Mythic Delirium begins its third year as a digital publication (yes, two whole years have past since our print-to-electronic metamorphosis, wow) with three tales of magical protagonists haunted by past events. (See the new issue here.)   We join a vampire moving in the worlds of high fashion and higher powers; a sea witch crashing a royal wedding with a (familial) blood score to settle; an enchanted chess game with life-and-death consequences, with the opponents separated by a century.  

Promotion one: My Shirley Jackson Award-nominated horror story collection Unseaming is the featured book today at Kindle Books and Tips. Coinciding with this, the ebook is available on Kindle, discounted from $5.99 to 99¢, till Tuesday. Check out the promotion here: http://wp.me/p2b82w-70x   Promotion two: There’s just six days left to sign up for a chance to win one of the remaining ARCs of C.S.E. Cooney’s debut fantasy collection Bone Swans. Check out the Goodreads giveaway here: https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/142353   We,

As our last warm-up exercise before the official release of C.S.E. Cooney’s debut collection Bone Swans, we’re giving away advance reading copies on Goodreads. Five lucky winners will each get to take one home. For a chance to be among them, sign up below!   Goodreads Book Giveaway Bone Swans by C.S.E. Cooney Giveaway ends June 26, 2015. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter Giveaway   Bone Swans will official debut at Readercon (July 9-12 in Boston).If you won’t

The latest issue of Locus Magazine holds a lovely review by Faren Miller of C.S.E. Cooney’s debut collection Bone Swans. (Just in time for us to add it to the finalized version of the cover!)   “Writing without ostentation and featuring characters who may be flippant, terse, or even tongue-tied, Cooney produces memorable prose propelled by extraordinary ideas…Faced with such twisted genius, I’ll say no more!”   Congratulations to Claire! And here’s another reminder that we’ll officially debut Bone Swans

Just after finishing our successful Kickstarter campaign for Clockwork Phoenix 5, we complete the second year of Mythic Delirium Mark II with our featured content for June.   In “‘Kid’ Cooper & the Blackwood Ape-Man,” Adam Howe fuses history and folklore to sculpt a rollicking tale set in the American South. With sharp strokes, Natalia Theodoridou reexamines a gruesome Greek tragedy in “Philomela in Seven Movements.” Dominik Parisien wryly muses on the monstrous nature of art and the artistic nature

The dust is starting to settle from our successful Kickstarter to launch Clockwork Phoenix 5. What an intense May.   During that frantic time a wonderful thing happened that I want to make sure folks didn’t miss. The first official review appeared of C.S.E. Cooney’s debut collection of fantasy stories, Bone Swans, and it was a starred review from Publishers Weekly!   Cooney’s brilliantly executed collection of five stories is a delicious stew of science fiction, horror, and fantasy, marked

The wonderful if rhetorically awkward thing about Kickstarter is that, to give credit where credit is due, one must say thank you to everyone at every stage in the campaign, over and over and over again.   Thank you to everyone who pledged. To everyone who raised their pledges. (Some several times!) To everyone who found themselves in tight financial spots yet still made some sacrifice for this campaign because they wanted it to succeed.   Thank you to everyone

This morning I learned that Tanith Lee has passed away. Tanith had stories in all four of the previous volumes of Clockwork Phoenix. As Anita put it in a metaphor I know Tanith would appreciate, she was part of the spine of Clockwork Phoenix. Tanith’s story “The Woman” was the very first story I ever accepted for Clockwork Phoenix, back when we were being published through Vera Nazarian’s Norilana Books. With its rich language, sumptuous setting, surreal atmosphere and provocative

The following entry was originally posted as a Clockwork Phoenix 5 Kickstarter update. There’s just 8 days left, and the campaign still needs a lot of help. Check it out

The following entry was originally posted as a Clockwork Phoenix 5 Kickstarter update. Check out the campaign here. Just 10 days left!   Howdy, Clockwork Phoenix 5 backers!   Thanks again for your help in making this book happen. We’re in the second half of the game, for certain — the points on the board are promising, but the clock is ticking down.   A bunch of new backers have signed on, which is wonderful! I hope you folks will