We're still raising money to fund Space Opera Libretti, and we're a little worried that it's going so slow. As little as $1 gets you an anthology of silly, inclusive space opera.
But we already have cover art! Check it out here.
(And we're still open for submissions: http://spaceoperalibretti.blogspot.com/p/submission-guidelines.html)
And two great anthologies are on sale for black friday - LOVE & BUBBLES and CIRCUITS & SLIPPERS, both just $0.99 this weekend! I'm in both, and co-edited L&B. Escape your holiday stress with sci-fi fairytales or queer mermaids or both!
L&B: https://amzn.to/2JCRrHS
C&S: https://amzn.to/2RAJvK1
Showing posts with label Love & Bubbles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Love & Bubbles. Show all posts
Friday, November 23, 2018
Saturday, October 20, 2018
Publishing Updates
Well, I did something silly.
Somehow I managed to be in a lot of anthologies that were all coming out while I was too busy with Love & Bubbles to properly promote them. So here are the books you might not have heard about yet.
The Dog Who Walked with Zombies - Dark Ink: A Poetry Anthology Inspired by Horror - September 21, 2018
A rhyming poem told in thirty-something couplets about a dog and her little group of zombies.
https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Ink-Poetry-Anthology-Inspired/dp/0997483768/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1537553864&sr=1-1&keywords=9780997483765
The Cemetery Cat - From A Cat's View - October 14
Pawdrey Hepburn and her fellow cemetery cats who purr to calm the spirits are the only beings keeping our realm from being overrun by ghosts. But when one ghost escapes to tend to his unfinished business, Pawdrey discovers that she might have some unfinished business of her own...
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07HDFV63S
The Leximancer's Rebellion - Battling in All Her Finery - October 16, 2018
Leximancer: noun
1 One who uses words to write magic into existence.
2 A word I totally made up but it sounds cool, right?
Hope is a leximancer, someone who can make magic by writing. She's also illiterate, so she'll have to find another way to magic away this alien invasion.
https://amzn.to/2pRZcjY
The Wolf Mother - Under the Full Moon's Light - October 16, 2018
The Wolf Mother is one of my stories that I thought might be too weird to be accepted. It's got time traveling, genetically engineered monster wolves with two mouths! It was inspired by the Doctor Who episode "Father's Day," because most of my stories start with me watching a show and going, "But it would be so much better if..."
This anthology also contains a story from another non-me Jennifer from Oneonta.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1945654279/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1539697230&sr=8-1&keywords=9781945654275
Also, I have a story in A Punk Rock Future, which is currently on Kickstarter! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/689653997/a-punk-rock-future?ref=project_tweet
Somehow I managed to be in a lot of anthologies that were all coming out while I was too busy with Love & Bubbles to properly promote them. So here are the books you might not have heard about yet.
The Dog Who Walked with Zombies - Dark Ink: A Poetry Anthology Inspired by Horror - September 21, 2018
A rhyming poem told in thirty-something couplets about a dog and her little group of zombies.
https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Ink-Poetry-Anthology-Inspired/dp/0997483768/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1537553864&sr=1-1&keywords=9780997483765
The Cemetery Cat - From A Cat's View - October 14
Pawdrey Hepburn and her fellow cemetery cats who purr to calm the spirits are the only beings keeping our realm from being overrun by ghosts. But when one ghost escapes to tend to his unfinished business, Pawdrey discovers that she might have some unfinished business of her own...
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07HDFV63S
The Leximancer's Rebellion - Battling in All Her Finery - October 16, 2018
Leximancer: noun
1 One who uses words to write magic into existence.
2 A word I totally made up but it sounds cool, right?
Hope is a leximancer, someone who can make magic by writing. She's also illiterate, so she'll have to find another way to magic away this alien invasion.
https://amzn.to/2pRZcjY
The Wolf Mother - Under the Full Moon's Light - October 16, 2018
The Wolf Mother is one of my stories that I thought might be too weird to be accepted. It's got time traveling, genetically engineered monster wolves with two mouths! It was inspired by the Doctor Who episode "Father's Day," because most of my stories start with me watching a show and going, "But it would be so much better if..."
This anthology also contains a story from another non-me Jennifer from Oneonta.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1945654279/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1539697230&sr=8-1&keywords=9781945654275
Also, I have a story in A Punk Rock Future, which is currently on Kickstarter! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/689653997/a-punk-rock-future?ref=project_tweet
Thursday, October 18, 2018
LOVE & BUBBLES IS PUBLISHED!
LOVE & BUBBLES, an anthology of queer romance under the sea, is PUBLISHED!!!!
Dive into romance with these twelve stories of queer love beneath the waves!
Love & Bubbles is a short fiction anthology of love stories united by an underwater theme and featuring characters from across the LGBTQ+ spectrum.
Order here!
Profits are split between the authors, so every sale is helping pay them.
Go on a deep-sea voyage to study a brand-new species alongside a cute, distracted scientist. Discover your magic with a water witch and the help of a cute mermaid. Explore the waters of an alien ocean. Get summoned to the surface with a grumpy old merman and his non-binary water demon neighbor. Swim with a catfish goddess, rescue a dolphin... and so much more!
Stories by:
Evvan Burke, Jaylee James (Editor), Jennifer Lee Rossman (Editor), Lia Cooper, Lizzie Colt, M. Hollis, Maggie Derrick, Mharie West, Minerva Cerridwen, Riley Sidell, V. S. Holmes, and Victoria Zelvin.
Note: Stories in this book could be categorized as "sweet" romance. They are all rated PG-13 with no heat level to speak of, meaning there is no on-page sex.
Paperback copies come with a free digital download of the ebook as epub, mobi, and pdf formats.
My story, Shallows, is about two men trying to rescue a dolphin from an aquarium... but one of them is secretly an encantado, a Brazilian dolphin shapeshifter. Encantados are a real mythological creature that I've loved since they were featured in an episode of The Wild Thornberrys. They're usually more on the evil side, but my Adriano is sweet and awkward.
But I'm not just an author this time! I'm also an editor! Jaylee edited the first anthology I was part of, Circuits & Slippers, and was gracious enough to take me on as er assistant when I asked er about editing.
My attitude was, to quote Legally Blonde, "What, like it's hard?"
Yes, it's hard. But it's also something I'm really passionate about. I've been in a lot of anthologies (a few that I haven't gotten around to announcing yet; stay tuned). I've had good editors and not so good editors, and I want to be one of the good ones. I want to nurture new authors, help people polish their words.
I want to be someone who amplifies stories about people who don't always have their voices heard.
I think we did that in this book, and I hope you'll enjoy it and donate copies to libraries and give them to LGBTQ+ youth so everyone can see that people like us can have happily ever afters.
Dive into romance with these twelve stories of queer love beneath the waves!
Love & Bubbles is a short fiction anthology of love stories united by an underwater theme and featuring characters from across the LGBTQ+ spectrum.
Order here!
Profits are split between the authors, so every sale is helping pay them.
Go on a deep-sea voyage to study a brand-new species alongside a cute, distracted scientist. Discover your magic with a water witch and the help of a cute mermaid. Explore the waters of an alien ocean. Get summoned to the surface with a grumpy old merman and his non-binary water demon neighbor. Swim with a catfish goddess, rescue a dolphin... and so much more!
Evvan Burke, Jaylee James (Editor), Jennifer Lee Rossman (Editor), Lia Cooper, Lizzie Colt, M. Hollis, Maggie Derrick, Mharie West, Minerva Cerridwen, Riley Sidell, V. S. Holmes, and Victoria Zelvin.
Note: Stories in this book could be categorized as "sweet" romance. They are all rated PG-13 with no heat level to speak of, meaning there is no on-page sex.
Paperback copies come with a free digital download of the ebook as epub, mobi, and pdf formats.
My story, Shallows, is about two men trying to rescue a dolphin from an aquarium... but one of them is secretly an encantado, a Brazilian dolphin shapeshifter. Encantados are a real mythological creature that I've loved since they were featured in an episode of The Wild Thornberrys. They're usually more on the evil side, but my Adriano is sweet and awkward.
But I'm not just an author this time! I'm also an editor! Jaylee edited the first anthology I was part of, Circuits & Slippers, and was gracious enough to take me on as er assistant when I asked er about editing.
My attitude was, to quote Legally Blonde, "What, like it's hard?"
Yes, it's hard. But it's also something I'm really passionate about. I've been in a lot of anthologies (a few that I haven't gotten around to announcing yet; stay tuned). I've had good editors and not so good editors, and I want to be one of the good ones. I want to nurture new authors, help people polish their words.
I want to be someone who amplifies stories about people who don't always have their voices heard.
I think we did that in this book, and I hope you'll enjoy it and donate copies to libraries and give them to LGBTQ+ youth so everyone can see that people like us can have happily ever afters.
Tuesday, October 16, 2018
Love & Bubbles Author Interview: Evvan Burke
Today I'm hosting an interview with Love & Bubbles author Evvan Burke, whole story Color and Pressure is a heist/romance between nervous deep-sea diver Liam and eccentric scientist Virgil, set in a submarine exploring the deepest parts of the ocean.
Evvan Burke is a UCSD graduate in Critical Gender Studies and Writing. His work can be found crawling out of the graveyard of print media. He can occasionally be found on Phaserburn.tumblr.com, and @Phaserburn on Instagram and Twitter.
What is your favorite thing about your story?
I think I have a good twist. I can't talk much about it, for obvious reasons, but I'm pretty proud of it.
What was the inspiration for your luminescent sea creatures?
Real life! Deep sea creatures range from super beautiful, super weird and so weird it's beautiful. But for these specific creatures, I thought a lot what Sea Hares would be like if they could glow.
Do you have a favorite memory of the ocean you'd like to share?
I learned how to scuba dive the summer before I started High School. It's part of the inspiration for having my characters go deep sea diving, because it is simultaneously so magical and so terrifying.
Which story in the anthology (not your own) are you most excited to read?
All of them! It sounds like everyone created amazing worlds for their stories. But I'm excited for "Summoned" for the grumpy merman alone.
Preorder here, and in case you missed it, I did a guest post about editing an anthology over at Mehek Writes: https://mehekwrites.com/2018/10/15/guest-post-jennifer-lee-rossman-on-editing-an-anthology-for-the-first-time/
Evvan Burke is a UCSD graduate in Critical Gender Studies and Writing. His work can be found crawling out of the graveyard of print media. He can occasionally be found on Phaserburn.tumblr.com, and @Phaserburn on Instagram and Twitter.
What is your favorite thing about your story?
I think I have a good twist. I can't talk much about it, for obvious reasons, but I'm pretty proud of it.
What was the inspiration for your luminescent sea creatures?
Real life! Deep sea creatures range from super beautiful, super weird and so weird it's beautiful. But for these specific creatures, I thought a lot what Sea Hares would be like if they could glow.
Do you have a favorite memory of the ocean you'd like to share?
I learned how to scuba dive the summer before I started High School. It's part of the inspiration for having my characters go deep sea diving, because it is simultaneously so magical and so terrifying.
Which story in the anthology (not your own) are you most excited to read?
All of them! It sounds like everyone created amazing worlds for their stories. But I'm excited for "Summoned" for the grumpy merman alone.
Preorder here, and in case you missed it, I did a guest post about editing an anthology over at Mehek Writes: https://mehekwrites.com/2018/10/15/guest-post-jennifer-lee-rossman-on-editing-an-anthology-for-the-first-time/
Monday, October 15, 2018
Love & Bubbles Interview: V.S. Holmes
Today I'm pleased to host an interview with Love & Bubbles author V.S. Holmes!
V. S. Holmes is a gender-queer contract archaeologist and the author of Reforged and the Nel Bently Books. Smoke and Rain, the first in her fantasy quartet, was chosen for New Apple Literary’s 2015 Excellence in Independent Publishing Award. She can be found online at vsholmes.com, facebook.com/authorvsholmes, and @VS_Holmes.
Her L&B story is Familiar Waters. Bia, a catfish goddess, and her partner, Iguazu the river spirit, must hold onto each other tighter than ever when global warming changes their home.
You've written other fiction involving the sea. What's your favorite thing about writing ocean stories? I have! My short The Tempest, in the Out of the Darkness dark fantasy anthology, takes place on the ocean, and there are ocean-themes in some of my upcoming books. I'm fairly scared of water, though I force myself to face my fear by cave-diving and snorkeling at springs. I find the ocean--and any vast, unforgiving landscape--fascinating, and I like to explore stories where the environment is as much of an obstacle as the antagonist. My time in the Yucatan diving in cenotes inspired the jungle feel of Familiar Waters, though the South American jungle is very different in a lot of ways.
Do the names in your story have any special meaning?
They do! Iguazu is a river that serves as a portion of the border between Argentina and Brazil. It's best known for the beautiful Iguazu Falls just to the east of Paraguay. Bia is a shortening of the phonetic Spanish for "voyager" -- viajero.
Does your work as an archeologist influence your writing?
It certainly influences my Nel Bently Books, as Nel is also an archaeologist (though of the academic variety). I get to travel a lot, and often spend up to ten hours a day outside. We hike to very remote locations, often untouched by humans for several hundred years--even thousands. That close relationship with nature, particularly the wild, has a deep influence on my worlds. Our role as contract archaeologists to protect Native people's cultural histories from destruction and development also adds a lasting respect for other cultures and humans.
Saturday, October 13, 2018
Love & Bubbles Cover Reveal!
Love & Bubbles
An anthology of queer underwater love stories
Edited by Jaylee James & Jennifer Lee Rossman
Dive into romance with these thirteen stories of queer love under the sea!
Love & Bubbles is a short fiction anthology of love stories united by an underwater theme and featuring characters from across the LGBTQ+ spectrum.
Go on a deep-sea voyage to study a brand-new species alongside a cute, distracted scientist. Discover your magic with a water witch and the help of a cute mermaid. Explore the waters of an alien ocean. Get summoned to the surface with a grumpy old merman and his non-binary water demon neighbor. Swim with a catfish goddess, rescue a dolphin... and so much more!
Love & Bubbles is a short fiction anthology of love stories united by an underwater theme and featuring characters from across the LGBTQ+ spectrum.
Go on a deep-sea voyage to study a brand-new species alongside a cute, distracted scientist. Discover your magic with a water witch and the help of a cute mermaid. Explore the waters of an alien ocean. Get summoned to the surface with a grumpy old merman and his non-binary water demon neighbor. Swim with a catfish goddess, rescue a dolphin... and so much more!
Featuring stories by:
Evvan Burke
Minerva Cerridwen
Lizzie Colt
Lia Cooper
Maggie Derrick
M. Hollis
V. S. Holmes
Jaylee James
Jennifer Lee Rossman
Riley Sidell
Mharie West
Victoria Zelvin
Pre-order link: http://gumroad.com/jayleejames
Goodreads link: https://www.goodreads.
About the Editors:
is a nonbinary writer, editor, and story curator native to Kansas City who is best known as the editor of Circuits & Slippers, an anthology of science-fiction fairytales, and Vitality Magazine, which published LGBTQ+ genre fiction between 2014-2016. E also writes a smattering of short fiction and video games.
Wednesday, September 5, 2018
Publication and Announcements
One Last Ride on the Horse with Purple Roses is now available in Luna Station Quarterly, and is actually their featured story! It's free to read online and is available in digital and print, with cover art by Shreya Shetty!
http://lunastationquarterly.com/story/one-last-ride-on-the-horse-with-purple-roses/
One Last Ride on the Horse with Purple Roses is one of my sweeter, sadder stories. The type of story my grandmother likes.
It's about a woman who has just lost her young daughter, and she takes the daughter's imaginary friend to the park for one last time.
Luna Station Quarterly is a speculative fiction magazine featuring stories by emerging women authors, now in their 9th year.
I'll be in touch soon with the official cover reveal for my novel.
My next publication will be Love & Bubbles, which contains my story Shallows and which I'm the assistant editor of. Pre-orders and shirts are available here: https://gumroad.com/jayleejames
And this project is still in the very early stages, but I'm going to be co-editing an anthology with Brian McNett called Space Opera Libretti. Check out our site here: http://spaceoperalibretti.blogspot.com/
http://lunastationquarterly.com/story/one-last-ride-on-the-horse-with-purple-roses/
One Last Ride on the Horse with Purple Roses is one of my sweeter, sadder stories. The type of story my grandmother likes.
It's about a woman who has just lost her young daughter, and she takes the daughter's imaginary friend to the park for one last time.
Luna Station Quarterly is a speculative fiction magazine featuring stories by emerging women authors, now in their 9th year.
I'll be in touch soon with the official cover reveal for my novel.
My next publication will be Love & Bubbles, which contains my story Shallows and which I'm the assistant editor of. Pre-orders and shirts are available here: https://gumroad.com/jayleejames
And this project is still in the very early stages, but I'm going to be co-editing an anthology with Brian McNett called Space Opera Libretti. Check out our site here: http://spaceoperalibretti.blogspot.com/
Sunday, August 12, 2018
Love & Bubbles Pre-Orders!
Hello! Today I have the Love & Bubbles pre-order link to share! This is the anthology of queer romance under the sea I've been editing with Jaylee James.
I also have a story in it about a gay dolphin shapeshifter. There is no sexual content to these stories, very little language and violence, and they all will leave you feeling warm and fuzzy inside.
It will be available on Amazon when it comes out, but for now we're offering pre-orders on Gumroad to raise money to pay for the cover art.
In addition to ebook and paperback, we also have t-shirts! And cross stitch I made, while supplies last.
http://gumroad.com/jayleejames
I also have a story in it about a gay dolphin shapeshifter. There is no sexual content to these stories, very little language and violence, and they all will leave you feeling warm and fuzzy inside.
It will be available on Amazon when it comes out, but for now we're offering pre-orders on Gumroad to raise money to pay for the cover art.
In addition to ebook and paperback, we also have t-shirts! And cross stitch I made, while supplies last.
http://gumroad.com/jayleejames
Tuesday, July 24, 2018
EXCITING NEWS OF EXCITEMENT
Quick Love & Bubbles update - we're going to publish at the end of September. Stay tuned for cover reveal!
Now, on to my EXCITING NEWS OF EXCITEMENT!
My story features an alien who has learned human language through social media, so he speaks in Internet memes. Together with YouTuber Maddie Espinoza (who he comes to for help because Selena Gomez was busy), Alieny McAlienface must defeat the evil overload who protec but also attac his planet. (And if you don't get that joke, you're probably going to be a little baffled by the rest of the story.)
The Kickstarter is live today, and you can get some awesome rewards. I'm offering a custom cross stitch, and some of the stories get illustrations. This is mine. Aaaaaaah, look at Maddie and Alieny McAlienface!
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I'm going to be in a book with Seanan McGuire. I didn't even know that was one of my writing goals until I achieved it. I LOVE her books so much, and her UFO story is about an interstellar carnival ship battling space pirates, which is what my novel is about!
I'm having trouble putting into words what this means to me.
People don't take me seriously in real life. Strangers treat me like a child, and my family... well, they're good, but I think your family is supposed to always see you as their baby. Friends that I've met in my adult life seem to see me as an adult, but it's hard for me to accept that they really see me that way and aren't just pretending.
Sometimes it's weird when I'm doing contracts and working with editors, and I realize they're treating me like equals. They really and truly see me as an adult who can handle deadlines and doesn't need to be coddled.
They see me as someone deserving of sharing a table of contents page with my idols.
I honestly didn't know that was a goal of mine until I achieved it.
Wednesday, February 21, 2018
Cover Reveal! and Neil Gaiman Retweeted Our Kickstarter!
Brief "Omg how is this my life" moment: One of the Love & Bubbles authors asked Neil Gaiman to tweet about our Kickstarter, and he did. https://twitter.com/InspectorSpectr/status/966016738964815872
Neil Gaiman. NEIL GAIMAN. WHAT.
(To my family who probably has no idea who I'm screaming about: Neil Gaiman is a LEGEND in the sci-fi/fantasy community. He wrote so many things you've never heard of but we nerds worship. This is a Big Deal.)
Want to back the anthology? Here the link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/candystar/love-and-bubbles-a-romance-anthology-under-the-sea?ref=project_tweet
Now to the actual news:
Today, I’m revealing the cover and story line-up for BRAVE NEW GIRLS: TALES OF HEROINES WHO HACK, coming July 2018!
And I have a story in it!
This YA sci-fi anthology (edited by sci-fi authors Paige Daniels and Mary Fan) features stories about girls in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math)… Girls who hack not just computers, but whatever puzzles come their way, using their smarts to save the day. It’s got sci-fi mysteries, cyberpunk, space adventures, and more! Proceeds from sales of the anthology will be donated to the Society of Women Engineers scholarship fund.
My story, Login, is a loose reteling of Rumplestiltskin, featuring a disabled protagonist. Each story gets its own illustration. Mine is being done by my friend's sister and I've seen the first sketch and omg you guys. I can't wait to show you!
Neil Gaiman. NEIL GAIMAN. WHAT.
(To my family who probably has no idea who I'm screaming about: Neil Gaiman is a LEGEND in the sci-fi/fantasy community. He wrote so many things you've never heard of but we nerds worship. This is a Big Deal.)
Want to back the anthology? Here the link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/candystar/love-and-bubbles-a-romance-anthology-under-the-sea?ref=project_tweet
Now to the actual news:
Today, I’m revealing the cover and story line-up for BRAVE NEW GIRLS: TALES OF HEROINES WHO HACK, coming July 2018!
And I have a story in it!
This YA sci-fi anthology (edited by sci-fi authors Paige Daniels and Mary Fan) features stories about girls in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math)… Girls who hack not just computers, but whatever puzzles come their way, using their smarts to save the day. It’s got sci-fi mysteries, cyberpunk, space adventures, and more! Proceeds from sales of the anthology will be donated to the Society of Women Engineers scholarship fund.
And without further ado, here’s the cover!
Stories in the anthology (in alphabetical order by title):
The Alchemist's Daughter by Selenia Paz
The Altered Avatar by Mary Fan
Attack on Aegis by Paige Daniels
Becoming a World Builder by Valerie Hunter
Data Recovery by Nicholas Jennings
Discord on Harmonia by M.L.D. Curelas
The Experiment Called Life by Halli Gomez
False Messiahs by Josh Pritchett
Impossible Odds by A.A. Jankiewicz
In Cyberia, Avatar Controls You by Jeremy Rodden
In the Shadow of Zyrcon by Joanna Schnurman
Inmate C87 by Kay Dominguez
Life Hack by Aaron Rosenberg
Login by Jennifer Lee Rossman
Moon Girl by Jennifer Chow
My Other Tree House Is a Rocket Ship by Russ Colchamiro
The Power of Five by Jenifer Purcell Rosenberg
Pyramid Scheme by Jamie Krakover
Sea-Stars and Sand Dollars by Lyssa Chiavari
Second Sun by Jorge Rustrian
ShockWired by Tash McAdam
Sword & Shield by Jelani Akin Parham
Twisted Brick by M.J. Moores
My story, Login, is a loose reteling of Rumplestiltskin, featuring a disabled protagonist. Each story gets its own illustration. Mine is being done by my friend's sister and I've seen the first sketch and omg you guys. I can't wait to show you!
ADD IT ON GOODREADS: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38621003-brave-new-girls
VISIT THE BRAVE NEW GIRLS WEBSITE: http://bravenewgirls.weebly.com/
Brave New Girls: Stories of Tales of Heroines Who Hack is the third volume of the Brave New Girls anthology series. The first two, Brave New Girls: Tales of Girls and Gadgets (2015) and Brave New Girls: Stories of Girls Who Science and Scheme (2017) have so far raised thousands of dollars for the Society of Women Engineers Scholarship fund. Find them on Amazon.
ABOUT THE EDITORS
Paige Daniels is the pen name of Tina Closser. By day she works as an Electrical Engineer and Mom mushing her kids from gymnastics and violin practice. After the kids go to bed, she rocks out with her headphones turned to eleven and cranks out books. She is an uber science geek. If she wasn't married to the most terrific guy in the world, she would be a groupie for Adam Baldwin. Her books include Non-Compliance: The Sector, Non-Compliance: The Transition, and Non-Compliance: Equilibrium.
Mary Fan is a hopeless dreamer, whose mind insists on spinning tales of “what if.” As a music major in college, she told those stories through compositions. Now, she tells them through books—a habit she began as soon as she could pick up a pencil. And what stories she has! Currently, she has three series in progress and likes to think that she has even more in her bag. Her books include Starswept, the Jane Colt trilogy, the Firedragon novellas, and the Fated Stars novellas.
Monday, February 12, 2018
Glass and Gardens TOC Reveal
Just quick updates!
The table of contents for GLASS AND GARDENS: SOLARPUNK SUMMERS, a science fiction anthology edited by Sarena Ulibarri, was announced today: https://www.worldweaverpress.com/blog/table-of-contents-reveal-glass-and-gardens-solarpunk-summers
This is the second anthology by World Weaver Press that I'll be in, and I can't wait for the world to meet Kirra and Zeph!
And the Love & Bubbles Kickstarter is going well but we need your help to reach our goal! The cross stitch rewards are still available at the Narwhal level. Take home a cute piece of art and support some writers?
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/candystar/love-and-bubbles-a-romance-anthology-under-the-sea
So, what story title in Glass and Gardens are you most intrigued by? "A Field of Sapphires and Sunshine" sounds interesting...
The table of contents for GLASS AND GARDENS: SOLARPUNK SUMMERS, a science fiction anthology edited by Sarena Ulibarri, was announced today: https://www.worldweaverpress.com/blog/table-of-contents-reveal-glass-and-gardens-solarpunk-summers
This is the second anthology by World Weaver Press that I'll be in, and I can't wait for the world to meet Kirra and Zeph!
And the Love & Bubbles Kickstarter is going well but we need your help to reach our goal! The cross stitch rewards are still available at the Narwhal level. Take home a cute piece of art and support some writers?
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/candystar/love-and-bubbles-a-romance-anthology-under-the-sea
So, what story title in Glass and Gardens are you most intrigued by? "A Field of Sapphires and Sunshine" sounds interesting...
Wednesday, February 7, 2018
The Love & Bubbles Kickstarter is Live!
[begin sales pitch]
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/candystar/love-and-bubbles-a-romance-anthology-under-the-sea
Love & Bubbles is an anthology of love under the sea, with stories by emerging and established authors.
By supporting this Kickstarter, you will be ensuring that we can pay authors a reasonable rate for their work. There are some straight pairings but it's a very queer book put together by some very queer writers and editors. And if we reach our stretch goals, we add even more stories (and mine is one of them, so I am very invested in this).
And on a personal note, everything I get paid for doing this will hopefully go towards me doing my own anthology one day.
But we don't get published without your help, and we've got some awesome donor rewards including cross stitch made by yours truly!
We have...
Lochlan and Vanessie the Loch Ness Monsters!
Lochlan and Vanessie's necks make a heart shape silhouetted against a Scottish sunset, and the water is accented with sparkly thread.
Narman and Whalter the gay narwhals!
Ah, narwhals. The majestic unicorns of the sea. With the aurora borealis in the background, Narman and Whalter leap out of the Arctic Ocean with a carved ice heart. Their spiraling horns are sparkly.
Phillip the squid!
Phillip the "cephillipod" is a jolly purple squid. He doesn't have a partner, but that's okay because he loves himself. He is hugging a nice big heart, and there are sparkly bubbles behind him.
Each image was lovingly custom designed and stitched for this project, is one of a kind, and is framed in a wooden hoop measuring 6 inches in diameter.
So here's the link again. Please support this project. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/candystar/love-and-bubbles-a-romance-anthology-under-the-sea
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/candystar/love-and-bubbles-a-romance-anthology-under-the-sea
Love & Bubbles is an anthology of love under the sea, with stories by emerging and established authors.
By supporting this Kickstarter, you will be ensuring that we can pay authors a reasonable rate for their work. There are some straight pairings but it's a very queer book put together by some very queer writers and editors. And if we reach our stretch goals, we add even more stories (and mine is one of them, so I am very invested in this).
And on a personal note, everything I get paid for doing this will hopefully go towards me doing my own anthology one day.
But we don't get published without your help, and we've got some awesome donor rewards including cross stitch made by yours truly!
We have...
Lochlan and Vanessie the Loch Ness Monsters!
Lochlan and Vanessie's necks make a heart shape silhouetted against a Scottish sunset, and the water is accented with sparkly thread.
Narman and Whalter the gay narwhals!
Ah, narwhals. The majestic unicorns of the sea. With the aurora borealis in the background, Narman and Whalter leap out of the Arctic Ocean with a carved ice heart. Their spiraling horns are sparkly.
Phillip the squid!
Phillip the "cephillipod" is a jolly purple squid. He doesn't have a partner, but that's okay because he loves himself. He is hugging a nice big heart, and there are sparkly bubbles behind him.
Each image was lovingly custom designed and stitched for this project, is one of a kind, and is framed in a wooden hoop measuring 6 inches in diameter.
So here's the link again. Please support this project. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/candystar/love-and-bubbles-a-romance-anthology-under-the-sea
Thursday, February 1, 2018
Two Anthology Announcements!
Good morning, everyone!
I am pleased to have not one but TWO announcements today!
First, the ten authors whose stories will be in Love & Bubbles have been announced on Jaylee James's blog: http://jayleejames.com/love-bubbles/
I feel very protective and maternal towards these authors. They are my babies now and I will do anything for them.
And I may be fangirling about getting to work with one or two of them.
Depending on how the Kickstarter goes, we could add up to seven more authors to this list.
And second, I'm going to be in another World Weaver Press anthology!
Glass Gardens: Solarpunk Summers is edited by Sarena Ulibarri, and will feature hopeful stories set in an ecologically-minded future.
My story is Riot of the Wind and Sun, which is set in the same futuristic Australian town as Always, Always, my story in When You're Strange.
Always is super dark while Riot is bright and happy and set about a hundred years later. They both take place in my futuristic Coober Pedy, and while there are continuity issues that prevent me from truly calling them prequel and sequel, I like to think they could exist in the same world. Like Tress and Voltaire's struggles in Always somehow led to the opportunity and hope of Kirra in Riot.
Lots of projects! Looks like I'll be busy this year.
Do you like reading anthologies? What's your favorite?
I am pleased to have not one but TWO announcements today!
First, the ten authors whose stories will be in Love & Bubbles have been announced on Jaylee James's blog: http://jayleejames.com/love-bubbles/
I feel very protective and maternal towards these authors. They are my babies now and I will do anything for them.
And I may be fangirling about getting to work with one or two of them.
Depending on how the Kickstarter goes, we could add up to seven more authors to this list.
And second, I'm going to be in another World Weaver Press anthology!
Glass Gardens: Solarpunk Summers is edited by Sarena Ulibarri, and will feature hopeful stories set in an ecologically-minded future.
My story is Riot of the Wind and Sun, which is set in the same futuristic Australian town as Always, Always, my story in When You're Strange.
Always is super dark while Riot is bright and happy and set about a hundred years later. They both take place in my futuristic Coober Pedy, and while there are continuity issues that prevent me from truly calling them prequel and sequel, I like to think they could exist in the same world. Like Tress and Voltaire's struggles in Always somehow led to the opportunity and hope of Kirra in Riot.
Lots of projects! Looks like I'll be busy this year.
Do you like reading anthologies? What's your favorite?
Thursday, January 25, 2018
Love & Bubbles Announcement!
Last week, I was planning to have a post about how I'd like to edit an anthology someday. And then I couldn't because ~*~*secret reason of secrecy*~*~ This is the reason:
See, there's this idea that keeps popping into my head, usually as I'm about to fall asleep. And it's ridiculous and would be so much more stress than I need, but when I think about it, it makes me so excited that I can't sleep.
What if I edited an anthology?
Almost immediately, the more rational part of me tries to talk the hyperactive part down, pointing out the absurdity of the idea. Like I'm going to put out a call for submissions and edit stories and publish a book.
But then that little voice says, But what if I did?
I mean, really.
I have a little expendable money from getting stories published that I can use to pay authors. I'm good at editing, and I don't think I'm afraid of rejecting people.
Best of all, I have a community of people who will get the word out and help find a cover artist. I'm friends with people who have done this before and can help with the technical aspects.
So I asked my friend Jaylee James, editor of Circuits & Slippers, how hard it really is to put together a project of that size.
...and long story short, I'm now the assistant editor of er next anthology, Love & Bubbles! It's a collection of romance stories under the sea.
I'm excited and heart-eyes for the whole process, even if people keep warning me about the hell of the slush pile.
Right now my duties are reading the submissions and helping pick the best ones, and I've also made some graphics and rewards for the Kickstarter page.
Hopefully I continue to love this process as much as I currently am, and I'll be able to do my own next year.
(I'm thinking sci-fi Shakespeare retellings? "To Sleep Perchance to Dream of Electric Sheep"?)
See, there's this idea that keeps popping into my head, usually as I'm about to fall asleep. And it's ridiculous and would be so much more stress than I need, but when I think about it, it makes me so excited that I can't sleep.
What if I edited an anthology?
Almost immediately, the more rational part of me tries to talk the hyperactive part down, pointing out the absurdity of the idea. Like I'm going to put out a call for submissions and edit stories and publish a book.
But then that little voice says, But what if I did?
I mean, really.
I have a little expendable money from getting stories published that I can use to pay authors. I'm good at editing, and I don't think I'm afraid of rejecting people.
Best of all, I have a community of people who will get the word out and help find a cover artist. I'm friends with people who have done this before and can help with the technical aspects.
So I asked my friend Jaylee James, editor of Circuits & Slippers, how hard it really is to put together a project of that size.
...and long story short, I'm now the assistant editor of er next anthology, Love & Bubbles! It's a collection of romance stories under the sea.
I'm excited and heart-eyes for the whole process, even if people keep warning me about the hell of the slush pile.
Right now my duties are reading the submissions and helping pick the best ones, and I've also made some graphics and rewards for the Kickstarter page.
Hopefully I continue to love this process as much as I currently am, and I'll be able to do my own next year.
(I'm thinking sci-fi Shakespeare retellings? "To Sleep Perchance to Dream of Electric Sheep"?)
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