Announcement: Cranky Ladies of History Table of Contents

November 7, 2014 ~ Tehani ~ 8 Comments

Our Pozible campaign backers had an advance preview of the table of contents for Cranky Ladies of History a few days ago, but now we are delighted to share it with the world! It seems like so long ago this idea came to life, and we still have a ways before the book itself is released, but right now we are SO excited to present to you the line up for the anthology (presented in approximately era-order):

Author	Provisional Title	Cranky Lady	A little detail…
Joyce Chng	“Charmed Life”	Leizu	Chinese empress who discovered silk
Amanda Pillar	“Neter Nefer”	Hatshepsut	Egyptian ruler
Barbara Robson	“Theodora”	Theodora, wife of the Byzantine Emperor, Justinian the first	Wife of the Byzantine Emperor, Justinian the first
Lisa Hannett	“Hallgerðr Höskuldsdóttir / For So Great a Misdeed”		Icelandic woman
Garth Nix	“The Company of Women”	Lady Godiva	Anglo-Saxon noblewoman
Juliet Marillier	“Hallowed Ground”	Hildegard of Bingen	German writer, composer, philosopher, Christian mystic, Benedictine abbess, visionary, and polymath
LM Myles	“Little Battles”	Eleanor of Aquitaine	French queen & mother of dynasty
Foz Meadows	“Bright Moon”	Khutulun	Central Asian warrior
Laura Lam	“The lioness and her prey”	Jeanne de Clisson	French pirate
Liz Barr	“Queenside”	Mary Tudor (Mary I of England)	Queen of England
Deborah Biancotti	“Look How Cold My Hands Are”	Countess Bathory	countess from the renowned Báthory family of nobility in the Kingdom of Hungary. She has been labelled the most prolific female serial killer in history
Dirk Flinthart	“The gift of freedom”	Grace O’Malley	Queen of Umaill, chieftain of the Ó Máille clan sometimes known as “The Sea Queen of Connacht”
Faith Mudge	“Glorious”	Elizabeth I	Queen of England
Havva Murat	“The Pasha, the girl and the dagger: The story of Nora of Kelmendi”	Nora of Kelmendi	Albanian warrior
Kirstyn McDermott	“Mary Mary”	Mary Wollstonecroft	English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women’s rights.
Thoraiya Dyer	“Vintana”	Queen Ranavalona I of Madagascar, also known as Ranavalona the Cruel	Queen of Madagascar
Stephanie Lai	“The dragon, the terror, the sea”	Cheng Shih	Chinese pirate
Jane Yolen	SACAGAWEA	SACAGAWEA	Lemhi Shoshone woman, who accompanied the Lewis and Clark Expedition, acting as an interpreter and guide, in their exploration of the Western United States
Kaaron Warren	“Another week in the future”	Miss CH Spence	Scottish-born Australian author, teacher, journalist, politician and leading suffragist.
Sylvia Kelso	“Due care and attention”	Lilian Cooper	British-born Australian doctor
Sandra McDonald	“Cora Crane and The Trouble with Me”	Cora Crane	American businesswoman, nightclub and bordello owner, writer and journalist.
Nisi Shawl	“A Beautiful Stream”	Colette	French novelist and performer
Liz Argall	“Oodgeroo is Not Yet Your Name”	Oodgeroo Noonuccal	Australian poet, political activist, artist and educator.

Isn’t that AMAZING? Tansy and I are so chuffed to have such a marvellous bunch of stories to work on (and yes, we’re just a little bit smug that we have already read them 🙂 ). So, which cranky lady are YOU most keen for?

Announcement: Table of Contents for Phantazein

July 12, 2014 ~ Tehani ~ 2 Comments

What is Phantazein, I hear you ask? Well, a funny thing happened on the way to the slush… While reading for the unthemed Insert Title Here, several stories emerged as working very well together, with a strong sense of unity between them. To include all these wonderful pieces in Insert Title Here would have unbalanced that book, but given I’m a boutique publisher and can do things as and when they take my fancy, I decided to create an entirely new project, just for them! I call this the “Faith Mudge effect”, because Faith’s stories have now been the catalyst of two entirely new projects sprung from slushpiles 🙂

The title, Phantazein, is both the root word of the word “fantasy” and has its own meaning of “to appear”, which I think is most apt!. The astonishing Kathleen Jennings has agreed to create a cover for the book, and I’m very excited about this project – I hope you will be too!

The stories!

Faith Mudge	Twelfth
Tansy Rayner Roberts	The love letters of swans
Thoraiya Dyer	Bahamut
Rabia Gale	The village of no women
Jenny Blackford	Golden Eyes
Suzanne J. Willis	Rag and bone heart
Nicole Murphy	A Cold Day
Vida Cruz	How the Jungle Got Its Spirit Guardian
Stacey Larner	Kneaded
Charlotte Nash	The Ghost of Hephaestus
Cat Sparks	The Seventh Relic
Foz Meadows	Dragon poem

I’m still negotiating on another story for the book, so hopefully we will have more to add to that fantastic lineup, but I’m really looking forward to bringing this anthology to you at Conflux in October!

Announcement: Table of Contents Insert Title Here

July 12, 2014 ~ Tehani ~ 2 Comments

We’re delighted to announce the table of contents for the forthcoming FableCroft book Insert Title Here, an unthemed anthology of speculative fiction. We read more than 250 stories (over 1.2 million words) and have selected a fabulous lineup of stories from both established and emerging authors, which range from science fiction to fantasy to some truly dark horror, with some of the most unusual and engaging genre-bending stories I’ve ever read. It was really tough to select from the great slushpile, and Insert Title Here will be our biggest anthology yet – check out this amazing lineup!

Kathleen Jennings	The Last Case of Detective Charlemagne
Joanne Anderton	2B
DK Mok	Almost Days
Matthew Morrison	Sins of meals past
Tom Dullemond	The Last Voyage of Saint Brendan
Dirk Flinthart	Collateral Damage
Dan Simpson	The Winter Stream
Darren Goossens	Circle
Alan Baxter	Beyond the Borders of All He Had Been Taught
Thoraiya Dyer	The Falcon Races
Robert Hood	Footprints in Venom
Caitlene Cooke	Circa
Tamlyn Dreaver	Reflections
David McDonald	Her face like lightning
Marianne de Pierres	Salvatrix
Dan Rabarts	Oil and bone
Ian Creasey	Ministry of Karma
Stephanie Burgis	The art of deception
Marissa Lingen & Alec Austin	Empty Monuments
Sara Larner	Living in the Light
Alexis A. Hunter	Always Another Point

We’re aiming for release at Conflux in October (all going well) and I can’t wait to share this book with you!

Announcements

June 29, 2013 ~ Tehani

While things may have seemed rather quiet around these parts, we’re like the proverbial duck paddling – lots going on under the water!

Liquid Gold, the second of Tansy Rayner Roberts’ Mocklore Chronicles, is on its way into the ether via Amazon, Kobo, Wizard’s Tower and Weightless Books – check it out at your preferred etailer!
We’re delighted to announce we will be working with Glenda Larke to bring her Isles of Glory trilogy out in ebook – timeline isn’t firm yet, but The Aware will be out in the coming months.
We’ve been working on this one for a while now, but we can now formally announce FableCroft’s first original novel, Path of Night by Dirk Flinthart, will be released in October in print and ebook editions. Think science fictional crime noir with a supernatural flavour and the usual Flinthart flair, and you’ll have an idea of what’s in store!

Another couple of projects underway that are not quite ready for sharing yet, but we’ll let you know as soon as we can!

One Small Step: addition to TOC

January 18, 2013 ~ Tehani

I’m delighted to exercise my right as a boutique publisher (who has the flexibility to do these sort of things), and announce an excellent addition to the Table of Contents to One Small Step, an anthology of discoveries! We’re very pleased that One Small Step will include an original Cat Sparks story, “Daughters of Battendown”. The TOC now shapes up as:

“Sand and Seawater” by Joanne Anderton & Rabia Gale

“Indigo Gold” by Deborah Biancotti

“Firefly Epilogue” by Jodi Cleghorn

“The Ways of the Wyrding Women” by Rowena Cory Daniells

“The ships of Culwinna” by Thoraiya Dyer

“Shadows” by Kate Gordon

“By Blood and Incantation” by Lisa L. Hannett & Angela Slatter

“Ella and the Flame” by Kathleen Jennings

“Original” by Penny Love

“Always Greener” by Michelle Marquardt

“Morning Star” by DK Mok

“Winter’s Heart” by Faith Mudge

“Cold White Daughter” by Tansy Rayner Roberts

“Baby Steps” by Barbara Robson

“Number 73 Glad Avenue” by Suzanne J Willis

“Daughters of Battendown” by Cat Sparks

I look forward to sharing these stories with you!

ANNOUNCEMENT: Table of Contents for One Small Step

December 8, 2012 ~ Tehani ~ 2 Comments

I am so very pleased to announce the draft table of contents of the forthcoming anthology One Small Step: an anthology of discoveries. I can’t wait to share these stories with you, as they are amazing!