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Opening for Submissions Soon: Solarpunk Winters

9/25/2018

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GLASS & GARDENS: SOLARPUNK WINTERS
Anthologist: Sarena Ulibarri
Open for Submissions: January 1 - March 1, 2019
Expected Publication: January 2020
Story Length: up to 8,000 words
Payment: $0.01 per word + contributor copy
 
Solarpunk is a type of eco-conscious science fiction that imagines an optimistic future founded on renewable energies. Often aiming for a balance of nature and technology, and always inclusive and diverse, solarpunk stories show the ways we have adapted to climate change, or the ways we overcome it.
 
For this anthology, I want to see solarpunk stories that take place in winter. That might mean working together to survive extreme blizzards, or feeling the heat in places that no longer see snow. Which renewable tech works best during long winter nights? How do solarpunk societies celebrate the winter holidays? Keep it planet-based (Earth or other), and optimistic. Solarpunk worlds aren’t necessarily utopias, but they definitely aren’t dystopias.
 
We're a northern hemisphere publisher, but southern hemisphere winters are also welcome!
 
Need inspiration? Read New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson, the Ecopunk! anthology, or Glass & Gardens: Solarpunk Summers. For more on what the anthologist is looking for, as well as some writing prompts, see Sarena's blog, "Solarpunk Winters Writing Prompts."
 
Submission Method: *After January 1, 2019,* Send your story as a .doc, .docx, or .rtf attachment to solarpunk[at]worldweaverpress[dot]com with Submission: [story title] in the subject line. Please include a brief cover letter, but DO NOT summarize your story in the cover letter. Submissions received before January 1st will be discarded.

Simultaneous submissions: Yes, you may submit your story to other markets before you hear back from us. Please let us know ASAP if someone else accepts it.
 
Multiple submissions: No, please only send us one story for consideration.

About the Anthologist

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Sarena Ulibarri is Editor-in-Chief of World Weaver Press, and she is also a fiction writer who has been published in Lightspeed, Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, Weirdbook, and elsewhere. Her solarpunk story "Riding in Place" appeared in the anthology Biketopia: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories in Extreme Futures, and another, "Chrysalis in Sunlight" was published in GigaNotoSaurus. She lives in a solar-powered adobe house in New Mexico, and can be found online at SarenaUlibarri.com and @SarenaUlibarri. She edited the anthologies Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers and Speculative Story Bites.

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Loose, Wild, and Free

9/19/2018

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Guest Post by Cheryl Low

Detox in Letters
is published! It’s out in the world—loose, wild, and free! Okay, not literally free -- metaphorically free.
 
The second book in the Crowns & Ash series, this was an incredible delight to write, edit, and see published.
 
When I signed the contract with World Weaver Press for Vanity in Dust, the first book in the series, I had already written first drafts for books one, two, and three. Thank goodness I stopped there! So many little changes have been made and subplots hacked away from the first book that the alterations rippled into the second. Every change was for the better, of course, but the repercussions were still a surprise. For the first time in my life I needed to make a storyboard with all the scenes on note cards to get a real look at the plot. I pulled whole chunks out, rearranged and rewrote like never before. I made so many changes to the second book in revisions that by the time I sent it to my editor, I couldn’t see it clearly anymore. Which is one of the many reasons why editors are magical beings never to be trifled with and always to be appreciated.
 
I am sure there are writers out there who churn out near-perfect manuscripts, but I am not one of them. I need my beta readers and my editor like trees need water.
 
I have the incredible fortune to work with Laura Harvey on this series, and she never shies away from telling me when a scene isn’t working or a plot device is missing. She sees the vision I have in mind, knows what I’m trying to reach, and gets almost as excited about flesh-eating pixies, fight scenes, and dragons as I do.
 
The only thing that surprised me more than the revisions of Detox in Letters, was just how incredibly excited I am to have it published. I thought the rush, the raw giddy feeling of putting a book into the world, would be less each time. If possible, I am even more thrilled with this book than the last. I don’t know if that will hold true for the whole series, or my whole career, but I certainly hope so.
 
Detox in Letters was, so far, my favorite book to write. I truly love this series and am so happy to get to share it with others. I hope you enjoy it as much as I have!


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Cheryl Low might be a dragon with a habit of destroying heroes, lounging in piles of shiny treasure, and abducting royals—a job she fell into after a short, failed attempt at being a mermaid. She can’t swim and eventually the other mermaids figured it out. She can, though, breathe fire and crush bones, so being a dragon suited her just fine.
 
…Or she might be a woman with a very active imagination, no desire to be outdoors, and more notebooks than she’ll ever know what to do with.
 
Find out by following her on social media @cherylwlow or check her webpage, CherylLow.com. The answer might surprise you! But it probably won’t.

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[Out Now]: DETOX IN LETTERS by Cheryl Low

9/18/2018

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We are thrilled to bring you the second in Cheryl Low’s Crowns & Ash series! Detox in Letters is about a strange madness that grips the residents of an isolated realm as they begin to remember what the world was like before the oppressive rule of the queen who keeps them all drugged with magical dust. Detox in Letters, which follows Low's 2017 debut (Vanity in Dust), is available in trade paperback and ebook today, Tuesday, September 18, 2018.

Welcome to the Realm, where magic is your drug, your poison, and your only hope.
 
An illness is spreading through the city, marking the sick in mysterious letters scrawled across their skin. What is first thought to be madness reveals itself to be an awakening as residents rediscover themselves, their pasts, and their long-forgotten magic… things the Queen wants to remain buried. Things she will sacrifice her own children to suppress.
 
Mercy has never been a staple of the Realm. Treachery, blood, and magic steeps the city as the rebel leader, Red, seeks to topple the Tower, Princess Fay eyes her mother’s throne, and Prince Vaun must decide whether to submit to his mother’s terrible demand.
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"This lush fantasy stays ferociously readable while offering a world that’s easy to love: unhappy people waking up to realize there’s more to life, and greeting it with curious wonder. This belle epoque–flavored series will appeal to readers who like their fantasy politics splashed with hope."
--Publishers Weekly
"I absolutely loved the unique world, the complex emotions, the interesting characters, the touch of absurd humor, and the immersive writing, and I’m already looking forward to jumping back into this series!"
--Metaphors and Moonlight
"Revisit the Realm and realize nothing is as it seems. Heroes and villains are all a matter of perspective as the dust wears off, but one thing's for sure: the Queen always gets what she wants. I was already madly in love with Vaun after book one, but now, I'm equally in love with his sister Fay--which is fitting in this dark fantasy world where hedonism is not a suggestion but a rule. Low's writing style is as delicious as the sensual world she has created, and I lapped up every single word like spilled tea."
—Sara Dobie Bauer, author of Bite Somebody
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Cheryl Low might be a dragon with a habit of destroying heroes, lounging in piles of shiny treasure, and abducting royals—a job she fell into after a short, failed attempt at being a mermaid. She can’t swim and eventually the other mermaids figured it out. She can, though, breathe fire and crush bones, so being a dragon suited her just fine.
 
…Or she might be a woman with a very active imagination, no desire to be outdoors, and more notebooks than she’ll ever know what to do with.
 
Find out by following her on social media @cherylwlow or check her webpage, CherylLow.com. The answer might surprise you! But it probably won’t.

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[Cover Reveal]: Jack Jetstark's Intergalactic Freakshow

9/10/2018

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Pitched as Heroes meets Firefly, our newest science fiction title is about the genetically engineered "freaks" of a traveling space carnival who find themselves at the front lines of a universe at war. Jennifer Lee Rossman is a delightful and prolific short fiction writer, and we are thrilled to be publishing her first full-length work.

JACK JETSTARK'S INTERGALACTIC FREAKSHOW by Jennifer Lee Rossman will be available in ebook and paperback on December 4, 2018! Check out the cover, and pre-order your copy below.
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Jack Jetstark travels the universe to seek out the descendants of superpowered freaks created long ago by VesCorp scientists. The vibrations encoded in a particular song transform the members of Jack’s crew into a firebreather and an angel, a wildman and telepathic conjoined triplets, so they hide the truth of who they really are with the theatrics of a carnival.
 
The song plays every night through the receptor Jack carries with them, but when one night it has a different ending and their temporary powers become permanent, Jack believes the change is a signal from the woman who sent him on this quest in the first place. He and his freaks must navigate a universe at war to protect the love of his life.
 
But does the ruler of VesCorp really need protecting?
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About the Author

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Jennifer Lee Rossman is a disabled and autistic freak, and proudly so. Her work has been featured in many anthologies and her debut novella, Anachronism, was published by Kristell Ink in 2018. She blogs at http://jenniferleerossman.blogspot.com/ and tweets @JenLRossman.

Read more of Jennifer's work in the anthologies Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers and Mrs. Claus: Not the Fairy Tale They Say.

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      • Clockwork, Curses, and Coal
      • Continuum
      • Corvidae
      • Cursed: Wickedly Fun Stories
      • Dream Eater
      • Equus
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      • Far Orbit Apogee
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      • Frozen Fairy Tales
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      • Grandmother Paradox
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      • Heir to the Lamp
      • He Sees You When He's Creepin': Tales of Krampus
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      • Jack Jetstark's Intergalactic Freakshow
      • King of Ash and Bones (ebook)
      • Krampusnacht
      • Last Dream of Her Mortal Soul
      • Meddlers of Moonshine
      • Mothers of Enchantment
      • Mrs Claus
      • Multispecies Cities
      • Murder in the Generative Kitchen
      • Recognize Fascism
      • Scarecrow
      • Sirens
      • Shards of History
      • Shattered Fates
      • Skull and Pestle
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