some news
by uzwi
My new collection will be published later this year by Comma Press. It’s taken a while to get this sorted, and I want to thank everyone involved–also apologise to everyone else for the wait. Details as they arrive, here and from the Comma team. The book features eighteen short stories–five of which are original, unpublished & unavailable anywhere else and a further half dozen that will be new to most readers–and some flash fiction, much of which will be recognisable to habitues of the Ambiente Hotel. Contents include: a distributed sword & sorcery trilogy; two or three full-size sci-fi novels, one of which is two sentences and forty eight words long (fifty if you count the title); several visits to Autotelia, some that identify as such and some that don’t; and two final dispatches from Viriconium, neither of which would get house-room in an anthology of epic fantasy.
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Wonderful news – congratulations Mike! A great publisher, too.
Thanks, Richard. Very much looking forward to being in the company of writers like David Constantine and Hassan Blasim!
Wonderful news! And some nice tags. Especially Volsie.
Excellent news – one to look forward to. Particularly with the inclusion of some Viriconium stories… :))
Hi Darko, Volsie says it’s nice to know that he’ll soon be introducing himself to a wider public; he says his message is for everybody & soon they’ll all get it.
Thanks kaggsy, hope you’ll enjoy them!
Looking forward! Thanks for the news—and all best to you.
Wonderful news, Mike – congratulations! We wait and, as ever, wonder.
Brilliant, am excited!
I will have to prepare for this. Torn between an intense regime of mental training (reading everything I can get my hands on) or avoiding all other media and just walking the hound until it appears.
Probably going to be a great 2017 for Coco the dog.
That is some news, indeed.
This is brilliant news!!! Congratulations to you and to Comma. Can’t wait to read it.
Wonderful. Will there be a hardcover?
Thank you from the bitter sidewalks of Brooklyn!
Thanks everyone & apologies that it’s taken such a long time to get sorted. I’m really pleased to be with Comma Press for this. Very keen on their covers, production values & their support for short fiction–especially short fiction that doesn’t mind taking a risk or wearing its heart on its sleeve. Now that the short stories are assured of a good home I feel a lot more energetic about the new novel, which is rolling along with a renewed sense of freedom & creative space.
Welcome news. I will order a copy as soon as it’s published, and I like Comma Press, a lot.
Can we expect a book on writing, sometime in the future?
Eager to read it.
Jay & Laurence B: thanks, Hope you find something in there to enjoy.
Stoyan: Well, I suppose anything is possible. But I have so little to say about the subject in an organised way that I doubt I could manage an article, let alone a book. Then again, in a sense at least, everything I write is about writing, one way or another.