The latest book I’m editing, Thin Air: The Cosmic Crime Fiction of Gustavo Bondoni, has just revealed its cover! Isn’t it beautiful? I’m editing this book for Hemelein Publications, and it comes out in June 2023.
This will be the first volume in their new Indizio publication series collecting science fiction and fantasy mystery, detective, and crime fiction.
I’m looking forward to reading it again once it’s printed. I love reading a good print book.
All Made of Hinges, containing my story “Napoleon’s Tallest Teamster”, is now available on Audible! If you love having stories read to you, pick it up today!
My first published story, “Napoleon’s Tallest Teamster“—as part of the All Made of Hinges Mormon Steampunk anthology from Immortal Works—comes out today! My story is surrounded by great stories from other authors (see the table of contents here), including Dave Butler, Jay Barnson, John M. Olsen, and Lee Allred.
UPDATE!
We’re climbing the charts on Amazon! As of 13:41 on November 27, 2018, we are at #3 on Amazon’s Hot New Releases list for Steampunk, #22 in Kindle Science Fiction Anthologies & Short Stories, #24 in Science Fiction Steampunk (for all books), and #60 in Kindle Steampunk. Not bad!
This is a call for submissions to participate in A Dragon and Her Girl: Stories of Adventure, the second of the benefit (charity) anthologies to help the Life, the Universe, & Everything symposium. The anthology will be jointly published by Hemelein Publications and LTUE Press. This anthology will be edited by Joe Monson and Jaleta Clegg, the editors of the first anthology, Trace the Stars.
For this anthology, we are looking for the following:
1. Adventure fantasy featuring strong female protagonists (dragons are a huge plus!)
2. Stories up to 17,500 words
3. Unpublished or reprint stories
Stories are due by December 15, 2018. If you have a story that meets these criteria, please review the attached call for submissions for more details and follow the directions there to submit your story.
If you don’t have a story of your own, but you know someone who does, please share this post with them. If you don’t have a story that fits the criteria for this anthology, be aware there will be additional benefit anthologies published in the future that will fall under a variety of different genres.
We look forward to your participation!
Joe Monson
Jaleta Clegg
So, after years of squeezing in writing here and there (mostly non-fiction writing and reviews) due to needing to spend most of my time on school stuff, I’m finding it hard to get into fiction writing mode. I think part of it is just wanting to rest for a bit. That’s understandable, I think, because of taking over five years to finish up school while working either full or part time, raising two kids, and trying to fit “all the things” into life. Now I have to do it while looking for a really good job and still trying to do “all the things” that pop up.
Right now on the writing front, I am working on two different short stories, as well as one novella that will possibly turn into a novel. One of the stories is my first attempt at writing something for the YA market. Yeah, I know there isn’t a huge short story market for the YA crowd, but I think it’s growing. The other short I plan to submit to my favorite hard SF magazine. The novella is undergoing structural changes to make the story flow better.
On the editing front, I’m working on Trace the Stars, the first LTUE benefit anthology (to be released in February 2019 through Hemelein Publications and LTUE Press). We have all the stories and are working through those that need editing work (mainly the four brand new, never-before-published stories). Most of the stories were previously published, so they only need a quick copyedit.
So, happy birthday to my dad as I boldly go where many have gone before, but where I have to make my own way despite all the potential roads already built there.