✒ Editor’s Note
Welcome back, Talestack Readers!
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New season, new thumbnail, new News!
Okay, I know, I know…it sure doesn’t feel like spring everywhere right now. But here at Talestack News HQ the month of March is a time of rebirth, renewal, and transformation, so we’re going to lean into that with a fresh new seasonal thumbnail!
This might look like a slimmer issue on the surface, but don’t let that fool you—there are some compelling community opportunities in here, along with fabulous projects to check out. Take a look and see!
As always, please hype each other up in the comments. Go visit, explore, give virtual high-fives, and let your colleagues know that you’re with them.
Have a lovely week, and happy writing!
S.E. Reid Editor of Talestack News
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📣 Announcements!
Finished Projects:
Jean Marie Bauhaus recently wrapped up her epistolary gothic horror serial, Sleep, Dearie, Sleep. Blurb: “Sleep, Dearie, Sleep is a gothic epistolary horror serial in which New World progress runs up against forgotten Old World realities, to tragic and horrific results.” Jump into Episode One here!
New Projects:
Nick Winney recently started and is currently working on a project called The Legacy, a Dickens-flavoured pastiche gothic horror serial. Synopsis: “The town of Nether Clevehaven suffers from a cruel and supernatural curse. The Legacy tells the story of the laying of the curse and how the spirit of its progenitor, the Reverend Speighthart, dwells entombed within the churchyard exerting malign influences and destroying lives and reputations. An exercise in Dickensian prose styling and alliterative excess, travel through time and witness horrid horrors happen to the inhabitants and their heirs...”
Awards:
Congratulations to Katharine Kapodistria, winner of the Fantasy edition of the Lunar Awards’ 10th Season, along with the runners-up: Maximilian P Siddell and Jack Massa! Learn more about the winning stories, the honorable mentions, and other cool details in this post from awards host Winston Malone and guest judge Daniel W. Davison.
Milestones & Wins:
Rolando Andrade would like to share his latest poem with the Talestack News readership! It’s called Everlasting Love, and you can find it here.
The Crazy Cat Lady Writes (Kim Hayes) has two pieces of publication news:
Epater has accepted one of her microfiction stories, called Chrysalis, for publication later this year.
Academy of the Heart and Mind published one of her memoir pieces. From Kim: “It's a conversation I had with my mother a few years ago.”
📚 The Bookshelf
(Titles listed in order of release date.)
Lisa Kuznak’s science fiction novel, The Ghosts of Tieros Kol, is now available for preorder on Amazon and Kobo! You can also learn more about the book at this post. Release Date: 3/4/25
Robert Weaver’s horror novella, Candle Horror, is now available for digital preorder on Amazon! Release Date: 3/7/25
📝 Submissions Bulletin
Are you a Substack Fiction writer? Sandolore Sykes of SUM FLUX is looking for your best work! From Sandolore: “There are too many of you, and I don’t know where to start. So, I’m making a fiction repository—for myself and for SUM FLUX. Drop me links (message, comment, whatever) to your two best pieces—your call on what ‘best’ means. It doesn’t have to be your most popular; I’d rather it be the piece that showcases your highest level of craft, the one you love most. Either way, you decide. Everyone who submits will be included. No gatekeeping, no curation beyond your own judgment. Just a living archive of great fiction.” To learn more about how to be included, you can check out this Note, followed by this Note.
🫱🏻🫲🏾 Connection Corner
Top in Fiction—created and hosted by Erica Drayton—is an ever-growing community of readers (and writers) of fiction. The larger it gets, the more help is needed to make sure the best of the best are discovered and featured each week. If you love to read fiction, love community, and want an opportunity to help fiction writers reach thousands of fiction readers, consider joining the TiF Team today!
The Editorial ARC list and Street Team applications are now open for Shattered by CB Mason, a dystopian YA novel coming from Provender Press in March. Synopsis: “Tessa Wright's life is shattered when she witnesses the death of her family. Forced to leave everything she knows for another city, she struggles to navigate public school for the first time. But as fragmented memories begin to surface, she begins to suspect that her family's death was no accident... and that the truth about her past is more dangerous than she ever imagined.”
For more information about the Street Team, go to provenderpress.com/street-teams
To request an Editorial ARC, email angelagrace@provenderpress.com
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My first time reading this publication. What a lovely idea! Thanks for your time and effort
Thanks for the mention! I may have some work ahead of me!