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

I’m thrilled to be able to reveal the cover and contents for the next issue of Mythic Delirium — Number 1.4, April-June 2015. This is the issue that will mark two years of our zine’s reincarnation as a newfangled digital thing.   I’m also honored to actually have the bragging rights to the following bit of news: this upcoming cover marks the American debut of Italian sequential artist Elena de’ Grimani, creator of the vampire comic book and character Rigel,

UPDATE: And the winner is … Shawna Lenore Kastin. Thanks to all who participated! So, first, the giveaway rules: If you want to enter this giveaway for C.S.E. Cooney’s beautiful debut fantasy collection Bone Swans (introduction by Gene Wolfe, coming in July from Mythic Delirium Books, i.e. Anita’n’me) just leave a comment on this blog post (or the duplicate ones at Descent into Light or The Plasteel Spider Factory). Creativity encouraged, but not required: “Me! Me! Me, please!” will suffice.

As of this morning, all 12 of the original stories we published in the digital pages of Mythic Delirium in 2014 are free to read online. This seems the best and fairest time for our official awards eligibility post, as award consideration season is just getting underway.   All of these works are short stories by the standard of just about every award out there. Only Ken Schneyer’s story, I think, could be categorized as science fiction; all the rest

The newest issue of Mythic Delirium is absolutely and completely alive, stepping out from behind the Veil as Halloween approaches…   This is how I tried to explain this “eclectic even by our standards” issue in my editorial:   We’re bringing 2014 to a close with a cornucopia of offerings that don’t have a theme, per se, unless a cornucopia full of diverse offerings can itself be a theme.   To mix together some metaphors, within this patchwork quilt you’ll

I’m delighted to unveil the cover art and table of contents for our next issue and final issue of this year, Mythic Delirium 1.2, October-December 2014. It’s a cornucopia of curious themes, uncertain faith and Shakespearian fraud, explorations of outer space and inner self, lost souls and archeological mysteries. Fiction is by Brady Golden, Sonya Taaffe and Nathaniel Lee; poetry by Michele Bannister, Rose Lemberg, Alicia Cole, Alex Dally MacFarlane and Lynette Mejía.   Featured in October “Behind Glass” by

This is just a quick note to let folks know how things stand in the house of Mythic Delirium.   First, submissions: as always, I have a ton of other projects going on; as a result, I’ve only this past week begun responding to submissions received for issues 1.4 and 2.1. Though I would have preferred to start reading a little bit quicker, this isn’t too far off my planned schedule. The reading window still has a month to go,