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Cover art reveal for A Dragon and Her Girl

Posted on February 15, 2019 - February 14, 2019 by Joe

The next of the LTUE Benefit Anthologies comes out in February 2020, titled A Dragon and Her Girl. We revealed the cover art for it yesterday at the launch event for the first volume. The art is by Kaitlund Zupanic, an amazing artist who graciously offered to create this brand new work to use specifically for this volume.

The authors of the stories for this volume were also announced:

Christopher Baxter
Josh Brown
Jaleta Clegg
Max Florschutz
Melva Gifford
M.K. Hutchins
Sam Knight
Gerri Leen
Hannah Marie
Jodi L. Milner
Wendy Nikel
Michaelene Pendleton
S.E. Page
Scott R. Parkin
John D. Payne
Bryan Thomas Schmidt
Alex Shvartsman
David VonAllmen
Julia H. West

All of these stories are amazing! Thanks to my co-editor, Jaleta Clegg, for helping select these stories. There were a lot of great stories submitted.

Michaelene Pendleton, 1946-2019

Posted on February 11, 2019 - June 5, 2019 by Joe

Picture of Michaelene Pendleton in the sunlight, wearing sunglasses, with her hair being blown in the wind.

I’m sad to report that author Michaelene Pendleton passed away on January 21, 2019 in Moab. I am told by one of her close friends that she passed away quickly. She was 72.

My first memories of Michaelene were at Life, the Universe, & Everything, an annual science fiction and fantasy symposium held in Provo, Utah. I met her in the early 1990s there, and I remember her always having a smile for anyone. I found out later she was a writer and editor at the Moab Sun News in Moab, Utah. She wrote a number of science fiction short stories from the late 1980s through the early 2000s, and they were all well written and interesting. She was smart, articulate, and a great storyteller.

If you’d like to leave a tribute for her family and friends, you can do so at the Spanish Valley Mortuary.

You will be missed, Michaelene.

Picture from the Moab Sun News.

LTUE 37 is next week!

Posted on February 6, 2019 - February 8, 2019 by Joe

Life, the Universe, & Everything 37 is coming up next week, February 14-16, 2019. It will be held at the Provo Marriott and Conference Center in downtown Provo.

Outside of the events below, I’ll be attending a few panels that interest me, chatting with people in the hall, and hanging out at the LTUE Benefit Anthologies table near the elevators and the Board Room. Drop by and say “Hello!”, pick up a Trace the Stars bookmark (limited quantities, while they last!), and get your own copy of Trace the Stars. You can also see the amazing artist Kaitlund Zupanic at the table (we’re sharing).

I’ll be participating in the following panels and events:

Manga and Graphic Novels: What to Read First
(Thursday, 11am – 11:45am in Elm)
Antarctic Mythology and Folklore
(Thursday, 1pm – 1:45pm in Birch)
Trace the Stars Anthology Launch
(Thursday, 3pm – 3:45pm in Elm)
In addition to releasing Trace the Stars, we will be revealing the cover art and some of the authors for A Dragon and Her Girl—the second LTUE Benefit Anthology—coming out in 2020.
Book Signing
(Friday, 7pm – 9pm, Exhibit Hall B in the Utah Valley Convention Center)
This is a mass signing, and will likely have around 100 authors, artists, and editors signing. This is open to the public and free.

Hope to see you there!

Trace the Stars available for preorder

Posted on January 28, 2019 - January 30, 2019 by Joe

The ebook for Trace the Stars, the benefit anthology I co-edited with Jaleta Clegg, is now available for pre-order in multiple locations: Amazon (Kindle), Apple Books, Barnes & Noble (Nook), and and Kobo. Go pre-order your copy today!

If your library uses Overdrive, you can request it be ordered so you can borrow it. If you are outside the States, the ebook is available at all Amazon stores and other ebook stores that are served by Tolino (mostly in Europe, I believe). It should be available shortly through Scribd, 24Symbols, and Playster, too.

The print version will be available soon on Amazon, and shortly after that at any bookstore that can order through Ingram. I’ll post more here once I have the final details.

EDIT: The print version is now available for order!.

Call for submissions closed for A Dragon and Her Girl

Posted on December 19, 2018 - December 19, 2018 by Joe

You can read more about it over on the Hemelein Publications site. Now, to buckle down and read all of the submissions with Jaleta Clegg. We have to have decisions made by the end of January 2019. Wish us luck! I think it’s going to be hard based on the caliber of those who submitted stories.