Podcast Story from Renee Stern

Settle in to listen to a story about a farmer in a possible future and his tug of war with technology. A new podcast from The Overcast brings one of Fairwood member Renee Stern's stories to life. 

 "A Touch of Frost," originally published in the 2013 anthology Looking Landwards, is narrated and produced by The Overcast's J.S. Arquin.

New Stories from Fairwood Alumni

If you're looking for some great new stories to read, check out what our alumni have been up to!


The April issue of Hybrid Fiction is a Fairwood two-fer. First up, a new science-fantasy short from Harold Gross, "Short-Handed," which shares the table of contents with the second part of Rhiannon Held's serialized weird western. "After the Warding" starts here, in the March issue.

If you're interested in reading more of Rhiannon's recent work, take a look at her story, "Truth as a Prize," in Beneath Ceaseless Skies' packed science-fantasy issue in March. And you'll want to pick up the brand-new ebook of her space-opera novella, Clean Install, so you'll be ready for the sequel, Dirty Burnout, coming soon!

We're all cheering for Corry L. Lee's first novel, a fantasy with a Russian-inspired setting, elemental magic and great characters! Weave the Lightning, published earlier this month, is available in trade paperback and ebook. Don't miss it!






And finally, we somehow missed the publication of Kate Alice Marshall's spooky YA novel, Rules for Vanishing, back in the fall--but we might have been the only ones not paying attention, seeing as it was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel! Kate was up against a tough field when the awards were announced this month, but just being nominated is a superior achievement. Congratulations, Kate!

New Story from Rhiannon Held

Fairwood alum Rhiannon Held, writing as R.Z. Held, has a new story in the latest issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies. "Swimming Apart" focuses on the bond of friendship, featuring treasure-hunting in underwater caves, and is Rhiannon's second BCS story after last year's "Red Dreams."

New Story from Harold Gross

Check out the new story from Fairwood alum Harold Gross in the newly released anthology, Alternative Truths III: Endgame, the final volume in the Alternative Truths series from B Cubed Press. Harold's story, "Skin in the Game," explores what might happen if our leaders were held a bit more responsible for their decisions, right or wrong, in very permanent ways.

Edited by Bob Brown and Jess Faraday, this anthology offers stories and essays by 30 writers and political thinkers examining some possible outcomes of our political decisions. Among them is a look, in Paula Hammond's "Fortunate Son," at a Donald Trump who answered his country's call to serve in Vietnam.

Part of the anthology's proceeds are donated to the ACLU of Washington. Pick up the ebook or paperback today!

Find out more about Harold's writing at http://literaryends.com/hgblog/writing/.

New Story from Kate Marshall

Fairwood alum Kate Marshall is on a roll these days!  Fresh off the publication of her YA thriller and inclusion in a Year's Best anthology, Kate now offers up a new story in Beneath Ceaseless Skies' Tenth Anniversary issue.

"We Ragged Few" is Kate's third appearance in Beneath Ceaseless Skies.  Check them all out!

One of 2017's Best

   

The editors of The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 have selected Fairwood alum Kate Marshall's story, "Destroy the City with Me Tonight," to appear in the latest anthology showcasing the country's best short fiction.

Due out in October, this anthology features N.K. Jemisin's picks of the top 10 fantasy and top 10 science fiction short stories published in 2017.

Kate's story first appeared in the superhero anthology, Behind the Mask.

New Story from Dean Wells

"Cold Ink," the latest installment in Fairwood member Dean Wells' ongoing "Clockwork Millennials" series, is now available at Beneath Ceaseless Skies.  A tale of love gone horribly wrong, "Cold Ink" examines what it still means to be human in a world of gods and sentient machines.

You can read more of Dean's stories in this series here.  Several are also available there as podcasts.

Wrapping Up a Series

Fairwood alum and professional archaeologist Rhiannon Held celebrates the release of the fifth and final book in her urban fantasy series with an added musical treat.

Death-Touched, now available in print and e-book, wraps up the Silver series about the Roanoke Pack of werewolves that began in 2010 with Silver.  Throughout the series Rhiannon explores the concept of werewolves with their own religion and folk songs.

To accompany this final volume, Rhiannon has also released an in-world folk song, "The Lady's Light," with her lyrics from the series and music by Seattle composer Mitchell Fund.

You can find out more about the Silver series and Rhiannon's other upcoming books and short stories at www.rhiannonheld.com/

New micro-tale from Harold Gross

Harold's latest sold story is up on Story Seed Vault today. They can better explain their mission and raison d’être.

The challenge for this market was to tell a whole story in 140 characters or less; essentially no more than one Tweet’s worth. And the story has to be based on some new bit of science. Challenge accepted…

You can find it at: https://storyseedvault.wordpress.com/2017/07/29/40/

New Story from Renee Stern

"All Hell to Wake" by Fairwood member Renee Stern is the May story at Speculate!, where you'll find a baker's dozen of dark speculative tales edited by Jennifer Brozek.  Check it out!

Norwescon 40 Readings

Check out these Fairwood Writers and Fairwood alums at Norwescon 40 next weekend:

Fairwood Writers:

Dean Wells reads "Through the Looking-Glass, Darkly" (PG)
Thursday, 6:30pm in Cascade 2

Christopher Bodan reads "Floodstage"  (PG)
Thursday, 8:30pm in Cascade 2

Erin Wagner Tidwell reads "For Old Times' Sake" (PG)
Saturday, 7:00pm in Cascade 2

Renee Stern reads "Winds of Danger" (PG)
Saturday, 7:30pm in Cascade 2　

Kim Ritchie reads "Rabbit Hole" (G)
Saturday, 9:00pm in Cascade 2


Fairwood Alums:

Spencer Ellsworth reads an upcoming work (PG)
Friday, 1pm in Cascade 2

Brenda Cooper reads "POST" (G)
Saturday, 11:30am in Cascade 2

Patrick Swenson reads "Rain Music" (PG)
Saturday, 1:30pm in Cascade 2

Rhiannon Held - autograph session
Saturday, 3pm-4pm in Grand 2

John (J. A.) Pitts - autograph session
Saturday, 3pm-4pm in Grand 2

　

Endeavour Winner

Congratulations to Fairwood alum Brenda Cooper for winning this
year's Endeavour Award for her novel, Edge of Dark -- which was also a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award earlier this year.

Other finalists for the Endeavour, awarded to a novel or single-author collection by a Pacific Northwest writer, were:

• Tracker, by C.J. Cherryh (Daw)
• Irona 700, by Dave Duncan (Open Road)
•  Silver on the Road, by Laura Anne Gilman (Saga)
• The Price of Valor, by Django Wexler (Roc)

Check out Brenda's Edge of Dark along with the sequel, Spear of Light, also from Pyr and released this past summer!

J.A. Pitts' New Book, Reading

Fairwood alum John Pitts, writing as J.A. Pitts, has a new book out this month in his urban fantasy series, and he'll be reading from Night Terrors on Monday, April 18, at 7 p.m. at the University Bookstore.  You'll want to hear him read an excerpt from the latest of Seattle blacksmith and dragon slayer Sarah Beauhall's adventures, and pick up a copy of this and the earlier three books (if you don't already own them) for him to sign.

Night Terrors is also available in e-book and audiobook formats:

Audible

Kindle

NOOK

New Work from Kate Marshall: Stone Prayers

Locus Magazine recommends legacy Fairwooder Kate Marshall's latest story, Stone Prayers, writing:

...there is a richness of detail, but instead of standing in isolation from the story, these details work to enrich the world and the character, who comes alive in all her individual complexity.

We recommend it, too. Check out the printed version in Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #177, or the podcast in BCS Issue #178.

Two New Stories from Rhiannon Held

Legacy Fairwood Member Rhiannon Held has two short stories out, set in the world of her Silver novels! They're available in Kindle and .epub formats, and best of all, they're both free. If you like werewolves, take a look.

Temper: Hoping for a relaxing vacation to roam and get over a bad break-up, Tom instead finds something incredibly dangerous for all werewolves: a cemetery with Were secrets engraved on the stones for any human to see. When a couple of young werewolves from the Billings pack interfere with his plans to take care of the problem, it gets hard for him to keep his anger in check.

Back a Winner: Pierce must soon give his alpha an answer whether he will accept a position of Seattle pack beta, but he can’t bring himself to decide. At the track, memories haunt him, throwing his fear into sharp relief.

Ebook Launch for The Wendigo Border

Catherine Cooke Montrose just launched an ebook reprint of her 1995 dark fantasy, "The Wendigo Border," a contemporary Wyoming story intertwined with Native American history and mythology. The book is now available for Kindle and Nook.

Short story in Silver universe

Legacy Fairwood member Rhiannon Held has a new short story out in the world of her novels! Set in the background of her third book in the Silver universe, it's designed to be accessible to anyone familiar with any of the books. Take a look!

Who IS The Ultra Thin Man?

Congratulations to Patrick Swenson, whose first novel The Ultra Thin Man is now out from Tor books. Get it at bookstores or ebookstores anywhere!

Harold's Wriggling Death

Prepare to be creeped out! Starting today, you can hear Fairwood alumni Harold Gross's short, The Wriggling Death in Pseudopod, the audio magazine of short horror. 

Come Join Us at Norwescon (Part 1)

We're all getting ready for Norwescon next weekend, April 17-20, and we hope you'll be there too!

Come join the Fairwood Writers at our Norwescon readings:

• Thursday, 9 p.m., Cascade 1

               Mae Empson reads something new

• Friday, 2:30 p.m., Cascade 1

              Chris Bodan reads from a new work

• Friday, 3:30 p.m., Cascade 1

              Renee Stern reads from "Hannelore and Her Sisters": The
              shattering of the Iron Curtain unleashes something old and long
              hidden

• Friday, 5 p.m., Cascade 1

              Patrick Swenson reads something new

• Friday, 9 p.m., Cascade 1

              Darragh Metzger reads from The Iron Lords, Book 6 of The
              Triads of Tir na n'Og

• Saturday, 1 p.m., Cascade 1

               Harold Gross reads either from "The Song Giveth...", currently
               serialized in Aethernet: Two  worlds share music and more; or
               from a new work in progress

• Saturday, 9 p.m., Cascade 1

               Kim Ritchie reads from "Totenkopf"

• Saturday, 9:30 p.m., Cascade 1

               Rhiannon Held reads from Reflected, an urban fantasy novel set
               in Seattle