...to Fiction and Other White Lies, my official-like corner of the web. I'm a Canadian writer of literary science fiction and fantasy with a love for mythic prose and an obsession with the secret hearts of cities. My bibliography, links, happenings, and snippets of writing projects on the go are here; day-to-day stuff, discussion, whimsy, and silliness are located at my journal.
Updated regularly, insofar as interesting and pertinent things happen.
August 6, 2008
The Mammoth Book of Extreme Fantasy, which contains short story "Lost Wax", has hit its official release date! It's available through the link here or the cover link on the sidebar, and includes fiction from Andy Duncan, Orson Scott Card, Howard Waldrop, Liz Williams, David D. Levine, Jonathan Lethem, William Hope Hodgson, Jeffrey Ford, Michael Moorcock, Michael Swanwick, Ted Chiang, and many other authors who could kick my butt 'round the block were they so inclined.
There's also a bit of website housecleaning tonight: The 2008 Rhysling Anthology, which contains nominated poem "Three Deaths", is now linked up on the Poetry page, and I've fixed the Appearances schedule to something final; alas, I'm not going to make the World Fantasy Convention this year.
August 3, 2008
"Bell, Book, and Candle", which appears in Clockwork Phoenix, is also available free online! It's been chosen as the teaser story for the anthology at Fantasybookspot.com, and is readable there.
Enjoy!
June 29, 2008
Clockwork Phoenix, which includes short story "Bell, Book, and Candle", has gone on sale at Amazon ahead of the release date! So it's now available and shipping -- you can click through to get a copy from either the link here or the cover link in the sidebar to the right.
June 28, 2008
More poetry news: "Andromeda in the Forest of the Suicides" will appear in the July issue of Chiaroscuro, and another untitled poem (yes, it's called "Untitled") in a later issue at the same 'zine.
June 11, 2008
The cover for Clockwork Phoenix, an anthology due in July (and containing my "Bell, Book, and Candle"), has been added to the cover roll located just to your right.
Publishers Weekly says about it:
Author and editor Allen (Mythic) has compiled a neatly packaged set of short stories that flow cleverly and seamlessly from one inspiration to another. In "The City of Blind Delight" by Catherynne M. Valente, a man inadvertently ends up on a train that takes him to an inescapable city of extraordinary wonders. In "All the Little Gods We Are," Hugo winner John Grant takes a mind trip to possible parallel universes. Modern topics make an appearance among the whimsy and strangeness: Ekaterina Sedia delves into the misunderstandings that occur between cultures and languages in "There Is a Monster Under Helen's Bed," while Tanith Lee gleefully skewers gender politics with "The Woman," giving the reader a glimpse of what might happen if there was only one fertile woman left in a world of men. Lush descriptions and exotic imagery startle, engross, chill and electrify the reader, and all 19 stories have a strong and delicious taste of weird. (July)
— Publishers Weekly, May 12 2008
Purchase details to follow, as I have them!
June 3, 2008
Another poetry publication: "The Pack Rat's Manifesto" is in the Spring 2008 issue of On Spec, which should be hitting newsstands as we speak (read?).
May 27, 2008
Sale news! Poem "The Murdered Woman Comes Home" will appear in the June issue of Flashquake, and poem "Going Back" will appear in Goblin Fruit this fall.
April 8, 2008
What's that? In the sky?
A Welcome header with some text!
March 21, 2008
Website spring cleaning! Some major revamping of website components tonight: the Bibliography page is now subdivided tidily into short fiction, poetry, and a new subpage for novels, both finished and in progress.
The Appearances page is also updated, and holds what should be my final 2008 convention schedule.
February 18, 2008
More sale news: Poem "Kryptonian International Remembrance Day" will appear in new online magazine Oddlands.
Also, on the Where To Not Go If You're Avoiding Me front, I'll be at this year's Readercon, July 17-20. Eventually I will update the Appearances page to reflect this (and to be actually readable).
February 11, 2008
Another sale! Short story "Furnace Room Lullaby", which originally appeared in Fantasy Magazine issue #5, will be "reprinted" in audio at Pseudopod.
Also, cover art is up for The Mammoth Book of Extreme Fantasy, where "Lost Wax" will be making a reprint appearance. It has joined its merry compatriots on the cover sidebar.
February 3, 2008
Sale news! Short story "Bell, Book, and Candle" will be appearing in Clockwork Phoenix, a new anthology edited by Mike Allen. Publication's tentatively set for Spring 2008.
That, and a review of "The Sorceress's Assistant", added to the Bibliography page.
January 17, 2008
More updates to the Bibliography page: reviews, this time, of "Bears", "Fitcher's Third Wife", and "His Other Wives".
Also, the convention schedule is coming closer to completion. I can say that I will definitely, entirely, totally be at Wiscon 32, May 23-26, in Madison, Wisconsin. Hope to see you there!
January 3, 2008
Sale news again: poem "A Brief History of Night, Before Sleep" will be appearing in a future issue of Chiaroscuro.
ETA, 12:18am: Actually, it appears to be this issue. Fastest sale-to-publication ever. Well...look! Poem!
Also, at some point soon I will sort out my concrete 2008 Public Appearances schedule and put it up here for your delectation, or so you know what places to avoid. Keep watching the skies. *g*
December 9, 2007
Two more sales added to the Bibliography page: "Kimberley Ann Duray Is Not Afraid" (under a different title, when I think up a new title for it) will be in a 2008 issue of Strange Horizons, and "Lost Wax" will be reprinted in The Mammoth Book of Extreme Fantasy in mid-2008. This will probably require me to bribe Amanda for another natty book-cover link on the side there.
Also, I got off my duff finally and changed the Online Fiction. As well as Apres Moi, Le Deluge, two older stories are up now: Midnights on the Bloor Viaduct and Sonnets Made of Wood.
November 18, 2007
More updates to the Bibliography page -- "The Sorceress's Assistant" is in the new issue of On Spec, where I'm fortunate enough to be the Featured Author.
October 31, 2007
Two new pieces hitting print in the next week: "Bears" will be appearing at Strange Horizons on Monday the 5th, and a poem, "Fitcher's Third Wife", is in the current issue of Mythic Delirium, which is mailing to subscribers as we speak. Those updates and a review or two are linked on the Bibliography page.
October 3, 2007
By the good graces of Amanda Downum, web-designer extraordinaire, we have New Website. Yes, the old website was a perfectly good website, but white print on black background -- hacked together with my own ghetto HTML -- is very nineteen, and while I was nineteen when I made it, I am no more.
So welcome to the newest incarnation of Fiction and Other White Lies, poke around, and enjoy!
