...and a Table of (mal)Contents
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desperanceFoxes have holes, the birds of the air have their nests; in anthologies and collections both, short stories get to snuggle up in a Table of Contents.
It's become quite a thing, to announce the ToC of an upcoming antho in one's blog, if one has a story in it. I'm not sure that the ToC of a single-author collection has quite the same impact, because you don't get that pleasure of running your eye down the list to see what other authors have reported in; but even so, I guess it's still a thing. So herebelow, please find the ToC of my collection, Bitter Waters, forthcoming from Lethe Press in earliest November. The cover's by Elizabeth Leggett, and the collection was edited by m'wife Karen Williams, with input from m'publisher Steve Berman. Geoff Ryman wrote the intro, and Publishers Weekly said some nice things about the book; everything else is my own responsibility.
The Book You Hold In Your Hands (even if it's on a screen): Introduction by Geoff Ryman
Another Chart of the Silences
Junk Male
The Pillow-Boy of General Shu
In The Night Street Baths
The Insolence of Candles Against the Night’s Dying
Parting Shots
Up The Airy Mountain
The Light of Other Eyes
Septicaemia
The Cupboard of Cold Things
True North
Hothouse Flowers: or The Discreet Boys of Dr Barnabus
One For Every Year He’s Away, She Said
Keep The Aspidochelone Floating
‘Tis Pity He’s Ashore
The Boat of Not Belonging
Villainelle
That's a mix of full-on fantasies and ghost stories, with a couple of real-world mysteries mixed in. Or if you count another way there's half a dozen Quin stories, all four (so far) of the Sailor Martin stories, another glimpse of Skip, a couple of stories that look to novels elsewhere and really not many stand-alones. I don't do much that honestly stands alone, though any of these can be read by themselves; all the oceans are the same damn ocean in the end, and everything's connected. If you want to count another way, this is a very queer collection indeed.
You could pre-order it here, if Amazon is your thing.
It's become quite a thing, to announce the ToC of an upcoming antho in one's blog, if one has a story in it. I'm not sure that the ToC of a single-author collection has quite the same impact, because you don't get that pleasure of running your eye down the list to see what other authors have reported in; but even so, I guess it's still a thing. So herebelow, please find the ToC of my collection, Bitter Waters, forthcoming from Lethe Press in earliest November. The cover's by Elizabeth Leggett, and the collection was edited by m'wife Karen Williams, with input from m'publisher Steve Berman. Geoff Ryman wrote the intro, and Publishers Weekly said some nice things about the book; everything else is my own responsibility.
The Book You Hold In Your Hands (even if it's on a screen): Introduction by Geoff Ryman
Another Chart of the Silences
Junk Male
The Pillow-Boy of General Shu
In The Night Street Baths
The Insolence of Candles Against the Night’s Dying
Parting Shots
Up The Airy Mountain
The Light of Other Eyes
Septicaemia
The Cupboard of Cold Things
True North
Hothouse Flowers: or The Discreet Boys of Dr Barnabus
One For Every Year He’s Away, She Said
Keep The Aspidochelone Floating
‘Tis Pity He’s Ashore
The Boat of Not Belonging
Villainelle
That's a mix of full-on fantasies and ghost stories, with a couple of real-world mysteries mixed in. Or if you count another way there's half a dozen Quin stories, all four (so far) of the Sailor Martin stories, another glimpse of Skip, a couple of stories that look to novels elsewhere and really not many stand-alones. I don't do much that honestly stands alone, though any of these can be read by themselves; all the oceans are the same damn ocean in the end, and everything's connected. If you want to count another way, this is a very queer collection indeed.
You could pre-order it here, if Amazon is your thing.
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Date: 2014-09-23 01:03 pm (UTC)I'll buy it in paper if that's the only choice (but not wild about paying shipping from the States), although my shelves are groaning and may soon collapse. Look for news of a small earthquake near Cirencester, and hope I can pull myself and the cat out of the rubble. The cat would probably pull himself out, and abandon me to my fate, if he wasn't blind -- as it is, he yells loudly for me to enlighten whatever dark corner he's navigated into, and I doubt that will change come the bookquake.
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Date: 2014-09-23 02:42 pm (UTC)It will appear at some point. In an ebook format. Really, it will. I'm not quite sure why the preorder is only showing up over here; I should probably ask my publisher...
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Date: 2014-09-23 02:48 pm (UTC)