On December 14, Candlemark & Gleam will launch Situation Normal, a poignant military space opera in the tradition of Heller’s Catch-22. Situation Normal is the sophomore effort of Leonard Richardson,…
It had been customary to launch novels of Justin Robinson’s noir monsterverse on Halloween. However, in a change of pace (and protagonist) A Stitch in Crime appeared on the Ides…
The storybundle History with Magic just went live. Curated by yours truly and running till November 19, it unveils eleven riveting works that occupy a vital nexus in the dense,…
Happy journeys—and perhaps a homecoming for a wanderer—to Melanie Stormm's Last Poet of Wyrld's End, the sixth shuttle to emerge from starship Candlemark’s Reckless imprint. An intricate, funny yet elegiac…
The complications brought on by the pandemic have absorbed (too) much of my energy, but I’m thrilled to share with Candlemark readers the news that three amazing works are slated…
The US Post Office was the envy of the world for its speed, reliability and almost-real-time tracking capacity. People are depending on it for their bills, pension checks, medicine prescriptions,…
Candlemark & Gleam followers may recall Leonard Richardson’s unique Constellation Games—a novel of first contact, video games, love and computer programming, equal parts Big Ideas, clever whimsy and genuine pathos—that…
Happy journeys—or a solid container!—to Martha Hood’s The Miasma Is Not for Us to Say, the fifth shuttle to emerge from starship Candlemark’s Reckless imprint. Miasma is a witty fusion…
The seventh shuttle gearing up to emerge from starship Candlemark’s Reckless digital imprint is Andrew Knighton’s novella Silver and Gold. The story is an Aztec-inspired fantasy of art, friendship, and…
Fair winds to Retellings of the Inland Seas, the latest member of the Feral Astrogators series to set sail. Its older siblings are The Other Half of the Sky (2013)…
