GMM Quick-Hit-a-Thon #42

I'm delighted that my 42nd Stone Skin Press Gods, Memes and Monsters "Quick-Hit-a-Thon" post is highlighting the "Seer Beetle" creature by the person to whom I am eternally grateful for bringing me on board as the anthology's editor in the first place: award-winning writer/game designer/podcaster/all round awesome guy and Toronto resident Robin D. Laws. Robin's entry opens with "The seer beetle lives in your home."

World Fantasy Award Nomination!

Much to my complete shock and surprise, I am greatly honoured to have been nominated for a 2016 World Fantasy Award in the Special Professional category for my work on Gods, Memes and Monsters: A 21st Century Bestiary. I am some very stellar company!

As anthologist, I am deeply aware that an anthology is a joint effort involving all of the contributors, the proofreaders the copyeditors, the publisher and all of the publishing staff. I thank Cat and Simon and everyone else at Stone Skin Press for making the anthology happen, and I especially thank Robin D. Laws for bringing me on board the project in the first place.

Most of all, I owe a debt of gratitude to all of the authors in the anthology for their amazing work. They are:
Arinn Dembo, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Greg Stafford, Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer, Rupert Booth, Sam Agro, Steve Berman, Marie Davis & Margaret Hultz, Laura Lush, Patrick O’Duffy, Dennis Detwiller, Jerry Schaefer, Chris Lackey, Ed Greenwood, James Ashton, Sandra Kasturi, Peter Birch (Aishling Morgan), Molly Tanzer, Monica Valentinelli, Peter Dube, Peter M. Ball, Carrianne Leung, Dennis E. Bolen, Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, Isabel Matwawana, Peter Chiykowski, Jacqueline Valencia, Kyla Lee Ward, Jim Webster, Jean-Francois Chenier, Kenneth Hite, Jonathan Blum, James Wallis, Helen Marshall, Charlene Challenger, Bill Zaget, Myna Wallin, Robin Laws, Julia Bond Ellingboe, Jonathan L. Howard, Kurt Zubatiuk, Emily Care Boss, Ann Ewan, David Barnes, Malcolm Devlin, Greg Stolze, Andrew J. Borkowski, John Scott Tynes, Richard Dansky, Kate Story, Ekaterina Sedia, Kate Harrad, Nancy Kilpatrick, Dave Gross, Lilly O’Gorman, Nick Mamatas, JM Frey.

Toronto Launch of Gods, Memes and Monsters

Join me (the anthology's editor) and over a dozen local contributors for the Toronto launch of the international anthology, Gods, Memes and Monsters: A 21st Century Bestiary (Stone Skin Press, UK). Readers include Robin D. Laws, Jacqueline Valencia, Laura Lush, Myna Wallin, Peter Chiykowski, Sam Agro, Isabel Matwawana, Jerry Schaefer, Kate Story, Kurt Zubatiuk, Andrew Borkowski. So make your way to the Victory Cafe (581 Markham Street, Toronto) on Sunday, June 26, 7pm, for an awesome night of "genre meets literary fiction" and stories about the beasts that lurk about in our modern age.

Featuring more than 60 authors, GMM brings a fresh take on the bestiary, the dictionary of mythological creatures, by imagining how beasts such as gorgons, minotaurs, and mantichores would cope in the modern age. From the casino where the griffin has taken up residence, to the gorgon’s new occupation and love interest, to the now happy sphinx who has moved to Manhattan, this bestiary is a unique and contemporary twist on the creatures that have captivated the human imagination since ancient times.