I have a story (a re-print of Innocence, Rearranged) out in Spark IV along with some awesome stories by great writers such as Kevin J. Anderson, Alex Kane, and Brad R. Torgersen.
Also, I’ve published a collection of my adventure fantasy stories, including a never-before-published Aza and Panya story. (And super awesome artwork by Keith Draws)
My urban fantasy story “Somebody Else’s Problem” will be appearing in Fiction River #5: Hex in the City next month. But you can listen to it for free on the WMG Publishing podcast for the next week! It has tattoos, telepathic rats, magic, and lots of action. What more could you want from urban fantasy, right?
I’ve been pretty busy lately finishing up some projects and doing some stuff for projects I can’t talk about yet, but I figured I’d update and let people see a preview of what is coming in the next three months from myself and Doomed Muse Press.
First up, I’m just finishing the first full-length Gryphonpike Chronicles novel. It’s got rogues, dragons, ship battles, and general adventuring awesomeness. Here’s the cover:
After that I’m turning my focus to short fiction and novellas for a couple months since I have three short story collections almost ready to go.
The first is a general science fiction and fantasy collection in the same vein as my previous collection “Till Human Voices Wake Us”. It will have about 10 short stories and novelettes as well as one or two novellas. Here’s the cover for it:
The second collection will be of my urban fantasy short fiction, including a brand new Remy Pigeon story as well as a brand new novella. Here is the cover for that:
And finally the third collection will be an adventure fantasy collection featuring six short stories, two novelettes, and a brand new novella (or maybe two if I get carried away, I have two I really want to write and include so it will depend on time). Here is the cover for the adventure fantasy collection:
So expect those out before Christmas! I’ll post when they are available with full descriptions and links where you can find them. Now, back to the word mines.
I have five free audio books for The Barrows to give away. If you are willing to leave a candid review and would like a free copy from Audible, email me at anniembellet AT gmail DOT com.
There should be new Gryphonpike out next week, as well, so look for it after the holiday.
Hey, things have been quiet around here. I’ve been doing a bunch of work for some anthologies that will be out next year and later this year. I’m wrapping that stuff up and expect to have new Gryphonpike novellas out in the next month.
Meanwhile, two new audio books came out today. Narrated by Christine Padovan (who has done all the GPC novellas so far and does a lovely job), Dead of Knight and The Barrows (the first GPC omnibus collecting the first four novellas) are now available.
As some people have pointed out to me, both my website (anniebellet.com) and the Doomed Muse Press site (doomedmuse.com) are down. I’m having a minor hosting issue and it will be fixed within the next couple weeks. Thanks for your notifications and patience!
In other news, Avarice is published! Here’s the cover and blurb again along with links to find it in ebook form (paperbacks and audio versions are forthcoming):
In the Free City of Pyrrh, murders and other serious crimes are investigated by the Cordonates of the Considerable Crimes Division.
Struggling with his grief over losing his last partner, the last thing Cordonate Parshan Koury wants is someone else. Zhivana Nedrogovna, his new partner, is fresh out of the City Watch and not even human, and unsure she wants to work with the broody, angry Par.
As Parshan and Zhivana rush to solve a case of mugging gone wrong that soon proves far more complex, they must learn to trust each other or this first case together might be their last.
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Avarice-Considerable-Crimes-Division-ebook/dp/B00A7FPVWK/
Barnes and Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/avarice-annie-bellet/1113793742?ean=2940015874167
Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/255028
So, I finished Avarice: Pyrrh Considerable Crimes Division Book 1 and it is currently going through edits. It’ll be up sometime in early November I think.
The good news is that I’m writing again. I still feel weird and a little rusty after the accidental break I took, but so far my first readers are saying Avarice is really good, so at least my feelings aren’t reflecting on the writing quality too much.
So I’m getting ready for NaNoWriMo. I have a couple of novellas to finish up this week so I can get the first Gryphonpike Chronicles omnibus out, but then I’m going to switch to writing a few short novels (pulp length- 35k-45k) for NaNoWriMo and beyond.
And because I love covers and they help me focus on what I’m doing, here’s a preview of what I’ll be working on:
The Dying of the Light: military fantasy about a non-combatant who carries the banner of the king (art by Katerina Romanova).
A Prince Called Courage: fairytale fantasy/romance about a cursed prince, a quest, and making the right decisions (art by Claudia McKinney).
Mayhem: fantasy about a girl living on an archipelago who accidentally releases an evil power into the world and must stop it (art by Tiziano_Baracchi).
So that’s what I’ll be working on during November (along with maybe a couple more, but I don’t have covers for those yet and I might not get to them until December anyway). It works out to about 4,000 words a day or about 3-4 hours of work daily to finish these. As usual for my Nano Crazy, I don’t expect I’ll get everything done, but the nice thing about aiming for lots is that even getting half or more done means getting a lot finished. Anything I get finished will be edited and available to read by the end of the year, so if any of these look cool, make a note. 🙂
A Heart in Sun & Shadow has a new cover. Artist is Claudia McKinney (phatpuppyart.com) with text by my usual guy.
I’m super busy, as evidenced by my total neglect of my blog. I figured I should show a little love here and offer up something new to look at.
Here’s a map of the world of the Gryphonpike Chronicles, as drawn for me by Jared Blando:
It’s January, so I guess that means it is time to put up a nice handy list of award-eligible fiction. I have a bunch of fiction eligible in various categories for the Hugos plus I am in my second and final year of Campbell Award eligibility. So here’s a list of things and the categories they are eligible for. If you are interested in reading something for award consideration and you would like a free copy, please email me at anniembellet AT gmail DOT com or you will also find that most of my stuff is available free or inexpensively as ebooks on the web (or in paperback in the case of my novel).
Hugo Award Eligible things:
Novel Category:
Fantasy novel, published in March 2011. Click picture to go to Amazon page for details (or check out my “read my fiction” page in the sidebar).
Novelette Category:
The Light of the Earth As Seen From Tartarus– Hard near-future SF novelette published January 2011
Delivering Yaehala– Otherworld Fantasy novelette published December 2011
Crawlies– SF short story, published in the collection The Spacer’s Blade & Other Stories, January 2011
Short Story Category:
Pele’s Bee-Keeper– SF short story, published in the collection Deep Black Beyond, September 2011
I, Vermin– SF short story, published in the collection The Spacer’s Blade & Other Stories, January 2011
The Spacer’s Blade– SF short story, published in the collection The Spacer’s Blade & Other Stories, January 2011
The Scent of Sunlight and River Daughter and La Última Esperanza and Roping the Mother– from the fantasy short story collection River Daughter and Other Stories, October 2011 (all four stories in this collection are eligible)
Flashover (A Remy Pigeon Story)– Paranormal Mystery, December 2011
Of Bone and Steel and Other Soft Materials– SF story published in Mirror Shards: Volume One, August 2011
Nevermind the Bollocks– SF story published in Digital Science Fiction Issue #2, July 2011
Broken Moon– Fantasy story published in the collection Gifts in Sand and Water, May 2011
Lists– Fantasy flash fiction published in Daily Science Fiction, December 2011
Love at the Corner of Time and Space– SF flash fiction published in Daily Science Fiction, June 2011
That’s all of it, I think. Enjoy!
