So, Thyme Travellers was featured on CBC Books today.
#BipocSFF
Friends, if you're on Goodreads, we have two giveaways for Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction-- one for ebooks, and one for print.
#BipocSFF @palestine @bookstodon
https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/394912-thyme-travellers-an-anthology-of-palestinian-speculative-fiction
A link spam for all of the places where you can preorder Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction, edited by me! Keep an eye out, because this includes a limited time discount on ebooks.
My story is out today in Fantasy Magazine!
This story is based on the monstrous half-Christian, half-Muslim child in the medieval romance 'The King of Tars.' https://www.fantasy-magazine.com/fm/fiction/negative-theology-of-the-child-from-the-king-of-tars/
Re-upping this post!
I'm creating a guide to Mastodon for SFF folks and am including a list of cool people they should follow. If you're cool people see the post for the form to add yourself.
#BlackMastodon #BIPOCSFF #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #SFF #IndiePublishing
A little new intro for the new folks.
Welcome! I'm Sonia, writer of spec fic inspired by Palestinian folklore. You can find my stories at ArabLit Quarterly, Beladi, FANTASY magazine, FIYAH, Lackington's, and other places.
My work has been nominated for: Pushcart, Lammy, Palestine Book Award, and Best New Weird Awards.
My writing is called 'beautiful' a lot.
Muneera and the Moon: Stories Inspired by Palestinian Folklore is live.
This collection includes several previously unpublished stories, along with old favourites!
Publishing date TBA: My first collection of short stories inspired by Palestinian folklore will be available for ARCs and DRCs soon. LMK if you'd like to get your hands on a copy in exchange for a review. 🧿
Autumn Child is my big gay Canaanite godpunk story. Dabeb owes a life debt to Hirupanu, the Autumn Child. The bond between the two, man and god, proves to be truly unbreakable.
You can read it here, as an exclusive Kindle single:
I'm reissuing some of my short stories as singles on Amazon, starting with 'From Whole Cloth:'
A Queer retelling of the Palestinian folktale 'The Story That Begins and Ends with Lies.'
Prince Noor has to marry. He desires nothing more than to spend his days with a woman who can tell stories that are nothing but lies. When he meets the woman who seems fated to be his match, how will their story end? More importantly, who will write it?
Palestinian writers! You'll probably want to start revving your writing engines. The open call for submissions to Thyme Travelers, an anthology of Palestinian speculative fiction, will be live in a few months.
This is a pro-paying publication for stories up to 5K words.
Just posted my last substack newsletter of the year and feeling a little emo! https://aychao.substack.com/p/festive-greetings
Freedom from lockdown and connecting and reconnecting with people was probably the thing that gave me the most joy in 2022. Still living off the adrenalin high of #viableparadise and selling a trilogy. Thank you 2022 for all the blessings.
Looking forward to more adventures in 2023.
Signing off for the holidays, and see y’all in the new year!
Alice x
#sff #bipocsff @sffbipoc @diversebooks
I'm working on another application package. I need some help deciding between which of these two stories will make the cut for the writing sample. Links to both stories will be in the comments, if you haven't read them already.
A little new intro for the new folks. Welcome! I'm Sonia, writer of spec fic inspired by Palestinian folklore. I don't have any books to plug, but you can find my stories in various genre magazines.
My writing is called 'beautiful' a lot.
Current projects include a novella(?) inspired by this energetic vampire critter from Palestine known as the Bride, but make it Queer.
I'm editing a Palestinian spec fic anthology for Roseway too.
Yeah, so I now have a playlist for a new... novella? Novel? that takes that energetic vampire bride from Palestine and asks "but what if aroace horror?" 👀
Do I have time to write this? No.
But do I have the discipline not to write this. Again, no.
@shortstory @shortsff @palestine
You can now read 'The Mandrake Loves the Olive', my Pushcart nominated story inspired by Palestinian folklore, for free online here:
Hello! I'm a #speculativefiction #author. I adore space operas, cyborgs, technology, duplicity and duplication, dance battles, maps and magic, and soft yearning.
My #scifi debut novel, Every Version of You, could also be titled How to Stay in Love and Feel Real after Mind-Uploading into Virtual Reality. It's out now!!!
I've published a bunch of short stories!
I'm also an avid reader, soccer player, new parent, and consumer of cheap and tasty foods.
@shortstory @shortsff @palestine
"The Mandrake Loves the Olive" is a queerplatonic tale steeped in Palestinian herbal and arboreal folklore. Nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
What is the word on authors making substantial revisions to stories in their collectioned works vs. the original publications?
Am I over-thinking this? It's my first rodeo, as it happens.
Whenever I think I know what the near future looks like, I have to ...adjust course.
I just heard back from a publisher I had queried in a desperate attempt to get my collection of short fiction published when I don't have any novels, or a Name etc...
It's a revise and resub! :ablobcateyesflip:
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