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

Thanks to a surprise opportunity, e-book editions of the Mythic Delirium Books anthologies and collections (and a number of my own books, too) are now available on Google Play, the Android equivalent of iBooks. One feature of Google Play that particularly impresses me: readers who buy a book can toggle back and forth between an EPUB edition and a PDF edition, thus having the choice of a standard e-book with flowing text and a facsimile of the print book available

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

I’m very proud to announce that two stories from the Clockwork Phoenix series will be included in a major new anthology, The Mammoth Book of SF by Women, edited by Alex Dally MacFarlane and due out later this year.   The stories Alex chose:   • “On the Leitmotif of the Trickster Constellation in Northern Hemispheric Star Charts, Post-Apocalypse” by Nicole Kornher-Stace from Clockwork Phoenix 4   • “Tomorrow Is Saint Valentine’s Day” by Tori Truslow from Clockwork Phoenix 3

I’m pleased to be able share three stories from our anthology Clockwork Phoenix 3: New Tales of Beauty and Strangeness.   Marie Brennan re-imagines the story of the expulsion from Eden in “The Gospel of Nachash.”   C.S.E. Cooney shares a dark and bittersweet tale of love, transgressions and vengeful spirits in her novelette “Braiding the Ghosts.”   Cat Rambo offers a hallucinatory future vision in “Surrogates.”   I hope you enjoy these. Come back for more!   #SFWApro

We at Mythic Delirium Books (meaning Anita and I) were delighted yesterday to learn that Tanith Lee will receive a much-deserved Lifetime Achievement Award at the World Fantasy Convention in Brighton, UK this Novemeber.   Tanith is one of only two authors (the other being Marie Brennan) to contribute stories to all four volumes of Clockwork Phoenix. The complete list: “The Woman” in Clockwork Phoenix “The Pain of Glass” in Clockwork Phoenix 2 “Fold” in Clockwork Phoenix 3 “A Little