sovay: (Lord Peter Wimsey: passion)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2018-03-21 04:35 pm

Darling, I'm telling you I belong by the sea

I am pleased beyond words to announce the forthcoming publication of my first collection of short fiction since 2005, Forget the Sleepless Shores from Lethe Press.

This book has been a long time coming. The title comes from the Greek Anthology; the cover art is the work of D.G. Smith; the stories come from the last fourteen years, from sea-coasts I grew up on and cities I no longer live in, from very different places and times in my life. There are ghosts and golems in these stories, dybbuks and demons and things with no such single names. A lot of music, a lot of water, a lot of memory, a lot of time. All are important to me; some are the best I've written to date. More details to come as we get closer, but in the meantime I am deeply happy to present a home for these mostly uncollected stories and their salt-touched inhabitants. Please signal-boost, preorder, throw offerings to the sea. I am promised there will be copies at Readercon.



We're​ excited to release a new short story collection by author Sonya Taaffe. In Forget the Sleepless Shores readers should expect to be captivated by many ghosts and spirits who inhabit brine, some from tears of heartache and loss, some from strange bodies of water, not necessarily found on the map but definitely discovered through charting a course though the perilous straits of author Taaffe's imagination, which is eerie and queer (by every definition of the word).
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[personal profile] larryhammer 2018-03-21 08:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Excellent. Confabulistications!
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[personal profile] asakiyume 2018-03-21 08:42 pm (UTC)(link)
FELICITATIONS!!!

What wonderful news! I'm so very happy for you, and as *I will be attending Readercon* this year, I will be able to congratulate you again in person and buy a copy!
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[personal profile] ethelmay 2018-03-21 08:51 pm (UTC)(link)
YAAAAAAAY! *flings confetti*
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[personal profile] gwynnega 2018-03-21 08:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Congratulations!!! I am so looking forward to this!
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[personal profile] rydra_wong 2018-03-21 09:02 pm (UTC)(link)
W00t! *joins in confetti-flinging*
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[personal profile] nineweaving 2018-03-21 09:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Shouldn't that confetti be spindrift?

Fabulous collection, gorgeous cover, glorious news!

Over the moon for you.

Nine
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[personal profile] skygiants 2018-03-21 09:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, how excellent! I'm very excited!
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[personal profile] hamletta 2018-03-21 09:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Great! Looks really good! Yay!
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[personal profile] alexxkay 2018-03-21 09:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Woo, and furthermore, hoo!
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[personal profile] isis 2018-03-21 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Yay! And I love the art.
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[personal profile] radiantfracture 2018-03-21 10:05 pm (UTC)(link)
How marvellous! I look forward to it. Congratulations.
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[personal profile] pameladean 2018-03-21 10:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, that's wonderful! So many congratulations! I can't wait.

P.
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[personal profile] strange_complex 2018-03-21 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
This is brilliant news! Congratulations. Do let us know if there are ways people in the UK can buy it in due course.
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[personal profile] skygiants 2018-03-21 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
(If I remember correctly, someone made it for me as a graphic representation of The Secret Garden's Mary Lennox at a time in the past when I did journal-based RP, and although it does not actually particularly remind me of The Secret Garden's Mary Lennox I liked it enough to keep it anyway. Further provenance is lost to time.)
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[personal profile] dhampyresa 2018-03-21 10:23 pm (UTC)(link)
CONGRATS!

I shall locate a sea to throw offerings in post-haste.

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