The Lonely Cry

2012-01-10T10:00:00.000-08:00

Dave Duncan's When the Saints is included in Kirkus Review's Best Fiction of 2011 list as one of the year's ten best fantasy and science fiction title.

Meanwhile, Matthew Hughes' Luff Imbry novel The Other has made the December Locus's list of "New and Notable", and is one of seven nominees for the 2011 Philip K. Dick Award.

In other recent news, Dave's November 2010 novel Pock's World is now available in various e-book formats as a joint venture of Edge Publishing and E-Reads.

"The Yellow Cabochon," the second of Matt Hughes' three Luff Imbry novellas (the first was "Quartet and Triptych") is now available for preorder from PS Publishing.
You can read the first 5,000 words on Matt's web page at http://www.archonate.com

Casey Wolf reads her story "Claude and the Henry Moores" at Beam Me Up! And you can read Casey's story "Invicta", wherein a love of books carries a woman through all the difficult days of her life, in the November-December issue of The Link. Casey says, "Invicta" was inspired by my mother's tales of her thirst for books at a young age and her first visit to a library when she was in her early twenties. She vowed to read every book on the shelves and made a very good go of. it."

Matthew Hughes is interviewed by Underland Press

2011-11-02T16:48:00.000-07:00

Matt Hughes talks about his new novel The Other at Underland Press . "A blend of noir thriller which mixes Jungian psychology and witty banter, The Other is the kind of tale that has caused critics to hail Hughes as the 'heir apparent' to SF grandmaster Jack Vance."

Matt's three Henghis Hapthorn novels -- Majestrum, The Spiral Labyrinth, and Hespira -- are now available as e-books on Amazon.co.uk and Barnes and Noble's site.

Casey Wolf reads from Winter on the Plain of Ghosts

2011-10-03T12:06:00.000-07:00

You can hear Casey Wolf reading from some of her favourite books, including Eileen Kernaghan's Winter on the Plain of Ghosts: a Novel of Mohenjo-daro at her Wolfden blogsite . The Winter on the Plain of Ghosts excerpt is also available on you-tube .

Podcast: "Listen to This": Marie Ellis reads an excerpt from Eileen's Wild Talent: a Novel of the Supernatural.

Our latest member

2011-09-12T17:54:00.000-07:00

We're happy to welcome Casey Wolf as the newest member of The Lonely Cry. Casey writes short fiction ranging in genre from SF to slipstream. Recent publications include stories in Room Magazine. She lives in Vancouver with the obligatory Two Cats, in a classic Small Room with Books and Furniture. There she crafts her stories and generally gets on with life. A new endeavour is making YouTube videos in which she reads with great enthusiasm from her favourite books.

“Wolf uses different genres, different voices, different cultures—in short whatever she needs to make the story work. What ties it all together is her sure-handed prose and a depth she brings to her writing, that indefinable element that rises up from between the lines and gives a good story its resonance…
—Charles de Lint, author of The Onion Girl

“Prepare to be absolutely charmed. C. June Wolf’s stories are like world music: varied, full of surprising grace notes, and born from an array of the planet’s cultures and myths. We’ll be reading her stories for years to come.” —Daryl Gregory, author of Pandemonium

Short Story Collection: Finding Creatures & Other Stories, by C. June Wolf
ISBN 978-0-9810658-0-9 $15.95 To purchase: order from Red Tuque Books

Follow Casey on Twitter and visit her Fintan Sparky YouTube channel

Casey and Fluffy 1964

Casey as the Evil Queen, VCon 35 October 2010

In recent news

2011-09-09T10:37:00.000-07:00

Dave Duncan has sold two new books. The Death of Nnanji is a sequel to Dave's 1989 trilogy, “The Seventh Sword”. E-Reads is the current publisher of the trilogy and bought the new book sight unseen. As well, Brian Hades of Edge Books will be publishing a standalone SF, Wildcatter, set in a different universe than Pock's World. Both books should appear paper and e-book format in 2012.

These recent sales mean that Dave will have four new books from four publishers over the next twelve months. When the Saints will be coming out from Tor in November 2011, and Against the Light from Amazon in January 2012.

Matthew Hughes has a novella from PS Publishing and a novel from Underland Press, both featuring his fat forger/thief, Luff Imbry, coming out next month. You can read the first chapter of the Underland Press book at Matt's website. A tie-in novel set in a D&D gaming world will be published in February 2012, and another novel in the Actionary series is scheduled for April. "And," Matt adds, " I've got another novella in the November/December F&SF and another Luff Imbry novella (third in the series) coming out next summer/fall."

Casey Wolf has sold three stories to the upcoming anthology Writers on the Wrong Side of the Road, edited by Clayton Bye and Sassy Brit. The theme of the anthology is “anything goes” and Casey’s stories demonstrate this well. “Pronghorns” is a stark look at double suicide. “The Cenotaph” brings together two men, one living, the other dead, who face the decision of whether or not to go to war. The final story, “Triona’s Beans”, with Finnish writer Päivi Kuosmanen, is a silly one about several rambunctious aliens and one lonely kid. Release date: 21 November.
Invicta" Sold to The Link

The Link magazine will be publishing Casey's short story "Invicta", wherein a love of books carries a woman through all the difficult days of her life. Casey says, "Invicta" was inspired by my mother's tales of her thirst for books at a young age and her first visit to a library when she was in her early twenties. She vowed to read every book on the shelves and made a very good go of it. In light of Toronto mayor Rob Ford's attacks on the public library system, the story is a timely one." (Follow this link to read Margaret Atwood's defense of the library system.)

Casey's story "After Hours at the Black Hole" airs on Saturday September 24th at Beam Me Up! the science and SF show at WRFR in Rockland, Maine. For more information, visit Casey's blog. And Casey’s readers theatre work “This is for Mrs Zaberewsky” will be performed at Vcon 36. Exact time to be announced. Date, somewhere between 29 September and 2 October. Casey comments: "It is probably even sillier than 'Triona’s Beans'.”

Now available from Lobster Press: Spring 2011: Number 5 in Linda DeMeulemeester's bestselling Grim Hill series:Forest of Secrets: A sensational roller-coaster ride. Readers will find the potent mix of fantasy, legend and magic simply spellbinding.” CM magazine

Congratulations to Clélie Rich, who has been named 2010 Magazine Association of BC Volunteer of the Year, in recognition of her services to magazine publishing in British Columbia,

Matthew Hughes' novel The Other will be released by Underland Press in November 2011. Read more at the amazon site
Meanwhile, Matt's new novel The Damned Busters, from Angry Robot, has been reviewed in The Guardian , which writes , This is a funny and surprisingly endearing book with some interesting discussions about the role of sin and our reactions to it. Also of note is that it is published by the interesting young
.imprint Angry Robot ...and it comes with a delightful cover by Guardian cartoonist Tom Gauld. You can read more about The Damned Busters in an interview with Matt on the Drying Ink blog.

As well, Matt has sold Quartet and Triptych, the first of three Luff Imbry novellas, to Gordon Van Gelder at The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. This Matt's twentieth sale to the magazine

Books 1 and 3 of Dave Duncan's “The King’s Blades”, (The Gilded Chain and Sky of Swords), have return to the Amazon Kindle e-book list. A new e-book of Part 2, Lord of the Fire Lands is scheduled for April.

Mary E. Choo's short story, "The Man Who Loved Lightning," appears in the anthology of fusion fiction, Like Water for Quarks (see http://www.mvp-publishing.com). As well, her poem, "The Malcontents (from Grannie's Garden)," which was published in Room 32.2, has been selected for the new Gothic anthology, Candle in the Attic Window.

Mary's poem, "Witch Sticks," appears in the Volume 47, Week 12 (June 20 – 26, 2011) mega-issue of ChiZine ; the installment is part of the overall mega-issue that runs from April through June, 2011 and features new work from contributors every week.

Rhea Rose's short story "Alia's Angel" received honourable mention in Ellen Datlow's Year's Best Horror for 2010.

Eileen Kernaghan read from Tales from the Holograph Woods, along with other poems, at a National Poetry Month event at the New Westminster Public Library, 7 p.m. on April 6th. Eileen is interviewed on small press vs big press on Krista D. Ball's "Writer in Residence" blog.

"Through the Window of the Garden Shed" from Tales from the Holograph Woods: Speculative Poems, read at Poetic Justice, New Westminster BC, August 21, 2011.

Review of Wild Talent at The Historical Novel Review

2011-02-22T10:18:00.000-08:00

A review of Eileen Kernaghan's Talent: a Novel of the Supernatural has been posted at The Historical Novel Review blog. Mirella Patzer writes "Although this novel is listed as a young adult novel, it transcends this limitation easily into adult or women's fiction. It is richly written with a high regard for historical detail, making this novel a true and accurate journey into the richness of the Victorian world." Here's a link to the full review.

Matthew Hughes' Hespira reviewed in Asimov's

2011-02-04T11:32:00.000-08:00

Paul di Filippo reviews Matt Hughes' third Hapthorn novel, Hespira, in Asimov's: "Hughes has effectively captured Vance’s colorfully ironic way of portraying an exotic society and its inhabitants in a few strokes, as in the elaborate dress code on one of the worlds Hapthorn visits. He also has much of Vance’s touch with witty yet highly stylized dialogue. But perhaps the most Vanceian aspect of this series is Hapthorn himself, who may share professions with Sherlock Holmes, but whose overblown ego is more reminiscent of Cugel the Clever, one of Vance’s most memorable protagonists." Read the full review .

As well, Hespira has made the latest Locus recommended reading list.

Linda DeMeulemeester's Grim Hill novels to become an animated TV series.

2010-12-01T10:28:00.000-08:00

Toronto-based Wizard Hat Productions is going to turn the Grim Hill book series into a animated series.
The books by Linda DeMeulemeester will be turned into 26 half-hour CG-animated episodes targeted at tweens. From the press release: “Wizard Hat is thrilled to work with Lobster Press and Linda DeMeulemeester to bring these unique and exciting stories to television,” said Pam Slavin, Partner and Executive Producer, Wizard Hat Productions, Inc. “’Grim Hill’ has attracted legions of fans who have been asking for a TV show based on the popular books, and we’re looking forward to bringing the adventures of Cat, Sookie, Jasper and Clive to life on air.” The popular five-book series, first released by Lobster Press in 2007, has received numerous accolades including the Silver Birch Award, voted favorite book of 2008 by kids grades 3-8. The Grim Hill books pit typical teens against powerful, magical creatures in the town of Grim Hill. Each thrilling tale combines celtic myth and dark faerie lore with face-paced action and adventure, and scary moments are diffused with humor.

Late-Breaking News

2010-08-01T16:26:00.000-07:00

Matthew Hughes has accepted an offer to write a fantasy adventure novel set in the world of the roleplaying game Pathfinder. The game company is allied with the publisher Paizo, which this summer is bringing out the trade paperback of Matt's standalone Archonate novel Template (originally published in limited editions by PS Publishing.)

Dave Duncan's new novel Pock's World (his first SF novel since 1991) was released October 2010 by Edge Publishing.

Pock’s World, long settled by humankind, is accused of being infected by humanoid aliens. It has been quarantined and may have to be sterilized. Five people are chosen to go there and examine the evidence: saintly but ruthless Father Andre; Ratty Turnsole, a muckraking reporter ripe for romance; ambitious politician Athena Fimble; manipulative bureaucrat Millie Backet; and shady billionaire Linn Lazuline. Some of them carry grudges - all have their own agendas. Pock’s World surprises them all. Nothing is what they expect. Quickly entangled in love, politics, religion, and deceit, they discover that the clock is already ticking and the fate of humanity itself is at stake.

In Recent News

2010-06-20T13:22:00.000-07:00

Dave Duncan's latest, Speak to the Devil, the first book in a new series "The Brothers Magnus" is now available in hardcover from Tor. It received a starred review from Publishers Weekly and Top Pick from Romantic Times. For more see the announcement at Dave's website.

Dave's three short novels published as "The King's Daggers" will be reissued some time this year in print-on-demand format as an omnibus volume entitled, The Monster War, A Tale of the King's Blades. "All the old gang are in there: Durendal, Ambrose, Bandit, Snake, plus a lot of information missing from the main series. I look forward to having three more books published in 2010 (The mass market edition of Ill Met in the Arena was released in January). For estimated release dates, please check the Availabilities page. Forthcoming: A hardcover original fantasy from Tor: Speak to the Devil, Book One, and a trade paperback original Science Fiction from Edge: Pock's World. ("This will be my first Science Fiction since Hero! in 1991.)"

Five of Dave's out-of-print titles are now available in print-on-demand and e-book formats. The first two are Science Fiction standalones, and the other three comprise "The Great Game" trilogy. "If you collect my books or buy them as gifts, you might want to consider the Personalized Print on Demand editions from E-Reads and SharedBook. The Seventh Sword series is currently available. I expect other volumes will follow. Please see the webpage for full details."

As well, Dave's 1988 fantasy series "The Seventh Sword" is now available in Amazon's Kindle store. Dave says, "This was my most successful series ever...I still get fan mail about it." The three titles are The Reluctant Swordsman, The Coming of Wisdom and The Destiny of the Sword.

Grim Hill: the Family Secret, the fourth book in Linda Demeulemeester's popular middle-grade fantasy series from Lobster Press, was recently reviewed by Kirkus Reviews. The reviewer says "the fascinating look at Sweden’s history and culture makes it an entertaining and worthwhile read." Grim Hill: The Family Secret held the number seven spot on the list of the top ten new Canadian children's titles for the week ending June 1st 2010.

The first book in the series, The Secret of Grim Hill, was nominated for both Saskatchewan's Diamond Willow Award and Atlantic Canada's Hackmatack Award for 2010. Besides bookstores, the series is now available in Scholastic's Arrow Book Club. The Secret of Grim Hill also won the Ontario Library Association's Silver Birch Award. As well, The Canadian Toy Council named it as one of the "Great Books for Children" for 2008; and it has been shortlisted for the British Columbia Young Readers' Choice Red Cedar Award. The second book and third books in this popular series, Grim Hill: The Secret Deepens and Grim Hill: The Forgotten Secret are now available. To read more, visit Linda's Grim Hill website.

Vampire enthusiasts can read about the new Canadian vampire anthology, Evolve, (EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing), edited by award-winning Nancy Kilpatrick, at http://www.vampires-evolve.com/index.html http://www.vampires-evolve.com/index.html . The site also provides links to information on the contributors, including Mary Choo ,whose short story, "Resonance," appears in the collection, along with Rhea Rose's story "Alia's Angel".

Hespira, the third in the series of Matt Hughes' Henghis Hapthorn novels, is now available from Night Shade Books.Russell Letson, noted Jack Vance critic and aficionado, has placed Matt firmly on the shulders of the master with a review of Hespira in the April Locus. He says, "The voice at the center of this book is quite recognizable, a performance of the Vancean sensibility and prose style. I also found it to be the center of the book's appeal. (There should be no complaints about basing a book's voice on a predecessor – compare the voice of hard-boiled fiction that originates with Hammett and especially Chandler, or the Forester-out-of-Austen prose of Patrick O’Brian.) Hughes's command of the irony, understatement, and detachment of Vancean language is unstrained (an Archonate prison is a 'contemplarium'), as is his grasp of the Vancean-ramble approach to narrative. The various puzzles are allowed to accumulate, theories are proposed and tested, and above all places are visited and savored – hotels, rustic inns, country estates, tourist overlooks, restaurants plain and fancy, ferry boats, space yachts. The puzzles are solved, their connections (or lack thereof) revealed, and a dramatic struggle finishes the whole tale in a satisfactorily gaudy manner.

Eileen Kernaghan's Wild Talent: a Novel of the Supernatural is reviewed by Ursula Pflug in the April 2009 issue of The New York Review of Science Fiction. Pflug writes, "Acclaimed Canadian author Eileen Kernaghan ... is known for her painstaking historical research and her interest in diverse cultural and historical manifestations of spirituality. Wild Talent is no exception." And from Canadian Children's Book News, spring 2009: "Eileen Kernaghan creates a richly atmospheric tale ... The vividly realized setting and quietly appealing protagonist lend this story an irresistible allure, both to readers of historical fiction and those who will be drawn by its more fantastical and otherworldly elements."

A collection of Eileen's speculative poems, Tales from the Holograph Woods, has been released by Wattle & Daub Books . "Blake, Yeats, Thomas, Stevens and Plath – are echoed in her poems, as are the mythologies and philosophies to which she turns in her search for meaning not confined to the corners of present time and space." —Alexander M. Forbes, Canadian Literature.

September 2009, $12.95 ISBN 978-0-9810658-2-3 Wattle and Daub Books, Grandview RPO, PO Box 78038, Vancouver BC V5N 5W1.

In Earlier News

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Eileen launched Tales from the Holograph Woods at White Dwarf Books, 3715 West 10th in Vancouver, Saturday September 26, 2 p.m. Also reading: Marcie Tentchoff, award-winning speculative poet and author of Through The Window: A Journey to the Borderlands of Faerie.
Eileen's SF short story "Carpe Diem" will be reprinted in a new anthology, The Aurora Awards -- Thirty Years of Canadian Science Fiction, from the Montreal small press Nanopress.

Mary Choo's short story "Resonance" has been accepted for the upcoming vampire anthology, Evolve, edited by Nancy Kilpatrick and due out next spring. Another of Mary's stories, "The Drowning-Poles", appears in the inaugural issue of the West Coast speculative anthology Escape Clause, edited by Clélie Rich. Mary's horror short story "The Language of Crows" is included in the forthcoming anthology Tesseracts 13. Mary also has three speculative poems out in the current issue of Room Magazine.

Tesseracts Thirteen, which includes Mary Choo's dark fantasy story "The Language of Crows," has just been released. The anthology is edited by Nancy Kilpatrick and David Morrell, and features twenty-three stories of horror and dark fantasy by Canadian authors.
Tesseracts Thirteen, Trade Paperback. ISBN-10: 1-894063-25-2, ISBN-13:
978-1-894063-25-8. Price $19.95 CDN, $16.95 US

Mary's short story, "Killing Daniel," which appeared in the Paranormal Fiction issue of the anthology SNAFU, received an Honourable Mention on the complete online list for The Best Horror of the Year, Volume One, edited by Ellen Datlow. The list is posted on Ellen Datlow's Night Shade Books message board.

The Alchemist's Pursuit, the third of Dave Duncan's historical-mystery-fantasies set in Renaissance Venice was released by Tor in March 2009, and received a starrred review in a recent issue of Publishers Weekly. The first two books in the series, The Alchemist's Apprentice and The Alchemist's Code, are now available for download from Audible.com.

Now available: Ill Met in the Arena : A gripping adventure of revenge, political machination, and thwarted love. "Complicated politics and family scandals twist through this tale of courtly intrigue from prolific fantasist Dave Duncan...." -- Publishers Weekly. Read a chapter sample at Dave's website

Matt Hughes' story "Mastermindless" will appear in a SF-in-translation magazine in China. A Chinese fan living in America, Ruhan Zhao, did the translation. Matt recently made his nineteenth sale to F&SF – a 16,000 words story entitled "Hell of a Fix. It's about a nerdish actuary who accidentally causes Hell to go on strike.

Matt has also sold a story called "Timmy, Come Home" to an anthology titled Is Anybody Out There? edited for DAW by Nick Gevers and Marty Halpern. Matt says, "All the stories have something to do with the Fermi Paradox (the apparent contradiction between the high probability of extraterrestrial civiliations being out there somewhere, and the fact that we don't see any alien visitors or pick up radio signals." Release date is June 2010.

Heyne (Random House Germany) recently published the first of Janine Cross's Dragon Temple Trilogy, Touched by Venom, under the German title Auf dunklen Schwingen and is slated to soon bring out the second book, Shadowed by Wings, (German translation as yet unknown). According to a German blogger who recently interviewed Janine for Literatur-community.de, the Random House Germany CV states that she is a '"big hope in the new/modern fantasy genre.'

Hello Summer, Goodbye, the late Michael Coney's novel of love, civil war and climate change on an alien world, and its previously unpublished sequel, I Remember Pallahaxi, have been released by PS Publishing as limited edition, slipcased hardcovers. Hello Summer, Goodbye was first published in 1975, and reprinted in Canada in 1990 as Pallahaxi Tide. Both titles are reviewed in the January 2008 issue of Locus. Reviewer Rich Horton says of Hello Summer, Goodbye, "It is quite a beautiful, bittersweet book" and adds "I am thrilled to see both novels in print."

The new edition of Eileen Kernaghan's historical fantasy The Sarsen Witch, set in early bronze-age Britain, has been released by the Juno Books imprint of Wildside Press. You can order it from amazon.com, amazon.ca, or other online bookstores, or directly from Juno Books. Brick & mortar shops can order from Ingram, or from Juno Books. Read a review at Eileen's blog. Eileen was interviewed by Kevin McKay for the Dec-Jan 08/09 issue of Senior Living Magazine.

Matthew Hughes has a new, stand-alone Archonate novel Template, from PS Publishing. It's published in two limited-edition hardcover versions.

From Robert Sawyer: "Hughes has been the best-kept secret in SF for far too long: he's a towering talent, and Template is his best work to date."

Publishers Weekly says of Matt's The Spiral Labyrinth: "The superior melding of fantasy, humor and detection seen in Majestrum (2006) is displayed to even better advantage in Hughes's second chronicle of Henghis Hapthorn, a "discriminator" (or consulting detective) on an alternate Earth. ... Hapthorn's wry first-person narration recalls Bertie Wooster, and Hughes effortlessly renders fantastic worlds and beings believable. News that a third adventure is in the works will surely please fans of many genres." And from Nick Gevers' review in the September 2007 issue of Locus: "Deliciously bizarre exoticism, in colourful, elegant language; the textures of The Spiral Labyrinth are something to savor."

Matt is has contributed a story "Grolion of Almery" to a tribute anthology of stories set in Jack Vance's Dying Earth universe, edited by Gardner Dozois and George R.R. Martin. The anthology will be coming out from Tor in the US and HarperCollins Voyager in the UK, as well as in limited editions from Subterranean Press. In recent news, Matt has collaborated on a medical thriller, Transplant, with John Elefteriades, MD, chief of cardiothoracic surgery at Yale's School of Medicine. Read more at Robot Binaries Press. Transplant is now available at amazon.ca

As well, Matt will be writing three Imbry novellas over the next three years, each to be released as a limited edition chapbook by PS Publishing. "For those who haven't come across him, Luff Imbry is my master criminal (mainly in art theft and forgery) in the decadent world of Old Earth's penultimate age. Think of Sydney Greenstreet in the Maltese Falcon crossed with Peter Ustinov in any of his caper films."

Mary Choo's short story, "Killing Daniel," appears in the Paranormal Fiction issue of the new genre anthology, SNAFU*, launched by Objective Press and Ravine Screenprinting on June 9, 2008 in Montreal. SNAFU is a 5 by 8 inch soft-cover publication, bound with brass Boston Bolts. The book has a striking scarlet cover, and features text embellished by eighteenth-century style text fonts and ornaments. This is the first issue of this ambitious anthology, with a foreword by writer and former Books in Canada editor Peter Such. [SNAFU Anthology, Paranormal Fiction, Issue One; Objective Press and Ravine Screenprinting, Montreal, Canada 2008. ISSN 1916-0909. Price $12.95 Cdn.]*Limited, numbered edition.

Mary's introduction, "Bruce Taylor : A Passion For His Art," will appear in Magic Realist writer Bruce Taylor's new book, The Tails of Alleymanderous and Other Odd Tales," to be published by Subatomic Press of Oregon in 2009. Meanwhile, Mary's story "The Language of Crows," is now available from Pseudopod on CD. Order it at the Pseudopod website.

We"re pleased to introduce fantasy writers Janine Cross and Linda DeMeulemeester as the latest members of The Lonely Cry.

Janine Cross is the author of the critically acclaimed Dragon Temple Saga: Touched by Venom, Shadowed by Wings, and Forged by Fire. Writing as Paulette Crosse, she also published the mainstream literary novel The Footstop Cafe (Dundurn Press, March 2007)

German rights to the Dragon Temple trilogy have just sold to Heyne (part of Random House Germany).

Linda DeMeulemeester's contemporary young adult fantasy The Secret of Grim Hill was released in May by Lobster Press. It received a featured review in the March 31, 2007 issue of The Globe & Mail, and is a Books for Everybody 2007 selection.

Dave Duncan's The Alchemist's Apprentice, a historical fantasy set in Venice around 1600 and featuring Nostradamus, has received praise in Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, and Kirkus Reviews, and made the trade paperback bestseller list in the June 2007 issue of Locus. . Twenty-two of Dave's current and back-list titles are now available as e-books.

Mary Choo's poem "Jig (from Grannie's Garden)", which was published in ChiZine #30, and Rhea Rose's story "Summer Silk", from Tesseracts 10, both received honourable mention in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2007. Mary Choo's short story "Killing Daniel" appears in the just-released Paranormal Fiction Issue of the SNAFU Anthology;and her short story "The Language of Crows" ,which appeared on the World Fantasy Convention 2001 CD-ROM, sold to PSEUDOPOD: the Horror Podcast Magazine.

Matthew Hughes' second Henghis Hapthorn novel, The Spiral Labyrinth, was published by Night Shade Books in limited and trade hardcover editions in September 07. You can read the first chapter on Matt's web page: http://www.archonate.com/spiral-labyrinth; and there is a review at http://trashotron.com/agony/news/2007/06-25-07.htm . The trade paperback edition of Majestrum was out in August; Matt has posted the first 15,000 words on his web site.

The Commons, the Guth Bandar novel that has been appearing in episodes in F&SF, was published in June by Robert J. Sawyer's imprint at Fitzhenry & Whiteside; also in June, a chapbook version of The Farouchessemblage, a Luff Imbry novelette, was published by the Seattle small press Payseur & Schmidt. As well, Matt has sold a new stand-alone Archonate novel, Template, to PS Publishing for February 2008 publication; and has turned in Wolverine: Lifeblood, a novel about Marvel's Canadian X-Man, to Pocket Books. A short story, "Go Tell the Phoenicians" appears in Tesseracts 10. Matt's 1999 hardboiled suspense story"One More Kill" is now a podcast on the Well Told Tales site.

Matt was profiled as one of ten Canadian science fiction writers to watch in the May 2007 issue of Quill & Quire. "Hughes' dryly comic style is complemented by an impressive vocabulary, both which underscore the adventurous nature of his work."