A Bard's Tale

Pick up your copy of Bards and Sages Quarterly's July edition today and you can read my latest story "Spiritual Reflection." It's neither a story about a bard nor a sage, but I think you'll enjoy it just the same. It's actually a story inspired by an odd call I once took while working as an editorial assistant at the Sun Sentinel.

If that's not enough to whet your appetite, here's a full table of contents:


Spiritual Reflection by Steve Coate
The Flower that Fades and Fa's by Malcolm Laughton
Eulogy for a Hero by Bryan Hulse
Bloom by Sean Turner McLeod
And a Sower Goes Forth by Stephen McQuiggan
A Foregone Conclusion by Connor and Sylvia Wrigley
Snatching the Lute by Gerry Huntman
Son of the Empire by Tyler Bourassa
The Corner of Forty-Sixth and Ninth by Julia Martins

                                                           Cover by Nathan Hyde

Anthology available now!

You can get your copy of Only Disconnect from Third Flatiron Anthologies here. The book contains several science fiction, fantasy and horror stories about the pitfalls of distraction and overstimulation. My science fiction tale "Jacked" appears within its pages. "Jacked" is also available as a podcast, which you can soon listen to here.

The proof is in the galley

Just got my galley proof of Bards and Sages Quarterly's July issue, in which my short story "Spiritual Reflection" appears. It's a story that was inspired by a phone call I took while working as an editorial assistant at the Sun Sentinel. Look for the issue, which contains tales by eight other authors as well, in just over a month. In the meantime, you can find out more about Bards and Sages Quarterly by clicking the link. And if that's not enough to keep you occupied, here's a pic of their most recent issue:

Werewolves, guns and knives, oh my!

My short story "Semper Gumbie" has been accepted to SNAFU: Wolves at the Door, an upcoming anthology from Cohesion Press, which, as advertised in the title, will feature military fiction involving werewolves and werecreatures. If you like military fiction and can't wait for SNAFU: Wolves at the Door, you might want to check out Cohesion's earlier military fiction anthologies, SNAFU, or SNAFU: Heroes.

In the meantime, here's the slick cover by Conzpiracy Digital Arts.

Updated publishing news

"Fetch" appears in this month's Bloodbond magazine. Now available from Alban Lake Publishing here.

The table of contents includes the following authors and poets:

Tyree Campbell
John Grey
Tim Jeffreys
Nicole Tanquary
Matthew Wilson
James S. Dorr
Marge Simon
K. S. Hardy
L. A. Story Sikora
Ken Poyner
Marge Simon
Terrie Leigh Relf
K. S. Hardy
Richard King Perkins II
Neil Weston
Robert E. Porter
Sandy DeLuca

So be sure to snap up a copy for yourself. And here's a look at the haunting cover, "Hunger," by Teresa Tunaley.

Publishing news

I just received word that Alban Lake Publishing's Bloodbond magazine has picked up my short story "Fetch" as a reprint for its November issue. So if you missed "Fetch" in From Shadows & Nightmares (Aug., 2011). You can catch it next month in Bloodbond.

Moving and anthologies

So I'm in the midst of moving the Coaterack from another blogging site, here to Blogger.

Please pardon the dust during construction.

In the meantime, here are a few anthologies I'm looking forward to in the near future that you may find interesting as well:

The Spirit of Poe is an anthology of Edgar Allan Poe inspired short stories and poems produced by Literary Landmark Press.  Every cent earned from the sale of the anthology will go to the Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum in Baltimore, which recently lost $80,000 worth of funding from the city.  The anthology is planned to be released on Halloween of this year.

Dark Tales of Lost Civilizations is what you might expect from the title.  As the editor's site says, the anthology will be filled with "dark tales of horror, speculative fiction, and to a lesser degree science fiction, relating to civilizations that are lost, or have been forgotten, or have been rediscovered, or perhaps merely spoken about in great and fearful whispers. Dark Tales of Lost Civilizations is currently set for Spring 2012 publication.

Mutation Nation from Rainstorm Press is the anthology for the lover of horror, science fiction and all things strange.  This looks to be interesting, with an infinite number of possibilities for stories.  From the publisher's website: "Who are these human oddities? How do these characters and/or the people in their lives deal with the curse-or the blessing-of their mutations? This anthology will contain stories that explain these human mutations-and their consequences." Mutation Nation is set for release Dec. 1.