Une Heure-Lumière

Une Heure-Lumière (“a light hour”) is a range from Éditions du Bélial’. These short books are designed to be read in one sitting and have featured the work of writers such as Nancy Kress, Paul J. McAuley, Vernor Vinge, Thomas Day, Greg Egan, and Ken Liu.

« Une Heure-Lumière » est une collection des éditions du Bélial’. Il s’agit de courts romans conçus pour être lus d’une traite, et cette collection a accueilli des auteurs tels que Nancy Kress, Paul J. McAuley, Vernor Vinge, Thomas Day, Greg Egan et Ken Liu.

I am absolutely delighted be included with a translation of “Fabulous Beasts”, a story that appeared on Tor.com in 2015 and won a British Fantasy Award and was a Shirley Jackson Award finalist.

Je suis absolument ravie d’y être incluse avec « Des bêtes fabuleuses », une nouvelle parue sur Tor.com en 2015, finaliste du Shirley Jackson Award et récompensée par un British Fantasy Award.

This will be a special edition that’s free with two other titles from the range.

Cette nouvelle figure dans un hors-série gratuit, offert pour l’achat de deux titres de la collection.

A big shout out to editor Erwann Perchoc, translator Anne-Sylvie Homassel, cover artist Aurélien Police, and interior artist Anouck Faure.

Un grand merci à l’éditeur Erwann Perchoc, à la traductrice Anne-Sylvie Homassel, à Aurélien Police, illustrateur de la couverture, et à la dessinatrice Anouck Faure pour son illustration intérieure.

Check out their website here.

Visitez leur site web ici.

Body Shocks Edited by Ellen Datlow

Body Shocks Edited by Ellen Datlow is now out from Tachyon Press.

“Hugo Award–winning editor Datlow brings together 29 spine-tingling tales of body horror to terrify even the most seasoned horror reader.”

– Starred review from Publishers Weekly

Thanks to Ellen for reprinting “Fabulous Beasts” in this anthology.

Contents:

The Travellers Stay by Ray Cluley
Toother by Terry Dowling
Painlessness by Kirstyn McDermott
You Go Where It Takes You by Nathan Ballingrud
A Positive by Kaaron Warren
La Beauté sans verte by Genevieve Valentine
Subsumption by Lucy Taylor
Spar by Kij Johnson
It Was the Heat by Pat Cadigan
Atwater by Cody Goodfellow
The Transfer by Edward Bryant
Welcome to Mengele’s by Simon Bestwick
Black Neurology: A Love Story by Richard Kadrey
Cuckoo by Angela Slatter
Cinereous by Livia Llewellyn
The Truth That Lies Under Skin & Meat by Cassandra Khaw
Natural Skin by Alyssa Wong
The Lake by Tananarive Due
I’m Always Here by Richard Christian Matheson
The Look by Christopher Fowler
The Old Women Who Were Skinned by Carmen Maria Machado
Spores by Seanan McGuire
Sweet Subtleties by Lisa L. Hannett
Elegy For a Suicide by Caitlín R. Kiernan
Skin City by Gemma Files
A True Friend by Brian Evenson
What I Found in the Shed by Tom Johnstone
Fabulous Beasts by Priya Sharma
Tissue Ablation and Variant Regeneration: A Case Report by Michael Blumlein

Body Shocks

Bestselling editor Ellen Datlow (Lovecraft’s Monsters) delivers world-class body horror in all its gruesome, psychological, and shocking glory. Discover—if you dare—shockingly twisted tales of the human body that make The Twilight Zone seem like a children’s show. In Body Shocks, you will find twenty-nine chilling tales from storytelling masters including Carmen Maria Machado, Richard Kadrey, Seanan McGuire, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Tananarive Due, Cassandra Khaw, Christopher Fowler, and many more.

The most terrifying thing that you can possibly imagine is your own body in the hands of a monster. Or worse, in the hands of another human being.

Body Shocks is out from Tachyon In October 2021.

Thanks to Ellen for reprinting “Fabulous Beasts” in this anthology.

Contents:

The Travellers Stay by Ray Cluley
Toother by Terry Dowling
Painlessness by Kirstyn McDermott
You Go Where It Takes You by Nathan Ballingrud
A Positive by Kaaron Warren
La Beauté sans verte by Genevieve Valentine
Subsumption by Lucy Taylor
Spar by Kij Johnson
It Was the Heat by Pat Cadigan
Atwater by Cody Goodfellow
The Transfer by Edward Bryant
Welcome to Mengele’s by Simon Bestwick
Black Neurology: A Love Story by Richard Kadrey
Cuckoo by Angela Slatter
Cinereous by Livia Llewellyn
The Truth That Lies Under Skin & Meat by Cassandra Khaw
Natural Skin by Alyssa Wong
The Lake by Tananarive Due
I’m Always Here by Richard Christian Matheson
The Look by Christopher Fowler
The Old Women Who Were Skinned by Carmen Maria Machado
Spores by Seanan McGuire
Sweet Subtleties by Lisa L. Hannett
Elegy For a Suicide by Caitlín R. Kiernan
Skin City by Gemma Files
A True Friend by Brian Evenson
What I Found in the Shed by Tom Johnstone
Fabulous Beasts by Priya Sharma
Tissue Ablation and Variant Regeneration: A Case Report by Michael Blumlein

Molotov Magazine

Independent Legions ha annunciato un altro ospite per il secondo numero di Molotov Magazine (fine Ottobre 2020), il grande Jonathan Maberry, che non ha bisogno di presentazioni, che intervisteremo per voi, tra fiction e comics, e che si unirà dunque agli altri ospiti, Craig Spectore Stephen Jones, e agli autori dei racconti (inediti in Italiano) che troverete su questo pazzesco numero, tra i quali Brian Keene, RC Matheson, Priya Sharma, Thersa Matsuura, Poppy Z. Brite, David J. Schow, Cody Goodfellowe tanti altri. Tra gli italiani, sempre per i racconti, ci saranno il Premio Bancarella Matteo Strukul, il Premio Urania Sandro Battisti e Stefano Fantelli. E poi fumetti (l’esordio di Frank Spirito, sceneggiato da me e disegnato da Stefano Cardoselli), articoli, rubriche, e tanto altro.

Per preordinare Molotov 2 ecco il link: www.independentlegions.com/store/p359/molotovmagazine2.html

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Jonathan Maberry special guest of the Second Issue of Molotov Magazine, in Italian, coming in October 2020 from Independent Legions. This issue will include stories by Brian Keene, Richard Christian Matheson, Priya Sharma, David J. Schow, Cody Coodfellow, Thersa Matsuura and others, interviews with Jonathan Maberry, Craig Spector and Stephen Jones, comics, columns, reviews and many more.

Thanks to Alessandro Manzetti for including me with a reprint of “Fabulous Beasts”. This story originally appeared on Tor.com, edited by Ellen Datlow, and won a British Fantasy Award.

Dos Pieles and Other News

I am superexcited to be included be in Two Skins (Dos Pieles), a collection curated and tranlsated by Sofia Barker for Spanish publisher, Pulpture Ediciones. Their aim is to champion women speculative fiction writers and this anthology that includes two short stories and two novelettes, all loosely connected around the theme of shapeshifters and monstrosity.

Me emociona muchísimo formar parte de «Dos Pieles», una colección seleccionada y traducida por Sofía Barker para la editorial española Pulpture Ediciones. Su objetivo es impulsar el trabajo de las escritoras de ficción especulativa y esta antología incluye dos historias cortas y dos novelettes, todas conectadas en líneas generales por el tema de las cambiaformas y la monstruosidad.

Unboxing by editor and hand model Cris Miguel/ Unboxing por la editora y modelo de manos Cris Miguel.

Contents/Índice:

Recoveries by Susan Palwick
Chesirah by LD Lewis
The Pull of the Heard by Suzan Palumbo
Fabulous Beasts by Priya Sharma

“Fabulous Beasts” originally appeared on Tor.com and was edited by Ellen Datlow.

“Bestias Fabulosas” apareció orginalmente en Tor.com, editado por Ellen Datlow.

The first book of this series is Water in the Lungs (Agua en los Pulmones) and includes work by Lucy Taylor, Kelly Robson and Ruthanna Emrys.

El primer libro de esta serie es Agua en los Pulmones, que incluye textos escritos por Lucy Taylor, Kelly Robson y Ruthanna Emrys.

Pulpture Ediciones is the  brainchild of Jorge Plana and Cris Miguel. Based in Madrid, it specialises in bringing SFF to Spain.

Pulpture Ediciones es la creación de Jorge Plana y Cris Miguel. Con base en Madrid, está especializada en traer literatura fantástica a España.

Mark and I were fortunate enough to travel to Madrid last year and meet the team who were a very fabulous bunch. They are currently working on a Spanish translation of “All the Fabulous Beasts”, my collection released in 2017 by Undertow Publications (edited by Michael Kelly). I owe them all huge thanks for their hard work and hospitality.

Mark y yo tuvimos la fortuna de viajar a Madrid el año pasado y conocer al equipo, un grupo estupendo. En este momento están trabajando en la traducción al español de «All the Fabulous Beasts» (Todas Las Bestias Fabulosas), la colección que publicó en 2017 Undertow Publications (editado por Michael Kelly) . Les doy las gracias por su trabajo y su amabilidad.

Purchase here/ Cómpralo aquí

L-R: Miguel Garrido de Vega, Mark Greenwood, Alberto Berhon Garcia, Sofia Barker, me, Jorge Plana

 

 

 

Fabulous Beasts in Cross Stitch

I went out in the rain to collect a parcel from the Post Office depot this morning. It contained an unexpected gift from fellow writer and friend Penny Jones. It’s a quote from “Fabulous Beasts”.

Thank you, Penny Jones. My eyeliner is all over my face now, but not because of the rain.

 

 

 

Hellnotes Interview

Thanks to Gordon B. White, who has interviewed me as part of his Deep Cuts series for Hellnotes. His thoughtful questions focus on “Fabulous Beasts”. (N.B. Contains spoilers).

https://hellnotes.com/an-interview-with-priya-sharma-author-of-fabulous-beasts/

 

 

 

What We Inherited: A series of interviews by Alyx Dellamonica

Alyx Dellamonica is well established as an author with novels such as Indigo Springs. Her short fiction can be found in quality venues like Beneath Ceaseless Skies and on Tor.com.

This year marks her debut as an editor, with the Lethe Press anthology Heiresses of Russ 2016,  which she co-edited with Steve Berman. The  table of contents announcement is here.

Alyx has asked some of the contributors if they’d be interested in talking a little about the ideas behind their stories and about the idea of lesbian-themed genre fiction in a series of interviews called What We Inherited.

So far we’ve had A.C. Wise, Claire Humphrey, and Bo Balder.

I was tremendously pleased to be included in  the anthology with Fabulous Beasts and today it’s my turn- my answers to Alyx’s questions can be read here.

 

 

The Asian Writer

Many thanks to Farhana Shaikh, editor of The Asian Writer for featuring me on their website with a short interview about the British Fantasy Awards and a piece called Genre fiction: Is it time to challenge our literary snobbery?

“The Asian Writer is the voice of British Asian writing and is for readers and writers interested in South Asian literature. It is both the online magazine and monthly newsletter and offers new and emerging writers a platform to showcase their fiction.

The Asian Writer offers readers an eclectic approach to South Asian writing through profile interviews, Q&A’s, and reviews. It features the latest news, original comment and thoughts on contemporary South Asian literature and publishing as well as practical advice and inspiration.”

Heiresses of Russ 2016: The Year’s Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction

 

I am delighted to be included in Heiresses of Russ 2016: The Year’s Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction with my short story “Fabulous Beasts”.

My thanks to Lethe Press editors A.M. Dellamonica and Steve Berman.

This story was originally aquired for Tor.com by Ellen Datlow.

“The latest volume in the acclaimed Heiresses of Russ series features stories that are anything but invisible: the women in these tales are not hiding and are not easily overlooked but rather are choosing the harder path, the more dangerous route, whether that leads to love or loss or adventure. Included in these pages are stories that have won a World Fantasy Award, a Tiptree Award, and a British Fantasy Award…but every one of these stories chosen by guest editor A.M. Dellamonica (herself an award-winning writer of queer speculative fiction) is emblematic of the new vitality to be found in lesbian-themed tales of wonder, the eerie, and the miraculous.”

From Lethe Press.

Table of Contents:

Grandmother Ley-neylit’s Cloth of Winds by Rose Lemberg
The Occidental Bride by Benjanun Sriduangkaew
The Devil Comes to the Midnight Café by A.C. Wise
And We Were Left Darkling  by Sarah Pinsker
A House of Her Own by Bo Balder
Love in the Time of Markov Processes by Megan Arkenberg
Where Monsters Dance by A. Merc Rustad
Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers by Alyssa Wong
Fabulous Beasts by Priya Sharma
The Wollart Nymphs by Melissa Scott
The New Mother by Eugene Fischer
Eldritch Brown Houses by Claire Humphrey
The Tip of the Tongue by Felicia Davin
Where Can a Broken Glass Mend? by Sonya Taaffe
A Residence for Friendless Ladies by Alice Sola Kim
The Deepwater Bride by Tamsyn Muir
Doubt the Sun by Faith Mudge