Since we're on the topic of the July issue: 

Mister Brass and the Dragons of Mars, by Joshua Reynolds
Hunted, by Andrew Salmon
Burn Boy, by Natasha J. Stillman
Crank Case, by Jeff Parrish
Matchstick, by Michael Obilade
School Days, by James Mascia
Chaos and Hope, by Gary J. Beharry
Enter Hubert, by Elizabeth Bennett Porco
Hero in the Big City, by EK Rivera


Some good stuff there - I think folks will really like Mister Brass.  
There's another story featuring him coming up in the next issue, as well.  

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Working on a couple of fun interviews for next month's issue of A Thousand Faces. 

I am talking to David Schwartz, the author of new superhero novel Superpowers.  I'm about halfway through the book right now -- pretty good so far.  It deals with a group of five college friends who wake up one morning with assorted (you guessed it) superpowers, and deals with the "Now, what?" question. 

I am also talking with Owen King and John McNally, co-editors of a new superhero fiction anthology, Who Can Save Us Now?, due in stores in mid-July.  I haven't gotten my hands on a copy yet, but they namedrop Fortress of Solitude and Kavalier and Clay (two of my favorite books, by the way) in the introduction, which may give you an idea of the feel of these stories. 

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Been a crazy month of April around here - partly because of the work I've been putting in on the Spring 2008 issue of A Thousand Faces, the Quarterly Journal of Superhuman Fiction.

I think it's our best issue yet; check it out HERE and let me know if you agree.

 
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There's an interview with me up at Comic Bits Online -- check it out HERE.

We talk about Requiem and A Thousand Faces, among the usual topics. 


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The winter 2008 issue of A Thousand Faces is LIVE.

Biggest issue yet -- interviews with Van Allen Plexico and Christopher Knowles, and the usual assortment of great fiction. 

I would particularly recommend Steve Goble's "The Bigger They Are" and Robichaud & Glencer's "Making Time." 

Check it out!

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Spurred by a conversation I had with her at the Baltimore Comic Con back in September, Johanna Draper Carlson has posted a review of Issue #2 of A Thousand Faces over at her excellent blog on all things comics, Comics Worth Reading. 

You can check it out HERE. 


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So another Baltimore Comic Con has come and gone.  I would have to rate this year as pretty successful -- sold well over the amount of books we would need to move to pay for the table, and put a lot of information in a lot of people's hands.  Website traffic for A Thousand Faces was up significantly over the weekend and into the first part of this week, which tells me that at least some of the folks who picked up cards at least went home and checked it out.  (Whether they'll come back is a horse of an altogether different color.)

Big thanks, of course, to Jennifer and Ed and Kashelle for helping me man the table over the course of the two days.  You've all seen Ed's work (whether you realized it or not) on the Thousand Faces webzine.

Met several people interested in contributing stories to the magazine, so we should start to see submissions from them in the near future.  Met some media types who expressed interest in reviewing either my books or the magazine, including the Creative Director of Weird Tales.  I also learned from the RPG folks who produce Mutants and Masterminds that a new Wildcards book is due in 2008, and that they'll be handling a new RPG for Wildcards.

Also met some nice folks behind the tables, as well.  You spend fifteen hours next to someone, you almost become family.  Check out Mike Dolce's work on The Sire, a superhero comic with an original slant. 

I have some pictures that I'll be uploading over the next couple of days. 

And, of course, I did some shopping.  The easy highlight was picking up the hardcover edition of  Marvels-- for $12(!!!).  I also got discounted copies of Bullet Points, Secret Six:  Six Degrees of Devastation, David Lapham's Murder Me Dead, Dodge's Bullets, Spider-Man:  The Death of Jean Dewolff ($3!!!!), and the Marv Wolfman novelization of Crisis on Infinite Earths (superhero fiction, baby!).   I went full-price at the Top Shelf booth, and picked up Tales From the Farm and the fabulous looking Super Spy, from Matt Kindt, who was kind enough to sign and add a little sketch inside the book for me.  A real eclectic pile, I realize now as I look at it. 

And Andy Runton did a great Owly sketch for me to frame and hang in the baby's room.   And was kind enough to sell me a plush Owly for my wife. 

The inaugural issue of A Thousand Faces, the Quarterly Journal of Superhuman Fiction, is now available.  You can find it online at A Thousand Faces, and after you've read and fallen in love with the stories there, you can purchase a copy of your very own HERE. 

And THEN, once you've read to your heart's content, head on over to the Thousand Faces forum, and discuss the magazine with new like-minded friends. 

Happy reading.


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The first issue is almost here! 

Check out a preview HERE. 

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Pretty good week here at Super!!Stories!! HQ: 

I finished up a new Sunvolt story this weekend, "The Shape of Things to Come."  At the moment, it's being polished up by a few trusted first readers, then it's off on the submission rounds.  First stop:  Strange Horizons.

Chapter Eight of Temple is set to go online this week over at Metahuman Press.

And finally, I heard today that "Hollow" was accepted at old favorite Aphelion, where it will be published in the February issue (incidentally, the 10th anniversary issue of this fine magazine.  If you've never checked it out, you should do so this month.)   Here's an early link to the draft copy of Hollow. 


Now, as for A Thousand Faces, it was a good week, as well.  The brand new Quarterly Journal of Superhero Fiction received a handful of submissions.  We now have three finished pieces ready to go, as well as another that needs a bit of a polish, but will soon be ready.  It's a pretty good cross-sampling of genres, indicative of the wide variety of stories that can be told with superheroes.  I also had some conceptual discussions about the website, which I think everyone will find very cool. 


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Coming soon:


A Thousand Faces, the Quarterly Journal of Superhuman Fiction.

More on this as it develops. . . .



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