Volume 3: 1 June 12, 2016
Edited by Leila Monaghan
Last year, Elm Book produced one
great new collection, Death and a Cup of Tea, and a beautiful second edition of
Christmas is for Bad Girls, now available in paperback as well as e-format.
Lots of news to share and looking forward to a great year ahead!
Leila Monaghan
Indiegogo Campaign
Introducing
our first Indiegogo Campaign! Only four
days left so please help. We are raising funds so that we can change the payment structure of Elm
Books for our next cozy mystery collection, Death by Cupcake. We want to be
able to give authors a lump sum of $100 rather than royalty payments. Any and all contributions welcome. Or just stop by to see the great video Jess
Faraday put together for the campaign: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-elm-books-create-its-best-anthology-yet/x/7635315#/
Publicity Happenings
Twitter
Our PR representative, @LilyCallahan, is now regularly tweeting for @ElmBooks. If you are on Twitter, please follow both
accounts and pass on the news!
Email List
Please let
me know at Leila.ElmBooks at gmail.com if you would like to receive occasional e-mails from us with all the latest news.
Call for stories: Science Fiction
We now have a new Science Fiction editor, Leonie
Skye. Welcome Leonie! Her first collection features heroic
protagonists with disabilities. Drop her
a note if you are interested.
Elm Books is looking for short story submissions for
our first Science Fiction & Fantasy collection (DEADLINE EXTENDED until
8/31/2016). We hope this will be the first of an ongoing series. We are
interested in short stories (no more than 15,000 words) featuring heroic
PROTAGONISTS WITH DISABILITIES (broadly defined) and that fall within ANY
SCIENCE FICTION SUB GENRE. Stories may be soft or hard science fiction. We are
particularly interested in anthropological,
feminist, and speculative work that will keep us turning pages in the wee
hours. Please E-mail leoskye.elmbooks at gmail.com with your submission questions.
Reviews
RTBookReviews.com:
Death and a Cup of Tea
An interesting combination
of very short mysteries. Some involve murder, some are just intriguing, one is
set in the past, one in the future. Not all may be to the reader’s liking, yet
for those who like something different, it can be found here.
A medical examiner is determined to find who killed
a woman. In 1931 a head librarian must find out who is out to discredit one of
her staff. The death of a tea house owner has a college student investigating.
Her friend has died and Sofia can’t understand why he didn’t upload himself
into the cyberget. A research mouse on a desk — how did it get there? Audrey’s
making a deal and solving a murder. Getting rid of an unwanted member of the
Tea Ladies may lead to murder. And a psychic prepares for a police interview
when she is the last to see a man alive.
http://www.rtbookreviews.com/book-review/death-and-cup-tea
Publishers
Weekly: Christmas is for Bad Girls
No actual bad
girls inhabit this happy holiday anthology—just feisty, sympathetic heroines,
and heroes worthy of their love. Four stories are set in the present-day U.S.,
and two in Victorian England. Danger makes sexual tension run high in P.K.
Tournes’s “A Partridge in Pear Treacle.” Love brightens a depressing holiday
season in M.M. Ardagna’s “A Very Chunky Monkey Christmas” and a dreaded trip
home in Lily Callahan’s “A Sprig of Holly.” In Yvette Franklin’s “Noisy Night,”
single mom-to-be Maizy goes into labor on Christmas Eve, aided by her handsome
gardener. In Jess Alynn’s “Mistletoe in Minnesota,” Emily inherits her aunt’s
house and falls for the boy next door. A long wait ends with yuletide gladness
when a long-lost cousin returns in Edith Elton’s “The Mad Hewitts.” Fans of
quick, sweet holiday romance stories will savor this fine anthology.
08/31/2015
Elm
Books, 1175 Hwy 130, Laramie, Wyoming 82070
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