Announcements and New Releases
“The Ninth Tentacle” by Geoff Hart won the 2023 long-form Kepler award. Congratulations!
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Melissa Yi celebrated the release of her new book, SUGAR AND VICE, a new Sze thriller about gluttony with fantasy elements.
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Ira Nayman’s “ePik Flayl Creates the Wor(l)d…Again” appears in the new anthology, Dreaming God.
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Graham J. Darling’s surreal medical horror story “Crash Cart” appears in Finnigan & Nickol Houston (eds.) “The Solar Press Horror Anthology”, Volume 1
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VAMPIRE DENTIST is a new novella by Christine J. Whitlock about a 24-hour dental office servicing humans during the day and vampires at night and how they clash.
Submission Calls
Super Canucks: An anthology of small-town Canadian superheroes is open for submissions. Check out the guidelines here.
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Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume Two is now open for submissions! Full details can be found here: http://kotowych.com/yearsbest/ .
Interviews, Panels, and Podcasts
Douglas Smith has had a busy month with three new interviews:
- Speculating Canada interview — Activist, author, artist, editor, and educator Derek Newman-Stille interviews me on his award-winning Speculating Canada podcast about The Dream Rider Saga trilogy, including its themes of disability, income disparity, racial diversity, found family, and setting it in Toronto.
- The Richard Crouse Show — Canada’s most recognized movie critic interviews me on his nationally syndicated iHeart Radio Show about the release of The Lost Expedition: The Dream Rider Saga, Book 3; my writing process; and more. Note: it will open in SoundCloud. My segment starts at about 19:55, and is about 18 minutes long. You don’t need a SoundCloud account to listen, but you do need an account (and be signed in) if you want to skip ahead.
- CBC Radio’s Fresh Air — Fresh Air host, Ismaila Alfa, interviews me on being an indie author and the release of The Lost Expedition: The Dream Rider Saga, Book 3
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Small Publishing in a Big Universe interviews Robert Runté about the different types of editors and the most common mistakes that new authors make in their writing.
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Holiday Horrors: A Discussion of Strange and Unusual Holiday Folklore and Traditions with Graham J. Darling and the Horror Writers Association (HWA) Ontario Chapter
Reviews
Ephemia Rimaldi: Circus Performer Extraordinaire by Linda DeMeulemeester was reviewed in Quill and Quire.
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Noah Chinn’s LOST SOULS was reviewed in On Spec.
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The British Columbia Review reviews Shadow Matter by S.W. Mayse
Free-to-Read Stories by Members
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