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Dweller on the Threshold by Skyla Dawn Cameron now released!

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SF Canada member Skyla Dawn Cameron’s new novel, Dweller on the Threshold, is a little bit creepy, a little bit funny, and is now available.

Amidst the 2020 pandemic, Norah Sloane has been sheltering in place with her ex-boyfriend—the equivalent of three toddlers in a trench coat pretending to be an adult—who abruptly informs her he thinks she needs to move out. Coincidentally, her estranged father has just died and left his family’s home to her, and in a fit of defiant frustration, she packs her bags, her cats, and all the toilet paper, and drives five hours north to the tiny village of Hope Falls to claim her inheritance.

Selling the big, partially renovated old house during a global pandemic is out of the question, but the bills are paid for a few months to give her time to get on her feet. It’s the best solution, all things considered.

So what if it’s haunted?

Find Dweller on the Threshold here and Skyla’s website here!

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In Days to Come by Lisa Timpf now out!

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SF Canada member Lisa Timpf’s book of speculative haibun poetry, In Days to Come, has been released by Hiraeth Publishing, and is now available!

The poems in this collection are grouped into four sections. The first, “Terra, Terra,” includes poems set on the planet Earth. That is true of many of the poems in the second section, “Looming Shadows,” though they have been grouped together in relation to some of the potential disasters we as a human race have set ourselves up for—nuclear warfare, climate change, and so on. “Alien Encounters” contains poems relating to imagined interactions with other space-faring species. “Other Worlds” rounds out the collection with speculations on what life might be like if and when humanity spins out to the stars.

Find In Days to Come at Hiraeth Publishing and find Lisa here.

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Nina Munteanu’s Splintered Universe Trilogy now out on Audible!

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The new remastered audiobooks of Nina Munteanu’s popular Splintered Universe Trilogy featuring Galactic Guardian Detective Rhea Hawke is now out on Audible. Narrated by Dawn Harvey, the trilogy follows the intrepid, though often misguided, detective as she tries to solve the mysterious genocide of a spiritual sect on some backwater planet. She bungles her mission by killing her only lead and instead discovers a conspiracy to exterminate humanity by an alien race only she thinks exists. It goes downhill for her from there. She gets fired and her sentient ship–her only friend–is impounded. Her whole life comes apart. Her only chance to rebuild it is to prove that her discovery is true. That leads her down a rabbit hole into a dangerous world of intrigue, full of unsavory shape-shifting characters, dust smuggling, giant flying crustaceans, amorous toxic plants. and portals into mirror universes.
Ms. Harvey’s voice of Rhea Hawke is rich like coffee, sexy yet vulnerable. Says one Goodreads review: “Dawn Harvey breathed incredible life into the lead character, Rhea Hawke–boh sarcastic and vulnerable…a detective with a cynical edge, and sultry voice tinged with wry sarcasm. The story unfolded through Rhea’s narrative like an old film noir as she unraveled mysteries that led to the greatest one: her own.”
 
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Su J Sokol’s Cycling to Asylum to be published in French!

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The French-language rights to Su J Sokol’s Sunburst-nominated first novel, Cycling to Asylum were purchased by VLB Imaginaire, a new imprint of VLB Éditeur of Groupe VIlle-Marie Literature. The  French version will be titled Les Lignes Invisibles and will be translated by Émilie Laramée, who most recently translated Rich Larson’s Rêves de drones et autres entropies. The anticipated launch date is June 2022. Keep your eyes open for the cover reveal and other related events!

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Tracy Cooper-Posey’s new releases!

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SF Canada member Tracy Cooper-Posey has several exciting announcements!:

  1. Space Opera Digest 2022: Have Ship Will Travel is available for pre-order at most bookstores.  Edited by Tracy, and including a story by Cameron Cooper, and a handful of SF Canada members.  It releases on January 27th.  https://storiesrulepress.com/product/space-opera-digest-2022-have-ship-will-travel-an-srp-anthology/
  2.  The Captain Who Broke the Rules, story 2 of the pulp-ish space opera adventure series, Ptolemy Lane, by Cameron Cooper, was released on January 13th. https://storiesrulepress.com/product/the-captain-who-broke-the-rules-ptolemy-lane-tales-2-0/.
  3.  Mongrels United, Book 7 of the science fiction romance series, The Endurance, by Tracy, will be released on January 27th.  https://storiesrulepress.com/product/mongrels-united-the-endurance-7-0/
  4. Submissions are open for Urban Fantasy Digest 2022:  The Wizard Must Be Stopped!,  edited by Tracy.  Deadline May 15th.  https://storiesrulepress.com/urban-fantasy-digest-2022-call-for-submissions/