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

The History of Soul 2065 by Barbara Krasnoff Introduction by Jane Yolen Scheduled for release June 11, 2019 ISBN 978-1732644014 | $15.95 | 220 pages   “This is storytelling at the top of the heap.”—Jane Yolen, winner of the World Fantasy Awardfor lifetime achivement “Achingly familiar and wonderfully strange.”—Samuel R. Delany, Hugo and Nebula Award winner “Plunge into The History of Soul 2065, there’s nothing like it.”

So here’s a fun thing I realized I could do. Inspired by my colleagues over at Black Gate, where, in another geologic era, I was a quasi-occasional guest blogger, I’ve assembled a list of the most-read stories and poems on this website from the beginning of July through the end of December 2016. Why only half the year? I’ll try to keep it short and amusing. I’m not a luddite, but neither am I a technophile, so I don’t rush

Short fiction review site Tangent Online has released its 2016 Recommended Reading List, which includes eight of the twenty stories from Clockwork Phoenix 5. They are:   “The Wind at His Back” by Jason Kimble “The Fall Shall Further the Flight in Me” by Rachael K. Jones “The Perfect Happy Family” by Patricia Russo “Squeeze” by Rob Cameron “The Sorcerer of Etah” by Gray Rinehart “The Trinitite Golem” by Sonya Taaffe “The Games We Play” by Cassandra Khaw “Innumerable Glimmering

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 proud to report that two stories from Clockwork Phoenix 4 were chosen to be showcased in Imaginarium 3: The Best Canadian Speculative Fiction, edited by Sandra Kasturi and Helen Marshall and due out from Chizine Publications at the end of the year.   Congralulations to Gemma Files, author of “Trap-weed,” and A.C. Wise, author of “Lesser Creek: A Love Story, A Ghost Story.” It’s wonderful to see these stories keep making waves.   In terms of award-nominated and “best

I’m lagging behind in reporting this, but better than never reporting it at all, as they say. Audio website Podcastle has posted an adaptation of Patricia Russo’s humorous and touching “The Old Woman With No Teeth” from Clockwork Phoenix 4. Wilson Fowlie and M.K. Hobson read the parts of the scribe and the Old Woman, respectively.   This is the third Podcastle adapation of a Clockwork Phoenix 4 story story. Listen to Kenneth Schneyer’s “Selected Program Notes From the Retrospective

So it appears the remarkable run for the stories in Clockwork Phoenix 4 isn’t over yet.   Congratulations to Gemma Files, whose dark fantasy tale “Trap-weed” is a finalist for the 2014 WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction. The winner, chosen by the Washington Science Fiction Association, gets announced next month at Capclave in Maryland.   This is actually Gemma’s second Clockwork Phoenix contribution to take a shot at the WSFA. Her novelette co-written with her husband Stephen J.

Congratulations to the following contributors to Clockwork Phoenix 4, whose stories received honorable mentions from editor Gardner Dozois in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection.   • “The Canal Barge Magician’s Number Nine Daughter” by Ian McHugh • “What Still Abides” by Marie Brennan • “A Little of the Night” by Tanith Lee • “I Come from the Dark Universe” by Cat Rambo • “The Bees Her Heart, the Hive Her Belly” by Benjanun Sriduangkaew • “The Old