September is here, and this means that we have gifts to share, a new story and two new poems, to help you prepare for fall.   • In “Sophia’s Legacy,” Barbara Krasnoff shares a sorcerous tale of a chess game played across time, with more at stake than any of the players realize. • “Four Chambers” by Shira Lipkin examines a torn yet resilient heart, and • “Dorothy Before Oz” by Jane Yolen both extends and subverts that classic tale.

Today is the official launch date for Bone Swans, the debut collection of short fiction from C.S.E. Cooney. We’re really excited and proud to be bringing this one out — a recent review at Tor.com described Claire’s book as “a fascinating mashup between the tropes and resonances of the mythic tale with the sensibilities of contemporary action-oriented fantasy” and the reviewer further noted that she could see why, “of all the small presses to pick up this book, it was

Promotion one: My Shirley Jackson Award-nominated horror story collection Unseaming is the featured book today at Kindle Books and Tips. Coinciding with this, the ebook is available on Kindle, discounted from $5.99 to 99¢, till Tuesday. Check out the promotion here: http://wp.me/p2b82w-70x   Promotion two: There’s just six days left to sign up for a chance to win one of the remaining ARCs of C.S.E. Cooney’s debut fantasy collection Bone Swans. Check out the Goodreads giveaway here: https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/142353   We,

As our last warm-up exercise before the official release of C.S.E. Cooney’s debut collection Bone Swans, we’re giving away advance reading copies on Goodreads. Five lucky winners will each get to take one home. For a chance to be among them, sign up below!   Goodreads Book Giveaway Bone Swans by C.S.E. Cooney Giveaway ends June 26, 2015. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter Giveaway   Bone Swans will official debut at Readercon (July 9-12 in Boston).If you won’t

The wonderful if rhetorically awkward thing about Kickstarter is that, to give credit where credit is due, one must say thank you to everyone at every stage in the campaign, over and over and over again.   Thank you to everyone who pledged. To everyone who raised their pledges. (Some several times!) To everyone who found themselves in tight financial spots yet still made some sacrifice for this campaign because they wanted it to succeed.   Thank you to everyone

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

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

Now available via subscription and on Amazon/Weightless, with April featured content live on our site:   Our latest issue caps off the first two years of Mythic Delirium as a digital ’zine with a sampling of strange horror, stranger science fiction and weird alternate history.   For our fiction offerings, C.S. MacCath combines Norse mythology with quantum theory in “Sing the Crumbling City,” Jessy Randall’s “Maybe a Witch Lives There” supplies a wicked homage to Shirley Jackson, and Adam Howe’s

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