(…that I remembered to write at all)
Dear ones, this is mirrored from my newsletter, but it bears repeating; this month bodes to be full of excitement, with more shenanigans yet to come!
Live Events
Charm City Spec at Ivy Bookshop
First off—it’s this week!
When? Saturday, September 6th, 6:30 PM Eastern
Where? The Ivy Bookshop. 5928 Falls Road, Baltimore, MD 21209
What? This month’s Charm City Spec is celebrating Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology, just lately published by Essential Dreams Press. (Read their newsletter here!)
I missed this anthology’s launch at Readercon this last July, so I’m so happy to hop on an Amtrak train to Baltimore and read with some of my fellow authors!
(More details here at the event page: The Ivy Bookshop presents “Charm City Spec: September Edition.”)
If you haven’t gotten your copy of Storyteller yet, here’s a link to all the places you can order it—or ask your library to order one in!
Here’s a bit from the reviews so far:
”…Packed with diversity, supercharged with emotional and philosophical revelation, and full of surprises and power, Storyteller is a special ‘must have’ acquisition for readers and libraries who have felt the power of Tanith Lee’s voice and will be delighted to find it mirrored by her most ardent fellow writers.” —Midwest Review of Books
“Storyteller is a brilliant tapestry of tales, elegantly illuminating and excavating fantastical worlds. The same fire – profoundly profane, yet almost holy – that lit Tanith Lee’s stories burns brightly here. A fitting tribute to the Queen of Word Witches.”—A.G. Slatter, award-winning author of The Crimson Road
“Sixteen authors, including big names like Martha Wells, Andy Duncan, and Nisi Shawl, celebrate the late World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award winner Tanith Lee in this passionate and playful anthology of stories inspired by her work…The result is both a fitting tribute to a master and an enchanting compendium in its own right.”—Publishers Weekly
Book Launch for Martin Cahill’s Audition for the Fox
Our dear friend Marty is debuting his novella Audition for the Fox, and I get to be in a book talk with him ! 7 PM! Astoria Bookshop is hosting the event, and you can buy your tickets and book here!
When? Tuesday, Sep. 16th, 2025, 7:00 PM–8:30 PM
Where? Thespis Theater at Hellenic Cultural Center of NYC, 25-02 Newtown Ave, Astoria, NY 11102
Here’s what I wrote about Marty’s Audition for the Fox:
“Fox-fleet and brazen, merry and mischievous, haunted by mercies: Martin Cahill’s Audition For The Fox has the trick of doling delight. The language leaps and laughs, teeming with a trickster’s teasing. This book made me happy: both while I was reading it, and long after I’d finished.”
―C. S. E. Cooney, author of Saint Death’s Daughter
Awesome Virtual Stuff
Monday, September 15th, 7 PM–8 PM Eastern
Fiction: Impossible
Our Fiction: Impossible program is back at my Twitch channel, The Phoenix Quill Tavern, after our summer break!
This time, we’re hosting guest star Matthew Kressel, author of recent release Space Trucker Jess! You can subscribe to Matt’s newsletter here! I will do another newsletter introducing him and his book more fully. But for now—ready your calendars!
Both Carlos and I read his SF novel and ADORED it, so we can’t wait to chat with Matt about his book, what he’s reading, what games he’s playing, and also hear a bit from the novel itself.
Stream us live on twitch.tv/csecooney, Monday, September 16th, 7 PM – 8 PM Eastern!
Here’s what Carlos wrote about Space Trucker Jess:
“If Philip K. Dick had a vision of a protagonist as gutsy Katniss Everdeen hyperdriving her way through a Gibsonesque cyberpunk galaxy, he might have imagined Space Trucker Jess—minus the humor and voice that are singularly Matt Kressel’s. Wild, philosophical, inventive and totally unpredictable, Space Trucker Jess is a recklessly paced slow burn that will take you on a journey through a warts-and-all universe where the stakes couldn’t be higher, nor nearer to the human heart.
— Carlos Hernandez, author of Sal & Gabi Break the Universe
Here’s what I wrote:
“Like its titular protagonist, Space Trucker Jess is foul-mouthed, funny, hungry, lonely, and tripping balls. It’s poetry and philosophy and science and religion and friendship, streaking by at light speed, a radioactive burn in the black. Matthew Kressel’s slangy prose sucks you in like a black hole, and like a black hole, is singular in the ‘verse.”
— C. S. E. Cooney, World Fantasy Award-winning author of Saint Death’s Daughter
Tachyon’s 30th Anniversary Virtual Reading and Q&A
ACCLAIMED GENRE PRESS TACHYON PUBLICATIONS CELEBRATES 30 YEARS IN 2025
Join us for a night of virtual readings and Q&A on Twitch TV with some of Tachyon Publications’ team of authors and editors.
If you want more information about Tachyon and these amazing authors, check out the Eventbrite link here!
Otherwise, here are the basics:
Who:
Jaymee Goh (editor), and authors Auston Habershaw, Josh Rountree, Kimberly Unger, Naseem Jamnia, Mary G. Thompson, Mia Tsai, Pat Murphy, Sam J. Miller, and Samantha Mills
When? October 2nd, 2025, at 5 PM (Pacific), 6 PM (Mountain), 7 PM (Central), 8 PM (Eastern) (etc)
Where? Live on Twitch TV! Hop onto https://www.twitch.tv/csecooney and stream us live!
(Sign up for a Twitch account if you want to join the chat! Otherwise, just sit back and enjoy!)
New Game
For fans of Carlos Hernandez (my beloved esposo and also the award-winning author of Sal and Gabi Break the Universe, Sal and Gabi Fix the Universe, various Marvel comics including the Strange Academy trilogy The Deadly Field Trip, and the absolutely awesome short story collection The Assimilated Cuban’s Guide to Quantum Santeria), hark! PLAYERS OF GAMES, hear ye!
I wanted to let you know that Carlos has a new INTERACTION FICTION out. It’s called The Burger Meme Personality Test (Not an actual personality test). And it is BONKERS!
Anyone who wants to play it—and any of the other interactive fiction games on the Interactive Fiction Competition website—can do so here! Anyone who plays and rates five of the games can turn in a ballot!
(I got to help sing the theme song as the credits rolled. I got to use SO MANY VOICES. It’s one of my favorite feelings. That feeling of being a village of clowns. That feeling that Mel Blanc must have felt every day he recorded voices for a Looney Tunes cartoon.)
More soon, but farewell for now! Thank you for reading!
Yours truly,
C. S. E. Cooney
C.S.E. Cooney 