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

Tiffany Trent, author of the young adult novels The Unnaturalists and The Tinker King, has added to the accumulating accolades for C.S.E. Cooney’s debut collection Bone Swans:   C.S.E. Cooney’s Bone Swans is like visiting a literary Ys. Coaxed by her deft hand, lands and people long lost to memory resurface, breaking through the hearts of readers with the force of a gentle tsunami. Once that wave has broken over you, you are never the same.   We’ve got an

C.S.E. Cooney‘s debut collection Bone Swans keeps accumulating accolades, the latest coming from fantasy author Nicole Kornher-Stace:   If your familiarity begins and ends with C.S.E. Cooney’s poetry, do yourself a favor and stick around for these novellas. If you aren’t new to her stories, know that you will find her here at the top of her not inconsiderable game. Highly original, mythic in scope, lyrically told, just plain fun.   Don’t forget that we plan to debut Cooney’s book

Andre Norton Award winner Ysabeau S. Wilce (author of Flora’s Dare) has some very kind words for Bone Swans by C.S.E. Cooney, the first-ever single author collection from Mythic Delirium Books:   “Bone Swans is a joy of feathery bones & ghoulish clowns. I adored every word. Like an eyas cries for meat, I cry for more. C.S.E. Cooney’s a major talent and these are major talent stories. Who can resist hero rats, pouting swans, feral children, flying carpets and

The paperback edition of C. S. E. Cooney’s Bone Swans (the first ever solo-author short fiction collection from Mythic Delirium Books) is now available for pre-order. You can reserve your copy at Amazon, Amazon UK or Barnes & Noble (and presumably more places will be selling it soon.)   Cooney’s book collects five fantasy novellas: “Life on the Sun,” “The Bone Swans of Amandale” (a knockout piece, original to this collection), “Martyr’s Gem” (previously featured in The Year’s Best Science

UPDATE: And the winner is … Shawna Lenore Kastin. Thanks to all who participated! So, first, the giveaway rules: If you want to enter this giveaway for C.S.E. Cooney’s beautiful debut fantasy collection Bone Swans (introduction by Gene Wolfe, coming in July from Mythic Delirium Books, i.e. Anita’n’me) just leave a comment on this blog post (or the duplicate ones at Descent into Light or The Plasteel Spider Factory). Creativity encouraged, but not required: “Me! Me! Me, please!” will suffice.