants: views and opinions, on a range of topics, from those responsible for all this.
• Projects: for the aspiring and published author and those seeking more exposure, and we mean that in a literary way….

February 11, 2001

The book pages for our latest books are up. See the front covers, read the back cover text, order books, swoon on arrival.

The books are

• The Legend of Lejube Rogue
  by Patricia Lucas White. It's a western (GASP!) and it's a fantasy. It's two (click) two (click) two genres in one! Lejube Rogue, the White Demon, strikes fear into the hearts of good and bad alike. There's a reason: his powers as a shaman give him an edge.
• Autumn World
  by the Aaardvark Writing Group. OK, that's a lie—it isn't by the whole group. Five of them got together and wrote a nice little science fiction novel set on a world where twins and telepathy between them are the norm. Add one crashed human, a native "single", a vengeful usurping religion, and a set of transdimentional kangaroos,and you've got Autumn World.
• Darkling Plain V1#1
  edited by David M. Cox. Dave is homing in on the idea of "Speculative Fiction" by presenting avariety of stories, including outstanding work from the masters of the past.

February 9, 2001

Reminder: the 2001 "Maggie" Contest is on. The "Margaret Sanger Award for the Most Dangerous Book in Speculative Fiction" Contest is on. It's open all of 2001. Rough outline: any books submitted must be

• Novel length;
• Original, unpublished fiction;
• Speculative;
• Feminist; and
• Dangerous;

Get the contest details here and change the world.

February 7, 2001

Six weeks shy of a year, and we're over the hump. In March 2000, our printer tripled our prices overnight. It took three months to find a new printer and four months to work out all the production lumps with them.

Now we have national distribution via Ingram. I suppose that's all for the best, and sorry to everyone—customers and authors— who had to wait through our Dark Night of the Randomly Imposed Stumbling Blocks.

We have two new books and one magazine available.

The books are

• The Legend of Lejube Rogue
  by Patricia Lucas White. It's a western (GASP!) and it's a fantasy. It's two (click) two (click) twogenres in one! Lejube Rogue, the White Demon, strikes fear into the hearts of good and bad alike.There's a reason: his powers as a shaman give him an edge.
• Autumn World
  by the Aaardvark Writing Group. OK, that's a lie—it isn't by the whole group. Five of them got togetherand wrote a nice little science fiction novel set on a world where twins and telepathy between them are the norm. Add one crashed human, a native "single", a vengeful usurping religion, and a set of transdimentional kangaroos,and you've got Autumn World.

The magazine is

• Darkling Plain V1#1
  edited by David M. Cox. Dave is homing in on the idea of "Speculative Fiction" by presenting a variety of stories, including outstanding work from the masters of the past.