Today is June 20th, and I’m very excited. It’s the summer solstice and the lovely people at English Heritage are going to live-stream the sunset from Stonehenge. (And also stream tomorrow’s sunrise, but let’s be realistic: I will not be awake for that.)
On top of that, I have two - not one but two - new stories published today.
All Worlds Wayfarer is a beautiful literary speculative fiction magazine, published at each solstice and equinox. The night I discovered it, I stayed up way too late reading my way through the latest issue - and their masthead involves a windrose. I do love a windrose. Their issues are usually packed with good stuff, and I’m over the moon that they’re including The Fear Inventory in Issue V. You can buy the latest issue (or any past issues) for an extremely reasonable price on Kindle; you can also read Issue V free on AWW’s website until the autumnal equinox.
The Gray Sisters is a brand new literary magazine of modern myth and folklore. In their inaugural issue, which is free to read on their website, they include my modern fairy-tale, Rosa. I’m very much looking forward to making the acquaintance of the other stories.
The Gray Sisters are also producing a podcast, which will include audio versions of the stories and interviews with the authors. I had an absolute blast on Skype with Retta Bodhaine for my interview - she was immense fun to talk to, but also provided me with a completely unshakable reason for constructing a blanket fort very late night at night. (Absolutely to improve the audio quality, absolutely not because I like building dens.)
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got a lot of running around in over-excited little circles to do before sunset.
(Many thanks to Katie for the sunrise photo.)