J. Kathleen Cheney

“Early Winter, Near Jenli Village” will be appearing in Fantasy Magazine, date pending.

I’m extremely pleased since this is my second sale to that venue. (They also ran “Masks of War” back in July.)

Avast, ye scurvey sea-dogs! It be International Talk Like a Pirate Day again. In honor of this most glorious holiday, Shimmer is making the electronic edition of the Pirate Issue freely available, for September 19th only.

Won’t you help us spread the word? Free pirate booty, there for the taking!

Click here for all the details.

“The Bear Girl” will appear in the first volume in this series, expected to be out in September.

My story “The Dragon’s Child” will be appearing in the new magazine Beneath Ceaseless Skies. (date pending)

I really look forward to this one!

My “Masks of War” is now available at Fantasy Magazine.

An interview with me is also available, just click on my name.

I have my whole schedule for Conestoga now…

Saturday 7/26
12:00 Noon
Broad Universe Rapid Fire Reading, Chairman Room
Cheney(m), Caine, Brennan, Fletcher, Monk

2:00
Building Community though the Internet, Salon F
Cheney (m), Haden Elgin, Gannon, Frost, LeBlanc

3:00
Illustrators Master Class, Salon H
Anderson, Hickman, Conrad, Gannon, Cheney

Sunday 7/27
1:00 PM
Writers of the Future, Salon F
Wentworth, Gannon, Cheney, Champine, Hickman, Sargon

Every month, AnthologyBuilder features several authors and offers a dollar off if you add a stories by one of those authors to your personalized Anthology. (So the price drops from 14.95 to 13.95 for up to 350 pages of awesome fiction you pick yourself!)

And I’m pleased to be among that number this month!

I have two stories up for sale at AnthologyBuilder:
“The Stains of the Past” is my first published story (Feb. 2006), set in the same ‘universe’ as several of my other works including my WIP. (In fact, one of the characters in Devil in the Details is the granddaughter of two of the characters in this story.) It’s a speculative fiction romance, and is the story of mine that was cited in an article on an academic blog. (I still find that incredibly bizarre.)

“A Hand for Each” was first published in the Shimmer Pirate Issue (November 2007). The polar opposite of the first offering, it’s a sea-faring horror story styled on the writings of Richard Dana (Two Years Before the Mast).*

So, if you’re looking for something to read this summer, AnthologyBuilder is the place to check out. And if you buy something of mine, you could save some money as well! (which everyone knows I like)

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*I like to think of this as a ‘guy’ story.

that the paperback (trade-size, I think) is already availiable at Amazon.

I just discovered that my story “Touching the Dead” will be reprinted in The Best of Jim Baen’s Universe II ! 

Baen’s says the book will be out in July 2008, and it’s already available for pre-ordering on Amazon.  I’m extremely pleased and flattered, since the writers included are quite an excellent group. 

But there are also two newbies on the TOC, and I was pleased to be one of them  (the other being S.E.Ward of Tulsa).  The editors at JBU (especially Sam Hidaka) have really gone above and beyond in helping me out with this story, and I can’t thank them enough!