Our MSJ alums (and one of our co-editors) have been up to all sorts of writing excitement recently! Here’s a sampling of what we’ve heard about! Steve Toase has a story in the Janus issue of Pantheon Magazine. Gwendolyn Kiste’s novella, Pretty Marys All In a Row, is due out from Broken Eye Books this...
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We’ve got a bunch of news from past and future alumni! T. J. Tranchell has published a collection of short stories, Asleep in the Nightmare Room, through Blysster Press. This marks his second publication with Blysster Press, who published his novella, Cry Down Dark, last year. Jessie Kwak, who has a story forthcoming in MSJ later...
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Mad Scientist Journal is thrilled to be one of the sponsors for “Showgirls of Beast Island”, a full-length, badly lip-synced, live burlesque B-movie! The production will be in Seattle on July 7th and 8th, and is produced by (and features) one of our MSJ artists, Scarlett O’Hairdye! Those purchasing VIP tickets will get a...
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Chapter One of MSJ alum Domenic diCiacca’s serial story, “Time’s Angel, Part 1,” is available at the Grantville Gazette. Future installments will follow. Dr. Candida Spillard, both an author and a scientist in her own right, has an article entitled “Radio Waves for Sci-fi Authors” as part of the Science in Sci-fi, Fact in Fantasy...
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Do you like spooky stories? Have you lost entire hours reading about monster lore and bizarre unsolved mysteries on Wikipedia? Are you super-fascinated with this one serial killer, but don’t really tell people because you don’t want them to think you’re some sort of secret psychopath? It’s okay, friends. The crew from Morbid Moment...
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We’ve been remiss in posting about other things that our alumni have been up to, so here’s a recap of some of the news we have to share! The Centropic Oracle, which hosts audio versions of short stories, includes a number of MSJ alumni among their early stories published. You can hear audio versions of...
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Several of our MSJ alums have recently produced a variety of new works. Today, we’re rounding them all up! Frequent MSJ contributor Maureen Bowden was the guest editor for the November 2016 issue of Liquid Imagination. You can read an interview with her about that role here. Readers of our quarterly classified ads may...
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Editor Dawn Vogel, along with MSJ alums Rhiannon Held and Sarina Dorie, are among the roster of authors who contributed to Untethered: A Magic iPhone Anthology. Here’s the official blurb: Almost everyone carries a smartphone these days. They sit in pockets and on tables. They sleep on headboards and are the first things their owners...
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MSJ alumni Deborah Walker and Jeannie Warner, as well as editor Dawn Vogel, are all authors in the anthology 2017 Young Explorer’s Adventure Guide. It is currently seeking funding through Kickstarter, and has been chosen as a SFWA Star Project by the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America! There are three weeks left in their campaign, so...
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Mad Scientist Journal contributor Zach Bartlett has put out a collection of his short humor titled Northern Dandy. If you’re in New Orleans, you can buy a copy from Maple Street Book Shop or anywhere Zach happens to be performing. Everyone else can pick up a copy through IndieBound, Barnes & Noble, or Amazon. Is it good? Here’s what others have said: “Wit,...
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