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Happy New Year!

1 January 2015

Lots of news to share! First, our Kickstarter campaign for How to Live on Other Planets: A Handbook for Aspiring Aliens has 10 days left to go—get your pre-ordered copy now!

Secondly, the deadline for submissions to The Museum of All Things Awesome And That Go Boom is coming up on Sunday.

Finally, there’s tons of new reading out from, and news for, Upper Rubber Boot authors since our last round-up over the summer!

Corey Mesler, author of The Sky Needs More Work, was discussed recently in The Commercial Appeal Memphis‘s article “2014 in Review: Remembering the year’s best Memphis poetry“:

As both a producer and a retailer of poetry, Mesler is not only grateful to patron saint of poetry Keillor, but also is well positioned to affirm the accuracy of a quote he recalls by novelist John Fowles: “Poetry, alas, is something you can’t sell.” But Mesler is dauntless: “If you want to talk magic, I’d like more people to leave their homes occasionally to visit the bookstore to hear a poet read. How nice it is to hear a poet read his or her own words! How nice to know that you can take those words home with you in little packets called books!”

Lyn Lifshin, author of Marilyn Monroe: Poems, has a new book out with Glass Lyre Press entitled Femme Eterna.

Soles author Mari Ness has a poem in Goblin Fruit.

Apocalypse Now: Poems and Prose from the End of Days contributors:

• Margaret Atwood did an AMA (ask me anything) over at Reddit.
• Paolo Bacigalupi‘s The Doubt Factory reviewed by The New York Times and by Cory Doctorow at Boing Boing.
• Kelly Link had a story in Lightspeed (“Water Off a Black Dog’s Back“) and her Get in Trouble was featured in a The Millions article, “A Year in Reading: Isaac Fitzgerald.”
• Ed Pavlić‘s book Let’s Let That Are Not Yet: Inferno is one of five winners of the National Poetry Series.
• David Roderick‘s poetry collection The Americans reviewed by Here & Now and featured on PBS Newshour.
• Chet Weise‘s anthology of music and poetry, Language Lessons: Volume I, got a call-out in the Nashville Scene article, “Literary Death Match a Knockout in Music City.” Language Lessons also contains work by Apocalypse Now contributors Brian Barker, Nicky Beer, Wayne Miller, Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum (who also edits our Floodgate Poetry Series) and Pinckney Benedict (who also contributed to How to Live on Other Planets), as well Upper Rubber Boot’s Publisher Joanne Merriam.
• E. Lily Yu‘s “Local Stop on the Floating Train” in Motherboard

How to Live on Other Planets: A Handbook for Aspiring Aliens contributors:

• Indrapramit Das had a story at Strange Horizons: “A Moon for the Unborn.”
• Benjamin S. Grossberg‘s poem “Tense” was in Poetry Daily.
• Rose Lemberg has a poem at Goblin Fruit: “The Law of Germinating Seeds“
• Ken Liu (who is also a 140 And Counting contributor) had a story in Lightspeed (“State Change“) and an interview with Xia Jia in the latest Clarkesworld (“Exploring the Frontier: A Conversation with Xia Jia“), as well as, in their past issues, a short story (“The Long Haul From the ANNALS OF TRANSPORTATION, The Pacific Monthly, May 2009“) and an article on Chinese science fiction (“China Dreams: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction“).
• Alex Dally MacFarlane had stories at Beneath Ceaseless Skies (“Written on the Hides of Foxes“) and Strange Horizons (“Because I Prayed This Word“).
• Mary Anne Mohanraj had an opinion piece at Salon (“My feminist revolution at 40: Why I let my gray show, and why it’s a political act“).
• Daniel José Older had a story in Lightspeed (“Dust“) and several opinion pieces at Buzzfeed Books including “I Sought Solace In My Bookshelf” and “Diversity Is Not Enough: Race, Power, Publishing.”
• Sarah Pinsker had stories in Escape Pod (“The Transdimensional Horsemaster Rabbis of Mpumalanga Province“), in Lightspeed (“No Lonely Seafarer“), and in Asimov’s (which you’ll have to get at the newstand to read).
• Erica L. Satifka had stories in Daily Science Fiction (“Days Like These“) and Shimmer (“We Take the Long View“).
• Sonya Taaffe had a story in Lackington’s (“In Winter“).

Hope you all have a happy New Year!

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