Critic and sf aficionado Mike Barrett's excellent piece on Matthew Hughes' Luff Imbry stories in the current New York Review of Science Fiction is now available for a free read.

http://www.nyrsf.com/2015/03/at-large-in-the-archonate-matthew-hughess-tales-of-luff-imbry.html

Vancouver Island author Dave Duncan will see the release of his 50th novel April 1, 2015, through Five Rivers Publishing.   The Eye of Strife, reveals Dave Duncan at his best: sword fights and romance, miracles and mystery, treachery and sly humour. A god summons a curious assortment of witnesses to his temple to testify on what they know about a jewel lost a thousand years ago. At least one of them is guilty. Others are lying.

The Eye of Strife is Dave's fourth publication with Five Rivers Publishing.

Mary E. Choo’s story, "That Brightness," will appear in the anthology Expiration Date, edited by Nancy Kilpatrick, to be launched in Canada by EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing in April, 2015.

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 .