Review of Valdron's Starlost Unauthorized

My review of Starlost Unauthorized and the Quest for Canadian Identity is up at the Ottawa Review of Books.

Review of Cole's Zebra Meridian

My review of Geoffrey W. Cole's Zebra Meridian is up at the Ottawa Review of Books

"Alan" Story Reprinted

My mainstream short story, "The Missing Elephant" is up today in CommuterLit. (Free to read)

It was originally published in They Have to Take You In anthology, Ursula Pflug, ed., Hidden Brook Press, 2014 and reprinted in Costal Shelf Issue #1, Nov 20, 2020.

This is an "Alan" story from my series about life in the 1960s, this one about things one did not talk about and the overwhelming power of denial.

Guest Spot on Re-Creative

I'm featured in Episode #58 of the Re-Creative Podcast.

Hosts Joe Mahoney and Mark A. Rayner invited me to come on Re-Creative, the podcast about art and writing that inspire writers. I took a long time to think about which writer or artist had had a big impact on me, but they had already talked about Den Valdron's The Mermaid's Tale and Douglas Adams, and I was debating amongst so many other possibilities (Terry Pratchett, Samual Marchbanks, Dave Duncan, Guy Gavriel Kay, Shane Koyzan, Lois McMaster Bujold, etc etc) that I just couldn't focus: until I read R. F. Kuang's Yellowface (See my text review). I could not shut up about how brilliant and relevant Yellowface is, a must-read for every aspiring writer, so that became the natural topic to propose to Mohoney and Rayner.

We also talk about a bit about my writing, editing, and breakfast.

"Weathering" Reprinted

My short story "Weathering" was reprinted in Daikaiju #19.
https://www.daikaijuzine.org/

"Weathering" originally appeared in Lamplit Underground #4, Sept 2020, pp.12-19.

Reviews of Shared World and Kyber

Reviews of Kyber by Chadwick Ginther, and Shared World by Ball, Chomichuk, Gillespie and Ginter, Ottawa Review of Books, Sept 15, 2024. Preprint in The N3F Review of Books, July 2024.

"Inuksuk" Reprinted in Best of Metastellar Year 3

My short story, "Inuksuk",has been reprinted in Best of Metastellar Year 3, September 2024, pp. 60-77.

The story originally appeared in Polar Borealis #15 (June 2020) pp 43-55 and reprinted in Metastellar, May 31, 2023.

Two Drabbles Reprinted in Siren's Call

Two of my drabbles, "Pillow Talk" and "Pepermints", have been reprinted in Siren's Call #66 Copies of the magazine are free to download at http://www.sirenscallpublications.com/pdfs/SirensCallEZine_Summer2024.pdf

Flash Fiction Podcast

My flash fiction "Fami's Watch" was podcast on AntipodeanSF July 14 and is available at: https://antisf.libsyn.com/ My story comes at about minute 6 (intro at minute 5) into the podcast. The story was originally published in Polar Borealis #20 (2021), and reprinted in AntipodeanSF #301 (2023).

Two Stories in A Stitch in Space Time

My short story, "Sermon on the Mount" and my drabble "Deja Vu" were published in the anthology, A Stich in Space Time: Time Travel Stories, edited by Jay Chakravarti, is out from Culture Pulp Press, July 2024.

"Sermon on the Mount" originally appeared in On Spec Magazine #106, Vol 28 (3) (January, 2018) and "Deja Vu" originally appeared in ScribesMicro #31 (July 15, 2023).

Epub from https://www.lulu.com/shop/jay-chakravarti/a-stitch-in-spacetime/ebook/product-2m5898q.html
Paperback from https://www.lulu.com/shop/jay-chakravarti/a-stitch-in-spacetime/paperback/product-e786k52.html

"Summoning Demons" Released

My humorous horror shot story "Summoning Demons", was included in the first episode of the Lost Poetry Club, a new dark SF/F podcast, June 27, 2024. The theme of the first episode was "chronicle". Audio production of my segment stared Adam Kotz and Ollie Uglow which made me very happy and shows up about 47 minutes into the show.

Six-Word Story

My six-word story, "After", was published in Flash Flood as part of the UK's National Flash Fiction Day.

After

Review of Guy Immega's Super-Earth Mother

My review of Guy Immega's Super-Earth Mother is now up at the Ottawa Review of Books

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Fred Gambino's Dark Shepard Launched

Fred Gambino’s first novel, Dark Shepard, launched May 14th from the award-winning UK publisher, Newcon Press. Dark Shepard, the novel, is not to be confused with The Art of Fred Gambino: Dark Shepard, his 2014 art book from Titan Books. (Fred is a famous book cover artist and Hollywood/game conceptual designer and has been working on the Dark Shepard universe for decades.) The book is brilliant and the most cinematic novel I’ve ever edited&emdash;if somebody doesn’t pick this up as the next movie franchise, they’re missing a sure thing. I mean, he’s already done the movie trailers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aettbKa5sws

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tmvq3pSx1Xs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VpCVSleFd4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwjFhaQ5tx8

Review of S.W. Mayse's Shadow Matter

My review of Shadow Matter is now up at Ottawa Review of Books.