Better late than never, as they say. I’m kicking off a week of blog entries devoted to Clockwork Phoenix 4 with sights and sounds from the launch reading for the anthology. It took place Friday, July 12, 2013 at ReaderCon in Burlington, Mass. Contributors A.C. Wise, Gemma Files, Nicole Kornher-Stace, Barbara Krasnoff, Shira Lipkin, Yves Meynard and Kenneth Schneyer all read excerpts from their stories. And we’ve got audio of the entire reading, courtesy of Barbara’s husband, Hour of

Clockwork Phoenix 4 is the subject of Brit Mandelo’s latest “Short Fiction Spotlight” at Tor.com. Brit writes:   Overall, these are good pieces and the anthology is even in quality—amusingly enough, I wouldn’t call most of them experimental or slipstream etc., though a few certainly are. On the other hand, “bold in the style of their telling” applies more or less across the board: all of the authors go in full-speed on the tone and artifice of their stories, which

The biggest single prize we offered for the Kickstarter to fund our anthology Clockwork Phoenix 4 was a special edition signed by all the contributors. One backer pledged for this…   …And we made it happen! That special edition has returned home from its journey around the world. The pictures (by Anita) say it all.      

The folks at Podcastle have adapted a second story from Clockwork Phoenix 4 to audio — this time it’s “The Wanderer King” by Alisa Alering. Click here to have a listen.   A sample from the text:     We steer clear of the mines–that’s Fixer territory. The Wanderers are dangerous, too, ever since they came fighting back around Day 30. But there’s always been less of them–less in all, and less because they scatter through the woods on their

The adventures of the special signed-by-all-the-authors edition of Clockwork Phoenix 4 continues.   Corinne Duyvis, who contributed “Lilo Is” to the book, sends this picture from Amsterdam. In documenting the books travels, she writes, “My Dutch thing of choice was a poffertjes stand, which is very, very Dutch indeed (and also very delicious).”   She’s the first contributor to pose with the book, perhaps because she made the mistake of asking me if I’d like her to do so, hee.

The September issue of Locus Magazine contains some nice words about Clockwork Phoenix 4 from short fiction reviewer Rich Horton:   Clockwork Phoenix 4 is a continuation of a first rate series of anthologies … The book is stylistically of a piece with its predecessors – a set of well-written stories occupying multiple subgenres, usually in the same story, often ambiguously.   One of the strangest stories is from Thai writer Benjanun Sriduangkaew, who has been attracting notice with some

The special edition of Clockwork Phoenix 4 that’s being signed by all the contributors has made its stop in Hong Kong. Benjanun Sriduangkaew (who contributed “The Bees Her Heart, the Hive Her Belly”) shared this photo before sending it on to its next stop (which, by the way, is in Australia.)     You can see previous stops at my homepage, here, here and here. I plan to do a big wrap-up post once we’re all done.   #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

Congratulations to Jake Maraia of California and Colleen Anderson of British Columbia, who each get a copy of the trade paperback edition of Clockwork Phoenix 4. Thanks again to SF Signal for hosting the giveaway!   Want your own copy of Clockwork Phoenix 4? This page lists all the ways. #SFWApro  

1) As of today, the rebooted version of Mythic Delirum is open to submissions. We’re looking for short stories of up to 4,000 words, as well as poems. The reading window closes Oct. 1. Click here to read the full guidelines. #SFWApro 2) As of today, SF Signal is hosting a giveaway of Clockwork Phoenix 4. There’s two trade paperback copies to be had, and anyone in the world can take part. The giveaway ends Aug. 9. Click here to