It’s not been easy, being a journalist working from home during the COVID-19 crisis; and now I’m journalist placed on unpaid furlough for a week because of the dent that same crisis has made in advertising purchases. However! One positive development is that it gives me some time to update items on my blogs that sorely need updating. Certainly nowadays folks get their very first news about creative developments from the social media accounts of the personages involved; however, such

Mythic Delirium Books is proud at last to announce our next release, A Sinister Quartet, scheduled to drop June 9, 2020. It’s the biggest book we’ve ever put together, gathering four stories that, combined, amount to more than 150,000 words of wondrously weird dark fantasy and horror. These eerie stories go long. The book begins with an original short novel from C. S. E. Cooney, author of the World Fantasy Award-winning Bone Swans: Stories, also available from Mythic Delirium Books.

The latest Association of Jewish Libraries newsletter contains a lovely (if somewhat spoilerific!) review of The History of Soul 2065 by Barbara Krasnoff. Here’s some highlights, sans the spoiler-y parts: “This book of connected short stories traces several generations of two childhood friends: Chana Krasulka and Sophia Stein. In each story, a character is touched by the supernatural, spirits from the past, present, or future, and occasionally Time itself . . . The characters, mostly Jewish, are engaging and relatable.

In part in the spirit of awards season, in part in the spirit of promotion, in part in the spirit of sharing a really cool and wonderful thing to an audience, we have made Barbara Krasnoff’s short story “An Awfully Big Adventure” available to read for free on our site. This story was published for the first time in The History of Soul 2065, Barbara’s short story collection that’s also a mosaic novel, which we released in June. Over at

In 2019, Mythic Delirium Books completed its transition from publishing a mixture of books and magazine issues to putting out only books. We put out two books in 2019, Snow White Learns Witchcraft by Theodora Goss and The History of Soul 2065 by Barbara Krasnoff. We pride ourselves at Mythic Delirium on our willingness to get behind great books that more commercial publishers are squeamish about because they don’t fit in neat categories, and we certainly stuck to that mission.

I’m posting one more reminder that two Mythic Delirium Books authors will be reading today in the Fantastic Fiction at KGB series held every third Wednesday of the month at the storied KGB bar in Manhattan: Nicole Kornher-Stace, author of Latchkey, and Barbara Krasnoff, author of The History of Soul 2065. If you can make it there, you don’t want to miss out.

At Readercon in July, Mythic Delirium Books (i.e. Anita and me) managed to pull off a spectacularly successful launch for The History of Soul 2065 by Barbara Krasnoff, as well as a secondary stage launch for Snow White Learns Witchcraft by Theodora Goss — we sold out all of our copies of both books! While I hope to recap all of that more thoroughly at some point in the not too distant future, I’m playing a different sort of catch

Today is Theodora Goss’s birthday, and we’re adding to the festivities in our own way, by adding additional verses to the collection’s contents. All editions of Snow White Learns Witchcraft now contain a 24th poem, “In the Snow Queen’s Castle,” original to the book, as well as a revision to the previously included poem “Mr. Fox.” Also, the $2.99 special celebrating the impending release of Dora’s new novel The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl continues through at least this

In anticipation of the Oct. 1 release of Theodora Goss’s next novel, The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl, we at Mythic Delirium Books decided to hold a half-price sale on the electronic edition of our own 2019 Theodora Goss release, Snow White Learns Witchcraft: Stories and Poems. Through (at least) Oct. 3, the e-book will be available for $2.99 (or the currency equivalent) in the following bookseller venues:   Amazon | Amazon UK | Amazon CA | Amazon FR

I certainly didn’t expect, 15 months after shutting down Mythic Delirium, that I was ever going to have more news to share about my dear, departed zine. July proved me wrong. First, let me congratulate Beth Cato, for winning the 2019 Rhysling Award in the short poem category with “After Her Brother Ripped the Heads from Her Paper Dolls,” a poem that’s as much about the November 2016 election as it is about supernatural vengeance. Well done and well deserved!