Jay Lake: Writer

[sale] “A Long Walk Home” to YBSF29

I am pleased to say that Sunspin novelette, “A Long Walk Home”, has been accepted by the inestimable Gardner Dozois for reprint in Year’s Best Science Fiction 29. For those of you wondering where this piece fits with the novels-in-progress, it’s deep backstory, about the Mistake. So while it doesn’t directly inflect the plot, “A Long Walk Home” definitely carries some of the world-building and future history.

I’m particularly pleased about this because it means Sunspin continues to receive favorable attention in the field. That hopefully will help drive the future reach and success of the novels.

If you’d like to read it now, the original appearance of the novelette at Subterranean Online is here. I also note with some pride and optimism that Subterranean Online will soon be running a Sunspin novella, “The Weight of History, the Lightness of the Future”, which is in a sense chapter zero of the novels, and takes place immediately prior to the opening of the story in book one, Calamity of So Long a Life.

Further, I will make the observation that this novelette is probably my best candidate for Hugo or Nebula award consideration in the forthcoming award year. So if you’re an eligible voter, please consider having a look at the above link.

See also my Facebook thread of yesterday for a number of comments on the sale.

Tags: Awards, Books, Calamity, Sale, stories, Sunspin

Posted: 6:22 am Tue November 29 2011 | Comments(2) |

[sale] German rights to several novels

Through my agent Jennifer Jackson of Donald Maass Literary Agency, I have accepted an offer from my German publisher, Bastei Lübbe, for print, ebook and audio rights to Escapement, Pinion and Green. I am quite pleased.

Tags: Books, Escapement, Green, Pinion, Publishing, Sale

Posted: 5:38 am Wed May 25 2011 | Comments(6) |

[sale] Short story “A People Who Always Know” to The Modern Fae anthology

“A People Who Always Know,” written collaboratively with calendula_witch, will appear in The Modern Fae’s Guide to Surviving Humanity, edited by Joshua Palmatier and Patricia Bray, for DAW.

This story takes place in calendula_witch‘s Hobgoblin continuity. As she says, it features some important characters from that book, before the action of the novel itself.

Tags: Calendula, Sale, stories

Posted: 7:12 pm Wed March 09 2011 | Comments(1) |

[sale] Short story “A Place to Come Home To” to anthology When the Hero Comes Home

calendula_witch and I have made another collaborative sale, short story “A Place to Come Home To” to When the Hero Comes Home, edited by Ed Greenwood and Gabrielle Harbowy, forthcoming in trade paperback and ebook from Dragonmoon Press in August of 2011.

Tags: Calendula, Sale, stories

Posted: 11:06 pm Mon January 31 2011 | Comments(1) |

[sale] Stories and foreign rights

Two short fiction sales this week, one short fiction reprint sale this week, details to come when I can announce them. Also, Russian rights to Green have been sold. Not bad, not bad.

Tags: Books, Green, Sale, stories

Posted: 8:07 am Sat January 15 2011 | Comments(0) |

[sale] Novella “Love in the Time of Metal and Flesh” to Prime Books

I am pleased to announce that Prime Books has accepted my novella, “Love in the Time of Metal and Flesh” for publication as a single-title book in 2011. The story is a contemporary dark fantasy about extreme body modification, murder and childhood innocence.

More here from the publisher.

Tags: Books, Love, Sale, stories

Posted: 6:19 am Tue December 21 2010 | Comments(0) |

[sale] Novelette “A Long Walk Home” to Subterranean Online

This morning, Subterranean Online has accepted my novelette, “A Long Walk Home”. I am mos def pleased.

This is another piece of the Sunspin continuity. It’s also a story idea that came to me in the late stages of chemo, when I could barely sign my name, let alone write fiction. So call this a bit of a personal victory on more levels than the usual headrush of selling a story.

Anent the Sunspin shorts, here’s a list of them so far, with a little bit of commentary.

Tags: Books, Cancer, health, Personal, Publishing, Sale, stories, Sunspin

Posted: 7:42 am Sun December 19 2010 | Comments(1) |

[sale] Foreign rights sale for MAINSPRING

I am pleased to announce that I have received and accepted a German rights offer for my novel Mainspring [ Powell's | Barnes & Noble | Borders | Audible ], from publisher Bastei Lübbe, via my agent Jennifer Jackson of DMLA.

Tags: Books, Mainspring, Publishing, Sale

Posted: 7:38 am Fri December 03 2010 | Comments(4) |

[sale] Short story “West to East” to Subterranean Online

Short story “West to East” was accepted by Subterranean Online yesterday. Old school SF, through the Jay Lake filter.

That makes eighteen short fiction sales for the year to date, not all of which I’ve been able to announce. Two of those were jointly written with calendula_witch. Not so bad for a year mostly spent on chemo and its discontents.

Tags: Sale, stories, Writing

Posted: 6:46 am Mon November 15 2010 | Comments(2) |

[sale] In other news, Japan checks in; again

I seem to have sold another Japanese rights reprint, of short story “Two All Beef Patties” to Hayakawa’s Mystery magazine. The piece originally appeared in the DAW anthology Better Off Undead. Hooray!

Also, can’t recall if I reported this, but “Tall Spirits, Blocking the Night” will be included in The Best of Talebones from Fairwood Press.

Tags: Fiction, Sale, stories

Posted: 4:20 pm Mon May 17 2010 | Comments(1) |