Under the Scab,” the seventh episode in Matthew Hughes' The Kaslo Chronicles, is now available for a free read at Lightspeed Magazine.

As a new age of magic dawns amid the ruins of the former technological civilization on Novo Bantry, wizard’s henchman Erm Kaslo is on the trail of the horde of multi-legged creatures that carried off the survivors who had taken shelter at the castle of his employer, the wizard Diomedo Obron. The tracks lead to an interplanar portal into the Seventh Plane. Kaslo has no idea what awaits him there, but knows that he must go through.

The six previous episodes are available in Lightspeed‘s archive. Matt has now written and turned in the final episode in the serialized novel.

Eileen Kernaghan's poem "Night Journey: West Coast", which appeared in the Tesseracts Seventeen anthology, won this year's Aurora Award for best poem. The awards were presented in October at the Vancouver SF convention, VCon 39.

Two Canadian authors shortlisted for the Endeavour.

Both Dave Duncan's novel King of Swords and Matthew Hughes' collection The Meaning of Luff and Other Stories  been shortlisted for the Endeavour Award. The award is given for "a distinguished science fiction or fantasy book written by a Pacific Northwest author or authors and published in the previous year."

The Runner and the Kelpie, Dave Duncan's  third story about Ivor the runner lad, set in in the Scottish Dark Ages, is now available from Amazon .

Derek Newman-Stille reviews Sophie, in Shadow at Speculating Canada

"Eileen Kernaghan creates a sense of wondrous dislocation for the reader, a darkly beautiful reminder that every place is haunted, every locale filled with ghosts of memory from the past. Sophie, In Shadow reminds readers that we dwell in a place of fantasy, of wonder and excitement, and that those dreamy places of magic and mystery are always steeped in the shadows of past horrors and veiled in secrets. We are always one step through the veil of time away from tragedy."

Read the full review at the Speculating Canada site.

An early review of Eileen Kernaghan's new historical fantasy

From a review posted by Charlotte, at  Charlotte's Library.: "Sophie, in Shadow is historical fantasy that both educates and entertains, that I particularly recommend to fans of Kim!"

Casey Wolf's story "Posture of the Infinite" has placed third in the Red Tuque Books writing contest, and will be published in its upcoming anthology, Canadian Tales of the Fantastic Vol. 4. The story was written as in 2010 as a prize for Elisa Jankowski, a participant in Wolf's Bitten By Books Interview and Chat.

Casey has also had a poem, "point",  accepted by the Irish journal The Linnet's Wings.

Eileen Kernaghan's latest YA historical fantasy, Sophie in Shadow, will be released on March 30, 2014.

It’s 1914. Sixteen year old Sophie Pritchard, orphaned two years earlier by the sinking of the Titanic, begins a new life in the unfamiliar world of British India. For Sophie, still devastated by her parent’s death, India proves a dangerously unsettling environment. Are her terrifying experiences in Kali’s temple and the Park Street cemetery hallucinations, or has she somehow been drawn back through the centuries as a witness to dark places in Calcutta’s past?

Sophie it seems has become an unwilling traveler in a timeless zone where past, present and future co-exist. Kidnapping, enemy spies, and terrorist plots all play their part against the background of a world at war and growing unrest in the Indian subcontinent. Soon Sophie’s powers of precognition will be called upon to help thwart a conspiracy that could incite a bloodbath in Calcutta, and deliver India into enemy hands.

Thistledown Press   228 pages / paper ISBN: 978-1-927068-94-6

And coming soon: you'll also be able  to buy an eBook version  at Kobo, Amazon Kindle Store, or your favourite eBook store  

"His Elbow, Unkissed," the third episode in Matthew Hughes' serialized novel, The Kaslo Chronicles, is now available for a free read online at Lightspeed Magazine. Hardboiled confidential operative Erm Kaslo is trying to come to terms with the idea that the underlying rulebook of the universe is about to be rewritten, with rational cause-and-effect giving way to sympathetic association -- i.e., magic.

The two previous episodes in the novel, "And Then Some" and "Sleeper," are available in Lightspeed's archives.  http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/his-elbow-unkissed/