In case you missed it, all the Lackington’s #5 fiction and illustrations are now live on the website, including my short story. (Whole issue kindly reviewed by Charles Payseur! I am still at the stage where I carefully avoid looking for reviews, because reviews are for readers not writers, knowing other people have read my fiction makes me feel naked, and a negative review would certainly ruin my mood for weeks, but this one was flagged up on Twitter so I couldn’t not look… after several days of vacillating.)

FICTION

A Lover by A.W. Marshall (flash, birds, gifts, cats, murder)

Flesh and Spirit by Carol Berg (civil war, apocalypse, ambiguously-evil-sorceror, novel)

The Gaeneviad by Boulet (comic, gods, heroes, humour, Zeus, Hades, little old ladies)

Dave the Mighty Steel-Thewed Avenger by Laura Resnick (urban epic fantasy parody, prophet, opossum, humour, law school)

The Best Little Cleaning Robot in All of Faerie by Susan Jane Bigelow (science, magic, spaceships, fairies, humour)

The Nalender by Ann Leckie (gods, lizard, river, treasure, whoooops)

PodCastle 348: Testimony of Samuel Frobisher Regarding Events on Her Majesty’s Ship CONFIDENCE, 14-22 June, 1818, With Diagrams by Ian Tregillis, read by Ian Stuart (nautical fantasy, horror in the vasty deeps, sirenic tentacles)

OTHER NOTES

Fireside Fiction is open for flash subs from 15 March–11 April.

Nebula Award nominees announced. Congrats all!

PodCastle has a new submissions manager (remember: every time a mag moves to Submittable, an angel gets its wings) and new (pro!) rates: $0.06 per word for original fiction 2000–6000 words, $0.02 per word for reprints.

Anthology call: Ghost in the Cogs, steampunk ghost stories ($0.06 per word, reading period 1 March to 1 April).

A new magazine: Forever Magazine, a zine for science fiction reprints edited by Neil Clarke of Clarkesworld. There’s no submission system, as such, but the recommendation form is here.

More tombs! This one Mycenean and perhaps not so controversial.