Here’s a new anthology from my friends at Fox Spirit. Men have long written stories about making the perfect woman, but what would a woman make as a perfect man? Or would she want something else instead? Tales of Eve, edited by Mhairi Simpson, asks that interesting question. Contributors include Juliet E. Mckenna and Adrian Tchaikovsky.

I are delighted to announce a new title from British small press, Kristell Ink. The Reluctant Prophet, by Gillian O’Rourke, is a tale of a woman cursed by the gift of prophecy. Find out more here.

While I have been busy doing radio, Jo and Roz have been doing publicity for Airship Shaped & Bristol Fashion. The Table of Contents is now available and is listed below.

You will note that there is a story of mine in there. There is also one of Jo’s. We have a team, and no one gets their story in without it being vetted by the others. Also, as the publisher, I wanted to know what it was like being edited by Jo and Roz. I was very pleased with the experience (which means they made my story a lot better).

With any steampunk book the one thing that worries you is how people approach the realities of the Nineteenth Century. I’m pleased to see that many of the writers tried to tackle the issues of race, class and gender discrimination. How well they succeeded will be up to individual readers to decide.

Meanwhile, we need to get on with the actual production process if we are going to have anything available in October.

Table of Contents

Less Than Men

Case of the Vapours, by Ken Shinn
Brassworth, by Christine Morgan
The Lesser Men Have No Language, by Deborah Walker
Brass and Bone, by Joanne Hall

Lost Souls

The Girl with Red Hair, by Myfanwy Rodman
Artifice Perdu, by Peter Sutton
Miss Butler and the Handlander Process, by John Hawkes-Reed
Something in the Water, by Cheryl Morgan
The Chronicles of Montague and Dalton: The Hunt for Alleyway Agnes, by Scott Lewis

Travelling Light

The Sound of Gyroscopes, by Jonathan L. Howard
Flight of Daedalus, by Piotr Å wietlik
The Traveller’s Apprentice, by Ian Millsted
Lord Craddock: Ascension, by Stephen Blake
The Lanterns of Death Affair, by Andy Bigwood

My good friend Sean Wallace (congratulations on the Hugo again, Team Clarkesworld) has been very busy, and I’m delighted to see that he has added Steve Berman to his stable of anthology editors. I have a whole heap of new books for you:

• Bad Seeds: Evil Progeny, edited Steve Berman — horror stories featuring kids
• Halloween: Magic, Mystery, and Macabre, edited by Paula Guran — more spooky stories
• Love in the Time of Metal and Flesh by Jay Lake — a sex and bodily modification in San Francisco novella
• Shades of Blue & Gray: Ghosts of the Civil War, edited by Steve Berman — what it says
• The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2013 Edition, edited by Rich Horton
• The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror: 2013, edited by Paula Guran
• Zombies: Shambling Through the Ages, edited by Steve Berman — zombie tales in historical settings

There are some great writers in the anthologies. Click through to see the tables of contents.

The good folks at Cheeky Frawg have some amazing new books for you this month. They have release not one, not two, not even three, but four novels by the fabulous fantasist, Michael Cisco. These are ebook releases of his well-known work, all neatly packaged up with new, matching covers. Squee!

Even better than that, the books are available from Wizard’s Tower at a discount rate over a certain better known store, and if you buy all four at once you save even more. Thank you, Ann & Jeff, for making these books available, and for allowing me to give people such a great bargain.

The books in question are:

• The Divinity Student (£4.49)
• The Golem (£3.99)
• The Tyrant (£4.49)
• The Traitor (£4.49)

And you can buy all four together as the Michael Cisco Omnibus (£15.99).

I have been busy uploading books to the store today. I’ll be announcing them over the next couple of days, but I wanted to start with a very special anthology. We See A Different Frontier contains stories on themes of colonialism and cultural imperialism. It is edited by Brazilian writer, Fabio Fernandes, and The Future Fire’s Djibril al-Ayad. There’s a preface by Aliette de Bodard, and an afterword by Ekaterina Sedia. And the authors include Lavie Tidhar, Sandra McDonald, Rochita Loenen-Ruiz and Sofia Samatar. It is only £3. Give it a try.

Copies of the new Juliet McKenna book, The Gambler’s Fortune, have now been submitted to all of the usual outlets. They will appear for sale over the next few days. As usual, Juliet makes more money if you buy direct.

It’s here, the 2013 edition of Hieresses of Russ, the very best lesbian science fiction and fantasy of the year. Contributors include Rick Bowes, Malinda Lo, Nisi Shawl, Benjanun Sriduangkaew and Carrie Vaughn. Enjoy!

I am delighted to report that the latest volume in our re-issue of Juliet E. McKenna’s Tales of Einarinn, The Gambler’s Fortune, is now available for purchase in the bookstore.

It will be available through all of the usual outlets over the next few days, but if you buy direct from Wizard’s Tower then Juliet will make more money from the sale.

More information about the book, including a sample chapter, is available from Juliet’s website, and she has written some more about the book today on her blog.

My thanks as usual to Elizabeth Campbell of Antimatter ePress for the conversion work.

Hello Juliet McKenna fans, guess what is almost ready for publication?

Juliet and I have just done the final proofing. Hopefully we’ll have a book for you in the next week or so.

We have three new novels from Masque Books available today.

Silver and Steam is the second in the Rings of Anubis steampunk series by E. Catherine Tobler.

Salvage by Chris Howard is a book I have labeled science fiction because it involves an experimental submarine, but it is probably genre-bending as the blurb says it features sea monsters and immortals as well.

Possibly the most interesting book is Ascension by Jacqueline Koyanagi. It is science fiction by a woman (presumably of Asian ancestry) featuring a black lesbian heroine. You want diversity? We got diversity!

We have a brand new publisher debuting in the bookstore this week. Kristell Ink is a UK-based small press specializing in science fiction and fantasy. They have a fairly small catalog at the moment, but obviously that will grow with time. I note also that their ebooks are very reasonably priced and, of course, are free of DRM and region restrictions.

Here are some of the books that we have on sale. There is one other, which you’ll notice if you click through to the store. I’ll be talking about that one more later today.

As many of you will know, I am a big fan of Glenda Larke. I’m delighted to say that I now have a book of hers available in the bookstore. The Aware is her second novel, and the first book in the Glory Isles trilogy. It is the first book of Glenda’s that I read. Fablecroft has made the novel available as an ebook, and will presumably do the other two as well. I’m pleased to see that it no longer has the notorious “my little sea pony” cover, though possibly the new cover goes a little too far the other way. Anyway, I enjoyed this series a lot, and I’m delighted to see it coming back into print.

Charles Tan has sent me another book full of wonderful speculative fiction stories from the Philippines. Mouths to Speak, Voices to Sing is a collection of work by Kenneth Yu. Here’s some idea of what to expect:

A rich man’s obsession with ancient Chinese jars leads him to a secret afterlife. A young girl discovers internal wonders lost in the perilous depths of the sea. A country teeters at the edge of doomsday under a cloud of sparrows, while in the award-winning “Cherry Clubbing”, men indulge their lusts with impossible creatures.

From domestic A.I. to classic superheroes, explosive spirits and giant spiders, this collection offers a diverse range of stories that deal with human nature filtered through the lens of the strange.

And the cover is gorgeous.

Our good friends at Prime have also started a brand new venture — Masque Books — a digital-only imprint. They have three books available at launch:

• Rings of Anubis: Gold & Glass, the first part of a steampunk series by E. Catherine Tobler
• Water, Circle, Moon, urban fantasy from Sally McBride
• Land of Dreams, a fantasy novella by Erzebet YellowBoy

It is bookstore update time again. I have a new anthology from Paula Guran at Prime books. After the End: Recent Apocalypses continues their collection of themed anthologies with a look at what happens after everything goes pear-shaped. It includes stories by Paolo Bacigalupi, Lauren Beukes, Cory Doctorow, Margo Lanagan, Bruce Sterling, Nnedi Okorafor and many others. Just the thing when you need reminding that things could be worse.