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Drumroll please... (I ask for a lot of these but this time it's appropriate)
Theatre of Curious Acts is to be published by
Hadley Rille Books as a novella in 2011.
I am sooooooooo excited.
Theatre is my NaNoWriMo novel from 2009. Originally it sat at just over 50,000 words, but after a recent rejection from a publisher (that story expands a little) I edited it down to 42,000 words.
Last week the original publisher (who shall remain unnamed but I will say, they're an awesome company) contacted me to ask if Theatre was still available, and that if it was they'd like to publish it. I went into a panic. Then I calmed down. Then I contacted Hadley Rille, explained the situation and they offered to read Theatre right away and the rest as they say, is history. Quite literally...
Nineteen-year-old Daniel Cole returns home from the Great War wanting the world to end. His brother and parents are in their graves. Nothing is the same. During a performance at the Theatre of Curious Acts, Daniel and his old friends, fellow soldiers, are lured into a surreal otherworld. Travelling through this strange land they come upon the four horsewomen of the apocalypse, dragons, the steam trains of the Anabiosis station and their ghostly passengers, ancient warriors and a pirate ship waiting to ferry them to the end of the world.
Now Daniel must fight to save a world he wants no part of, and worse, he is about to fall in love with Death. Now I shall have cake.
If you don't know about KV Talyor's The Red Penny Papers yet, it's time you gave it a gander. Not only is the artwork to die for, The Red Penny Papers is where you will find my serialized novella, Black Medicine Thunder and the Sons of Chaos, this fall.
Sensational, you ask?
Well, yes. Therein you will find:
- undead buffalo
- deals with the devil
- all manner of facial scars
- necklaces made of human teeth
- and a mean ol' bastard named Reaver
...not to mention a cameo (or two) by characters from Loathsome, Dark, and Deep.
Excited? I am.
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Raina Telgemeier's
Smile
is about big changes in a young girl's life. No, not those kinds of changes (although as a father to two girls I'll have my share of those awkward moments). We're talking instead about subtler changes, hinted at from the start by the book's cover, which features a brace-clad smiley face. From
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Aah, hanging out with your friends. You laugh. You go shopping. You have sleepovers and you always have fun. Well, imagine this: you and your friends are chasing each other one day and you trip. When you fall, you hit the cement. You hit the cement so hard that you knock out your two front teeth! This is exactly what happens to the character of Raina in the graphic novel Smile by Raina Telgemeier.
After an emergency trip to Dr. Golden's office, the dentist glues Raina's teeth back into her mouth. He covers them in gauze that soon becomes soggy and gross. When Raina takes off the gauze, she discovers that the teeth have been inserted too far. Now she looks like a vampire! Going to school looking like a vampire will definitely make boys notice her, but not in a good way.
While the book on its simplest level is the story of Raina's teeth trials, on a much larger level it's the story of a girl who struggles to maintain her own identity while still fitting in. One part I particularly love is when Raina comes to the realization that she has to move on from her former friends, who are acting less and less supportive, to a new circle of friends in high school. These transitions happen in real life, of course, but less often in middle school lit. Too often we're offered a much simpler, pat solution.
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Michelle Garren Flye and the other wonderful folk over at
Dark Recesses Press have accepted my story 'Events at the Wigwam Rock Diner, Nevada' for a future issue.
Events is the tale of a girl, her dog Bacteria, eyeballs and a Paiute myth.
In other news, I have declared this week officially the first week of the year, well it is Chinese New Year on Sunday. I insist that you humour me.
The Seeing Stick
was originally written by Jane
Yolen in 1977, and was a recipient of the Christopher Medal in 1978. The book tells the tale of young princess
Hwei Ming, whose name, when translated to English, means “the
lightless moon on the last day of the month...becoming luminous.” This is a fitting name, for the princess is blind, and enjoys none of what she is given due to the darkness of her world.
Hwei Ming’s father, the emperor of Peking, announces that if anyone can help his only daughter to see, that person will be rewarded with fortune in jewels. In rhythmic prose begging to be replicated the author writes:
"Monks came, of course, with their prayers and prayer wheels, for they
thought in this way to help Hwei Ming to see. Magician-priests came, of course,
with their incantations and spells, for they thought in this way to help Hwei
Ming to see" and Physicians came, of course, with their potions and pins, for
they thought in this way to help Hwei Ming to see..."
but none can find a cure.
A
solitary old man hears the emperor’s request, so he travels a great distance to Peking. “The sun rose hot on his right side, and the sun set cool on his left” provides the reader with the idea that the journey is long and not undertaken lightly.
When
the old man finally arrives, clothes tattered and dirty from his travels, he is turned away
by the city guards. But through cleverness and creativity the old man is
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Cute only gets you so far in the real world. Capturing the glee of victory and the sting of defeat, this hilariously illustrated rhyming book lets us laugh at our own (and our little sibling’s) attempts to prove otherwise.
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Published: 2009 Random House (on JOMB)
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Rhyming triplets and edge-to-edge smile-inducing illustrations follow the carefree foolishness of an unconventional goose and remind us to savour the spice of life.
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The key to getting an acceptance: stop obsessing about them and they roll in.**
Okay, crawl in might be a more appropriate word. After two rewrites (yep, you read the math right) Leviathan's Moving Theatre has been accepted by Every Day Fiction. Publication date as yet unknown.
*Title guaranteed to anger Publishing Gods
**Not guaranteed to work.
Fantasy Magazine have adopted a Clarkesworld like submissions tracker so you can now submit through the site. I find these things addictive. It's a long way from the bad old days when you had to submit everything by snail mail, only it wasn't 'snail' then, just plain old mail. I know things can disappear into the ether with emails, but back then the post office could lose them for decades. At the moment I'm number 7 in line at Clarkesworld for a rejection, I mean consideration.
In other Fantasy news, if you have the time, I highly recommend checking out The Adventures of Petal, the Paperdoll Pirate by Paul Jessup. Wonderful, surreal, and engaging.
And in YAY! news: 'See Saw' - a humorous, dark sci-fi tale - sold to M-Brane SF yesterday. Nice start to the month.
A couple of weeks ago the fabulous Jodi Lee invited me to write a story for her New Bedlam project. It's a new webzine which opens for submissions on April 1st. I was grinning from ear to ear when I read the invite, until my knees started knocking. What if she didn't like my story? Well she did, and this morning I received an acceptance for 'Insomniac Ink'. I believe it goes live on April 1st, but don't quote me on that.
So dudes, dudettes and serious horror writers start writing something for when they open for submissions in April. Working alongside Jodi are Louise Bohmer, Brandon Layng and Jeff Parish. Now that's a quartet to impress.
Two more acceptances this morning - she says in a nonchalant tone as if it's a normal occurence.
Flash Scribe has accepted 'The Man who Climbed out of a Suitcase' and 'The Man who Wasn't a Man at all'. You can probably guess from the titles that the stories are connected to each other. I was having so much fun writing them, I could have gone on writing and writing little stories set in the same universe, but I stopped myself and waited to see if the first two stories were accepted.
Did you believe me when I said I wasn't going to write anymore shorts this month? ::Insert Evil Laugh Here:: Fools!
Received an acceptance today from Macabre Cadaver for “In the Dumpster King’s Zip Code”. The issue is set to go live November 1st.
And more important news: For a limited time you can grab a free PDF of the July/August issue of Weird Tales.
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Beautifully bound in a soft unevenly edged journal and told with humour, innocence, intimacy and affection, the daily entries of a fictional twelve year old disclose the spellbinding details of life during the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918-19.
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To those of you celebrating Yom Kippur, G’mar Chatimah Tovah.
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The Graveyard of Dead Vehicles has sold to the WolfSongs Volume 1 anthology edited by Margaret H Bonham. I've spent the last few months gnawing my fingernails over this story and stalking the editors livejournal posts for news. Woot! Not a bad way to start my holiday and the third acceptance in three weeks. Adding those three to the bunch of rejections I've recently received it seems that Editors are hard at work this August.
Again, YAY!
The anthology is due for release at the end of this month/early September.
Here's a blurb of the story:
In a grey world where people are press-ganged into working in offices and coffee is a drug hawked by dodgy men on street corners, Juliet seeks escape after the murder of her wolf, Bella.
OMG! OMG! OMG! Cold Coffee Cups & Curious Things has sold to the Necrotic Tissue anthology - Malpractice: An Anthology of Bedside Terror. And as well as 1 cent per word, I get a fabulous Necrotic Tissue T-Shirt (I have wanted one of those like forever).
And, coincidentally, my coffee went cold as I was too busy running around the reception (note to self - shouldn't open emails at work as I am very, very loud when I get an acceptance - okay, sometimes I'm a wee bit loud just because I'm me but...). Again, woo-hoo!
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Funky paint and collage artwork and breezy first person narrative provide an eye-opening peek at a young girl’s experience with amblyopia and strabismus in this upbeat tale of personality, patches, perspective and pride.
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Oh, and fandabidozi. I knew I'd forgotten something. :D
Woot, squee yee-ha and woo-hoo! Also woop woop . And anything else I've forgotten.
Congratulations Cate! I am hugely, massively chuffed for you. Enjoy your cakeathon and try not to increase your dress size ;-)
Fantastic news - Hadley Riile are a great publisher and Eric's a pleasure to work with - well done you!
Thanks, Simon. :D
Thanks, Kate. And I'm already discovering that about Eric.
Have cake and eat it too. : ) Congrats!
I will, Rebecca :D
HUZZAH! How magnificent! Plenty of cake. I might have to eat some, too. ;)
That is Fantastic! Eric and Crew have put out some excellent books (I have several on my shelf). I can't wait to add yours to the read pile (again) ;)
Woot! That's fantastic! Congratulations--Hadley Rille is a great publisher!
Do you know when it will be released? Because I'm dying for a copy!
Aaron, please do.
Thanks, Jamie :D
Some time in 2011, Kate. I know they have lots of fabulous books coming out. :D
That. Is. AWESOME.
Congratulations! I'm so happy for you.
Congrats, lady! That is fantastic news!
Absolutely fantastic news, Cate.
Fantastic and well deserved news! Hey, my wife actually made a cake last night. I shall have a slice at lunch in your honor!
Thanks, guys. And Barry, enjoy your cake.
Awesome. You're completely making it happen Cate, soooo exciting! Congrats!
Terrific news, Cate! Love Hadley Rille. Class acts all the way.
Continued success!
Fantastic news...can't wait to read it!
Whoa! Congrats, Cate! Awesome awesome news. pretty soon I'm going to have a whole shelf of first edition Gardners. :-D
Awesome!
I just love Hadley Rille-- I couldn't be more excited for you. Or, in my usual selfish way, for myself, because I get to have a copy of this. I've been wanting it since you put it all together during that Nanowrimo-- what was it? Two years ago?
That's a long time to want something. Yay for you, because you are AWESOME. And yay for me because I get your awesome, finally!
Thanks all :D
Congratulations! That is wonderful news!
Thanks, Damien.
Sweetness! Congrats, Cate. =)
That's fabulous! I bet you did one awesome happy dance.
Thanks, Ken. Thanks, Andrea. :D
That's fantastic news. Congrats. All the better it should be something from NaNoWriMo, as I think this is only the second time I've heard of someone's project from that going on to be published. Excellent stuff.
Fantastic : )
Superb news and fully deserved. Well done Cate!
Congratulations, Cate, I am so happy for you. It's bloody excellent news!
YAY YAY YAY!!!!
I'm so excited to read this one.
Thank you :D
Congrats and WOOT!