Someone in Time: Tales of Timecrossed Romance – Cover and table of contents

Someone in Time: Tales of Time-Crossed Romance
Someone in Time: Tales of Time-Crossed Romance (Solaris, May 2022)

This coming May the incredible team at Rebellion Publishing will release my next book, Someone in Time: Tales of Timecrossed Romance. It’s a collection of stories about love and romance through time, inspired by some of my favourite stories.

The table of contents is below. You can pre-order the paperback here and the ebook here.

Even time can’t unravel love

Time-travel is a way for writers to play with history and imagine
different futures – for better, or worse.

When romance is thrown into the mix, time-travel becomes a passionate tool, or heart-breaking weapon. A time agent in the 22nd century puts their whole mission at risk when they fall in love with  the wrong person. No matter which part of history a man visits, he  cannot not escape his ex. A woman is desperately in love with the time-space continuum, but it doesn’t love her back. As time passes and falls apart, a time-traveller must say goodbye to their soulmate.

With stories from best-selling and award-winning authors such as Seanan McGuire, Alix E. Harrow and Nina Allan, this anthology gives a taste for the rich treasure trove of stories we can imagine with love, loss and reunion across time and space.

Including stories by: Alix E. Harrow, Zen Cho, Seanan McGuire,  Sarah Gailey, Jeffrey Ford, Nina Allan, Elizabeth Hand, Lavanya Lakshminarayan, Catherynne M. Valente, Sam J. Miller, Rowan  Coleman, Margo Lanagan, Sameem Siddiqui, Theodora Goss, Carrie Vaughn, & Ellen Klages.

Introduction, Jonathan Strahan
Roadside Attraction, Alix E. Harrow
The Past Life Reconstruction Service, Zen Cho
First Aid, Seanan McGuire
I Remember Satellites, Sarah Gailey
The Golden Hour, Jeffrey Ford
The Lichens, Nina Allan
Kronia, Elizabeth Hand (classic reprint)
Bergamot and Vetiver, Lavanya Lakshminarayan
The Difference Between Love and Time, Catherynne M. Valente
Unbashed, or: Jackson, Whose Cowardice Tore a Hole in the Chronoverse, Sam J. Miller
Romance: Historical, Rowan Coleman
The Place of all the Souls, Margo Lanagan
Timed Obsolescence, Sameem Siddiqui
A Letter to Merlin, Theodora Goss
Dead Poets, Carrie Vaughn
Time Gypsy, Ellen Klages (classic reprint)

Episode 571: The New Year and New Books

This week Jonathan and Gary are back, a little early, to talk about the annual science fiction calendar, the awards season, how there are so many awards, what books they’re reading, and what books they’ve worked on. Oh, and for a short moment, they touch on movies and TV too.

All in all, episode two of season 13, sounds pretty much like most of the other episodes we’ve recorded over the past twelve years, so if they were your jam, this might be too.

As always, we hope you enjoy it and are very grateful to everyone for listening in…

Episode 570: Coode Street’s Books to Look for in 2022

Welcome to The Coode Street Podcast. With 2021 barely in the rearview mirror, it’s time to kick off season 13 with a brand new episode. A little over a month ago we sat down with James Bradley, Alix E. Harrow, and Ian Mond to discuss 2021: The Year in Review in Episode 568. At the end of that chat, we all said we’d back to discuss the books we’re looking forward to in 2022, and here we are!

This week we discuss 25 or so books that we are looking forward to or, maybe, have read already and can recommend that you check out (along with a few strays). Pre-order links are below. We also are clear we’ve definitely missed books we’ll end up loving.

As always, our sincere thanks to James, Alix, and Ian for making time to chat with us.  We hope you enjoy the episode and that you’ll see us again in a couple weeks.

JAMES

  1. The Candy House, Jennifer Egan
  2. To Paradise, Hanya Yanigihara
  3. Goliath, Tochi Onyebuchi
  4. Sea of Tranquility, Emily St John Mandel
  5. A History of Dreams, Jane Rawson

ALIX

  1. Siren Queen, Nghi Vo
  2. Saint Death’s Daughter, C.S.E. Cooney
  3. How High We Go in the Dark, Sequoia Nagamatsu
  4. Nona the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir
  5. Spear, Nicola Griffith

IAN

  1. The This, Adam Roberts
  2. Dark Breakers, C.S.E Cooney
  3. The Last Blade Priest, Will Wiles
  4. Booth, Karen Joy Fowler
  5. Hard Places(1), Kirstyn McDermott

JONATHAN

  1. The Original Bambi: The Story of a Life in the Forest, Felix Salten (trans. Jack Zipes)
  2. Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution,  R.F. Kuang
  3. The Landing, Mary Gentle
  4. All the Seas of the World, Guy Gavriel Kay
  5. Devil House, John Darnielle

GARY

  1. A Mirror Mended, Alix E. Harrow
  2. Aspects, John M. Ford
  3. High Times in the Low Parliament, Kelly Robson
  4. The Daughter of Dr. Moreau, Silvia Moreno-Garcia
  5. Boys, Beasts, and Men, Sam J. Miller

(1) Pre-order not yet available.

Open submission period for BIPOC* writers for The Book of Witches

Following on from the award-winning success of The Book of Dragons, Harper Voyager will publish an exciting new anthology, The Book of Witches, edited by Jonathan Strahan in the Fall of 2023. Like The Book of DragonsThe Book of Witches will be a big, inclusive, illustrated anthology of fiction and poetry, this time looking at “witches” (more specifically your witch and what it means to you).

So far writers who have agreed to contribute to the book include Linda Addison, S.A. Chakraborty, Zen Cho, P. Djèlí Clark, Indrapramit Das, Amal El Mohtar, Andrea Hairston, Millie Ho, Nalo Hopkinson, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Cassandra Khaw, Fonda Lee, Darcie Little Badger, Ken Liu, Karen Lord, Usman T. Malik, Tochi Onyebuchi, C.L. Polk, Rebecca Roanhorse, Kelly Robson, Angela Slatter, Rivers Solomon, Andrea Stewart, Sheree Renée Thomas, and Tade Thompson, and we are reserving up to three spots in the final book for new BIPOC writers.

If you are a BIPOC* writer – regardless of whether you’re widely published or just starting out – and would like to see your work appear in a major anthology like The Book of Witches, we’d love to hear from you. Just check out the submissions guidelines below and send us your story.

* Black, Indigenous, and other People of Colour

Guidelines for open submissions

  • Submissions must not have been previously published in any form, whether by digital-only publisher, traditional publisher, or self-published.
  • Submissions must be in English and be between 1500 and 6000 wordsin length.
  • Submissions must be in a standard word processor format (MS Word or similar). No PDFs.
  • Submissions should be accompanied by a short author bio (no more than 200 wds). You are welcome but not required to share any identity information which you would like to share. This information will not be published without consultation with you.
  • Agented submissions are welcome, but agents are not required. If you do have an agent you should indicate so with your submission and provide contact information for their representatives.
  • Submissions will open on Monday, 14 March 2022and close at 5pm Australian Western Standard Time on Friday, 18 March 2022.
  • Submissions should be sent to thebookofwitches@gmail.com 
  • You will be contacted ONLY if your submission is accepted for inclusion. All responses will be sent no later than Saturday, 30 April 2022.
  • Simultaneous submissions are acceptable. Please do not send multiple submissions.
  • Payment will be a minimum 8cpw and we will be looking for World rights to the story in English and foreign languages for print, ebook, and non-dramatic audio (ie standard audiobook), as part of the anthology only. This will be exclusive for a period of eighteen months from first publication of the book.