The paperback edition of C. S. E. Cooney’s Bone Swans (the first ever solo-author short fiction collection from Mythic Delirium Books) is now available for pre-order. You can reserve your copy at Amazon, Amazon UK or Barnes & Noble (and presumably more places will be selling it soon.)   Cooney’s book collects five fantasy novellas: “Life on the Sun,” “The Bone Swans of Amandale” (a knockout piece, original to this collection), “Martyr’s Gem” (previously featured in The Year’s Best Science

The rollout of our treasures from Mythic Delirium 1.3 continues with our new features for February:   • Sunny Moraine provides a tale of hostile forces and divine desert vengeance in “A Shadow on the Sky”; • Kristine Ong Muslim introduces us to the surreal wonders found “Even in Arcadia”; • Sheree Renée Thomas lets us experience a “Visitation of the Oracle at McKain Street.”   We hope you enjoy these winter offerings. If you can’t wait for what awaits

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.

Our first issue of the new year is here, and this is how we’re pitching it:   A family copes with a pall of silence as a physical phenomenon. A doomed guide leads a pair of foreigners on a desert journey to meet her people’s terrifying and merciless protector. A disturbing incident in a university dorm begins an unsettling transformation. Divine beings dare to venture from their ocean homes, oracles warn of floods, and dreams leak from the eyes of

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

We’re pleased to present our featured content for December, the final story and pair of poems from Mythic Delirium 1.2 and the last of our regular features for 2014. In this month’s offerings:   • In what we’re calling, with tongue-in-cheek, our “holiday story,” (heh, heh) Nathaniel Lee offers a unique perspective on the sighting of angels in “All the Tribes of the Earth Shall Mourn.” • In our first poem, Rose Lemberg provides us with an “Earth map,” an

As of this morning, everyone who sent in poems and stories for the Aug. 1-Oct. 1 reading window should have received a response of some kind. If you haven’t heard from me at all you should query ASAP.   Our next submission window for Mythic Delirium will be Aug. 1-Oct. 1, 2015.   #SFWApro  

The November featured content from Mythic Delirium 1.2 is live on our site, with a new story and two new poems offered free to all:   • Sonya Taaffe reveals the truth about William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe in the wry “Anonymity.” Her story has already drawn praise from reviewer Charlotte Ashley in her newest “Clavis Aurea” column at Apex Magazine:   The premises is cute, but the execution is clever: in elaborate, Elizabethan-influenced English, our contemporary reality is barely

At this point I have read every poem and story that was submitted during the Aug. 1-Oct. 1 reading window. I haven’t made final decisions on every piece; I will be sending a number of responses tonight. If you haven’t heard from me by tomorrow morning (Nov. 4) you are more than welcome to query.   #SFWApro  

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