Mythic Delirium Books https://mythicdelirium.com Home of the speculative fiction anthology series Clockwork Phoenix, acclaimed fantasy books by C.S.E. Cooney, Nicole Kornher-Stace, Theodora Goss, Barbara Krasnoff and more, the Mythic Delirium magazine archive, and other projects from author/editor/publisher Mike Allen Wed, 13 Mar 2024 02:08:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.25 https://mythicdelirium.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/cropped-MD_phone_ID_white_blue-32x32.jpg Mythic Delirium Books https://mythicdelirium.com 32 32 Our collections from Theodora Goss and Yukimi Ogawa on the latest LOCUS Recommended Reading List! https://mythicdelirium.com/9535 https://mythicdelirium.com/9535#respond Thu, 01 Feb 2024 05:05:08 +0000 https://mythicdelirium.com/?p=9535 Anita and I and Sydney share this announcement with incandescent delight: both of the collections of short fiction that we published in 2023, The Collected Enchantments by Theodora Goss and Like Smoke, Like Light: Stories by Yukimi Ogawa, made the newest Locus Magazine Recommended Reading List! We have a really cool celebratory promotion in the works — but we’re not prepared to talk about that yet. (Stay tuned!) So in the meantime, we’re offering a wee deal for those who

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Anita and I and Sydney share this announcement with incandescent delight: both of the collections of short fiction that we published in 2023, The Collected Enchantments by Theodora Goss and Like Smoke, Like Light: Stories by Yukimi Ogawa, made the newest Locus Magazine Recommended Reading List!

We have a really cool celebratory promotion in the works — but we’re not prepared to talk about that yet. (Stay tuned!) So in the meantime, we’re offering a wee deal for those who read this post, whether you come here from social media links or our ad on the Locus Magazine site:

Pay $10 via Paypal and receive EPUB copies of both books (a discount of more than 40%)


Be sure to let us know what email address you want us to send the download link to. Also, if you’d prefer a different e-book format, tell us.

At the risk of jinxing a streak, I feel compelled to share that it’s a matter of pride for us that every title we’ve published since 2020 has made the Locus Recommended Reading List. This includes anthology A Sinister Quartet, collections Aftermath of an Industrial Accident and Dark Breakers, and even novel The Twice-Drowned Saint, which made the “Best First Novel” category in its original format as the opening performance of the Quartet.

As we’re among the teensiest (yet mightiest?) of micropresses, we absolutely appreciate this ongoing outside indicator that we’re getting this right.

Photo by Anita Allen

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LIKE SMOKE, LIKE LIGHT makes PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Best of 2023: End of Year 25th anniversary celebration sale https://mythicdelirium.com/9427 https://mythicdelirium.com/9427#respond Tue, 19 Dec 2023 05:10:22 +0000 https://mythicdelirium.com/?p=9427 We at Mythic Delirium (aka myself, Anita and Sydney) are all pleased as punch that Yukimi Ogawa’s debut short fiction collection, Like Smoke, Like Light, landed on Publishers Weekly’s short list of the Best Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror Books of 2023. Congratulations to Yukimi, and a little pat on our own backs for continuing to be the Teensy Micropress That Could. We certainly suspect that this won’t be the last honor for Like Smoke, Like Light. The recognition won by Yukimi’s book

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We at Mythic Delirium (aka myself, Anita and Sydney) are all pleased as punch that Yukimi Ogawa’s debut short fiction collection, Like Smoke, Like Light, landed on Publishers Weekly’s short list of the Best Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror Books of 2023. Congratulations to Yukimi, and a little pat on our own backs for continuing to be the Teensy Micropress That Could. We certainly suspect that this won’t be the last honor for Like Smoke, Like Light.

The recognition won by Yukimi’s book inspired us to hold one more celebratory sale to semi-officially close out Mythic Delirium’s 25th anniversary year. One more time in 2023, we’re discounted e-books to 99 cents on most all major platforms — and not just Yukimi Ogawa’s collection, but twenty titles that together span the most recent fifteen years of Mythic Delirium’s twenty-five years of existence in some form.

Some of these titles have been discounted within the past year or two, multiple times even, but others I’ve not offered in a discount sale for over half a decade, so get them while they’re hot!

For the record, these twenty titles together account for: one World Fantasy Award win, one Mythopoeic Award win, one Kirkus starred review and Best of the Year listing, one Publishers Weekly Best of the Year listing, one Theodore Sturgeon Award nomination, one WSFA Small Press Award nomination, one Aurelius Award nomination, one School Library Journal starred review, two Library Journal starred reviews, three Locus Award nominations, three World Fantasy Award nominations, four Shirley Jackson Award nominations, five Nebula Award nominations, ten Publishers Weekly starred reviews and at least sixteen stories reprinted in various “Best of the Year” volumes. (Yes, I count these things, obsessively. And that’s not the full list! That’s just for the twenty books included in this bundle.)

We’re proud of all our books. By no means is creating and showcasing art all about awards — but you can take it as an indicator of our dedication to quality as we pursue our quirky art.


Like Smoke, Like Light

 

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The Collected Enchantments

 

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The Twice-Drowned Saint

 

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Dark Breakers

 

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Aftermath of an Industrial Accident

 

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A Sinister Quartet

 

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The History of Soul 2065

 

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Snow White Learns Witchcraft

 

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Latchkey

 

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Clockwork Phoenix 5

 

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The Spider Tapestries

 

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Mythic Delirium Two

 

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The Sky-Riders

 

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Bone Swans

 

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Mythic Delirium One

 

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Unseaming

 

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Clockwork Phoenix Four

 

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Clockwork Phoenix Three

 

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Clockwork Phoenix Two

 

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Clockwork Phoenix

 

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]]> https://mythicdelirium.com/9427/feed 0 Mythic Delirium Books award eligibility post and much much more https://mythicdelirium.com/9360 https://mythicdelirium.com/9360#respond Sat, 25 Nov 2023 19:05:26 +0000 https://mythicdelirium.com/?p=9360 2023 has been a spectacular, extraordinarily special and extremely stressful year. A whole lot happened during the past five months, with events moving faster than the speed of a blog. First, it’s high time I shared Ye Olde Annual Award Eligibility Post, both for the books and stories produced by Mythic Delirium Books (aka Anita ’n’ me) during our 25th anniversary year — and also for the short stories I had published during this 31st year of me being around

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2023 has been a spectacular, extraordinarily special and extremely stressful year. A whole lot happened during the past five months, with events moving faster than the speed of a blog.

First, it’s high time I shared Ye Olde Annual Award Eligibility Post, both for the books and stories produced by Mythic Delirium Books (aka Anita ’n’ me) during our 25th anniversary year — and also for the short stories I had published during this 31st year of me being around as some sort of journeyman writer.

And so:

Mythic Delirium Books

Novel

  • The Twice-Drowned Saint by C. S. E. Cooney, Mythic Delirium Books, Feburary 2023
  • Short Fiction Collections

  • The Collected Enchantments by Theodora Goss, Mythic Delirium Books, February 2023
  • Like Smoke, Like Light: Stories by Yukimi Ogawa, Mythic Delirium Books, June 2023
  • Novelettes

  • “Saint Orsola and the Poet” by Theodora Goss, from The Collected Enchantments, Mythic Delirium Books, February 2023
  • “The Tree, and the Center of the World” by Yukimi Ogawa, from Like Smoke, Like Light: Stories, Mythic Delirium Books, June 2023
  • Short Story

  • “Reynalda” by Theodora Goss, from The Collected Enchantments, Mythic Delirium Books, February 2023
  • Short Stories by Mike Allen

  • “Slow Burn,” Cosmic Horror Monthly #33, March 2023
  • “The Green Silence,” The Pinworm Factory: A Tribute to Eraserhead, ed. Scott Dwyer, Plutonian Press, 2023
  • Good to the Last Drop” by Mike and Anita Allen, Sudden Fictions Podcast #21, May 26, 2023
  • Anyone interested in looking any of these over for award consideration is welcome to contact me at mythicdelirium[at]gmail[dot]com or use the contact link at the top of the website.
     

    Other stuff that’s happened since StokerCon in June:

    • Reconstruction surgery of my right knee, and multiple complications since, including a three night hospitalization because of cellulitis, ulp! Here at the end of November, I am not yet out of the woods, but trending in the right direction, at least. Needless to say Anita’s support has been absolutely vital throughout every step of this. Love you, sweetie!
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    • Three video podcast interviews: two episodes of “Read All Over Show” with Toi Thomas that you can view here and here, and one “Skull Session” episode with Dan Henk that you can view here. I’m grateful to Toi and Dan for reminding me who I am and who I want to be during this at-times harsh recovery process.
    • An interview that Mason Adams of West Virginia Public Radio’s “Inside Appalachia” conducted with me and with Anita that aired just in time for Halloween. I read a passage from my long-time horror standby “The Button Bin” and talked about things that made me what I am now and name-dropped several other writers with Roanoke and Appalachian connections.
    • R.S. Belcher, yours truly and Amanda J. McGee at Book No Further’s “Dark Tales from the Star City” reading and signing.

    • Two Halloween-adjacent book signing and selling events, the first at Roanoke’s independent store Book No Further, during which I joined forces with fellow Roanoke supernatural yarn spinners R. S. Belcher and Amanda J. McGee to give a street-side reading titled Dark Tales from the Star City. For the second event, Anita and I returned to the Libbie Place Barnes & Noble in Richmond for Halloween Hangover II, where so many horror authors turned up that it was practically a StokerCon reunion. Highlights included catching up with Lucas Marino, whom we first met at StokerCon, and reconnecting with Krishna Knott, our longtime buddy from No Shame Theatre’s downtown Roanoke heyday.
    • Behind the table but in front of the DVDs at Halloween Hangover II in Richmond.

    • A surprise invitation to be Author Guest of Honor at next year’s CrashCityCon in Roanoke!
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    • On the Mythic Delirium front, C. S. E. Cooney’s 2022 collection Dark Breakers was a finalist for the World Fantasy Award! And though Dark Breakers didn’t win Best Collection, Claire did win Best Novel for Saint Death’s Daughter, much to our delight! (We sold copies of that bright pink paperback (rendered blood red in the photo, haha) at our Boskone table in February, and sold out of what we had, doncha know!)
    • And further congratulations are in order to Yukimi Ogawa, whose collection Like Smoke, Like Light was listed by Publishers Weekly as one of seven Best SF/Fantasy/Horror Books of 2023! Watch for a promotion built around this delightful honor in the (hopefully) near future.
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    • Last but hardly least, I participated with authors Arula Ratnakar and Michael Swanwick in a delightful discussion about using research to inform fiction, hosted Nov. 3 by the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts.

    Perhaps next year I’ll have it together enough to return to blogging about cool things before they happen . . . but I’m not planning to hold my breath, hahaha!

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    A new World Fantasy Award nomination for C.S.E. Cooney: celebratory sale! https://mythicdelirium.com/9353 https://mythicdelirium.com/9353#respond Mon, 02 Oct 2023 00:47:02 +0000 https://mythicdelirium.com/?p=9353 This is so exciting! We at Mythic Delirium Books (that is, Anita and I and Sydney) are thrilled that Dark Breakers, our second collection of short fiction from World Fantasy Award winner C.S.E. Cooney, has been named a World Fantasy Award finalist in its own right in the Best Story Collection category! Congratulations again Claire! We like to celebrate occasions like this by making our books more accessible — so we have for a limited time made the e-book editions

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    This is so exciting! We at Mythic Delirium Books (that is, Anita and I and Sydney) are thrilled that Dark Breakers, our second collection of short fiction from World Fantasy Award winner C.S.E. Cooney, has been named a World Fantasy Award finalist in its own right in the Best Story Collection category!

    Congratulations again Claire!

    We like to celebrate occasions like this by making our books more accessible — so we have for a limited time made the e-book editions of all Claire’s titles with us available for 99¢!

    Wondering what the stories in Dark Breakers are like? You can read two sample stories here on our site: “Salissay’s Laundries” and “Longergreen.”

    Get the e-books on special at the links below.

     
    Dark Breakers

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    Saint

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    Bone Swans

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    ]]> https://mythicdelirium.com/9353/feed 0 DARK BREAKERS is a World Fantasy Award finalist and more: an overdue update https://mythicdelirium.com/9336 https://mythicdelirium.com/9336#respond Tue, 05 Sep 2023 20:06:43 +0000 https://mythicdelirium.com/?p=9336 The process of recovering from my knee reconstruction surgery has placed me woefully behind in sharing the cool and amazing things that have been happening on the Mythic Delirium Books front. I’m going to try to make up for that now. I’ve not been doing enough, I think, to remind folks that, teeny tiny as we are, we still manage to make a lot of cool stuff happen. Most recent and most wonderful: Dark Breakers by C. S. E. Cooney (our

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    The process of recovering from my knee reconstruction surgery has placed me woefully behind in sharing the cool and amazing things that have been happening on the Mythic Delirium Books front. I’m going to try to make up for that now. I’ve not been doing enough, I think, to remind folks that, teeny tiny as we are, we still manage to make a lot of cool stuff happen.

    Most recent and most wonderful: Dark Breakers by C. S. E. Cooney (our sole 2022 release as we emerged from the first years of the pandemic) made the shortlist for the World Fantasy Awards in the collection category. Congrats to Claire! As the publishers of Cooney’s World Fantasy Award-winning debut Bone Swans, this endorsement of her follow-up collection by the WFA judges means the world to us.

    The April issue of Locus Magazine contained a beautiful review of The Collected Enchantments by Theodora Goss (one of our three exciting 25th anniversary year showpieces!). Gary K. Wolfe wrote that the release of Enchantments continues “a banner year for retrospective short story collections.”

    And the August issue of Locus Magazine held a glowing review of Like Smoke, Like Light, the debut collection of short fiction from Yukimi Ogawa (and another pillar of our little company’s 25th anniversary trifecta.) Reviewer Ian Mond seconds introduction author Francesca Forrest’s assertion that Ogawa’s a ‘‘remarkable light in the science fiction and fantasy firmament.’’

    Locus has already showered praise multiple times on C.S.E. Cooney’s audacious novel The Twice-Drowned Saint (our third 25th anniversary title!) that dates back to when it first appeared in slightly different form in our anthology A Sinister Quartet. I plucked this quote from Ian Mond’s review of current World Fantasy Award candidate Dark Breakers. (With an addition from Southern Bookseller Review.)

    BONUS: In an absolute first for Mythic Delirium, Lasse Paldanius’ cover and illustrations for The Twice-Drowned Saint were the basis for an amazing solo exhibition in Finland. (We do want to note for completeness sake that many pieces Paula Arwen Owen has created for us have been subsequently shown in galleries or even repurposed for installations!) Check out these stills from Lasse’s show, shared with his permission!



    That gets me (mostly) caught up — whew!
     

    Cross-posted to Descent Into Light

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    LIKE SMOKE, LIKE LIGHT is here + four questions with Yukimi Ogawa https://mythicdelirium.com/9308 https://mythicdelirium.com/9308#respond Wed, 21 Jun 2023 10:58:40 +0000 https://mythicdelirium.com/?p=9308 The third book release planned for Mythic Delirium’s 25th anniversary celebration has launched! You can now purchase Yukimi Ogawa’s debut Like Smoke, Like Light wherever books are sold online, and even in at least a few physical stores. (If your local store isn’t carrying it, by all means, request that they order it.) As we did in February with our first two 2023 releases, we’re commemorating this event by sharing a quick interview with author Yukimi Ogawa about her inspirations

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    The third book release planned for Mythic Delirium’s 25th anniversary celebration has launched! You can now purchase Yukimi Ogawa’s debut Like Smoke, Like Light wherever books are sold online, and even in at least a few physical stores. (If your local store isn’t carrying it, by all means, request that they order it.)

    As we did in February with our first two 2023 releases, we’re commemorating this event by sharing a quick interview with author Yukimi Ogawa about her inspirations and writing process.

    (For our first release of the year, novel The Twice-Drowned Saint by C. S. E. Cooney, you can find our three questions with the author here, and for the second, The Collected Enchantments by Theodora Goss, you can find her answers to our three questions here.)

    During the lead-up to publication, Yukimi’s debut earned stellar plaudits from Publishers Weekly:

    “Ogawa’s debut collection of 17 speculative shorts stuns with its delicacy … There’s a gorgeous fluidity to these tales that makes them hard to pin down, as they often end somewhere very different from where they began. Harkening back to the oldest folk and fairy tales and raising pointed questions about how humans value and devalue each other, this is a showstopper.”
    Publishers Weekly, starred review

    And check out this amazing picture by Anita Allen that contains both smoke and light:

    In case you missed it: click here to read Yukimi Ogawa’s ‘Big Idea’ essay at John Scalzi’s blog

     

    Four questions with Yukimi Ogawa

    Yukimi Ogawa

    Yukimi Ogawa

    Q: Your collection Like Smoke, Like Light blurs and breaks genre boundaries, but it does loosely hold two distinct groupings of stories, some of which are based on monsters from Japanese folklore, and some of which explore a society you created, known as the “colorful island.” Do you have distinct processes for creating these tales?

    “The ideas come from different places of my brain, I think, because the colorful island was all made up by me, but I need to go look for ideas for yokai/folklore stories. But the processes of writing are more or less the same. All I want while I write a story is to get it written, and I don’t think I have much room left for worrying about genres. I just put in elements the story seems to need, and it ends up in that wee place in between genres …”

    Q: What sort of research do you undertake for the yokai stories?

    “I love flipping through Toriyama Sekien’s bestiaries, and enjoy going to yokai-themed exhibitions (and buy the catalogue sometimes.) I try to not be too inventive about yokai because they are traditional to our culture, but not be restricted by the folklore too much either. The balance is important, but difficult to keep!”

    Q: What are you working on right now?

    “Another yokai story—I really hope this turns out okay, because I like the protagonist.”

    Q: What does it mean to you to have this debut collection of short stories out in the world?

    “Other than hugging it and dancing, singing ‘I haaave a boooook!’? Well. I think I’m something of an outlier here … having a book out in my second language that I don’t really speak, consisting of stories published in magazines and books from foreign countries. I, with help from many others of course, achieved something that wouldn’t have been achievable, say, fifteen years ago. I’d be really delighted if this book gives someone a moment, in which they wonder, if the thing they think is impossible now may not be entirely, totally impossible.”

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    DARK BREAKERS by C.S.E. Cooney is a Locus Award finalist! + Special Celebratory Sale https://mythicdelirium.com/9283 https://mythicdelirium.com/9283#respond Fri, 02 Jun 2023 03:45:00 +0000 https://mythicdelirium.com/?p=9283 We at Mythic Delirium Books (that is, Anita and I and Sydney) are thrilled that Dark Breakers, our second collection of short fiction from World Fantasy Award winner C.S.E. Cooney, has been a named a 2023 Locus Award finalist in the Best Story Collection category! Congratulations, Claire! Traditionally we celebrate such honors by making the works in question more accessible, and this occasion is no different. In fact, we have made the e-book editions of all Claire’s titles with us

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    We at Mythic Delirium Books (that is, Anita and I and Sydney) are thrilled that Dark Breakers, our second collection of short fiction from World Fantasy Award winner C.S.E. Cooney, has been a named a 2023 Locus Award finalist in the Best Story Collection category!

    Congratulations, Claire!

    Traditionally we celebrate such honors by making the works in question more accessible, and this occasion is no different. In fact, we have made the e-book editions of all Claire’s titles with us (Bone Swans, Dark Breakers, The Twice-Drowned Saint) available for $1.99 for a limited time. Considering all three books in total, that’s a price discount of almost 70%.

    However, not only have we lowered the e-book prices most all your favorite online stores, but we have a special offer that’s even better that you can only take advantage of here on this page. Use the PayPal button below to purchase all three e-books for one low price of $5. That’s a discount of 74%!

    Wondering what the stories in Dark Breakers are like? You can read two sample stories here on our site: “Salissay’s Laundries” and “Longergreen.”

    Scroll down to the links below
    to take advantage of this e-book special.

    Get the e-books on special at the links below.

     
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    Saint

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    Exclusive Mythic Delirium Deal: All Three Ebooks for $5

     

     

    $5 for all three

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    ]]> https://mythicdelirium.com/9283/feed 0 LIKE SMOKE, LIKE LIGHT by Yukimi Ogawa: cover reveal and pre-order announcement! https://mythicdelirium.com/9258 https://mythicdelirium.com/9258#respond Tue, 04 Apr 2023 02:47:08 +0000 https://mythicdelirium.com/?p=9258 As we begin the fourth month of Mythic Delirium’s 25th anniversary year, I’m thrilled to share that the third of the three new books promised for this occasion is now available for pre-order: Like Smoke, Like Light, the debut collection of short fiction by Yukimi Ogawa. I’m also thrilled to once again be working with paper artist Paula Arwen Owen, who has been a part of our extended family since the days when Mythic Delirium was a biannual poetry zine

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    As we begin the fourth month of Mythic Delirium’s 25th anniversary year, I’m thrilled to share that the third of the three new books promised for this occasion is now available for pre-order: Like Smoke, Like Light, the debut collection of short fiction by Yukimi Ogawa.

    I’m also thrilled to once again be working with paper artist Paula Arwen Owen, who has been a part of our extended family since the days when Mythic Delirium was a biannual poetry zine and a sister publication to Weird Tales. Beyond these brilliant covers and deft reflections of Ogawa’s blurring of genre boundaries, this art will reward those who can heft the book in their hands and savor every hidden detail.

    “Her work is unexpected, often horrific, and always enthralling. Weaving Japanese folklore in with the new, the weird, and science fiction horror elements, Ogawa’s body of work is prolific and evergreen.”
    —Thea James, Tor.com

    The book official comes out June 20, but you can purchase it now — any links shared here that are not active yet soon will be.

    Cover art by Paula Arwen Owen

    Pre-order now!

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    The book features an insightful introduction by author Francesca Forrest, another longtime member of our extended Mythic Delirium family. And Paula has contributed not only a wraparound cover, but interior illustrations as well.
     

     

     


     
    Much more to share in the days ahead!
     

    Cross-posted to Descent Into Light

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    Three questions for Theodora Goss + THE COLLECTED ENCHANTMENTS is here! https://mythicdelirium.com/9207 https://mythicdelirium.com/9207#respond Tue, 14 Feb 2023 04:04:25 +0000 https://mythicdelirium.com/?p=9207 And now, debut day has arrived for Theodora Goss’s new collection The Collected Enchantments, the second release of Mythic Delirium’s 25th anniversary celebration! (Read more about the first, novel The Twice-Drowned Saint by C. S. E. Cooney, here.) As of today, both The Collected Enchantments and The Twice-Drowned Saint are available everywhere books are sold. If your local store or library doesn’t have them, consider asking them to acquire copies. To reiterate: Mythic Delirium will have a presence at Boskone

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    And now, debut day has arrived for Theodora Goss’s new collection The Collected Enchantments, the second release of Mythic Delirium’s 25th anniversary celebration! (Read more about the first, novel The Twice-Drowned Saint by C. S. E. Cooney, here.)

    Photo by Anita Allen

    Photo by Anita Allen.

    As of today, both The Collected Enchantments and The Twice-Drowned Saint are available everywhere books are sold. If your local store or library doesn’t have them, consider asking them to acquire copies.

    To reiterate: Mythic Delirium will have a presence at Boskone 60 from Feb. 17-19, and if you want to get a signed copy, that’s the place to be. Anita and I will be manning a table in the dealer’s room, and authors C. S. E. Cooney and Theodora Goss will be present for a book party Saturday the 18th at 5:30 p.m. and group reading Sunday the 19th at 11:30 a.m. (Click here to see my schedule; click here to see Claire’s schedule; click here to see Dora’s schedule.)

    Here is the full schedule of Mythic Delirium-related events:

    Saturday

  • 5:30 PM. Boskone Book Party/Autographing. Mike Allen, C. S. E. Cooney, Theodora Goss, Dana Cameron, Michael Green, Andrea Hairston, Laurie Mann, Steve Miller, Yvette Lisa Ndlovu, Annalee Newitz, Cat Scully, Jane Yolen. Come join the fun at Boskone 60’s Book Party. You’ll meet the authors and publishers who have new books coming out at the con! This is your chance to see what’s new from writers you already love, as well as those you have yet to discover.
  • Sunday

  • 11:30 AM: Group Reading: Mythic Delirium Books. Mike Allen, moderator. C. S. E. Cooney, Theodora Goss. Our group reading will feature three readers from Mythic Delirium Books who will each read from one of their published or in-process works. They will also host an author Q&A as time permits.
  • We hope to see you there, but in case you can’t make it (or even if you can) here’s a bit of extra to make up for not getting to hang out with us in person right this moment:

    Three questions for Theodora Goss

    Q: What does it mean to you to have this comprehensive overview of your short fiction and poetry available for readers?

    “I loved putting this book together so much. I write all sorts of things, but at heart I’m a fantasy writer, in both prose and poetry–and this collection brings together what I think are the best fantastical short stories I’ve written, as well as the best fantastical poetry, since I started writing professionally. I don’t know, I hope I picked the right stories, but these are my favorites and I’m so glad that I could bring them together into one manuscript, where they could curl up next to one another, whisper to one another—princesses and goose girls, bears and dragons, ogres and poets and witches and all the denizens of fantasy, including the ordinary people who wander there and are usually not so ordinary after all.”

     

    Q: What makes you decide to approach folk and fairy tale themes in prose and what makes you choose poetry?
    “I’m not sure I’m the one who decides that! I think the stories themselves decide what they want to be. Sometimes they want to be stories in poetry, and sometimes they want to be stories in prose. I suppose that has to do with the way I write. Sometimes, it doesn’t even feel as though I’m writing, at least during the first draft. It’s as though I can hear the words, and sometimes they’re poetry words, and sometimes they’re prose words. I write them down, and they create a shape, a pattern. And then of course I have to go back and revise—that’s when I can make decisions. But by then the basic pattern of whatever I’m writing has been set, the basic shape is already there and I’m refining, trying to make the outline of that shape clearer, fiddling with the colors or the pattern. If the initial inspiration isn’t there, if the words aren’t talking to me, I can’t write anything—so I find that I have to be listening. But when I listen, when I pay attention, there they are, as though the whole world were made of words.”

     

    Q: What are you doing now and what do you have coming up?
    “I’m teaching and writing! Which is usually what I’m doing. I’m not quite sure yet what the next project will be, but I hope readers will like it. And in the meantime, they can find me online, and of course in the pages of this book—but hopefully they will find themselves in it as well, because it’s really a mirror, or maybe a forest where you can find yourself, or the house of Mother Night. Or probably, all of those at once.”

     

    Buy The Collected Enchantments now!


    Hardcover: Barnes & Noble | Amazon | Amazon UK | Amazon CA | Amazon FR | Amazon DE | Amazon AU | Bookshop

    Trade Paperback: Barnes & Noble | Amazon | Amazon UK | Amazon CA | Amazon FR | Amazon DE | Amazon AU | Bookshop

    Ebook: Amazon | Amazon UK | Amazon CA | Amazon FR | Amazon DE
    Amazon AU | Nook | iBooks | Kobo | Google Play

     

    Cross-posted to Descent to Light


     

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    ]]> https://mythicdelirium.com/9207/feed 0 25th anniversary book releases: quick around-the-web round-up https://mythicdelirium.com/9199 https://mythicdelirium.com/9199#respond Fri, 10 Feb 2023 05:10:32 +0000 https://mythicdelirium.com/?p=9199 As we prepare for the official in-person launch party at Boskone for The Twice-Drowned Saint by C. S. E. Cooney and The Collected Enchantments by Theodora Goss, it’s been gratifying to see both books get nice notices. From book blogger Sia at Every Book a Doorway, a stunningly lovely and fun review of The Twice-Drowned Saint: Cooney routinely leaves me speechless, and The Twice-Drowned Saint is no exception — despite having read it twice, I have no idea how to

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    As we prepare for the official in-person launch party at Boskone for The Twice-Drowned Saint by C. S. E. Cooney and The Collected Enchantments by Theodora Goss, it’s been gratifying to see both books get nice notices.

    From book blogger Sia at Every Book a Doorway, a stunningly lovely and fun review of The Twice-Drowned Saint:

    Cooney routinely leaves me speechless, and The Twice-Drowned Saint is no exception — despite having read it twice, I have no idea how to describe, never mind explain, this brilliantly, beautifully bizarre little novel, with its properly unbiblical angels, a possessed police-force, and a sacred cinema of silent, black-and-white movies! What am I supposed to say???

    I loved it. Obviously.

    In The Fairy Tale Magazine, reviewer Kelly Jarvis has kind words to share about The Collected Enchantments:

    In her introduction, Goss reveals that it “took a long time . . . to become a writer. I’m still working on the sorceress part.” Her beautiful collection, part writing and part magic, proves that she has become both.

    The Collected Enchantments is an essential read for all who love fairy tales, fantasy, witchcraft, and magic

    The Collected Enchantments also made the Book Riot list of “11 Speculative Short Story Collections to Look Forward to in 2023.”

    So, so busy, but more to share soon!

    Cross-posted to Descent into Light

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