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Monthly Archives: August 2009

Best American Fantasy and Shimmer!

Woo-hoo! Big news from Shimmer. Best American Fantasy 3, edited by Kevin Brockmeier and Matthew Cheney, is reprinting Kuzhali Manickavel’s “Flying and Falling,” from our Art issue. We’re just thrilled!
What’s more, two other Shimmer stories were selected for the BAF Recommended Reading list: Aliette de Bodard’s “Within the City of the Swan” from the Art [...]

Weekend Update

If you haven’t yet, go read Sean Markey’s story “Shatter Shatter” over at Brain Harvest. It’s a great little story and worth the three minutes it’ll take you to read.
The Strange Horizons fund drive continues. They’ve met their goal, thanks to John Scalzi, but contributions are always welcome. Win prizes! Support a really terrific magazine. [...]

Shimmer acquisitions for Issue 12

Over at the Shimmer blog, I’ve posted a list of the stories we’ve purchased so far for our 12th issue, coming later this year.
It’s such a great lineup! I can’t wait until this issue is released and everyone can read it.
Issue 11, the Clockwork Jungle Book, our collection of steampunk animal parables, is currently in [...]

Crossposting set up!

This blog (bethwodzinski.com) will be mirrored at livejournal (evilrbtmonkey) and Facebook (bethwodzinski) if you’d prefer to follow me there.
Whee, plugins made it easy.

Get behind the mule

Had a lovely week of vacation in Florida with Sean. I spent a lot of time sleeping and playing in the ocean, and did nothing at all more demanding than hanging out with Sean’s family. They’re an enjoyable lot, so it wasn’t demanding at all.
I could have used another week off, I think. Towards the [...]