Anita and I will be on all kinds of panels and workshops at the upcoming MystiCon convention right here in Roanoke. I’ll be reading from my novel The Black Fire Concerto and Anita and I together will be talking about Clockwork Phoenix and anthologies in general, and Anita, it seems, will be sharing her costuming know-how just about everywhere. Here’s what our schedules look like:   Friday, Feb. 21 4 p.m. Anita. Two hour costume workshop. 7 p.m. Anita. Panel:

Locus Magazine unveiled the 2013 Locus Recommended Reading List this past weekend, and we’re proud to report that three stories from Clockwork Phoenix 4 made the list.   For the novelette category, the panel chose our dark secondary-world fantasy “The Canal Barge Magician’s Number Nine Daughter” by Australian writer Ian McHugh.   For the short story category, the panel picked two tales that have already gotten a lot of buzz: Kenneth Schneyer’s subtle supernatural story “Selected Program Notes from the

Our February featured content from the virtual pages of Mythic Delirium 0.3 has just gone live, with fiction by Kenneth Schneyer and poetry by J.C. Runolfson and David Sklar. Click the links below to check them out, click here to check out the entire issue, and click here if you’d like to subscribe.   Levels of Observation • Kenneth Schneyer Zora Neale Hurston Meets Felicia Felix-Mentor on the Road • J.C. Runolfson Cat’s Canticle • David Sklar   #SFWApro

I’m pleased to announce that we’ve expanded this website’s sample platter of what’s available in our publications by just a bit more this week.   From Clockwork Phoenix 4, we’re offering Shira Lipkin’s joyful headtrip of a tale, “Happy Hour at the Tooth and Claw.” Compare her story with Ken Schneyer’s from the same volume, and you’ll have all the proof you need that unusual formatting doesn’t scare us off.   We’re also offering some recent and classic selections from

A number of awards in the science fiction, fantasy and horror fields have opened to nominations for what was best in 2013, and I wanted to note that Clockwork Phoenix 4 and the eighteen stories within are all eligible.   Obviously, Clockwork Phoenix 4 is eligible for Best Anthology, for awards that have such a category.   The following are eligible for Best Novelette categories: “The Canal Barge Magician’s Number Nine Daughter” by Ian McHugh “A Little of the Night”

We at Mythic Delirium Books (i.e me’n’Anita) were proud to learn that two stories from Clockwork Phoenix 4 are being reprinted in “Year’s Best” anthologies.   Tanith Lee’s eerie novelette “A Little of the Night” has been chosen to appear in The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2014 edited by Paula Guran.   Benjanun Sriduangkaew’s far future sf story “The Bees Her Heart, the Hive Her Belly” has been picked for The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2014

We’re celebrating the new year with the release of our first issue of 2014. This wintery mix, full of bones and dire straits, features stories by Nicole Kornher-Stace, Kenneth Schneyer and Robert Davies, and poems by Lisa M. Bradley, Sandi Leibowitz, J.C. Runolfson, David Sklar, Christina Sng and Beth Cato. To receive the full issue, you can subscribe, or purchase individual copies at Weightless Books or Amazon.   Our January content is already online. Nicole Kornher-Stace brings us a harrowing

Lois Tilton, short fiction reviewer for Locus Online, posted her year-in-review column Sunday, saying Clockwork Phoenix 4 was her favorite anthology of 2013.   My favorite of the year’s anthologies had a large number of fine stories with long titles. I was especially impressed by Kenneth Schneyer’s enigmatic “Selected Program Notes from the Retrospective Exhibition of Theresa Rosenberg Latimer”, a puzzling mystery in the form of a sequence of paintings. Also: “On the Leitmotive of the Trickster Constellation in Northern

Here’s the contents of our next issue, Mythic Delirium 0.3, on sale in January. The stories in this issue are by Nicole Kornher-Stace, Kenneth Schneyer and Robert Davies; and the poems are by Lisa M. Bradley, Sandi Leibowitz, J.C. Runolfson, David Sklar, Christina Sng and Beth Cato. There’s a theme of bones and mortification (of the flesh) to many of these pieces, which makes our cover by Anita Allen (my wifey!) all the more fitting.   Here’s the complete list,

December’s featured content from Mythic Delirium 0.2 went live on Dec. 1, including a quirky tale of faeries, tattoos and addiction from David Sklar, an equally quirky poem from David about onion layers, and a poem of inconvenient bees from Brigitte N. McCray. Enjoy!   Flap • David Sklar   The Girl Who Learned to Live with Bees in Her Hair • Brigitte N. McCray   The Onion Prince • David Sklar   #SFWApro