{"id":19917,"date":"2015-06-16T22:33:22","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T02:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=19917"},"modified":"2015-06-16T22:33:22","modified_gmt":"2015-06-17T02:33:22","slug":"sold-a-10000-word-dark-fantasy-to-chiral-mad-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2015\/06\/16\/sold-a-10000-word-dark-fantasy-to-chiral-mad-3\/","title":{"rendered":"SOLD! A 10,000-word dark fantasy to Chiral Mad 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good news! Michael Bailey has accepted my 10,000-word dark fantasy “That Perilous Stuff” for the third installment of his Chiral Mad<\/em> anthology series, currently scheduled to be published during the first quarter of 2016. <\/p>\n

That’s my fourth fiction sale in the past 13 months, following sales to Dark Discoveries<\/em><\/a> (which has already been published) plus Genius Loci<\/em><\/a> and Postscripts<\/em><\/a> (still upcoming).<\/p>\n

You can see the tentative cover below. Though a few tweaks and some additional text is still to come, this will give you a basic idea of what to expect.<\/p>\n

\"ChiralMad3\"<\/a><\/p>\n

As for the rest of the contents of Chiral Mad 3<\/em>, Michael has announced all but seven of the stories, as well as twenty poems from 10 poets. Here’s what we know so far—<\/p>\n

Fiction (11 of 20):<\/p>\n

Gene O’Neill – “3-Dot People”
\nRamsey Campbell – “Know Your Code”
\nJessica May Lin – “Red Runner vs. The Surgeon, Issue 18”
\nPaul Michael Anderson – “The Agonizing Guilt of Relief (Last Days of a Ready-Made Victim)”
\nStephen King – “The Last Rung on the Ladder”
\nRichard Thomas – “The Offering on the Hill”
\nJason V Brock – “Windows, Mirrors, Doors”
\nMercedes Murdock Yardley – “The Dead Collection”
\nDamien Angelica Walters – “The Whipping Girls”
\nScott Edelman – “That Perilous Stuff” (novelette)
\nErinn L. Kemper – “A Flash of Red”<\/p>\n

Poetry (20 of 20):<\/p>\n

Elizabeth Massie – “Black River #1” and “Black River #2”
\nBruce Boston – “Beyond Symmetry” and “Reflecting on Reflections”
\nErik T. Johnson – “Whisper #1 (A Warning)” and “Whisper #2 (A Prophecy)”
\nMarge Simon – “Mirror Image” and “Reflections through the Raven’s Eye”
\nStephanie M. Wytovich – “Put Me to Dream” and “Welcome Home, Darling”
\nCiar\u00e1n Parkes – “The Speed of Sound” and “Recognizing Trees”
\nJonathan Balog – “Insomnia in Reverse” and “Fail-safe”
\nP. Gardner Goldsmith – “Fair” and “Promise”
\nRose Blackthorn – “Arbitration” and “Prescience”
\nSydney Leigh – “Folie \u00e0 Deux” and “Folie \u00e0 Plusieurs”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To find out who’s lucky enough to fill those final seven slots, keep checking in over at the Written Backwards<\/em> blog <\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Good news! Michael Bailey has accepted my 10,000-word dark fantasy “That Perilous Stuff” for the third installment of his Chiral Mad anthology series, currently scheduled to be published during the first quarter of 2016. That’s my fourth fiction sale in the past 13 months, following sales to Dark Discoveries (which has already been published) plus […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-19917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-my-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19917"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19923,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19917\/revisions\/19923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}