About the title of this anthology: For more than 1,000 years, Santiago de Compostela (Compostela means “field of stars”) has attracted pilgrims to walk to the cathedral that holds St. James the apostle’s relics. The stories in this anthology in their own way tell the tale of futuristic travelers who journey into the dark outer (or inner) reaches of space, searching for their own connections to the past, present and future relics of their time. Get it now, Kindle users! Compos

All these months of an invisible writing website doesn’t mean that I haven’t been writing however. I have been working hard and steadily on a fantasy novel. My goal for a finished first draft is the end of June. And, at long last, Tesseracts Twenty will be out in ebook format soon and in print in the fall. It promises to be a fantastic anthology and will include my story, “No Others Like Us.” It is good to be back. #anthology #NancySMWaldman #fiction #Writing #fantasy

My story, “Hu.man and Best,” is set in far-future Africa. After being passed over for promotion, Kanali Zohra Betts, is on a sentimental journey to southern Africa, which, decades before, was ceded to the Androidal Cognitive Entities (ACE) as part of a peace treaty between AIs and humans. There Betts discovers “Hu.man,” and suddenly finds herself embroiled in what could become an international incident, if she doesn’t handle it, the ACE, and her new commanding officer with fi

Here’s the Press Release: For Immediate Release (Calgary, Alberta) EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing invites you to join us in congratulating the following authors selected for inclusion in Compostela (Tesseracts Twenty) edited by James Alan Gardner and Spider Robinson. About Compostela (Tesseracts Twenty) Compostela (Tesseracts Twenty) is an anthology of hard and soft science fiction stories that best represent a futuristic view of the sciences and how humanity mig

The folks at Metasagas Press have announced that Futuristica, Volume 1 is ready for pre-orders in all the usual formats. My story “Hu.man & Best” is right there between those covers somewhere. Can’t wait to see it! Click over to their site for all the options. #anthology #sciencefiction #Futuristica #MetasagasPress #preorder #Writing

Thrilled to be included in this line-up! #anthology #sciencefiction #book #sale #BundoranPress #LazarusRisen #authors #NancySMWaldman #fiction #publication #Writing #shortstories

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Cover by Holly Heisey, http://hollyheiseydesign.com Fellow SFF writers SL Huang and Kurt Hunt have graciously taken on the task of compiling stories from all those writers eligible for the John W. Campbell award for new writers, including me in my first year of eligibility! From SL Huang’s website: I’m happy to announce that fellow SFF author Kurt Hunt and I will be building a Campbell anthology this year! The original CAMPBELLIAN ANTHOLOGY is the brainchild of author M. Davi

“Hu.man and Best” is set in far-future Africa, decades after a war between humans and AI. A vacationing military officer, flying across the vast, uninhabited wilderness, is presented with an unfamiliar set of challenges when she finds a human girl alone in a place where no humans should be. Last week, the publishers released the cover art and table of contents. I’m so pleased to be in the midst of this line-up of great writers: #anthology #sciencefiction #TableofContents #Met

My indie publishing house, Third Person Press, decided to put together a ghost story anthology because we get more ghost story submissions than any other kind, too many for our other anthologies where we like to have a nice mix of genre sub-types. The resultant book, Grey Area, will be released in late October, just in time for Halloween. 😉 I had never written a ghost story before and in writing one for this collection, I finally clued into why people like them. They give a

Once again Third Person Press has illustrated the incredible speculative work of Cape Breton authors with the third instalment of their Speculative Elements Series: UnEarthed. In discussing the anthology, Derek says, The Earth theme serves as a great platform for the classic speculative quality of questioning the hidden aspects of the world around us, and encompasses the horror element of turning the normative, the predictable, the familiar into an unpredictable quality, an u

Saturday, June 30th, Third Person Press released its latest publication. Earth—the ground of our being, the dust from which we come and will return. Imagine what might arise from and disappear into soil—what grows, what is buried, what teems unseen. This collection, exploring the ends of the Earth and beyond, offers tales from the depths of darkness—zombies, vampires, murky unknowable worlds, underground prisons, malevolent spirits, to the lightest heights—earthen magic, litt

Third Person Press is coming out with Unearthed, Volume 3 of The Speculative Elements Series in late June. In a lead-up to this release, they’ve been posting interviews with all the contributors. Check out mine here and stay to read the others. #anthology #series #writingadvice #collection #stories #Publishing #speculativefiction #questions #interviews #capebreton #thirdpersonpress #qanda #fiction #Writing #shortstories

Third Person Press is happy to announce that Volume III of The Speculative Elements Series is in the final stage of production. Our largest anthology to date, this collection is brimming with 21 awesome stories. Our contributors are: Mona Anderson, Walter Carey, Ken Chisholm, Wesley J. Colford, Kerry Anne Fudge, Larry Gibbons, Meg Horne, Joyce MacDonald, Lorena Mann, Bruce V. Miller, Katrina Nicholson, Sherry D. Ramsey, Wade Rideout, Alicia Serroul, Jule A. Serroul, Peter And

Ramsey, a former lawyer, is a full-time writer whose novel, One’s Aspect to the Sun, won second place in the 28th Annual Atlantic Writing Competition’s novel category, the H.R. (Bill) Percy Prize. She works for The Writer’s Federation of Nova Scotia Writers-in-the-Schools program, helping to teach youth about creative writing. She serves on the boards of The Writer’s Federation of Nova Scotia, S-F Canada, and the Northside Development Association. She has been editor-in-ch

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Third Person Press has announced an extended deadline for its next anthology, Unearthed–Volume 3 of The Speculative Elements series. Writers have until the end of February to polish your story. Make sure to read the full guidelines here to improve your chances of acceptance. The stories MUST be speculative and you MUST have some connection to Cape Breton Island in order to submit. #submissions #anthology #Publishing #poetry #thirdpersonpress #guidelines #fiction #Unearthed

Third Person Press Third Person Press is excited to announce a call for submissions for Unearthed, Volume III in the Speculative Elements Series. This anthology of speculative fiction from writers who have a connection to Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia follows on the heels of the phenomenally successful, Undercurrents, released in December 2008. Volume II in the series,Airborne, will be released at our launch on October 6, 2010 at the McConnell Library in Sydney, NS. Submi