Camille Alexa

New Hampshire Pulp

Camille Alexa — Wed, 09 May 2012 15:12:18 +0000

New Hampshire Pulp has announced contributors for their forthcoming anthology, Live Free or Never Die: Speculative Fiction from the Granite State to the Stars. This one will include my story “Miles to Go.” You know how writing is a blast, but some stories are more fun to write than others? Yeah. This was one of the fun ones.

Full table of Contents In no particular order:

• Geoffrey James “The Singularity”
• Chris Dahlen “ We Are Ted Tuscadero For President”
• Brendan DuBois “Doing It Right”
• Clay Wirestone “First in the Galaxy”
• Sandra McDonald “End of the Road”
• Elaine Isaak “Merge”
• Jeffrey R. DeRego “Mighty”
• Camille Alexa “Miles To Go”
• Joyce Wagner “Of Two Minds”
• James Patrick Kelly “Pogrom”
• Susan Nye “Northern Lights”
• Brian A. Dixon “The Rejuvenated Lojeski”
• Liz Penney “Blame it on the Aliens”
• Harold L. Drake “Ice Cream”
• Suzanne Sykora “Next Year in New Hampshire”
• Michael J. DeLuca “Starlings”
• Gregory L. Norris “The Moths”
• David O’Keefe “The Universal Solution”
• S.J.Cahill “Touchdown”
• Eric Pinder “The Time Machine Next Door”
• Tincan Caldwell “The Wormhole of Wilson, NH”
• Nathan Wyckoff “Island on the River”
• Rebecca Leeb “What I Did On My Summer Vacation”

Appearing in Quebec City!

Camille Alexa — Wed, 02 May 2012 13:37:16 +0000

Friday I’m heading up to Quebec City to appear at Boréal, a francophone convention dedicated to speculative literature and literature of the fantastic. They’ve recently introduced a small English track, in which I’m excited to participate alongside writers of amazingness like Special Guest John Crowley (Engine Summer squeee!!!). Over the years they’ve hosted William Gibson, Samuel Delany, Kim Stanley Robinson, Guy Gavriel Kay, Robert J. Sawyer, and other luminaries.

If you’re around, come say hello. No really. Really.

Tyche Books announces MASKED MOSAIC super anthology

Camille Alexa — Tue, 01 May 2012 15:34:31 +0000

Tyche Books has announced the call for a new Canadian superhero/ supervillain/ superpowered anthology, MASKED MOSAIC, to be co-edited by Camille Alexa and Claude Lalumière.

From the Tyche Books press release:

We are thrilled to announce that Claude Lalumière and Camille Alexa will edit our next anthology, Masked Mosaic: Canadian Super Stories. As a tip of the hat to Joe Shuster, co-creator of Superman, Claude and Camille are seeking . . . Superheroes! Supervillains! Masked vigilantes, superpowered antiheroes, super scientists. Adventurers into the unknown, costumed crimefighters, mutant superterrorists . . . we want to see any and all permutations of the superhero genre, but with a uniquely Canadian perspective. Stories must involve a Canadian element — setting, politics, culture, history, characters, etc. Any genre-mashing goes: alternate history, crime, horror, romance, SF, fantasy, surrealism; we want a variety of tones, approaches, subgenres, cultural perspectives, etc. We’re especially interested in submissions where setting (a specific city, region, or province) plays an essential role, but we’re open to other types of stories, too.

Submissions open on June 1, 2012. Deadline will be August 1, 2012 for spring 2013 publication.Masked Mosaic will only be open for submissions from Canadians (Canadian residents, landed immigrants, Canadian citizens, Canadians living abroad, etc).

For more information about Masked Mosaic, including submission guidelines, please direct your x-ray vision here.

His Sweet Truffle of a Girl

Camille Alexa — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:01:19 +0000

According to the publisher’s site, the FUNGI paperback includes (in no particular order):

Ann K. Schwader, “Cordyceps zombii” (poem)
A.C. Wise, “Where Dead Men Go to Dream”
Andrew Penn Romine, “Last Bloom on the Sage”
Camille Alexa, “His Sweet Truffle of a Girl”
Chadwick Ginther, “First They Came for the Pigs”
Daniel Mills, “Dust From a Dark Flower”
Ian Rogers, “Out of the Blue”
Jane Hertenstein, “Wild Mushrooms”
Jeff Vandermeer, “Corpse Mouth and Spore Nose”
John Langan, “Hyphae”
Julio Toro San Martin, “A Monster In The Midst”
Kris Reisz, “The Pilgrims of Parthen”
Laird Barron, “Gamma”
Lavie Tidhar, “The White Hands”
Lisa M. Bradley, “The Pearl in the Oyster and the Oyster Under Glass”
Molly Tanzer and Jesse Bullington, “Tubby McMungus, Fat From Fungus”
Nick Mamatas, “The Shaft Through The Middle of It All”
Paul Tremblay, “Our Stories Will Live Forever”
Polenth Blake, “Letters to a Fungus”
Richard Gavin, “Goatsbride”
Simon Strantzas, “Go Home Again”
Steve Berman, “Kum, Raúl (The Unknown Terror) – b. 1925, d. 1957”
W.H. Pugmire, “Midnight Mushrumps”

The three extra stories included in the hardcover edition are:

E. Catherine Tobler, “New Feet Within My Garden Go”
J.T. Glover, “The Flaming Exodus of the Greifswald Grimoire”
Claude Lalumière, “Big Guy and Little Guy’s Survivalist Adventure”

Look for Fungi, with cover artwork by Oliver Wetter, in the fall of 2012.

Contributors announced for launch issue of Cutaway Magazine

Camille Alexa — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 14:56:57 +0000

A full list of contributors has been posted for the launch issue of UK’s Cutaway Magazine. This one will include two Camille Alexa poems: “Naked I” and “Dog.” From the site:

When Cutaway Magazine launches in May, we will be featuring an eclectic mix of poetry, literary fiction, borderline genre fiction and photography. We are now very pleased to announce the names of our contributors . . .

Max Dunbar (fiction)
Sissy Buckles (poetry)
Claire Massy (fiction)
LS Johnson (fiction)
Lauren Coulson (poetry)
LJ Spillane (fiction)
Amanda Gowin (fiction)
Allison Louis Walker (poetry & photography)
Brian Kutanovski (fiction)
Arthur Levine (fiction)
Jeffrey Alfier (poetry)
Wol-vriey (fiction)
Catfish McDaris (poetry)
Chris Bissette (fiction)
Ashley J Allen (poetry)
Berit Ellingsen (fiction)
Camille Alexa (poetry)
SJ Bradley (fiction)
Caren Starry White (poetry)
Eleanor Bennett (photography)
Shelly Sometimes (photography)
Dave Schofield (photography)

“Pinktastic and the End of the World”

Camille Alexa — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 21:31:21 +0000

The table of contents for the forthcoming anthology WHEN THE VILLAIN COMES HOME has been announced. This one contains my supervillain story “Pinktastic and the End of the World.” I always look forward to appearing alongside Jay Lake, who wrote the introduction for my collection, PUSH OF THE SKY. Up, up, and away!

From the site:

Come with us while we explore villains of all stripes — sons and daughters, lovers and fighters, minions and masterminds, in this giant volume of thirty great stories by award winners, rising stars, and bold new voices.

Camille Alexa – Pinktastic and the End of the World
Erik Scott de Bie – Hunger of the Blood Reaver
Chaz Brenchley – Villainelle
Eugie Foster – Oranges, Lemons, and Thou Beside Me
David Sakmyster – Prometheus Found
Marie Bilodeau – Happily Ever After
Richard Lee Byers – Little Things
K.D. McEntire – Heels
Peadar Ó Guilín – The Sunshine Baron
Jim C. Hines – Daddy’s Little Girl
Ari Marmell - Than to Serve in Heaven
Karin Lowachee – The Bleach
Jay Lake – The Woman Who Shattered the Moon
Julie Czerneda – Charity
J.M. Frey – Maddening Science
Clint Talbert – Birthright
Rachel Swirsky – Broken Clouds
Tony Pi – The Miscible Imp
Leah Petersen – Manmade
J.P. Moore – Lord of the Southern Sky
Ryan McFadden – Back in the Day
Todd McCaffrey – Robin Redbreast
Erik Buchanan – Cycle of Revenge
Gregory A. Wilson – The Presuil’s Call
Rosemary Jones – The Man With Looking-Glass Eyes
Gabrielle Harbowy – Starkeep
Ed Greenwood – A Lot of Sly Work Ahead
Mercedes Lackey / Larry Dixon – Heir Apparent
Chris A. Jackson – Home Again, Home Again
Steve Bornstein – The Best Laid Plans

Matter Press

Camille Alexa — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:23:55 +0000

from Matter Press:

Compression: Camille Alexa

“I came to writing compressed literature in a backward fashion—or perhaps it’s the natural order: novels, then short fiction, then poems. Turns out my aim is the same regardless of size or form; I want to tell a story, and want that story to mean something, preferably something accessible and entertaining at the same time, not weighted or bloated with its own importance. Freeing my writing from the tether of the probable liberates its themes—loneliness, love, death—and sets it free to shoot like a meteor across the stratosphere or like a bullet into the gut.” — Camille Alexa

The Other Change of Hobbit in Berkeley

Camille Alexa — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:34:41 +0000

I’ll be in California this weekend at The Other Change of Hobbit along with Claude Lalumière (!!!) and Tim Pratt (!!!) From 4-6pm this Sunday, we’ll be there reading from and/or talking about our books, life, the universe, and everything.

From the site:

2-6pm, Sunday, March 18th, 2012:

Special Fundraiser Day
Thanks to a short-term loan, our doors are open for sales again, after a six-month hiatus. To help keep those doors open, and to help us pay back the loan, please come down and have a browse. And buy a book. Or two.

The Other Change of Hobbit is in South Berkeley at 3264 Adeline Street between Harmon and Adeline. Come say hi!

Fan mail from Italy!

Camille Alexa — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 17:31:22 +0000

You know how “Flaming Marshmallow and Other Deaths” was released in Italy as part of the MACHINE OF DEATH juggernaut? Well, emails are trickling in from people enjoying the Italian version of the book and the story, and that, my friends, is awesome.

For those who may have missed it, the Machine of Death crew has posted some lovely photos of the brand-spanking-new Spanish version below. Am eagerly awaiting my copy in the mail. . . .

Machine of Death in Italian

Camille Alexa — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 22:16:44 +0000

In case you missed it, Machine of Death opens with my story “Flaming Marshmallow and Other Deaths,” which was recently translated into French solo for Galaxies Magazine and into several other languages as part of the original anthology. From the Machine of Death site:

If you speak Italian, or know folks who do, or just want to own this amazing thing, you can get a copy of La Macchina Della Morte in either paperback or Kindle edition via Amazon.it.

I own a copy. Maybe you want to too?