Jay Lake: Writer

[sale] Catching up to a couple of things

Apocalypse Ink Productions has bought a book from me on writing process. This is an edited summation of my various process posts from my blog over the years, with some additional new material from me.

My steampunk short story “Grindstone” has been accepted for Airships and Automatons, ed. Charles P. Zaglanis, from White Cat Publications. This is a moody apocalyptic piece set in a literally atmospheric world of floating islands.

I have also sold several reprints, one collaboratively with kenscholes, to Wildside Press.

Tags: Books, Process, Sale, steampunk, stories, Writing

Posted: 10:04 am Sun September 23 2012 | Comments(0) |

[sale] “Spendthrift” to Coins of Chaos

I am pleased to announce that my short story “Spendthrift” has been accepted by editor Jennifer Brozek for the forthcoming anthology Coins of Chaos.

Because, really, who doesn’t like WWII Japanese army zombies in New Guinea?

Tags: Sale, stories

Posted: 6:21 am Sun August 12 2012 | Comments(0) |

[sale] Short story “The Cancer Catechism” to Dark Faith II

Per co-editor Jerry Gordon here, the table of contest of Dark Faith II. The subject of my story is left as an exercise for the discerning reader.

“Subletting God’s Head” by Tom Piccirilli+
“The Cancer Catechism” by Jay Lake+
“The Big Blue Peacock” by Nick Mamatas+
“Kill the Buddha” by Elizabeth Twist*
“Robotnik” by Lavie Tidhar+
“Prometheus Possessed” by Matt Cardin+
“Night Train” by Alma Alexander
“The Sandfather” by Richard Wright+
“Sacrifice” by Jennifer Pelland+
“Thou Art God” by Tim Waggoner*
“Wishflowers” by Tim Pratt
“Coin Drop” by Richard Dansky+
“Starter Kit” by R.J. Sullivan*
“A Little Faith” by Max Allan Collins and Matthew Clemens
“The Revealed Truth” by Mike Resnick
“God’s Dig” by Kelly Eiro*
“The Divinity Boutique” by Brian J. Hatcher*
“The Birth of Pegasus” by K. Tempest Bradford
“All This Pure Light Leaking In” by LaShawn M. Wanak*
“Fin De Siécle” by Gemma Files
“The Angel Seems” by Jeffrey Ford
“Magdala Amygdala” by Lucy A. Snyder+
“A Strange Form of Life” by Laird Barron
“In Blood and Song” by Nisi Shawl and Michael Ehart*
“Little Lies, Dear Leader” by Kyle S. Johnson+
“I Inhale the City, the City Exhales Me” by Douglas F. Warrick+

+ Original Dark Faith contributors
* Unsolicited submissions

Tags: Cancer, health, Personal, Sale, stories, Writing

Posted: 6:45 am Sat June 02 2012 | Comments(0) |

[sale] German rights to Endurance

I am pleased to be able to announce that my German publisher, Bastei Lübbe, has acquired the German language rights to Endurance, to go along with last year’s acquisition of Green along with the Mainspringtrilogy. This is via my agent Jennifer Jackson of Donald Maass Literary Agency.

By happy coincidence, today she also sent me the link to the art for the forthcoming German translation of Escapement. The German cover art is gorgeous.

Tags: Books, Endurance, Escapement, Germany, Green, Sale

Posted: 3:24 am Tue March 20 2012 | Comments(3) |

[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) |