The Blackness Within Anthology

Apex Books has announced on their blog the Table of Contents for the forthcoming anthology, THE BLACKNESS WITHIN (Gill Ainsworth, ed.). This one includes my story "For They Are As Beasts," and should be available from Apex within the next twelve months.

Full ToC:

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“For They Are As Beasts” by Camille Alexa
“Abattoir Blues” by Geoffrey W. Cole
“Chain of Hearts” by Eric Gregory
“The Free Poor” by Mark Grundy
“Bad Meat” by Michael Keyton
“Dance of the Psychopomps” by Joshua McCune
“The Messiah of Mincemeat” by S. Clayton Rhodes
“Without Mercy” by Lucas Pederson
“Daughter of God” by Maxwell Peterson
“Secrets of Fatima” by Steven L. Shrewsbury
“Dreaming” by Brenton Tomlinson
“Song-Ji and the Wolf” by Paul Williams
“Big Game” by Conrad Zero

Crossed Genres

Just LOOK at the awesome cover of Crossed Genres Magazine, Issue 10!!! It's called "Marshmallow Cat!" by Carl Pierce. More of Pierce's work here: http://carlpearce.daportfolio.com/ .

I had the good fortune of meeting the supernice Crossed Genres editorial duo at Worldcon in Montreal. Issue 10 includes my story, "The Good Old-Fashioned Kind of Water."

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Couple of Zombie poetry doodads available.

in Vicious Verses and Reanimated Rhymes:

my poem, "Such a Little Thing." Available on Amazon, etc.

And in this GORGEOUS little publication out of New Zealand, Semaphore Magazine, you can read (for free!) my poem "Dear Zombie." Illustrated!

The editor tells me the piece will also appear in the 2009 Semaphore Anthology.

PUSH OF THE SKY is now available for purchase online from

Powell's Books / Barnes & Noble / Amazon

. . . And of course any bookstore should be able to order it from the regular distribution sources.

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Please, please come join me at my Portland, Oregon reading at 7pm on Thursday June 18th at the Powell's at Cedar Hills Crossing!

directions to Powell's @ Cedar Hills

3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd.

Beaverton, OR 97005 USA

"Four Jerks of the Apocalypse" up at Revolution SF!

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... He's all like: "If only I hadn't had that goddamn dream."

And I'm all: "What, you think the end of the world came because you had a stupid dream? You think the sun boiled in the heavens, blistering the flesh off our backs and scorching the earth to dry wasteland, and the bugs overran our homes and every last scrap of food and all the orifices of our bodies, all because you had some goddamn dream? You're nuts. It was that spaceship. The one with those four . . . you know, spacedudes. With the weapons of mass destruction."

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Reading at Book Woman in Austin, Tx

If you haven't read the very sweet interview on Grinding to Valhalla, please at least give it a skim. Randolph Carter asked me the best question ever: "You wake up to a world where one of your short stories has been made into an MMO. Which story would you pick and why?"

Please swing by my PUSH OF THE SKY reading/signing next week in Austin, Texas:
Thursday JUNE 4TH @ 7pm
Book Woman
5501 N. Lamar Blvd.
Austin, TX 78751
Tel: 512-472-2785

We'll all head out to a local Coffee Garten (rather than Bier) afterward. JOIN US!

email me for more information:
littlebirdblue@yahoo.com

Interview up at Grinding to Valhalla

Randolph Carter hosts a series of interviews on his Gaming site, Grinding to Valhalla.

He calls this series Reading the Text, and has interviewed writers like Sarah Monette, Ken Scholes, and Alan Campbell. I'm very pleased to join such ranks.

My interview on gaming, being a writer, and living with a grown man with ten million toys* is here.

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*Okay . . . probably not really. It just feels like ten million when you're in his basement mancave.

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Important message (the first of several on the topic, I'm sure):

I'd love to see everyone at my upcoming book-release readings/signings of PUSH OF THE SKY.

AUSTIN, TX / Thurs. JUNE 4TH @ 7pm

Book Woman

5501 N. Lamar Blvd. #A-105

Austin, TX 78751

Tel: 512-472-2785

bookwoman@austin.rr.com

and

PORTLAND, OR / Thurs. JUNE 18TH @7pm

Powell's Books in Beaverton

3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd.

Beaverton, OR 97005

Wiscon 2009

I'll be at Wiscon this weekend in Madison, Wisconsin. Anyone who'd like to hear me read should attend either the "Small Press Strikes Back" panel, in which I read with fellow Hadley Rille Books authors Erin Cashier, Eric L. Vogt, & Cliff Winnig, or "A Cabinet of Curiosities, a Circus of Marvels" -- a reading with J. Kathleen Cheney, Jessica Reisman, Adrian Alan Simmons, and Tina Connolly sitting in for Caroline Yoachim.

I'm also scheduled for The Gathering, The Female Bachelor, and Fathers & Daughters in SF&F panels.

If you see me, come introduce yourself and let me buy you a drink.

Ursula Le Guin and Molly Gloss

Ursula K. Le Guin and Molly Gloss at the Friends of the Library meeting in Portland, Oregon.

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Seattle reading and signing

I'll be reading and signing Hadley Rille titles in the Seattle area this weekend with fellow authors Lancer Kind and Elizabeth Switaj:

Friday, May 1, 2009 at 6:30

Third Place Books

17171 Bothell Way NE

Lake Forest Park, WA

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Pizza and Prose at noon on May 2

Flying Saucer Pizza

14712 NE 91st St.

Redmond, WA

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Come say hello!

Interview with Camille Alexa at Fantasy Magazine

Marshall Payne has interviewed me for Fantasy Magazine.

Read the interview in Fantasy Magazine.

Don't forget to read "Shades of White and Road" in Fantasy Magazine.

Listen to "Shades of White and Road" in Fantasy Magazine, as read by Mark Bukovec.

"Shades of White and Road" live at Fantasy Magazine in text and audio

When I was deciding story order for Push of the Sky , a wonderful short fiction writer and poet offered me the rather intriguing advice of putting one of my favorite pieces right in the middle. (Actually, he said, "About that story collection: imagine hanging your stories together like a suspension bridge, or, for that matter, like a Diplodocus skeleton.")

The image of the Diplodocus skeleton, with its enormous weighty middle arcing upward to support its impossible length, stayed with me. " Shades of White and Road " is at the exact center of my book.