Another Author Published

C.A. Casey’s story “The Last Hero of Wodling” has been published in Sorcerous Signals. This story is based in her Emoria world, for all you Emoria fans out there.

Congrats to Casey.

Brenda Cooper News

This is belated congratulations to Brenda Cooper. Her novel The Silver Ship and the Sea (Tor Books) is included in Booklist’s yearly Editor’s Choice “Best Adult Books for Young Adults” list.

Look out for her latest novel Reading the Wind, also from Tor Books, in July.

Go Brenda!!

Four-fer Anthology

Check out the anthology A Time To . . . Volume 2: The Best of The Lorelei Signal 2007. It contains works by four Khimairal Ink authors. The anthology includes stories by Barbara Davies and C. A. Casey and poems by Elizabeth Barrette (aka Sheela Ardrian) and Megan Arkenberg (aka S.V. Green), who will be in our April 2008 issue.

Here are some reviews for it . . .

http://mgddasef.blogspot.com/2008/03/time-to-volume-2-review.html

http://mirrordancefantasy.blogspot.com/2008/03/time-tovolume-2-best-of-lorelei-signal.html

Painless Donation Campaign

Hi everyone.

I have good news for Khimairal Ink fans. We’re putting out four issues this year (January, April, July, October). Thank you, everyone, for making Khimairal Ink a huge success!

Khimairal Ink is a labor of love for us and we want to pay our authors and artists and keep it free for you to read. If you’d like to help support Khimairal Ink, join us in our Painless Donation Campaign.

The next time you want to place an order with Star-Crossed Productions or Amazon (any order, it doesn’t have to be a book) visit our Web site and use our Painless Donations links. It’s painless for you because the donations come from Star-Crossed and Amazon just for ordering through our links.

Thanks in advance for your support. See you for our April 1st issue–the stories will make you smile.

Another Davies Story

The Lorelei Signal has published a very entertaining story by Barbara Davies. “A Tinseltown Fairytale” answers that burning question — what happens when a spoiled child star encounters the fairy characters from A Midsummer Night’s Dream? The answer . . . well, you just have to read it.

More Bragging To Do

Khimairal Ink author C.A. Casey (you know her as T.J. Mindancer) has been busy scribbling. Her story “Lighthouse at the Edge of the Universe” has been published in the December issue of Coyote Wild. Congratulations, Casey.

A Nice Girl Like You

Nuance Books is proud to announce the publication of the second book in our Zerenthia Tales series. A Nice Girl Like You is a compilation of intriguing science fiction stories by Tyree Campbell. Tyree is no stranger to this blog and is certainly no stranger to the pages of Khimairal Ink.

This has been a fun book to put together and I know readers will enjoy these out of this world stories about seven “nice” girls.

Call for Submissions

Call for Submissions from Nuance Books . . .

Toe to Toe: Standing Tall and Proud

An Anthology of stories dedicated to women who overcome adversity, jump over major hurdles, beat the odds, stand for what they believe in . . . About women whose stories inspire all of us to be strong and confident as we make our way in this crazy world.

The protagonist must be a lesbian or a woman of unknown sexuality–in other words, no heterosexual references for the protagonist. The story must be character-driven, well-written, and well-plotted. The style can be literary or genre. We’re not interested in horror, erotica, strong sexual situations, over-used profanity, or extreme violence.

Length: up to 8,000 words

Payment: $0.01 a word, plus a copy of the anthology.

Unpublished stories, reprints, and short excerpts from novels that stand on their own are welcome.

Deadline: February 1, 2008

Visit Toe to Toe: Standing Tall and Proud for more information.

Catching Up With Our Authors

First off Remnants of Shadow and Light has been published. The author, Sias Bryant had a very successful reading at the Amazon Bookstore Cooperative in Minneapolis back in July. It was standing room only and they sold out the books in twenty minutes.

Amy Sisson’s “Minghun: Unlikely Patron Saints, No. 5” has just been published in Strange Horizons. It’s a great story so check it out.

Two stories to look forward to in the future . . .

C.A. Casey’s “Lighthouse at the Edge of the Universe” will be in the Fall 2007 issue of Coyote Wild.

Barbara Davies’ story “A Tinseltown Fairytale” will be in the Jan-Mar 2008 issue of The Lorelei Signal.

Congratulations, Amy, Casey, and Barbara. Keep up the good work.

We Get to Brag Some More

Sias Bryant’s story “Street” has been published by Gay Flash Fiction. Look for it on the Stories page.

Her story collection Remnants of Shadow and Light will be out very soon. We’ll make an announcement as soon as it’s available every where. In the meantime, you can go to Barnes and Noble to pre-order it now.