My co-editor, Jaleta Clegg, and I have a new benefit/charity anthology open for submissions! You can find all the details over on the Hemelein Publications website:
It’s open through June 20, 2021, so get your stories submitted!
The call for submissions for Parliament of Wizards, the fourth of the LTUE Benefit Anthologies, is now open! This anthology is in memory of Jonathan Langford, one of the founders of Life, the Universe, & Everything, an annual academic science fiction and fantasy symposium held in Provo, Utah.
Visit Hemelein Publication’s website to see the call for submissions. I (and my co-editor, Jaleta Clegg) look forward to seeing your amazing submissions!
It’s been a while since I last wrote on this blog, but I have reasons. Good reasons, even.
A Dragon and Her Girl, the second of the LTUE Benefit Anthologies, is all done and ready for publishing. You can preorder it on Amazon, and it will be available on Kindle Unlimited through the end of May. On June 1, it will become available on all the ebook platforms possible.
This anthology is exciting because I got to work with one of the nicest, most gracious, and prolific authors I know: Mercedes Lackey. I’ve enjoyed her short stories for years, and eventually I’ll get around to reading some of her novels (I really haven’t read any of them, honest). She and co-author Elisabeth Waters were so kind to let us include their story in A Dragon and Her Girl. The other authors in the anthology were great to work with, too. I think I’ve been blessed to work with amazing authors so far in my editing career. It’s been a joy working with Jaleta Clegg again, too.
In December, my son (who was due at the end of January) decided he’d had enough of baking and came very early. He spent a bit of time in the NICU to make sure he wasn’t going to have any of the issues often associated with premature births. He’s home, off the CPAP, and he and mom are doing fine now.
I’ve been stuck a bit on writing because of spending all my time on the above two items. I (along with Jaleta) also finished selection for Twilight Tales, the third LTUE Benefit Anthology, due for release in February 2021. It’s a light horror (think “Twilight Zone”) anthology in honor of Betty Pope, and will feature 31 tales of light terror and woe. We are now working on selecting the theme (and the honoree) for the fourth anthology in this series.
I’m about to begin work on editing A Universe of Stories, a short collection of stories by winners of the first American Fork Library creative writing contest. This anthology gives those winners the opportunity to go through the editing process and even earn a little money from the sales of the anthology. This will be an ongoing series, published first in ebook format, with a print omnibus version available after 3-4 of the ebook anthologies have come out. I’ll post more about this anthology (and its sequels) when it gets closer to release.
If you want to pick up signed copies of Trace the Stars and A Dragon and Her Girl, I’ll be at Life, the Universe, & Everything in February. A bunch of the authors in those anthologies will be there, too. I will also have a few copies of All Made of Hinges if you’d like to read “Napoleon’s Tallest Teamster“, my clockwork android story set in 1870s France.
That’s it for now. Thanks for stopping by!
The third LTUE Benefit Anthology, a light horror collection titled Twilight Tales, is open for submissions! This volume is in honor of Betty Pope, a former librarian at Brigham Young University who established the science fiction and fantasy literature Special Collection section at the library. She also hosted a reception at her home each year after LTUE for the guests and committee. This anthology will contain stories Betty would have loved.
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You can read the full call for submissions on the Hemelein Publications site.
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.