Almost forgot to mention that my awesome writing group, Altered Fluid, will be on the Hour of the Wolf radio program (hosted by Jim Freund) tomorrow, January 16, from 5-7 AM (yes, in the morning). The show is on New York’s WBAI, 99.5 FM. Paul Berger will be reading a new story live on the air and then the rest of the group will critique it live on the air, as we’ve done in the past.

Jim’s show is always fun and is one of the few things worth waking up for prior to 4 AM.

If you’re not an insomniac, a diehard fan or a vampire, the show will be available for streaming after broadcast.

Below is the cover image for the Skulls and Crossbones anthology soon to be released from Mindancer Press.

The anthology will reprint my story, “The Furies”, which originally appeared in Shimmer’s Pirate Issue. “The Furies” was my first published story and I’m really excited to see it appearing again in this anthology.

I’m still waiting to hear when the book will be available, but it should be coming soon.

Last year I had the good fortune to be an Associate Editor for Sybil’s Garage, a small press genre fiction magazine that I greatly admire. The magazine has quickly established itself as a source for great fiction under the leadership of Matthew Kressel. So when I was asked if I wanted to be an editor again this year, I had to say yes.

The reading period opens on January 15 and the guidelines have changed slightly:

Sybil’s Garage publishes a wide variety of speculative fiction, including traditional science fiction, fantasy and horror as well as more atmospheric/slipstream stories. For issue no. 7 we seek to cast a wider net and encourage contributors to send us both atmospheric/slipstream stories as well as those with traditionally strong plots and characters.

We also will look at stories with little or no speculative element, but with speculative tendencies (e.g. weird but not-necessarily supernatural.)

In addition, we are very interested in seeing stories written by and/or including varied ethnicities, social classes, and nationalities. We’d like to see more stories featuring under-utilized cultures and settings as well. Our editors and readers represent a variety of backgrounds and we’re always working to ensure that our publication reflects that as well.

Please send us your best work.

Full guidelines can be found here.

My reading of “The Narcomancer”, a very fine story from fellow Altered Fluid member, N. K. Jemisin, is currently up for your listening pleasure (hopefully) at Podcastle.

This one’s what they call a “giant”, so it’s longer than the usual stories they feature.

As usual, it was a pleasure reading it, except for the times when my cats decided to make noise in the background and I had to go back and edit. I hope I got all of those.

If you feel like it, please check it out.

PodCastle 85: The Narcomancer (Giant Episode)