Thursday, July 2, 2015

In recent news:

 Dave Duncan's new novel Iona 700 is now available in both print and e-book form. You can read an   early review at SFrevu.com

Eileen Kernaghan's historical fantasy Sophie, in Shadow is shortlisted for the 2015 Sunburst Awards for Fantastic Literature, YA category.

Rhea Rose's story “Bones of Bronze, Limbs of Steel” will appear in the new steampunk anthology   Clockwork Canada to be released by Exile Editions in April, 2016. 

Matthew Hughes  has done an interview with Dag Rambraut at the SFF World site, with lots of information  about how Matt's Archonate universe developed and how he writes. http://www.sffworld.com/2015/08/matthew-hughes-interview/

 You can read an  interview with Matt  on “The Curse of the Myrmelon”  at SFsite: https://www.sfsite.com/fsf/blog/2015/07/01/interview-matthew-hughes-on-the-curse-of-the-myrmelon/

Matt's  new backlist collection, Devil or Angel and Other Stories, is now up on Amazon and on his webpage bookstore. The POD paperback on CreateSpace will follow in due course.

From the award-winning author of Majestrum, Template, and The Other, this collection of short stories ranges from the thoughtful to the whimsical. Most of them appeared first in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and Asimov’s. Others were written for the bespoke anthologies Songs of the Dying Earth, Old Mars, and Welcome to the Greenhouse; one is published here for the first time.
In other news, "The Inn of the Seven Blessings," Matt's contribution to the George R.R. Martin/Gardner Dozois-edited cross-genre anthology Rogues (NYTimes bestseller and winner of the Locus Award for best antho), will be reprinted in Imaginarium 4: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing, http://chizinepub.com/…/imaginarium-4-best-canadian-speculative-fiction 


The Lonely Cry is an informal west coast association of Canadian science fiction and fantasy writers. Our members are Mary E. Choo, Dave Duncan, Matthew Hughes, Eileen Kernaghan, Linda DeMeulemeester, Clélie Rich, Casey Wolf and Rhea Rose. Visit our website at www.lonelycry.ca