Category: links

linked!

I’ve been doing this over at my (locked) Twitter account, so I decided to share it here as a big THANK YOU to those who gave kind words about my work and for spreading the word. :)

I’m included in this linkage post by Charles Tan as he guest-blogs on Ecstatic Days.

Dennis Ginoza links a poem of mine here.

Malon Edwards: Also, if you have time, poke around Expanded Horizons a bit. Dash is amassing a diverse collection of stories from a diverse collection of writers within those virtual pages that I truly don’t think you can find anywhere else. One of those stories, Night Out by Eliza Victoria, really stayed with me after reading it. Good stuff there. (Source.)

Neoli Marcos, on “Earthset”: One of the few short stories that made me cry.  Read this last year in an obscure bookstore somewhere in Retiro, standing the whole time, not realizing I was already crying by the time I finished it. (Source.)

As of right now, I’m waiting word on several pending pieces, and one has been accepted for publication (can’t tell where yet, I think, it’s a surprise). That accepted piece will be accompanied by artwork! Excited.

pedestal 59

I have updated my Publications page as soon as the issue came out, but I must have forgotten to announce it here. Oops.

But Issue 59 of Pedestal Magazine is still up (and will remain live until October), so do visit the site. It includes my poem, “Maps”.

fantasy magazine review (july)

This review would have appeared in Pinoy Pop over at POC, but it wasn’t uploaded before the deadline. So I’m posting this here.

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Readers are in for a treat with these four excellent stories from the July issue of Fantasy Magazine. Helmed by Cat Rambo and Sean Wallace, Fantasy Magazine is an online weekly featuring original fiction in the field of fantasy – “[h]igh fantasy, contemporary and urban tales, surrealism, magical realism, science fantasy, and folktales”. The magazine also publishes non-fiction articles – interviews, commentary, personal essays, and reviews – about the genre.

I’ve always admired the stories published in Fantasy for their depth and language. Let’s take a look at the magazine’s tales for the month of July.

Continue reading fantasy magazine review (july)

clarkesworld issue # 46 and heroic fantasy quarterly issue 5: reviews

clarkesworld

Clarkesworld is an award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine first published in October 2006. The magazine, helmed by publisher Neil Clarke and editor Sean Wallace, releases an issue every month containing at least two pieces of original fiction, as well as non-fiction and podcasts. The magazine’s contents are available online for free, but its fiction offerings can also be found in print – collected by issue in signed chapbooks (limited to a minimum of 100 copies at a price of USD14 each) and annually in the magazine’s print anthology, Realms. Both print outputs are published by Wyrm Publishing.

Here is a review of Clarkesworld’s July issue (Issue # 46).

Read more here.

heroic_fantasy_quarterly

“Prose. Poetry. Pulp,” reads the tagline of Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, and that is exactly what we find in this online magazine committed to publishing the best in heroic fantasy. Swordsmen, adventures, fantastic landscapes – HFQ is filled with stories of action, with a hope to “hearken back to an older age of storytelling –an age when a story well told enthralled audiences.” Adrian Simmons, David Farney, and William Ledbetter sit as editors. HFQ releases new issues on the first of July, October, January, and April.

HFQ’s Issue 5 marks the first-year anniversary of this publication.

Let the battles begin.

Read more here.

‘variations’ now live on elimae

My poem, “Variations on the Expulsion from Eden”, is now up on the elimae website (August issue). Click here, if you are so inclined.

sf with heart: apex magazine # 14 review

Pinoy Pop continues its survey of online speculative fiction magazines this week with a look at the latest issue of Apex Magazine. Apex Magazine started out in 2005 as the Apex Science Fiction and Horror Digest, published by Apex Publications. Two years and twelve digests later, Apex Publications became a full-fledged independent publishing house with the creation of the Apex Book Company. The digest then became a digital magazine in constant search for dark speculative fiction and poetry.

Issues, released every first Monday of the month, are available online and as free PDF downloads. Readers are also encouraged to buy a digital copy, or make a donation of any amount as a show of support to the authors and editors.

Issue 14 marks managing editor and owner Jason Sizemore’s “last go around as fiction editor for a while”. Next month’s issue will be helmed by award-winning author Catherynne M. Valente.

No endings or major plot twists are given away in this review, but for the purists, spoiler warning commences here.

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poses and prostitutes: beneath ceaseless skies 46 review

If you find yourself in the mood for an adventure, you might want to read an issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies, an online magazine dedicated to publishing the best in literary adventure fantasy. The magazine, which publishes two stories per issue and releases a new issue every two weeks, publishes “traditional adventure fantasy, including classics from the pulp era and the new wave of post-Tolkien fantasy” from interested writers, but Scott Andrews (publisher and editor in chief) and Kate Marshall (assistant editor) say they also “love how the recent influence of literary writing on fantasy short fiction has expanded the genre, allowing writers the freedom to use literary devices such as tight points-of-view, round characters, unreliable narrators, discontinuous narratives, and others. This sophisticated level of craft has made fantasy short fiction more powerful than ever before.” You can see for yourselves the expression of this editorial vision in their magazine. Today, let’s review BCS’s Issue # 46: (now archived, the stories are still available online. The issue is also available as a PDF, mobi, epub file, and at the Kindle store.) Spoiler Warning starts here, so go read the issue first, then come right back, you hear?

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