The Mythic Delirium team (Mike and Anita Allen) is celebrating their 25th anniversary as a publishing company! It is also honoring Yukimi Ogawa’s debut short fiction collection Like Smoke, Like Light landing on Publisher Weekly’s short list of Best Science fiction/Fantasy, Horror of 2023. How are they celebrating? By putting 20 ebooks on sale for .99 in a book bundle!
Three of the titles Mike mentions are mine: Dark Breakers, The Twice-Drowned Saint, and Bone Swans, but I also have stories in Clockwork Phoenix 3 and 5 (in this anthology is the first story Carlos and I ever collaborated on, back when we were first becoming friends: “The Book of May”), and A Sinister Quartet.
My story in A Sinister Quartet is an earlier version of our later standalone release The Twice-Drowned Saint, but the anthology as a whole is amazing, with dark fantasy/fairy tale retelling novellas by Jessica P. Wick (“An Unkindness”), Amanda J. McGee (“Viridian”), and a horror novella by Mike Allen (“The Comforter”).
Back in 2020, when A Sinister Quartet first came out, we did a bunch of fun things, which I blogged about:
- A Playlist for the Twice-Drowned Saint
- All the playlists for A Sinister Quartet
- Zoom salon of us reading from our work
- The Sinister Quartet Mini-Cookbook (Mostly Evil Pastries)
- Some insights into the Twice-Drowned Saint’s writing process, and how it connects to other C. S. E. Cooney stories
- Excerpts and readings from A Sinister Quartet
- Four authors of Sinister Quartet interview each other on Scalzi’s Big Idea
- A Sinister Quartet’s Guide to Books and Booze on The Next Best Book Blog
Mike says:
“The recognition won by Yukimi’s book inspired us to hold one more celebratory sale to semi-officially close out Mythic Delirium’s 25th anniversary year. One more time in 2023, we’re discounting e-books to 99 cents on most all major platforms — and not just Yukimi’s collection, but twenty titles that together span the most recent fifteen years of Mythic Delirium’s twenty-five years of existence in some form.
For the record, these twenty titles together account for: one World Fantasy Award win, one Mythopoeic Award win, one Kirkus starred review and Best of the Year listing, one Publishers Weekly Best of the Year listing, one Theodore Sturgeon Award nomination, one WSFA Small Press Award nomination, one Aurelius Award nomination, two Library Journal starred reviews, three Locus Award nominations, three World Fantasy Award nominations, four Shirley Jackson Award nominations, five Nebula Award nominations, ten PUBLISHERS WEEKLY starred reviews and at least sixteen stories reprinted in various “Best of the Year” volumes. (Yes, I count these things, obsessively. And that’s not the full list! That’s just for the twenty books included in this bundle.)
We’re proud of all our books. By no means is creating and showcasing art all about awards — but you can take it as an indicator of our dedication to quality as we pursue our quirky art.
Some of these titles have been discounted within the past year or two, multiple times even, but others I’ve not offered in a discount sale for over half a decade, so get them while they’re hot!”
C.S.E. Cooney 