Night Shade Press & new story

[ellenkushner]

Indie SF/F/Horror publisher Night Shade Books is having their annual 50% off sale on all current & forthcoming books(4 book min) thru June 17. Coupon code 50NSB2009. Check out their catalogue - great stuff by hot authors.

New to all this? Or not so new? How about people recc. their favorite Night Shade books in the comments?

This is where I put in a plug for forthcoming anthology Eclipse 3, to which I just sold a new story, "Dulce Domum." Editor Jonathan Strahan asked me for a story about a year ago, and really encouraged me to finish something I'd had in the works for some time. I'm really proud to be in the distinguished Eclipse series; volumes 1 & 2 have includeded award nominated stories, with work by Ted Chiang, Jeffrey Ford, Nancy Kress, Margo Lanagan, Peter S. Beagle, Andy Duncan, Garth Nix, Maureen McHugh, Ysabeau Wilce, Ellen Klages, Lucius Shepard, et al . . . . a host of writers I admire. The stories are pretty interstitial - mine sure is.

Eclipse 3 is coming out in October 2009 - just in time for pre-ordering now! Here's some of the first page of the story, if you want to get a feel for it. It's the story I read most of at the Wiscon reading:

Come see my band, he’d say, and they pretty much always did.
[ . . . . ]
New York was home, but in New York the band was no big deal. So they played in a few bars here, and they had dinner with their families, and escorted a friend’s sister to a fundraiser for art or literacy or wildlife, depending, and maybe took a niece or a cousin’s kid to see “Nutcracker.” Then the band went on the road again, the road across the sea, where playing the chords in tight jeans was enough, knowing home was always back here, waiting for him to take his place. His family was here, colorful and stable, in the stone castle with big windows on the park. A window would always be open for him to fly back through, no matter how big he got, or how long he was away.

Comments

[jess-ka.livejournal.com]

Yay, story! (since I love your writing...)

My favorite Night Shade books: Liz Williams' Inspector Chen books are pretty freaking awesome.

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

One day, I'm hoping Nightshade will put out an anthology of your short stories... (that's a hint).
My rec. from their list is Liz Williams, The Banquet of the Lords of Night, which is a collection of her wonderful stories.

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

I'm still trying to write enough good stories to make a whole book! Thanks for the encouragement.

May I put in a vote for Kage Baker? She really is one of my favorite writers - I rush to read anything she writes - and Night Shade has a few of hers....

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

I've heard many good things about Kage Baker, but her books are hard to find over here. I will have to have a good look in Montreal. Thank you.

[mantichore.livejournal.com]

Favourite Night Shade books? Hmm, it's a tough call. I'm rather fond of the C.A. Smith series, so far, and the K.E. Wagner Kane books are a lot of fun. I might have to settle on the second volume of their fine (and complete at last) William Hope Hodgson series, the one with The House on the Borderland and Carnacki the Ghost-finder. But they need to have a layout that lets the text breathe a tiny bit more.