Tag: anthology

“Calamari, Baby!” to appear in Ocean Stories

Selkies and mermaids . . . sirens and sea monsters . . .  myth and magic . . . Ocean Stories explores both the beauty and the dangers found beneath the sea.

Featuring Tales by:

Camille Alexa * Mike Allen and Charles M. Saplak * Paul L. Bates * Laura Blackwell * Rebecca L. Brown * Thomas Canfield * Stoney Compton * Vonnie Winslow Crist * Jennifer Crow * Eric Del Carlo *  Mary Peace Finley * Jennifer Greylyn * Katie Hartlove * Nick Kimbro * Adam Meyer * Gregory L. Norris * Christine Rains * Carla Richards * Holly Schwartz-Coignat * Tricia Scott * J. Michael Shell * David Andrew Sklar * James Targett * Joshua Wolf

“Daughters of Tethys” to appear in Octopus Anthology

Suction Cup Dreams

Suction Cup Dreams: An Octopus Anthology presents eleven stories about the most fascinating of marine animals, the noble octopus. Due for release in July 2012, this book is the premiere anthology of obsolescent.info and will be available at fine bookstores nationwide and online.

Table of Contents (in no particular order)

“Unearthly Pearl” – Brenda Anderson
“Daughters of Tethys” – Camille Alexa
“Empathy Evolving as a Quantum of Eight-Dimensional Perception” – Claude Lalumière
“Talk to Us” – Danna Joy Staaf
“The Octopus Garden” – D. Thomas Minton
“Three-Hearted” by Elizabeth Twist
“A Stranger Returns From An Unexpected Trip to the South China Sea” – Henry W. Ulrich
“Vulgaris” – Ives Hovanessian
“Obey the Octopus” – Joe Jablonski
“Venus of the Waves” – Karen Munro
“A Late Season Snow” – T.E. Grau

More from the publisher’s site.

Tyche Books announces MASKED MOSAIC super anthology

Tyche Books Ltd.Tyche Books has announced the call for a new Canadian superhero/ supervillain/ superpowered anthology, MASKED MOSAIC, to be co-edited by Camille Alexa and Claude Lalumière.

From the Tyche Books press release:

We are thrilled to announce that Claude Lalumière and Camille Alexa will edit our next anthology, Masked Mosaic: Canadian Super Stories. As a tip of the hat to Joe Shuster, co-creator of Superman, Claude and Camille are seeking . . . Superheroes! Supervillains! Masked vigilantes, superpowered antiheroes, super scientists. Adventurers into the unknown, costumed crimefighters, mutant superterrorists . . . we want to see any and all permutations of the superhero genre, but with a uniquely Canadian perspective. Stories must involve a Canadian element — setting, politics, culture, history, characters, etc. Any genre-mashing goes: alternate history, crime, horror, romance, SF, fantasy, surrealism; we want a variety of tones, approaches, subgenres, cultural perspectives, etc. We’re especially interested in submissions where setting (a specific city, region, or province) plays an essential role, but we’re open to other types of stories, too.

Submissions open on June 1, 2012. Deadline will be August 1, 2012 for spring 2013 publication.Masked Mosaic will only be open for submissions from Canadians (Canadian residents, landed immigrants, Canadian citizens, Canadians living abroad, etc).

For more information about Masked Mosaic, including submission guidelines, please direct your x-ray vision here.

His Sweet Truffle of a Girl

According to the publisher’s site, the FUNGI paperback includes (in no particular order):

  • Ann K. Schwader, “Cordyceps zombii” (poem)
  • A.C. Wise, “Where Dead Men Go to Dream”
  • Andrew Penn Romine, “Last Bloom on the Sage”
  • Camille Alexa, “His Sweet Truffle of a Girl”
  • Chadwick Ginther, “First They Came for the Pigs”
  • Daniel Mills, “Dust From a Dark Flower”
  • Ian Rogers, “Out of the Blue”
  • Jane Hertenstein, “Wild Mushrooms”
  • Jeff Vandermeer, “Corpse Mouth and Spore Nose”
  • John Langan, “Hyphae”
  • Julio Toro San Martin, “A Monster In The Midst”
  • Kris Reisz, “The Pilgrims of Parthen”
  • Laird Barron, “Gamma”
  • Lavie Tidhar, “The White Hands”
  • Lisa M. Bradley, “The Pearl in the Oyster and the Oyster Under Glass”
  • Molly Tanzer and Jesse Bullington, “Tubby McMungus, Fat From Fungus”
  • Nick Mamatas, “The Shaft Through The Middle of It All”
  • Paul Tremblay, “Our Stories Will Live Forever”
  • Polenth Blake, “Letters to a Fungus”
  • Richard Gavin, “Goatsbride”
  • Simon Strantzas, “Go Home Again”
  • Steve Berman, “Kum, Raúl (The Unknown Terror) – b. 1925, d. 1957”
  • W.H. Pugmire, “Midnight Mushrumps”

The three extra stories included in the hardcover edition are:

  • E. Catherine Tobler, “New Feet Within My Garden Go”
  • J.T. Glover, “The Flaming Exodus of the Greifswald Grimoire”
  • Claude Lalumière, “Big Guy and Little Guy’s Survivalist Adventure”

Look for Fungi, with cover artwork by Oliver Wetter, in the fall of 2012.