Casey Wolf reads from Winter on the Plain of Ghosts

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.