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

The following entry was originally posted as a Clockwork Phoenix 5 Kickstarter update. There’s just 8 days left, and the campaign still needs a lot of help. Check it out

The following entry was originally posted as a Clockwork Phoenix 5 Kickstarter update. Check out the campaign here. Just 10 days left!   Howdy, Clockwork Phoenix 5 backers!   Thanks again for your help in making this book happen. We’re in the second half of the game, for certain — the points on the board are promising, but the clock is ticking down.   A bunch of new backers have signed on, which is wonderful! I hope you folks will

The following entry was originally posted at the Clockwork Phoenix 5 Kickstarter:   Howdy, Clockwork Phoenix 5 backers!   Wow! We had a surge in pledges yesterday, mostly due to a batch of new people learning about the exclusive chapbooks we’re offering. (My thanks to Elizabeth McClellan, Alexandra Erin and Cat Valente herself for that!)   It made me realize that perhaps I’ve not done the clearest job of explaining exactly what those chapbooks are. But before I get to

Congratulations to Richard Novak and Rachel Swirksy, who won trade paperback ARCs of C.S.E. Cooney’s debut collection of fantasy novellas, Bone Swans, in the Clockwork Phoenix 5 Kickstarter giveaway yesterday evening.   This morning I’ve updated our giveaway “schedule” with a couple new rewards, signed paperback copies of Nicole Kornher-Stace’s Archivist Wasp and my own Unseaming. To be eligible, you have to be a backer of the Clockwork Phoenix 5 Kickstarter. At $3,500, I’ll give away signed trade paperback copies

The big event here at Mythic Delirium Books is of course the Clockwork Phoenix 5 Kickstarter, which as of this writing is one quarter funded. We’re offering many of our books as rewards and giveaway prizes, and a number of other things besides. You can check it all out here.   But there’s new bounty in the Mythic Delirium pasture, too. Our featured story and poems for May are live on our site.   Jessy Randall offers a delightfully dark

Last week I launched a new Kickstarter campaign to fund Clockwork Phoenix 5, which I hope will be the next installment in our critically-acclaimed, award-nominated flagship anthology series.   With the costs of shipping and printing having risen, and the professional standard payment for fiction also having risen, my funding goal for this new book is pretty epic, $11,000. But we’re six days in and more than 1/5 of the way to the goal, so we’re off to a promising

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

Anita and I are gonna be at the World Fantasy Convention in D.C. in two weeks, and I have my schedule in hand. Both of my scheduled events are Friday, Nov. 7:   Poetry in Fantasy: Yesterday and Today Time: 11am-12pm, Nov. 7, Regency F Panelists:Mike Allen (M), Maria Alexander, Rain Graves, David Lunde, Laurel Winter Description: Including poetry in fantasy, both by the author and quoted from other sources, used to be more common, such as Alice in Wonderland,

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