Melissa Gay has turned in some beautiful cover art for Sara M. Harvey’s The Convent of the Pure. This one should be available for order starting in December.
Apex Editor-in-Chief Jason Sizemore was invited to be a part of this week’s Mind Meld at SFSignal.
http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/007071.html
The question presented was:
Q: Science fiction, some say, is all about fostering change. But if you could change any aspect of the science fiction field itself - publishing, mainstream acceptance, fans, or whatever - what would it be and [...]
We have lots of treats this week.
“Through Thy Bounty” by Lucy A. Snyder
“The Finger” by Matt Hults*
Articles by Lavie Tidhar and Adrienne Jones.
Interviews with Adrienne Jones about her new book brine and a fan-driven Q&A of Apex author Jennifer Pelland.
All can be found right here: http://www.apexbookcompany.com/apex-online
*The story by Matt Hults is the first of a [...]
The boy is maybe eight or nine, redheaded, skinny and bruised. His ankles are purple and rope-burned. The gash in his neck is as pale as raw bacon; they’ve drained the blood from his body. Sometimes, depending on the menu du jour, they leave the chilled blood for me in a stainless steel thermos jug beside the corpse’s head. But not today.
Through some ironic twist of fate, the phone call from the morgue came while Jim Cooley sat watching Frankenstein on one of the cable channels.
So when a friend who worked in the environmental cleanup business told me about a particularly bone chilling job, I decided to investigate and write about it. I would explore the horror of reality, confident that I could handle the transition and blend these two passions into a unique and powerful article. It was a terrible mistake.
McClure’s Kramer & Zondi novels are wonderful. They display the ugly reality of Apartheid almost without comment. The irony is in the spaces, in the things not being said – and they can be both horrible and very, very funny. The humour is almost never absent, even when the reality is truly horrifying, and it’s what makes McClure’s novels such good reads.
An interview with brine author Adrienne Jones
Halloween is just around the corner, so you should know what that means–the annual Apex Halloween short fiction contest!
This year’s theme is: ELECTION HORROR
Guidelines:
Your story must incorporate the theme of ELECTION HORROR.
Word count maximum is 1,000.
Your story must have first rights available.
Submit your story to halloween@apexdigest.com.
Submissions are open NOW.
Deadline is 11:59 PM, October 15th, EST.
This [...]
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Credit goes to Fontaine, for writing such a beautiful song, and to Stephanie Rinehart for editing it together.
More about Beauty & Dynamite.
This week we feature a new story from George Mann titled “The Nature of Blood.”
Non-fiction content includes columns by Adrienne Jones, Lavie Tidhar, and Jason Sizemore.
http://www.apexbookcompany.com/apex-online
In the past year I’ve read three women’s fiction novels about a gal who returns home for a family emergency only to discover the real problem is her own sheltered life, until a mysterious stranger awakens her spirit, and her vagina.
Books made of asbestos, money, and floppy disks.
A treatise on this website’s goals and dreams.
Here’s a fascinating interview with Fran Friel by Greg Lamberson of FearZone.com.
Favorite part: When Fran is talking about her experience participating in the Gross Out Contest at WHC 07…
“And if you’ll remember, the judges were Chris Golden, Tim Lebbon and Joe Lansdale and later that night somebody told me that Joe’s beautiful daughter, Kasey, was [...]
