Last year, we reviewed Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers, which featured a number of MSJ alumni. Now, World Weaver Press is putting out Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Winters, and once again, the table of contents is chock full of our alumni! Wendy Nikel, Holly Schofield, Steve Toase, and Jennifer Lee Rossman will all have stories in...
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Several anthologies have announced their tables of contents recently, and we’re pleased to see our alumni in them! Two of our alumni have stories forthcoming in Flame Tree Publishing’s Epic Fantasy anthology. Both Lucinda Gunnin and Wendy Nikel were recently announced as among the authors selected for this anthology, which will be released in...
Read more →Several MSJ alum have published new short fiction and novels recently! Patrick Hurley’s story, “The Memory Bank & Trust,” recently appeared at Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores, with some fantastic art accompanying it! Atthis Arts’ Five Minutes at Hotel Stormcove anthology contains stories from a number of MSJ alum, including Stewart C. Baker, Robert Dawson,...
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Our MSJ alum have a lot of new things to be proud of! Nathan Crowder has recently self-published his super creepy horror novel, The Lictonwood. He’s also self-publishing some of his previously published stories via Kindle. We especially love “Deacon Carter’s Last Dime,” but you can find several other stories at his Amazon page....
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While Mad Scientist Journal and DefCon One Publishing will not have a formal presence at Norwescon 42, in the dealer’s room or author’s row, we will be at the convention! We’re taking the year off from selling our books, but if you’re really chomping at the bit to get a copy of one of our...
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Our MSJ alum have been up to all sorts of interesting projects recently! Curtis C. Chen is part of a team of four authors writing Ninth Step Station, a serial story with weekly episodes about police detectives in a future Tokyo. Paul Crenshaw has recently published his book of creative non-fiction essays, This One Will Hurt...
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Emerald City Comic Con, also known as ECCC, is an enormous convention in Seattle, and although Mad Scientist Journal will not have an official presence there, MSJ Editorial Assistant and alumni Amanda Cherry will be a panelist at this convention. You can find her full schedule on the convention website. Assistant Editor Dawn Vogel will also be attending...
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We’ve got a couple of Mad Scientist Journal alumni with horror short stories of note. Author J. C. Stearns is among the authors with a story from the dark side of the Warhammer universe in a forthcoming anthology, Maledictions, which is due out in early April. Author Steve Toase has two stories that made the final...
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Several of our MSJ alumni have stories in an upcoming anthology, currently funding on Kickstarter. It’s called Gunsmoke & Dragonfire: A Fantasy Western Anthology, and it features Eric S. Fomley, Paul Alex Gray, Joachim Heijndermans, Liam Hogan, and G. Scott Huggins, all of whom have been published in MSJ or our anthologies! They’re joined by 20...
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The 2018 Bram Stoker Awards Preliminary Ballot has been announced, and three MSJ alum are on it! Gwendolyn Kiste has been nominated for Superior Achievement in a First Novel for her The Rust Maidens (Journalstone, 2018). L. Chan and Steve Toase are part of two anthologies that have been nominated for Superior Achievement in an...
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