Sherry D. Ramsey's new collection of short stories, To Unimagined Shores, released last week from Third Person Press in print and ebook formats.

The collection includes sixteen previously published stories which appeared in various magazines and anthologies, including On Spec, Simulacrum, Fantasy Magazine, The Day the Men Went to Town, Michael Stackpole’s The Chain Story Project, Gateway S-F, Neo-opsis and others. The seventeenth is a bonus story, never before published.

The book is on sale directly from the Third Person Press website in print or as an instant ebook download in various formats, or from amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, Powell's or Smashwords.

"Sherry D. Ramsey's short stories are filled with vibrant characters, good writing, and thrum with humanity, even when there aren't many actual humans in the story. Fans of speculative fiction should definitely check out To Unimagined Shores." ~ Mark A. Rayner, author of The Amadeus Net and Marvellous Hairy.

The 31st annual Canvention was held on November 20, 2011 at SFContario 2 in Toronto, Ontario, where Aurora Awards were presented in nine categories as voted by Canadian fans of speculative fiction. The 2011 Aurora Award for Best Novel in English went to Robert J. Sawyer for his novel Watch, along with the SF Canada Award of $500 which is presented annually in support of the Aurora and Aurora/Boréal Awards to recognize excellence in speculative literature in both Canadian languages. Robert J. Sawyer has a long history of success as an author, including American Nebula Award, Worldcon Hugo Award, John W. Campbell Memorial Award, Japanese Seiun Award, Chinese Galaxy Award, and multiple Canadian Aurora Awards. A ceremonial cheque was presented by the President of SF Canada, Steve Stanton.

SFC member Colleen Anderson reports several recent sales and reviews. Her poem "Shadow Realms" appeared in Witches and Pagans #23, through BBI Media, and her story "Gingerbread People will appear in Chilling Tales 2, edited by Michael Kelly.

Her story “It’s Only Words” from The Horror Anthology of Horror Anthologies is reviewed at:  http://www.blackabyss.co.uk/2011/08/the-horror-anthology-of-horror-anthologies-edited-by-d-f-lewis/

SFC member Leslie Brown sold "Incursion" to Jack-o'-Spec (Raven Electrick Inc.), "The Windup Heiress" to Tesseracts 15 (Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing), "Baba Yaga at the Megapharma" to Groanology (Library of Science Fiction and Fantasy) and saw "The Slow Plague" published in Doomology (Library of Horror).

For more on Leslie's work, you can find her website at http://leslie-brown.com/.