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I'm very pleased that my very short story "In Tauris" will be appearing in the anthology Dark Currents, edited by Ian Whates, published by NewCon Press, and launched at Eastercon.

This is a particularly exciting publication for me, because it will mean that this year is my tenth consecutive year in print.

Other contributors are: Adrian Tchaikovsky, Adam Nevill, Tricia Sullivan, Rod Rees, Nina Allan, Andrew Hook, Finn Clarke, Lavie Tidhar, Jan Edwards, Emma Coleman, Rebecca J Payne, Sophia McDougall, Aliette de Bodard, V.C. Linde, and Neil Williamson.

The cover, by Ben Baldwin, is amazing. Under the cut. (Huge version here.)

Date: 2012-01-24 11:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sallymn.livejournal.com
Congrats!!!

And {staring} that is one gorgeous cover...

Date: 2012-01-24 11:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com
Thank you! And I totally agree, the cover is simply stunning.

Date: 2012-01-24 11:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] azalaisdep.livejournal.com
Yay! The cover alone makes me want to buy it. (And not for the Kindle, either!) Will there be pirates??!

Date: 2012-01-24 11:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com
There are no pirates in my story, but I cannot speak for everyone concerned!

Date: 2012-01-24 11:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] katlinel.livejournal.com
Ten years! Eeeee! Congratulations!

It is a lovely cover (smokey!), and not least because your name is on it.

Date: 2012-01-24 12:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com
I know! Ten years of getting away with it! :-D

Flame-grilled name!

Date: 2012-01-24 11:48 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ex-naomi-ja.livejournal.com
I'm so excited for you and Becks! Can't wait to read it :)

Date: 2012-01-24 12:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com
Thank you! :-D It's brilliant we're in an anthology together! Slowly but surely, we're taking over the world...

Date: 2012-01-24 12:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fallingtowers.livejournal.com
Congratulations! I know which book I'll be buying at Easter*Con then. :D

Date: 2012-01-24 12:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com
There'll probably be a launch party too! :-D

Date: 2012-01-24 12:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fallingtowers.livejournal.com
Cool! I'll be there to fangirl you. :)

By the way, do you happen to know if the official programme for Olympus 2012 is already out?

Date: 2012-01-24 12:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] matildabj.livejournal.com
It's still being worked on, but when it's done it'll be here :)

Date: 2012-01-24 03:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fallingtowers.livejournal.com
Thanks for the info!

Date: 2012-01-24 12:22 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] shezan.livejournal.com
KONGRATULASHUNS!!!!

Date: 2012-01-24 01:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com
TA VERY MUCH!

Date: 2012-01-24 12:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aliana1.livejournal.com
Wow, many congrats!! And a gorgeous cover it is, indeed.

Date: 2012-01-24 04:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com
It's a beauty, isn't it? Very pleased to be in this one.

Date: 2012-01-24 12:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] matildabj.livejournal.com
Congrats. Can't wait to get my hands on a signed version at Eastercon (there's no way you're getting out of doing a book signing now! *evil laughter*)

Date: 2012-01-24 04:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com
Ooh, you're just challenging me to new levels of evasion!

Date: 2012-01-24 12:39 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] kalypso-v.livejournal.com
Hurrah! How lucky that there is currently some space on my shelves! Though this may disappear when the Merediths arrive!

PS Is Iphigenia in it?
Edited Date: 2012-01-24 12:40 pm (UTC)

Date: 2012-01-24 04:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com
Hurrah indeed! And, yes, Iphigenia is in it.

Date: 2012-01-24 01:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com
Congratulations! That's fantastic news.

Date: 2012-01-24 04:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com
Thank you! :-)

Date: 2012-01-24 01:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ideealisme.livejournal.com
Congratulations!

(You have an impressive output. Are you a full-time writer?)

Date: 2012-01-24 01:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com
Thank you!

Eh, not full-time, I'm not hard-working enough. A couple of those years are a single short story. I also teach at uni level; again, not full-time.

Date: 2012-01-24 01:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ideealisme.livejournal.com
Some of those short stories are right little bastards. I sympathise!

Date: 2012-01-24 01:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com
Short stories are a killer! All the creative work of a bloody novel and hardly a page to show for it!

Date: 2012-01-24 01:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
I am rather shallow - my first thought was 'That is a stunning cover!'

Congratulations - and, as someone else said, the cover would certainly encourage me to read.

Date: 2012-01-24 03:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com
Me too! Then I thought, "Ooh, someone has the same surname as me... Ah!" ;-) It's a gorgeous cover, the publisher always finds great cover artists.

Date: 2012-01-24 01:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fjm.livejournal.com
Splendid!

Date: 2012-01-24 03:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com
Thank you! And for all your assistance in getting me here :-)

Date: 2012-01-24 01:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] illereyn.livejournal.com
How exciting! And the cover is lovely

Date: 2012-01-24 03:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com
It's gorgeous, isn't it?

Date: 2012-01-24 01:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] oracne.livejournal.com
Awesome!

Date: 2012-01-24 03:17 pm (UTC)

Date: 2012-01-24 02:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dewline.livejournal.com
Congratulations!

Date: 2012-01-24 03:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com
Thank you!

Date: 2012-01-24 03:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] toft-froggy.livejournal.com
Congratulations! That's fantastic!

Date: 2012-01-24 04:42 pm (UTC)

Date: 2012-01-24 04:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wormwood-7.livejournal.com
Indeed an evocative cover. Is there a common theme to the stories?

Date: 2012-01-24 04:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com
Just the "dark currents" theme. The stories are a mix of fantasy, sf, slipstream, etc.

Date: 2012-01-24 05:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] communicator.livejournal.com
Terrific news. And ten years is a really well established writing career.

Date: 2012-01-24 07:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com
There were a couple of years when I only just managed to sneak out a short story under the wire, but, yes, I'm pretty pleased with it.

Date: 2012-01-24 06:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jhall1.livejournal.com
Congratulations!

Date: 2012-01-24 07:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com
Thank you! :-)

Date: 2012-01-24 07:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] espresso-addict.livejournal.com
Congratulations! It's a very evocative cover and the font they've picked has lovely Rs, which look great in your surname. Which was your first?

Date: 2012-01-24 07:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com
Those Rs do look extra rrrolled, don't they? Do you mean my first story? That was published in Doctor Who Magazine in 1993, but I didn't publish any fiction again until "Face Value" in Prophecy and Change, ten years later.

Date: 2012-01-24 07:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] espresso-addict.livejournal.com
Ah, I'm being stupid and having decades with 11 years... Sigh. I've only just got up and haven't had my morning espresso yet...

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