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[bdub76]

Thanks for the heads-up! I enjoy a good short-story collection, and will be getting this as soon as that "coming soon" epub version is available.

(Sorry, I mean no disrespect, but even if I hadn't already switched to almost 100% ebooks for my non-Star Trek reading, there's no way on this planet I'm spending C$70 in shipping fees to ship a book here... And that's just the cheaper option, I also have the choice of paying C$106 for "express" shipping. )

I"m same way. I've gone completely to eBooks with very few exceptions. Hoping it shows up either at my library or at KOBO.

 

[Stevil2001]

Those NESFA Press editions are always very nice pieces of work. I have both of their Cordwainer Smith volumes, almost all of their Lois McMaster Bujold ones, their David Gerrold one, and at least one or two others, I think. You're in august company, Greg!

 

[JD]

Cool, I've bookmarked it for next time I'm looking for a new standalone book to buy.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Congratulations!

I'll probably order a copy sometime next month.

Thanks!

Order placed.

 

[Smiley]

KRAD, I got notified of a story collection called A Curiosity of Cats that you have a piece in. Amazon's blurb is a little too vague to be useful. Do you have an elevator pitch for your particular story or the book as a whole?

 

[Greg Cox]

Order placed.

Thanks! Enjoy!

I'm intrigued to hear what people think of this eclectic collection of old and new stories.

 

[KRAD]

A Curiosity of Cats is the latest in a series of steampunk anthologies done in conjunction with the Tell-Tale Steampunk Festival. The stories are all inspired by the works of Lewis Carroll and, in honor of the Chesire Cat, all the stories have at least one cat in it.

My story, "Say What You Mean and Mean What You Say," introduces a new character of mine, Signora Spada, a turn-of-the-20th-century Italian swordswoman-for-hire. She's tasked with rescuing a boy who's been kidnapped, and her mission brings her to a most bizarre tea party......

Tell-Tale is a lovely little steampunk convention that every year has an author as its focus -- previous cons have featured Edgar Allan Poe, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and (jointly) Mary Shelley & Bram Stoker. This year, it's Carroll. Also at each convention, eSpec has done a companion anthology with steampunk stories inspired by that year's author(s). The previous ones are A Cast of Crows, A Cry of Hounds (which has my Professor Challenger story "Progenitor"), and An Assembly of Monsters (which has my story "The Immoral Immortal," and the limited-edition hardcover has a bonus story by me, also, "When Winzy Met Verney: The Mortal Immortal Encounters the Last Man").

 

[JWolf]

After various delays, I'm proud to announce that Dubious Pleasures -- my first short-story collection -- is now in print and can be ordered from NESFA Press. Received my author copies just last week!

The book is broken into three parts -- Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror -- and features sword-and-sorcery, space opera, time-travel, cyberpunk, comedy, more than its fair share of vampires, and even a were-salmon, who swims upstream to spawn under the light of the full moon.

And, oh yes, a gorgeous cover painted by Charles Urbach.

I found your eBook. I'll be purchasing it later this week. It sound like a fun book.

 

[Greg Cox]

I found your eBook. I'll be purchasing it later this week. It sound like a fun book.

Thanks! I flatter myself that it's a real grab-bag of genres and tones, including a weird western involving Bigfoot, another story about a little boy whose math homework is about to get him, and a grisly mash-up of Night of the Living Dead and The Brain That Would Not Die titled, of course, "Night of the Living Brain."

And a cyberpunk spoof that was basically my attempt to do "Woody Allen meets William Gibson." Really.

 

[Avro Arrow]

I found your eBook.

Thanks for the tip-off! I was waiting for the ebook to become available, and now it looks like it has. Just purchased it just now!

 

[David Mack]

For those who might be interested, editor Henry Herz just posted the cover reveal and publication announcement for the upcoming anthology Death Maidens: Tales of Off-Duty Valkyries, coming January 19, 2027 from Ace Books. Among many other fine tales, it will include my new original short story “Wild Thing.”
Description of DEATH MAIDENS from the Ace/PRH website —

Legends of the fearsome shieldmaidens of Valhalla, the Valkyries, take surprising modern twists in this fantasy anthology featuring short stories from #1 New York Times bestselling authors Jim Butcher, Charlaine Harris, Kim Harrison, Maggie Stiefvater, and more…

In Norse mythology, fierce female Valkyries guide the souls of the valiant dead to Odin’s hall in Valhalla. But how do modern day Valkyries navigate a changing world where valor and heroic sacrifice don’t always occur on a battlefield, and heroes look much different than they did in the songs of old?

“Choosers,” a brand-new Dresden Files story from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jim Butcher, finds Harry Dresden fighting back-to-back with one of the greatest—and most infamous—Valkyries of them all against an unstoppable evil. But is “Bear” truly an ally—or is it Dresden’s soul she’s come to claim?

In #1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris’s “The Other’s Shadow,” a once illustrious shield maiden assigned to drudgery work in a mortal veteran’s hospital discovers that valiant deaths just aren’t what they used to be … but they may mean even more.

Kim Harrison takes us to her #1 New York Times bestselling series of the Hollows in “A Matter of Interpretation.” When a Valkyrie is cast down from Valhalla for raising the souls of climate activists, musicians, and data analysts instead of warriors and heroes, she must strike a bargain with an unlikely—and dangerous—ally to regain her place in Odin’s Hall.

And #1 New York Times bestselling author Maggie Stiefvater’s “Troublemen” brings us an exiled, disillusioned Valkyrie up against an insidious competitor for the souls of the dead…and discovers the dark side of her role as a guide to Valhalla.

ALSO INCLUDES AN AFTERWORD BY
Ilona Andrews

AND STORIES BY
Kelley Armstrong * Eugen Bacon * Kendare Blake * KC Grifant * Kevin Hearne * Henry Herz * Stephen Graham Jones * Richard Kadrey * Jonathan Maberry and Wayne Brady * David Mack * Seanan McGuire * Yvonne Navarro * Madeleine Roux * Catherine Stine * Julia Vee and Ken Bebelle

More information about my story, “Wild Thing” —

In “Wild Thing” by New York Times bestselling author David Mack, the Valkyrie known as Kára, aka “the Wild One,” is cast out of Valhalla for mocking Odin All-father’s venerated warriors, his einherjar, as “fools who lost a fight.” Exiled to Earth as a mortal woman, Kára builds a new life as an aerial firefighter, her call sign “Wild Thing.” Hers is a life of death-defying adventure … until the night when the Wild Thing’s luck finally runs out, and she learns the hard way the difference between mere courage and true heroism.

 

[JD]

That sounds really cool, I'll definitely be keeping an eye out for it.