Here’s a notice to those in driving or train-riding distance of New York City this coming Wednesday: C.S.E. Cooney will be reading from her short story collection Bone Swans as part of the monthly Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading series that takes place inside Manhattan’s KGB Bar. She’s paired with YA punk fairy tale author Sarah McCarry (aka The Rejectionist). The reading starts at 7 p.m.; Cooney’s a terrific reader, you really don’t want to miss this.   Bone Swans

I’m proud to at last officially announce the table of contents for Clockwork Phoenix 5, the latest installment in the Mythic Delirium Books anthology series devoted to genre-blurring beautiful and strange stories. With twenty tales by twenty-one authors, Clockwork Phoenix 5 is the largest volume in the series to date. The generosity of the genre community breathed life into this latest incarnation, crowdfunding the project through a successful $12,000 Kickstarter campaign.   Here are the stories, in the order selected

Today Weightless Books is offering C.S.E. Cooney’s debut short story collection Bone Swans for 99 cents, the first time ever we’ve offered her ebook edition at that price. The link to the book’s page at Weightless is here. You can get the book in PDF, EPUB (Apple/Nook) or MOBI (Kindle) formats.   If you haven’t tried her book out yet, I hope you’ll jump on this opportunity.   BUT NOTE: if you’re at the World Fantasy Convention 2015 this weekend,

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