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Sun Sets on Trafalgar

Gavin — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 20:27:37 +0000

Because I cannot keep up with time I hadn’t realized March was coming up so quickly and now we are a day away from rights to Amalia Gladhart’s translation of Angélica Gorodischer’s Trafalgar reverting to the estate. I’d meant to make a fuss a few weeks before this so instead: here’s a day or two […]

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Neither in Pittsburgh nor Baltimore

Gavin — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 17:21:43 +0000

Being chronically ill gives insight into how the world will go on when one is no longer part of it. We’ve all moved on from social circles, jobs, schools, cities, towns, countries, and we know that life goes on in those places without us. But to lie on the couch and see annual events — […]

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Jedediah Berry on Travel Light

Gavin — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 14:22:13 +0000

I was looking for something and came across this note on Travel Light that Jed sent me in September 2005 for the Small Beer newsletter: Travel Light is a book that goes places you never quite expect, even when you’re the one who’s writing it. No, I didn’t write Travel Light. But when Small Beer […]

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Mail Call

Gavin — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 16:46:23 +0000

Well, yesterday I checked the mailbox at the Small Beer office and there was a rather large stack of mail — lots of LCRW submissions, a couple of checks, a copy of GQ magazine(?), Rain Taxi, and so on — going back to late October. Darn it. That does explain why submissions seemed to drop […]

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Read the Fire Safety Pamphlet First

Gavin — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 14:01:18 +0000

I recently added cooking columnist Nicole Kimberling’s Cook Like a Hobo from the pre-Reckoning LCRW 33 guest edited by Michael J. DeLuca. You can read more of Nicole’s columns here as well as in the print (or ebook) issues of LCRW. Current issue has her writing on hot water pastry which one of these days […]

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2 Weeks into Q2 2000

Gavin — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 14:05:33 +0000

In something I was reading the writer mentioned this year started the second quarter of the 21st-century, which gave me one of those I am living in the future frissons. So the new issue of LCRW is the first issue of a new quarter. Maybe a quarter century is the length of time we should […]

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MLK Weekend & Ayize

Gavin — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 17:24:08 +0000

Meant to post this earlier and may update with a Monday event but if you are in San Francisco this looks like an event worth attending: Ayize Jama-Everett (The Liminal People series) is part of a celebration this afternoon at the San Francisco Public Library (100 Larkin Street): Divine Forces: Exploring the Power of the […]

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LCRW 51

Gavin — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 15:42:11 +0000

Out into the daft, daft world: a zine.

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2025 Holiday Shipping

Gavin — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 14:12:17 +0000

Orders are going out every week from either the Consortium warehouse or the fab people of Book Moon. Media mail shipping on this site is free. However, if you’d like pre-holiday arrival, please choose Priority Mail. USPS Ground Advantage™ Service Dec. 17 First-Class Mail Dec. 17 Priority Mail Dec. 18 Priority Mail Express Dec. 20 […]

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Added Back Images

Gavin — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 16:50:33 +0000

An agent enquired about language rights for Maureen F. McHugh’s first collection, Mothers & Other Monsters, which is — fingers crossed — good news for Maureen. While looking up information I realized the photos for the limited edition had dropped offline at some point in the intervening years so I added them back, tidied up the […]

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Indiepubs Sale: 25% off these titles

Gavin — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 18:49:21 +0000

From now until the end of the year with this coupon on Indiepubs: SBP25

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How Slowly, How Slow

Gavin — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 23:21:58 +0000

Howl slowly, howl! Bring on the dogs of war and let them pull us from our couches, harry us to the printer, drop off a print file. Not quite at that stage, but the next issue of LCRW slowly accumulates. It even has a cover, art by Christa Donner.

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Light Academia(!)

Gavin — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 21:20:38 +0000

Sarah Rees Brennan’s In Other Lands is tucked comfortably at the end of Jenny Hamilton’s Dark Academia: A Starter Pack (Tart, Awad, Samatar, & more) in the NYTimes answering the subtitled question “Is there such a thing as light academia?” “In Other Lands” is a hilarious, and moving, sendup of magic school novels where kids […]

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CC

Gavin — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 15:36:50 +0000

I’ve been enjoying the Consortium Corner microinterviews with various Consortium people as they celebrate their 40th anniversary. We signed on with them in 2007, latecomers!, after starting with Pathway Book Service for a couple of years and then SCB Distributors. We’d talked to a few distributors and although not everyone at the company really got […]

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LCRW + a Chapbook

Gavin — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 15:14:55 +0000

Thank you Jenny Z. for asking if we offered LCRW subscriptions with a chapbook but without chocolate. My answer: Um, no. For some reason when I made that little list of serious-to-silly offerings some time ago (and even during the many remakings) it never struck me to offer a chapbook with the first issue of the zine. Ok, so […]

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Kindling is a World Fantasy Award finalist

Gavin — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 22:03:13 +0000

Congratulations to all the finalists for the World Fantasy Awards, especially Kathleen Jennings, whose debut collection, Kindling, is one of five finalists for Best Collection. Kelly, the sole woman, and I — one of six men — are finalists for “Special Award – Non-Professional” for LCRW, and yay for that. However, if you’re voting this […]

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Out Went LCRW 50

Gavin — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 22:09:14 +0000

With world temperatures rising, and soon the seas, we talked about dropping the LCRW+chocolate option but maybe instead I can get it together and publish the two issues in November and February so that no one gets a fabulous and delicious but melted chocolate bar. In the meantime, earlier this month we mailed out 99% […]

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Cast Spells Punch Nazis

Gavin — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 19:39:44 +0000

Kelly and I have been talking about this one for a while and today, since the new LCRW is at the printer and I am busted because I ran an errand (woo) this morning, I put it up on Bonfire. All monies got to BINC, who do quiet and absolutely necessary work supporting book and […]

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Edit, Make, Mail

Gavin — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 12:57:11 +0000

LCRW 50 is at the printer. How will it be mailed out? Slowly!

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Stepping up the Joy

Gavin — Mon, 19 May 2025 14:26:43 +0000

Sharing more joy for Jennifer Hudak as her story “The Witch Trap” from LCRW 48 will be reprinted in this year’s Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, edited by Nnedi Okorafor & John Joseph Adams along with 19 stories which originally appeared in Amazon Original Stories, Asimov’s, Clarkesworld (x3), FIYAH (x2), Lightspeed (x3), Nightmare, Reactor (x2), […]

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