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Contributor news!
It’s been a pretty long time—nine months!—since I’ve shared contributor news, so I have a long list of stuff for you to read and enjoy below.
◊ Apocalypse Now: Poems and Prose from the End of Days contributors:
- Margaret Atwood has a new novel out: The Heart Goes Last.
- Kelly Link‘s “The Game of Smash and Recovery” was podcasted and published by Strange Horizons.
- E. Lily Yu‘s “Woman at Exhibition” appeared in Uncanny.
◊ Choose Wisely: 35 Women Up To No Good contributors:
- Tor.com published Tina Connolly‘s story “That Seriously Obnoxious Time I Was Stuck at Witch Rimelda’s One Hundredth Birthday Party.” Her YA fantasy Seriously Wicked is out from Tor Teen.
- Kathy Fish‘s “Abandon All Thoughts” appeared in Journal of Compressed Creative Arts; her “Woe” in The Harpoon Review; and her “The Four O’Clock Bird” in People Holding.
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- Heather Lindsley‘s “Werewolf Loves Mermaid” appeared in Lightspeed.
- Cat Rambo‘s “Bit Player,” “The Haunted Snail,” and “You Have Always Lived in the Castle” all appeared in Daily Science Fiction. Beneath Ceaseless Skies included her “Primaflora’s Journey.” She was also interviewed for Clarkesworld Magazine by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro. Her novel Beasts of Tabat is out from Tabat Press.
- Rachel Swirsky‘s story co-written with Ann Leckie, “Maiden, Mother, Crone,” appeared in Lightspeed.
- Damien Angelica Walters‘s “Not My Circus, Not My Monkeys: The Elephant’s Tale” and “Requiem, for Solo Cello” appeared in Apex Magazine. Her work has also appeared alongside Kathy Fish, Amina Gautier, and Tina May Hall in The Lineup: 20 Provocative Women Writers.
◊ How to Live on Other Planets: A Handbook for Aspiring Aliens contributors:
- Lisa Bolekaja‘s “Three Voices” appeared in Uncanny.
- Zen Cho‘s Sorcerer to the Crown, the first of three historical fantasy books set in Regency London, is out from Ace Books (US) and Macmillan (UK and Commonwealth). She has also edited Cyberpunk: Malaysia, and her story “Monkey King, Faerie Queen” is in Kaleidotrope.
- Indrapramit Das‘ “Weep For Day” appeared in Clarkesworld.
- Tom Doyle‘s new novel The Left-Hand Way is out from Tor Books.
- Peg Duthie‘s “Nowhere to Go” appeared in Moonsick Magazine, her “From a Mermaid Mama” in First Class; and her found poetry in Galatea Resurrects.
- Rose Lemberg‘s poems “Long Shadow” and “Three Principles of Strong Building” appeared in Strange Horizons. Beneath Ceaseless Skies included her “Geometries of Belonging” and “Grandmother-nai-Leylit’s Cloth of Winds.”
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- Tor.com published Daniel José Older‘s story “Ginga.”
- Sarah Pinsker‘s “And We Were Left Darkling” appeared in Lightspeed; her “Last Thursday at Supervillain Supply Depot” were in Daily Science Fiction; her “Remembery Day” in Apex; and her “When the Circus Lights Down” was in Uncanny.
- Erica L. Satifka‘s “Bucket List Found in the Locker of Maddie Price, Age 14, Written Two Weeks Before the Great Uplifting of All Mankind” appeared in Lightspeed; her “Clarity,” “Summer in Realtime,” and “Dear Conqueror” all appeared in Daily Science Fiction; and her “Loving Grace” appeared in Clarkesworld.
- Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany, edited by Nisi Shawl and Bill Campbell, features writing by a panoply of luminaries, including Benjamin Rosenbaum, and a story co-written by editor Nisi Shawl with Nalo Hopkinson. Also, the anthology Cranky Ladies of History includes Shawl‘s “A Beautiful Stream.”
- Sonya Taaffe‘s “A Wolf in Iceland Is the Child of a Lie” appeared in Lightspeed, her “On Two Streets, with Three Languages” in Interfictions; her “ζῆ Και βασιλεúει” in Ideomancer; and her “Antique Water Magic” in inkscrawl.
- Bogi Takács‘ “Forestspirit, Forestspirit” appeared in Clarkesworld, and eir “Six Hundred and Thirteen Commandments” in Ideomancer.
◊ The Museum of All Things Awesome and That Go Boom (which will be released next year) contributors:
- James Dorr‘s “Lobster Boy and the Hand of Satan” is out in How to Trick the Devil, and his “Marcie and Her Sisters” is in Reel Dark.
- Aidan Doyle‘s “How I Saved the Galaxy (on a Limited Budget)” appeared in Daily SF.
- David C. Kopaska-Merkel published a poetry chapbook, SETI Hits Paydirt, with Popcorn Press. His “Habitable Zone” appeared in Chrome Baby 38.
- Ursula Pflug‘s “Python” appeared in Lightspeed.
- Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam‘s “A Careful Fire” and “The Girl with Golden Hair” both appeared in Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Farrago’s Wainscot featured her “Dance Our Shoes to Pieces.”
- Mary Turzillo with Marge Simon (a HtLoOP contributor) and Christina Sng all had poems in Eye to the Telescope. Turzillo also has a chapbook, A Guide to Endangered Monsters, with NightBallet Press.
◊ Soles Series contributors:
- Shira Lipkin‘s “Never Chose This Way” appeared in Apex.
- Mari Ness published “The Forge,” “The Fox Bride,” “The Petals,” and “The Dollmaker’s Rage” in Daily Science Fiction; “Sometimes Heron” in Lackington’s; “A Note Found Beneath A Moonstone” in inkscrawl; “Three Limericks” in Stone Telling; and “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Dragon” at Tor.com.
- Kenneth Schneyer‘s “The Sisters’ Line” (co-written with Liz Argall) appeared in Uncanny.
The Twelfth Planet book Letters to Tiptree includes many talented writers, including URB authors Rose Lemberg, Alex Dally MacFarlane, Sarah Pinsker, Cat Rambo, Nisi Shawl, Lucy Sussex, Rachel Swirsky, and Bogi Takács.
And, finally, Flight 505: A Novella‘s author Leslie Bohem has a TV series with Hulu involving psychics and organized crime that’s going to be awesome.
31 October 2015
Flight 505: A Novella
Billy Sooner made it big. Mickey and Al were left behind. In a bid to recapture the past, they hope to reunite on stage at Madison Square Gardens, before Mickey’s shady past and bingo dauber heroin send them on a trip they can’t come back from.
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About this book:
Flight 505 is bloody, bleak, meditative, funny, and, on one level or another, all about music, musicians, and the glory and damage of their world.
Author Leslie Bohem was part of the great Los Angeles music scare of the early 1980s. His band, Gleaming Spires, had a cultish hit with their single, “Are You Ready For the Sex Girls” (if you ever saw Revenge of the Nerds, you know) and he was at the same time holding down a day job as the bass player with the band Sparks.
After this burgeoning career in rock and roll stopped burgeoning, he found a job writing screenplays about rock and roll musicians whose careers had stopped burgeoning. But no one makes movies about rock and roll musicians whose careers etc, and so he wrote A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 5, The Horror Show and bits and pieces of several other memorable epics. Eventually Twenty Bucks, which he wrote based on a 1935 script by his dad, Endre, was made. The movie earned critical raves and several awards, including an Independent Spirit Award. His other screenwriting credits include Daylight, Dante’s Peak, The Alamo, Kid, Nowhere To Run, The Darkest Hour, and the mini-series Taken which he wrote and executive produced (with Steven Spielberg) and for which he won an Emmy award.
He’s had songs recorded by Emmylou Harris, Randy Travis, Freddy Fender, Steve Gillette, Johnette Napolitano (of Concrete Blonde), Alvin (of the Chipmunks), and the awesome Misty Martinez. His short stories have appeared in some rather embarrassing men’s magazines, in several magazines including Sanitarium and The Lost Coast Review, and on Derek Haas’ site, Popcorn Fiction, where two of them, “DMT” and “Honeymoon” have been optioned and will hopefully be coming to a theater near you soon. Right now, he’s developing his series Shut Eye for Hulu. His new album, Moved to Duarte, will be up and out soon.
Follow him on instagram @movedtoduarte.
Reviews:
…a no-bullshit and captivating peek false-glam/true-grit world of being a rock musician in LA. Bohem’s amazing and the fact that he is consistently creating is a beautiful thing.
—Heather Drain, Mondo Heather, 5 September 2015
If Rod Serling and Alfred Hitchcock showed more interest in the new wave scene out of Los Angeles in the late 1970s and early 1980s instead of the French new wave films by Truffaut, they might have been two of the characters in the Les Bohem underground classic Flight 505. If you missed the scene, then this is your chance to get a taste of the noise, the buzz and the nazz, while flying high in the clubs in Chinatown and everywhere else in this God forsaken landscape. If you were there, the unpredictable storytelling will take you by surprise. Fasten your seat belt and take a quick ride to the dark side of town, where the bands played sloppy and loud and the Hollywood girls and boys lived as if there was no tomorrow. Flight 505 is boarding now. All seats are sold out. Stand by is no longer available.
Get your copy before it’s too late.
A generational voice of singular resonance—elevating what in other less skilled hands is simply genre, becomes a minor classic that fully captures a moment in our culture, one that will always look different to those who take the time to read this.
Les Bohem writes a story with the same easy style that people share them in conversation. In Flight 505, he brought me back to the noir and punk rock-informed Los Angeles of my youth, with recognizable characters and situations as though he were describing an actual night we’d been at the same place at the same time. This is no romantic memory; it is, instead, a richer, in-depth portrayal of a scene and late 20th Century American Dream of “making it” in rock n roll. Much more than “rock n roll fiction,” Flight 505 is a cautionary tale about knowing oneself and being able to live to tell.
—Theresa K.
Flight 505 pays dark homage to the Southern California post-punk music scene. Through the story of three band-mates drawn to Los Angeles during its rock club heyday, Les Bohem skillfully deconstructs the adolescent male’s archetypal dream of rock and roll stardom. Bohem’s prose carries the cautionary weight of his having been there. The problem with most rock and roll fiction is that it invariably falls prey to its own self-importance. Flight 505 begs to differ.
I’m not one for reading rock and roll writing. I find it either terribly clichéd or over-fantasized. Having definitely been there and definitely done that, I was immediately familiar with and felt real affection for Les’ dysfunctional family of characters.
Every dirty club floor, cheap beer and chronic loser truly lives and breathes in this story, and Les’ amazing recollection of and attention to detail are so impeccable if you weren’t in L.A. back in the ’80s, you’ll certainly feel as if you are… and if you weren’t in a band, well, this is what it was like. A great read.
1 September 2015