Trace the Stars – Page 2 – Joe Monson

Goals by the end of the year

Posted on October 30, 2018 - October 29, 2018 by Joe

I’m working on one short story that is about 75% done (first draft), and I will be using NaNoWriMo to kickstart my first novel. I want to finish the it (again, first draft) by the end of this year. Space dragons! Wormholes! Aim for the stars, right?

I’m also getting the Trace the Stars anthology ready to send off to the interior layout editor, and the final line edits are almost done. Only about 3.5 months until it is released, so I’m getting excited! The call is still open for the A Dragon and Her Girl benefit anthology, so if you have a story you want considered, please submit it!

FanX 2018

Posted on August 31, 2018 - August 31, 2018 by Joe

FanX 2018 is next week, September 6-8, 2018 at the Salt Palace Convention Center in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. I’ll be helping out at the Bard’s Tower booth along with authors such as my good friend D.J. Butler. We’ll be at booth 401, which can be found in the red booths near the bottom left corner of this PDF map.

I’ll have a limited supply of bookmarks featuring amazing art by Kevin Wasden used as the cover art on the upcoming Trace the Stars benefit anthology. Come by on Friday or Saturday (September 7-8) and ask for one. Once they are gone, they are gone!

Hope to see you there!

We’ve closed submissions on Trace the Stars

Posted on May 14, 2018 - May 28, 2018 by Joe

Submissions have been closed for the Trace the Stars benefit anthology I am co-editing with Jaleta Clegg. You can read the announcement about it here or here. There will be an official release party in February 2019 at Life, the Universe, & Everything. I’ll post the details of location, date, and time as soon as I have them.

Just to refresh your memory, here’s the not-yet-final cover:

Only a couple spots left in Trace the Stars anthology

Posted on March 21, 2018 - July 5, 2018 by Joe

For those of you who don’t know, I’m co-editing Trace the Stars, a hard science fiction and space opera benefit anthology. We’ve added a couple new authors, and there are only (maybe) two spots left, so if you want to submit a story, please do so soon (see the call for submissions for details). The new authors have been bolded in the list below. We are already at about 92,000 words, so this is pretty close to the final roster:

(listed alphabetically)

Kevin J. Anderson
Beth Buck
Jaleta Clegg
David Farland
Daniel Friend
Nancy Fulda
Paul Genesse
M.K. Hutchins
Wulf Moon
John M. Olsen
Emily Martha Sorensen
Eric James Stone
Eric G. Swedin
Sandra Tayler
Julia H. West
James Wymore
…with possibly one or two more to be announced

LTUE 2018, days 2-3

Posted on February 18, 2018 - February 18, 2018 by Joe

The second day at LTUE was quite relaxed. I didn’t have any panels I was on, so I relaxed and chatted with friends. It was good to catch up with Jessica Douglas, Kaitlund Zupanic, M. Todd Gallowglas, and others. I finally got to meet Sarah A. Hoyt and Todd McCaffrey, too.

On the third day, I hosted the LTUE Benefit Anthology Preview, where we unveiled the cover art for the upcoming Trace the Stars anthology. You can see the post about it here. The cover image is attached to this post. I’m looking forward to accepting the last few stories we need (with my co-editor, Jaleta Clegg) and releasing it next year at the symposium so everyone else can read the stories, too.