Sam J. MillerHello #SFFWriters & #HorrorWriters !!
I'm doing my end-of-year award-nomination reading... Gimme some shameless self-promotion! Tell me what work of YOURS that was published in 2022 I should absolutely read!
Include category & a link, if possible.
I'll go first lol
I'm fond of my queer 1920's gangster + magic novella KID WOLF & KRAKEN BOY.
Paperback: rebellionpublishing.com/product/kid_wo…
Angus McIntyre@sentencebender I think my favorite of my short stories this year was probably this cyberpunk fairy tale:
"In the Belly of the Whale"
https://angus.pw/writing/in-the-belly-of-the-whale/
Sonia Sulaiman@sentencebender Oh, I am nothing if not shameless when it comes to promotion :D
I have one eligible piece this year. 'What the Ghouleh Said On Thursday of the Dead' is a work of Palestinian gothic. It's inspired by folk religion and ghoul lore, and is a finalist for the Brave New Weird award.
You can read it here:
https://www.seizethepress.com/2022/10/12/sulaiman-issue5/
"What the Ghouleh Said on Thursday of the Dead" by Sonia Sulaiman - Seize The Press
For seventy years, a Biblical age, the shadows hungered in the village. Daylight, moonlight. Growth of weeds, and slumber of stone. The settlers smashed in the domes of the houses to keep away the living. They forgot to ward off the dead. Thirsting, the shadows raised desiccated tongues to catch the benevolence of Baal Haddad,...
Christi Nogle@sentencebender My favorite story of 2022 was "I Came Back" in Nightscript 8, available here https://chthonicmatter.wordpress.com/nightscript/ and at Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Nightscript-8-C-M-Muller/dp/B0BDBB9G2C
Kimberly
SB DivyaJust one published story for me this year, and I'd love for you to read it: https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/two-hands-wrapped-in-gold/
Two Hands, Wrapped in Gold - Uncanny Magazine
My parents taught me to lie as soon as I could speak. Before I knew the meaning of the words, before I understood heat or fire, and long before I felt the pain of singed flesh, I learned to tell strangers that I burned myself by grasping a hot iron pot. Once a day, my […]
Karl Dandenell (he/him)@sentencebender - Don't mind if I do!
Here's the full post on my site, with links when available:
A.T. Sayre@sentencebender My novelette, 'Across the River' published in Analog back in July, is available to read for free on a private page on my website: https://www.atsayre.com/across-the-river
You can also add your recommendation to it on the Nebula Reading List here: https://www.sfwa.org/forum/reading/work/6283-across-the-river/
Hope you like it!
You can also add your recommendation to it on the Nebula Reading List here: https://www.sfwa.org/forum/reading/work/6283-across-the-river/
Hope you like it!
Darusha Wehm@sentencebender I’m really proud of this short, sweet (sad?) queer SF love story about transcending death (maybe?).
Stephen Cox Author@sentencebender Our Child of Two Worlds sequel to Our Child of the Stars. heartwarming childless couple adopts sweet alien (only he has weird powers, and is a critique of human society, and if the peaceful and benevolent aliens turn up to rescue him, will they save Earth given humanity is wrecking it. 60s smalltown USA. More at www.stephencox.co.uk
Julie C. Day@sentencebender My story "Whole Bodies Are Never Left Behind" will be out any moment now in the final issue of #BlackStatic It's both beautiful and horrific, fully of grief, familial love, and skeletal articulation.
Fred Coppersmith@sentencebender My (sorta #sff, sorta #horror) story “Where the Prayers Run Like Weeds Along the Road” was published in Bourbon Penn 26: https://www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/26/where-the-prayers-run-like-weeds-along-the-road-by-fred-coppersmith
Fred Coppersmith > Where the Prayers Run Like Weeds Along the Road > Bourbon Penn
You find the dead man waiting for you right where you left him, leaning against the old wooden fence at the side of the road. He looks like he’s smiling, a lopsided grin of too many teeth, but you’re sure that’s just a trick of the light, or of too little sleep. Because when you pull the truck over and rub both of your eyes until you see stars, the grin is gone, and the dead man just grumbles at you and says, “What took you so long?”
Jenny Rae Rappaport@sentencebender I might as well vary what I’m shamelessly self-promoting. 😊
“Becoming Miss Pennyworth” was published in Nature in October 2022, and is a science fiction twist on Regency romance.
Jordan Kurella (he/him)@sentencebender what i have to promote is also also a novella!!
“I Never Liked You Anyway:” Eurydice is dead and hell is a school. Now she has to navigate classes like Hauntings and Controlled Baking Disasters so that she can learn to navigate her fateful relationship with Orpheus, the boyfriend /from hell/.
You can get it here!
https://bookshop.org/books?keywords=i+never+liked+you+anyway
Mina Li (she/her)@kurellian @sentencebender MY COPY'S ON THE WAAAY
Just J@kurellian That's one hell of a sales pitch for a novella, I've got to say!
Steven French@sentencebender
‘Gods Save the Queen’ Bewildering Stories 961
http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue961/index.html
Thanks for the consideration !
C. L. Polk@sentencebender
so I only have one thing. It's a novella called Even Though I Knew The End. It's a historical urban fantasy occult detective lesbian pulp story. Warlock augur Helen Brandt takes on one last case, because the payment is completely irresistible.
It's a tordotcom novella. Link: https://bookshop.org/p/books/even-though-i-knew-the-end-c-l-polk/17879351?ean=9781250849458
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Claire McCague@sentencebender The Rosetta Mind. It's first contact fun times and sequel to The Rosetta Man. My favorite review is here: https://www.ottawareviewofbooks.com/single-post/the-rosetta-mind-by-claire-mccague
The print edition & e-book are in all the bookish places on-line. Here it is on Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-rosetta-mind-claire-mccague/1141909619?ean=9781770532137
The Rosetta Mind by Claire McCague
Reviewed by Robert Runté Before reviewing Book 2, allow me a paragraph or two about Book 1: The Rosette Man. I managed to miss it entirely when it first came out (amid the ongoing avalanche of new Canadian SF&F), but was later fortunate to catch McCague giving a reading. I was so impressed, I bought and downloaded the novel within the first five minutes of her reading the opening. The Rosetta Man is among the cleverest, most riveting first-contact adventures ever. The aliens are intriguingly ali
S. Z. Attwell ☕️💻@sentencebender hello!
Oh wait, 2022, never mind 😭 (I’ve been staring at screens too long today.) If you still want SFF to read, you might enjoy my series: http://szattwell.com (underground city, swords, climate change…and more). Hope you find some great things to read!
Payal Dhar (she/they)@sentencebender How about a full-length MG/YA crossover novel from India? Here’s “The Prophecy”, book 1 of Sands of Time. Ebook available.
Fiona Moore (she/her)@sentencebender as you know— The Memory Spider. It’s about grieving the death of an estranged parent through teaching a giant robot spider to dance. https://www.abyssapexzine.com/2022/01/memory-spider/
Lettie Prell@sentencebender You already know this, but jumping in to toot: My novella, “Live Update” in Clarkesworld. Read or listen here: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/prell_09_22/
Arkady Martine@sentencebender I have absolutely nothing this year (which is weird/sad), so ... wifehype time, if acceptable. How about Vivian's "Transference"? Short, horror/fantasy, tattoos and haunting-by-art.
https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/transference/
(also I'm super excited to read KID WOLF & KRAKEN BOY)
Transference - Uncanny Magazine
It’s working. With every buzzing, burning line Rae traces on my back—the needle feels like a red-hot knifepoint drawn across the skin—it’s working. I was terrified when we began, not of the pain but of the uncertainty: would this do anything at all, would there be any difference whatsoever in the dream I’ve been trapped […]
@ArkadyMartine @sentencebender I think it’s totally valid to boost your spouse’s work! 🙂
Eileen Gunn@sentencebender Okay, then: my novelette “One Night Stand,” in Sept/Oct Asimovs. It comes with a trigger warning. Thanks, Sam.
R. Leigh Hennig@sentencebender Hi! I have a story out in Mother: Tales of Love and Terror, titled "Here in the Cellar." This is up for the Stoker for Short Fiction. I can give a link to PDF/MOBI/ePub if interested!
Rimi B. Chatterjee@sentencebender Hi Sam, I have two stories elig this year: ‘A Question of Choice’ in Reckoning: Our Beautiful Reward, https://reckoning.press/ and ‘Karmic Joy’ in Karma Comes Before 001 https://www.kcbthemag.com/
Jessica Reisman@sentencebender My "Aconie's Bees" in the May/June issue of Analog! I'm so proud of that story and it deserves more love.