Free fiction the first: The podcast of “The King of Rabbits and Moon Lake” is now up at Journey Into…, read fabulously by the talented Rajan Khanna. Listen, enjoy!

Free fiction the second: A bunch of us writers have come together to coordinate a massive book giveaway contest, “Crossing the Streams.” Check out my Book Giveaway page for details.

Next, laid out in quasi-scientific fashion, an update on my foray into releasing some of my previously published and out-of-print short fiction as e-books:

METHODOLOGY
In November, I published three new e-books and also acquired e-book distribution rights (previously held by Norilana Books, the print edition publisher) for my Returning My Sister’s Face collection. That provided a nice initial sampling of offerings as well as a range of price points, with:

• One of my best-known stories: “Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast” ($0.99)
• A relatively unknown story: “The Wish of the Demon Achtromagk” ($0.99)
• A new short story collection: Mortal Clay, Stone Heart and Other Stories in Shades of Black and White ($2.99)
• An already published collection (both in print and e-book): Returning My Sister’s Face ($6.99)

I used three distributors: Amazon (Kindle), B&N (Nook), and Smashwords (all e-reader formats). Amazon and B&N provide monthly reports while Smashwords provides a quarterly report. I published “Sinner” and “Achtromagk” in mid-November and Mortal Clay at the end of November, so for ease of this preliminary evaluation and analysis, I’m just going to look at the month of December.

RESULTS
Total units sold for the month of 12/2011: 59*

(*I also ran a few holiday freebie offers in December. I’m not including those in my “total units sold” figure.)

Units sold by title:

Units sold by distributor by title:

DISCUSSION
It’s clear that the lion’s share of sales came through Amazon, accounting for 41 out of 59 units sold; followed by Smashwords with 15 out of 59 units sold; and B&N trailing at a distant third with only 3 out of 59 units sold. Amazon’s position as most popular distribution channel is unsurprising, considering Amazon’s market share in online retail overall and the popularity of its Kindle devices. I’m a little surprised by how dismal my B&N sales were, considering that the Nook seems to be a pretty popular e-reader.

As for the per title data, “Sinner” outsold the other three titles by a wide margin, accounting for 25 out of 59 sales. Interestingly, “Achtromagk” and RMSF tied for the second best sales position, accounting for 12 sales each. Royalties, of course, are calculated as a percentage of list price. So even though I sold, by far, the most copies of “Sinner,” I earned the most royalties on the less-well-selling RMSF.

Of note, minimum list prices are fixed by distributors, as are royalty percentages. For example, Amazon stipulates on its pricing page as part of its terms and conditions two royalty tiers: 70% and 35%. In order to qualify for the 70% tier, the list price must be between $2.99 and $9.99. The absolute minimum list price (excluding “free”) is $0.99, which only earns a 35% royalty.

I was and am particularly interested in what’s more likely to entice readers (and generate more sales) as an e-book, a short story collection with a list price of at least $2.99 or an individual short work for $0.99, but I don’t believe it’s possible to make any sort of meaningful statistical analysis with my current results. Not enough data, too many variables, etc. If anyone’s got input, thoughts, or data on this, I’d like to hear from them.

CONCLUSION
Generally, I’m inclined to call this endeavor “reasonably successful.” I’m not going to get remotely wealthy or make the bestseller list, but it seems to be a worthwhile thing to do with my previously published and out-of-print works.

Also, the Nebula Award nominations are now open, and the Hugos are coming up, so herein the obligatory shameless pimpage for the short stories I’ve had published this year for your consideration:

• “Black Swan, White Swan” in anthology End of an Aeon, edited by Marti and Bridget McKenna (July, Fairwood Press), also produced as a podcast by PodCastle (listen to it for free!) and reprinted in my Mortal Clay, Stone Heart ebook collection.
• “Biba Jibun” in Apex Magazine issue #23 in April (read it for free!)
• “The Princess and the Golden Fish” in Cricket Magazine, serialized in the January through April issues.
• “Requiem Duet, Concerto for Flute and Voodoo” in Daily Science Fiction in September (read it for free!)
• “The Wish of the Demon Achtromagk” in podcast Drabblecast in August (listen to it for free!) for their Lovecraft Appreciation Month and reprinted as an ebook.

And a final plug in this plug-filled post, I’m running two deals for the month of December:

• $2.99 sale on my Returning My Sister’s Face ebook. (See this post for details.)
• Buy Mortal Clay, Stone Heart and get your choice of “Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast” or “The Wish of the Demon Achtromagk” ebook for free. (See this post for details.)

MORTAL CLAY, STONE HEART AND OTHER STORIES IN SHADES OF BLACK AND WHITE

Available for $2.99 at:

• Amazon for the Kindle
• B&N for the Nook
• Smashwords for Sony, iPad, Kobo, and other eReaders

And for the month of December, anyone who buys it can get their choice of my “Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast” or “The Wish of the Demon Achtromagk” ebook for free.

Just drop me an email with your Amazon, B&N, or Smashwords order/transaction number for Mortal Clay, Stone Heart and which ebook you’d like, and I’ll email you a coupon to download a complimentary copy from Smashwords in whatever format you like.

Cover art and table of contents:

Table of Contents:
1. The Life and Times of Penguin
2. Running on Two Legs
3. Black Swan, White Swan
4. The Bunny of Vengeance and the Bear of Death
5. A Nose for Magic
6. The Center of the Universe
7. The Wizard of Eternal Watch
8. Mortal Clay, Stone Heart

More information.

Just take this link to RMSF’s Smashwords page and enter the coupon code below prior to completing checkout. Smashwords distributes ebooks in just about every format, including .mobi for Kindle.

Coupon Code: LA82X
Expires: January 1, 2012

Happy Holidays!

More information about RMSF.

Did a practice run last night to check my timing and pacing, and it occurred to me that I’ve never done a reading of any of my non-G-rated works before. The opening chapter of “Sinner” has sex, violence, murder, and expletives in it. And now I’m wondering if I can get through it without turning bright red and teeheeing like a schoolgirl.

So yeah, the rather aggressive butterflies I was sporting in my stomach have become mutant hippopotami.

The symposium is free to the public and promises to have heaps of interesting subject matter and discussion topics. Hope to see folks there! 

9:30 am-10:45 am: ”Science Fiction and Society”
Richard Barke (PubP), Kristie Champlan Gurley (PubP), Tom Morley (MATH), Jackie Royster (IAC/LCC), Aaron Santesso (LCC, moderator)

11:00 am-12:00 pm:  “Science Fiction Collection Presentation and Student Initiatives”
Ryan Speer (LIB), Joshua Cuneo (LCC), Travis Gasque (ME), Keith Johnson (LCC), Adam LeDoux (LCC), Lisa Yaszek (LCC, moderator), Paul Zaitsev (LCC)

1:30 pm-2:45 pm: “Speculative Fiction in Literary and Cultural History”
Peter Brecke (INTA), Nihad Farooq (LCC), Narin Hassan (LCC), Carol Senf (LCC, moderator)

3:00 pm-4:15 pm: ”Science Fiction Across Media”
Nettrice Gaskins (LCC), Michael Nitsche (LCC), Robert Ring (independent film scholar), Jay Telotte (LCC, moderator), Hank Whitson (LCC), Lisa Yaszek (LCC)

4:30 pm-6:00 pm:  “Science Fiction in Atlanta: Author Reading and Book Signing”
Chesya Burke, J.M. McDermott, Eugie Foster, Kathy Goonan (LCC, moderator)

All events are free and open to the Georgia Tech and Atlanta communities. For further information, contact Dr. Lisa Yaszek at lisa.yaszek@lcc.gatech.edu.

So as an experiment and trial run, I’m publishing two ebooks, each for the low, low price of only $0.99, at Amazon (for the Kindle) and Smashwords (for the Nook, Sony reader, iPad, and other formats).

My Nebula Award-winning novelette, “Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast”:

• Amazon
• Smashwords

And my short story, “The Wish of the Demon Achtromagk,” originally published as an audio podcast by Drabblecast for their Lovecraft tribute month:

• Amazon
• Smashwords

And as a bonus, all this month of November, anyone who buys “Sinner” will also get an ebook of “The Wish of the Demon Achtromagk” for free.

Just drop me an email with either your Amazon order number for “Sinner” or the very last line of text in the ebook (not the last line of the story but the last sentence of the back matter), and I’ll email you a coupon to download a complimentary copy of “The Wish of the Demon Achtromagk” ebook from Smashwords in whatever format you like.

More information and cover art:


In a far future society, people change their identities, their societal roles, even their personalities based upon the masks they must don each day. But not every citizen is content to play their mandated part, longing instead to discover who they are beneath their masks: sinner, gentleman, or beast.

The demon Achtromagk, Prince of the Endless Plains and Duke of the Wastes of Tomorrow, opened a portal to our universe, freeing it to perform feats of flesh and debauchery, to bask in fire and know heat, touch flesh and know pain, and bathe in blood and know lust—except for one, small miscalculation…

“a heart-warming tale of an extra-dimensional Lovecraftian horror”
—Norm Sherman, Drabblecast

Next up: I get to dither over what stories to include in a prospective new collection.

[ A | B | C | D,E |F,G | H,I,J | K,L | M | N,O | P,Q | R | S | T,U,V | W-Z ]

LEGEND:

Addy in My Mind [Read | Ab]

• Helix #3 (2006) {Ez}
• Transcriptase July (2008) {Ez}

The Adventures of Manny the Mailmobile [Listen]

• Cicada, Jan/Feb (2002) {Ch}
• Ennea (9) #240 (2005) {Mag}
• Clonepod Aug (2008) {Pod}

♥ All in My Mind [Ab]

• Hitting the Skids in Pixeltown: The Phobos Science Fiction Anthology, Volume 2 (2003) {Anth}
• Nowa Fantastyka #274 (2005) {Mag}
• Galaktika #193 (2006) {Mag}

The Archer of the Sun and the Lady of the Moon [Listen]

• Paradox #9 (2006) {Mag}
• Returning My Sister’s Face: And Other Far Eastern Tales of Whimsy and Malice (2009) {Bk}

Ascendancy of Blood [Ab]

• Scrybe Press chapbook (2004) {Bk}

♥ ‡ Beautiful Summer

• Killers (2009) {Anth}

Beautiful Winter

• Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show #13 (2009) {Ez}
• First Annual InterGalactic Awards Anthology (2012) {Anth}

Beauty’s Folly

• Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show #5 (2007) {Ez}

Beneath the Silent Bell, the Autumn Sky Turns to Spring

• Human for a Day (2011) {Anth}

The Better To…

• Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #37 (2008) {Mag}

Biba Jibun [Listen]

• Apex Magazine (2011) {Ez}
• Pseudopod (2012) {Pod}

Black Swan, White Swan [Listen]

• End of an Aeon (2011) {Anth}
• PodCastle (2011) {Pod}
• Mortal Clay, Stone Heart and Other Stories in Shades of Black and White (2011) {Bk}

♥ Body and Soul Art

• Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #14 (2004) {Mag}
• The Best of Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine: Horror (2007) {Anth}

A Box of Spoons [Read]

• Hub #68 (2008) {Ez}
• anthology project (title and publisher TBA) (2009) {Anth}

‡ The Bunny of Vengeance and the Bear of Death

• Fantasy Magazine #1 (2005) {Mag}
• Women Writing the Weird (TBA) (forthcoming) {Anth}
• Mortal Clay, Stone Heart and Other Stories in Shades of Black and White (2011) {Bk}

Caesar’s Ghost [Listen]

• Revenant (2005) {Anth}
• Pseudopod May (2008) {Pod}

‡ The Center of the Universe [Read]

• Helix #5 (2007) {Ez}
• Transcriptase July (2008) {Ez}
• Mortal Clay, Stone Heart and Other Stories in Shades of Black and White (2011) {Bk}

Close to Death

• Shiny #1 (2007) {Ch | Ez}

The Conviction of Praxis [Read]

• Spacesuits & Sixguns #3 (2007) {Ez}

Cuhiya’s Husband

• Cricket Nov/Dec (2008) {Ch}

Cyberevenge Inc.

• Murky Depths #1 (2007) {Mag}

♥ ‡ Daughter of Bótù [Listen]

• Realms of Fantasy Aug (2008) {Mag}
• PodCastle July (2009) {Pod}
• Returning My Sister’s Face: And Other Far Eastern Tales of Whimsy and Malice (2009) {Bk}

The Devil and Mrs. Comstock’s Snickerdoodles

• Realms of Fantasy Feb (2007) {Mag}

The Dragon’s Breath Seed [Read]

• Reflection’s Edge July (2006) {Ez}

The End of the Universe [Read | Listen]

• Darker Matter May (2007) {Ez}
• Drabblecast Sept. (2009) {Pod}

Fade to Black

• Ennea (9) #292 (2006) {Mag}

The Few, the Proud, the Leech Corps [Ab]

• Oceans of the Mind #19 (2006) {Ez}

‡ Gifts Not Asked For

• Bards and Sages Quarterly {Ez}
  • Part I: The Horned Rabbit – April (2009)
  • Part II: Flame Dancer – July (2009)
  • Part III: Costs and Consequences – Oct (2009)
  • Part IV-V: The Temple of Mau and Healer’s Gift- Jan (2010)
• Bardic Tales and Sage Advice, Vol. II (2010) {Anth}

The Goddess Queen’s Battlefield

• GrendelSong #2 (2007) {Mag}

Honor is a Game Mortals Play

• Heroes in Training (2007) {Anth}
• Returning My Sister’s Face: And Other Far Eastern Tales of Whimsy and Malice (2009) {Bk}

Inside the Witch’s Oven [Read]

• Abyss & Apex #9 part ii (2004) {Ez}

Inspirations End [Ab]

• Erotic Fantasy (2004) {Anth}
• Scrybe Press chapbook (2005) {Bk}

An Interesting Week for Emmy

• Colin Harvey’s Another Showcase (2004) {Ez}
• Voices for the Cure (2007) {Anth}

Kaawwa, Naagan, and the Queen’s Diamond Necklace

• Dragonfly Spirit March (2006) {Ch | Ez}

The King of Rabbits and Moon Lake [Listen]

• Cricket April (2006) {Ch}
• Journey Into… (2012) {Pod}

Li T’ien and the Demon (Dragon) Nian

• Cricket Jan (2006) {Ch}
• Black Dragon, White Dragon (2008) {Anth}

♥ The Life and Times of Penguin [Read | Listen]

• Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #18 (2005) {Mag}
• Escape Pod Sept (2005) {Pod}
• Farrago’s Wainscot Part III (2007) {Ez}
• Triangulation: Taking Flight (2008) {Anth}
• Mortal Clay, Stone Heart and Other Stories in Shades of Black and White (2011) {Bk}

A Little Soul Music

• In the Outposts of Beyond (2003) {Anth}
• Writers for Relief: An Anthology to Benefit the Survivors of Katrina (2005) {Anth}

Living with a Shoulder Monster [Read]

• Aberrant Dreams July (2007) {Ez}
• Aberrant Dreams I: The Awakening (2009) {Anth}

Megumi’s Fire

• Paper Blossoms, Sharpened Steel (2009) {Anth}

Mistress Fortune Favors the Unlucky

• Bash Down the Door and Slice Open the Badguy (2007) {Anth}

♥ Mortal Clay, Stone Heart

• The Dragon and the Stars (2010) {Anth}
• Mortal Clay, Stone Heart and Other Stories in Shades of Black and White (2011) {Bk}

‡ The Music Company [Read]

• Hub #26 (2007) {Ez}

♥ My Friend is a Lesbian Zombie [Listen]

• Here & Now #7 (2005) {Mag}
• Escape Pod Feb (2006) {Pod}

Nobodies and Somebodies [Read | Listen]

• Aberrant Dreams #8 (2006) {Ez}
• Aberrant Dreams Podcast Oct (2008) {Pod}

♥ A Nose for Magic

• The Pagan Anthology of Short Fiction: 13 Prize Winning Tales (2008) {Anth}
• Mortal Clay, Stone Heart and Other Stories in Shades of Black and White (2011) {Bk}

♥ Nothing of Me

• Aegri Somnia (2006) {Anth}

Of Two Minds in Lanais

• Leading Edge #48 (2004) {Mag}
• Faeries #23 (2006) {Mag}

Only Springtime When She’s Gone [Read | Listen | Ab]

• Anaisdotmfk May (2005) {Ez}
• Neometropolis #7 (2005) {Ez}
• Apex Online May (2005) {Ez}
• Escape Pod (2010) {Pod}

♥ ‡ Oranges, Lemons, and Thou Beside Me [Listen | Ab]

• Apex Digest #4 (2005) {Mag}
• Apex Digest Best of 2005 (2006) {Anth}
• Pseudopod Dec (2006) {Pod}

A Parade of Taylups [Read]

• Aberrant Dreams Jan (2007) {Ez}
• Aberrant Dreams I: The Awakening (2009) {Anth}

A Patch of Jewels in the Sky

• Dragonfly Spirit June (2006) {Ch | Ez}
• Triangulation: End of the Rainbow (2010) {Anth}

Perfidious Beauty

• Embark to Madness (2005) {Anth}

Princess Bufo marinus, Also Known as Amy

• Magic in the Mirrorstone (2008) {Anth | Ch}

The Princess and the Golden Fish

• Cricket Jan-April (2011) {Ch}

The Raven’s Brocade

• Cricket Dec (2007) {Ch}
• Returning My Sister’s Face: And Other Far Eastern Tales of Whimsy and Malice (2009) {Bk}

Razi and the Sunbird

• Cricket Feb (2005) {Ch}

The Red String

• Cricket Feb (2012) {Ch}

♥ The Reign of the Wintergod [Listen]

• The Asylum Volume 3: The Quiet Ward (2003) {Anth}
• Pseudopod April (2009) {Pod}

Requiem Duet, Concerto for Flute and Voodoo [Listen]

• Daily Science Fiction (2011) {Ez}
• Journey Into… (2012) (Forthcoming) {Pod}

♥ ‡ Returning My Sister’s Face [Listen]

• Realms of Fantasy Feb (2005) {Mag}
• Faeries #21 (2006) {Mag}
• Best New Fantasy (2006) {Anth}
• Pseudopod Sept (2006) {Pod}
• Returning My Sister’s Face: And Other Far Eastern Tales of Whimsy and Malice (2009) {Bk}

♥ ‡ Running on Two Legs [Read]

• The 3rd Alternative #40 (2004) {Mag}
• Writers for Relief 2 (2008) {Anth}
• The Fleas They Carried: Animal Aid Anthology (2009) {Anth}
• Mortal Clay, Stone Heart and Other Stories in Shades of Black and White (2011) {Bk}

Second Daughter [Read]

• Leading Edge #44 (2002) {Mag}
• Song of the Siren (2004) {Ez}
• Story Station July (2004) {Ch | Ez}
• The Sword Review #5 (2005) {Ez}
• Her Circle Ezine Fall (2006) {Ez}

Shim Chung the Lotus Queen

• GrendelSong #1 (2006) {Mag}
• Returning My Sister’s Face: And Other Far Eastern Tales of Whimsy and Malice (2009) {Bk}

Sins of the Mother

• Thou Shalt Not (2006) {Anth}

♥ ‡ Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast [Read | Listen | eBk]

• Interzone #220 (2009) {Mag}
• Escape Pod Sept. (2009) {Pod}
• Apex Magazine Aug. (2009) {Ez}
• British Science Fiction Association 2009 Awards (2010) {Anth}
• Pevnost Oct/Nov. (2010) {Mag}
• Ténèbres (2010) {Anth}
• Robot (2010) {Mag}
• Cuásar (2010) {Mag}
• Galaktika (2011) {Mag}
• Nebula Awards Showcase 2011 (2011) {Anth}
• Helion (2011) (Forthcoming) {Mag}

The Snow Woman’s Daughter [Listen]

• Cricket Feb (2007) {Ch}
• Escape Pod Sept (2007) {Pod}
• Returning My Sister’s Face: And Other Far Eastern Tales of Whimsy and Malice (2009) {Bk}
• Writers for Relief 3 (2011) (Forthcoming) {Anth}

‡ The Son that Pain Made

• Aberrant Dreams #6 Jan (2006) {Ez}

Souls of Living Wood [Listen]

• Modern Magic: Dark Tales of Fantasy (2006) {Anth}

Spring Arrives on a Hob’s Tail [Read]

• Story Station Dec (2005) {Ch | Ez}

Still My Beating Heart [Ab]

• Scrybe Press chapbook (2005) {Bk}

The Storyteller’s Wife

• Realms of Fantasy June (2005) {Mag}
• Faeries #19 (2005) {Mag}
• MechMuse Fall (2006) {Pod}

The Tanuki-Kettle [Listen]

• Cricket July (2007) {Ch}
• PodCastle Oct (2008) {Pod}
• Returning My Sister’s Face: And Other Far Eastern Tales of Whimsy and Malice (2009) {Bk}

The Tax Collector’s Cow

• Spider June (2006) {Ch}

The Tears of My Mother, the Shell of My Father

• Returning My Sister’s Face: And Other Far Eastern Tales of Whimsy and Malice (2009) {Bk}
• Japanese Dreams (2009) {Anth}

A Thread of Silk

• Jim Baen’s Universe June (2008) {Ez}
• Returning My Sister’s Face: And Other Far Eastern Tales of Whimsy and Malice (2009) {Bk}

‡ The Tiger Fortune Princess [Listen]

• Paradox #7 (2005) {Mag}
• Drabblecast March (2008) {Pod}
• Returning My Sister’s Face: And Other Far Eastern Tales of Whimsy and Malice (2009) {Bk}

The Tortoise Bride

• Cricket Oct (2009) {Ch}

Wanting to Want [Listen]

• Hub #1 (2006) {Mag}
• Pseudopod June (2007) {Pod}

When the Lights Go Out

• Here & Now #5/6 (2005) {Mag}
• Ennea (9) #279 (2005) {Mag}

When Shakko Did Not Lie [Listen]

• Cricket Jan (2008) {Ch}
• PodCastle Jan (2010) {Pod}

The Wish of the Demon Achtromagk [Listen | eBk]

• Drabblecast (2011) {Pod}

‡ Within Your Soul I Sightless See [Read]

• H.P. Lovecraft’s Magazine of Horror #5 (2009) {Ez}

The Wiggly People [Listen]

• Thou Shalt Not (2006) {Anth}
• Drabblecast June (2008) {Pod}

♥ The Wizard of Eternal Watch

• Sages & Swords (2006) {Anth}
• Best New Romantic Fantasy 2 (2007) {Anth}
• Mortal Clay, Stone Heart and Other Stories in Shades of Black and White (2011) {Bk}

‡ Year of the Fox

• So Fey: Queer Fairy Fiction (2007) {Anth}
• Returning My Sister’s Face: And Other Far Eastern Tales of Whimsy and Malice (2009) {Bk}

Table of Contents:
1. The Life and Times of Penguin
2. Running on Two Legs
3. Black Swan, White Swan
4. The Bunny of Vengeance and the Bear of Death
5. A Nose for Magic
6. The Center of the Universe
7. The Wizard of Eternal Watch
8. Mortal Clay, Stone Heart

E-book (November 2011): $2.99
• Kindle
• Nook
• ePpub, iPad, PDF, Palm (PDB), Sony (LRF)

ISBN: 978-1-4661-6573-1

Praise For “THE LIFE AND TIMES OF PENGUIN”:

Eugie Foster’s “The Life and Times of Penguin” succeeds in being, by turns, funny, thought-provoking, and poignant
—Douglas Hoffman, Tangent

Told from the point of view of a balloon animal penguin, the toy’s brief but eventful life manages to jam in enough existential angst to give Kierkegaard indigestion, an astonishing emotional depth, and yet fully embrace the essentially absurd nature of [Eugie Foster's] story.
—Martin McGrath, The Fix

both touching and uplifting
—Geoff Willmetts, SF Crowsnest

a beautiful fantasy, which employs the trappings of children’s fiction, with adult emotional themes of risk and mortality.
—Talie Helene, ASif

Praise For “RUNNING ON TWO LEGS”:

A wonderful story, one that I enjoyed reading tremendously. It’s one of the best stories I’ve ever critiqued in my years of teaching writing workshops.
—A.C. Crispin

a beautiful story—touching without being sentimental, with characters that come believably to life.
—Victoria Strauss

the beauty of the language carries one along…It is difficult to write a thoughtful story that features a terminal disease without melodrama, and Eugie Foster achieves it with style.
—E. Sedia, Tangent

Praise For “THE BUNNY OF VENGEANCE AND THE BEAR OF DEATH”:

a profoundly strange supernatural look at the morality of revenge.
—Nick Gevers, Locus

the story is emotionally effective and, impressively, given its subject matter, makes its point through character and story rather than cold rhetoric.
—Ben Payne, Tangent