HIRAETH PUBLISHING’S
MAY 2023 NEWSLETTER
Rage Against the Dying of the Light
Adapted from Einstein… “Insanity is voting for the same people over and over and expecting different results.”
Here I usually have an opinion to express, usually something related to one or more of the genres. In a remote way, what I’m about to write is also related.
There are too many mass shootings. One is too many. Proposed solutions abound. Gun control. Gun bans. Concealed Carry. Psychological testing. You lot know the routine, the list of measures to be taken. I’m not here to judge which one(s) will work. But I’d like to add one more thought to the list. It’s in the form of a simple question. It’s my opinion that whoever can answer it will go a long way toward finding…not a solution, but a remedy. Because the remedy will take a while. Because the future of our civilization (that’s the SF connection) may depend on finding that remedy.
The question, then, is this, and please pardon my French: What the fuck is it that we are teaching children and adolescents that makes them think it is okay to open fire on a crowd?
Sigh. Moving right along…
Awards:
Our publication “Summoning Space Travelers” by Angela Acosta was nominated recently for the prestigious SFPA 2023 Elgin Award. More on this as it develops.
Meanwhile, to order a copy, go here: https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/summoning-space-travelers-by-angela-acosta
Drabble Contest: A new drabble contest has just opened up. The theme is
Space Station Duty-Free
Be sure to check the guidelines before submitting! Here’s the link: https://www.hiraethsffh.com/drabble-contest
Digital Store: We continue to expand our digital store. Most of what we list is or soon will be available as an ePub or as a PDF. Keep in mind that digital is less expensive than print—a savings that is welcome in these hard times (which is why we continue to expand the digital store). Prices range from $3.99 on down…well worth it to get away from it all and immerse yourself in another world…
So come get some. Oh, btw, the discount mentioned below also applies to the digital store.
This is the link to our digital store: https://www.hiraethsffh.com/digital-store
Store Sales:
Next up, and at the risk of being somewhat repetitive, because we want our storytellers and poets to be read, and our artists to be seen:
THERE’S A SALE GOING ON!!!
IT’S STILL GOING ON!!!
BUY ALL THE BOOKS YOU WANT AND USE THIS 20% DISCOUNT CODE:
BOOKS2023
THIS DISCOUNT CAN BE USED AS MANY TIMES AS YOU WISH,
SO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT!
GO TO OUR SHOP AT WWW.HIRAETHSFFH.COM
NO MASKS, NO WAITING, AND WE NEVER CLOSE!
THIS JUST IN!
Drabbun Anthology
Hiraeth Publishing is still open for submissions to a new Drabbun anthology. We will be open from 1 December 2022 until full. For instructions on what to do and how this works, please read our guidelines, which are posted here: https://www.hiraethsffh.com/drabbun
Now, let’s see what we’ve been up to recently…
NEW RELEASES!
SCIFAIKUEST MAY 2023
This is the 80th issue of this digest!
Featured Poet: Sangita Kalarickal
The William Keckler Page
The Marie Herbert Page
The Doris Lynch Page
…and much more!!
Articles: Ablaut Reduplication by Roxanne Barbour
Space for the Butcher by Robert E. Porter
Edited for the 80th time by t.santitoro
Here are the ordering links:
Print: https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/scifaikuest-may-2023-edited-by-t-santitoro
ePub: https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/copy-of-scifaikuest-may-2023-edited-by-t-santitoro
SCIFAIKUEST MAY 2023 ONLINE
It’s different from the print issue. Reading is free. Here’s the link: https://www.hiraethsffh.com/scifaikuest-online
DRABBLE HARVEST #9: HAUNTED SPACEPORTS
Welcome to a collection of 100-word tales of how so many problems can be solved by a simple yet effective haunting. In here you will meet humans and non-humans who have to deal in some way with the spectral remnants of people and past events in space and in spaceports. Some of those ghosts are vexed, and will take their out their frustrations on whoever comes along. You’ll find humor and serious points in these stories. So take a load off and escape this world for a little while.
Here are the ordering links:
LOST DREAMS BOOKSTORE BY JAMES W. BULLARD
The old bookshop has been around before people can remember. An aging caretaker is finally being replaced and the new manager realizes the shop itself is sentient. The bookshop survives by deriving energy from its patron's lost dreams and uses that energy to manipulate people. A series of barely interacting victims who have shopped in the store over the years are telepathically summoned to return to the shop and gather on a single day not realizing their fate is in the hands of the sentient shop.
Here are the ordering links:
Print: https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/lost-bookshop-by-james-w-bullard
ePub: https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/lost-dreams-bookshop-by-james-w-bullard
STARWINDERS: NOHANA’S HEART BY TYREE CAMPBELL
The scion of a corporate hierarch, Angrboda Vigdisdottir (Ayvy) wants to hijack a gold shipment to prevent an interstellar war. Disgraced security operative Pol Cahill is the ideal partner for her, given his skill set. Unfortunately, personalities clash. Finally, on a remote world, the two encounter one another in a tavern, and find that a young woman named Nohana, intensely educated and with a desire to travel among the stars, takes to the pair.
But the personalities continue to clash even as plans are laid to steal the gold. Nohana fills the power vacuum and becomes the so-called adult in the room. But Cahill is shot and wounded before they can carry out their plan. Nohana now has no choice but to try to save the day, despite her lack of experience. Meanwhile, the war awaits.
Here are the ordering links:
Print: https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/starwinders-nohana-s-heart-by-tyree-campbell
ePub: https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/starwinders-1-nohana-s-heart-by-tyree-campbell-1
AND LEST WE FORGET…
ILLUMEN SPRING 2023
Illumen is a quarterly digest of science fiction and fantasy poetry, including minimalist forms such as haiku, haibun, empat perkataan, cinquains, and other forms, as well as more traditional formats for poetry.
Featured Poet: Jennifer Lee Rossman
Plus: Lee Clark Zumpe, Avra Margariti, Tony Daly, Emma Laurent, Deborah Sheldon, and many more!
Here are the ordering links:
Print: https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/illumen-spring-2023-edited-by-tyree-campbell
ePub: https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/illumen-spring-2023-edited-by-tyree-campbell-2
COSMIC CRIME STORIES – MARCH 2023
Crimes of some form will be with us as long as there are laws to break. Technology helps solve those crimes. But those solutions will always be found by the ones who get down and dirty—the detectives. Come see what the future holds for the dark side of law & order.
Short Stories
Double or Nothing by Lindsey Duncan
Maisie and the Missing Ticket by Angelique Fawns
Heart of Gold by Lisa Timpf
Don’t Wake the Children by David McGillveray
Hack Her by Mikel J. Wisler
The Sound of Death by Gareth D. Jones
Illustrations
Maisie by Devin Towrie
Here are the ordering links:
Print: https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/cosmic-crime-stories-edited-by-tyree-campbell-1
ePub: https://www.hiraethsffh.com/shop-3
ICYMI:
LIVING BAD DREAMS BY DENISE HATFIELD
When dreams come alive, there’s no telling where they will lead. Everything changes when you realize that, dream or no dream, you’re going to die. What do you do then?
Here are the ordering links:
Print: https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/living-bad-dreams-by-denise-hatfield-1
PDF: https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/living-bad-dreams-by-denise-hatfield
TO THE SHORE, TO THE SEA BY ERICA RUPPERT
An alien invasion changes human life on Earth. Their ships disintegrate on Earth, leaking poisons into the soil. The aliens take to the seas. With nowhere for people to go, many perish. Tansy and Luke take their daughter Maria to their family home by the ocean, seeking refuge. But there are strange creatures in the water, and they have a siren’s call that is irresistible and unavoidable.
Things change at the shore. Inexplicably, children are hungry all the time. And already it is too late…
To lose a loved one to Death is almost unbearable. But to lose a loved one still living, and changing because of the aliens, requires a surrender no one is prepared to make.
Here are the ordering links:
Print: https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/to-the-shore-to-the-sea-by-erica-ruppert
PDF: https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/to-the-shore-to-the-sea-by-erica-ruppert-1
UNDERSTUDIES BY PRIYA SRIDHAR
The Stardust Sisters have always made their parody shows work. So what if they lost their third member to Hollywood? Does it even matter that they don’t have a new theater facility? Grad school should fix that, twin sisters Stella and Evangeline calculate, and they’ll get the funding, as well as a decent apartment in the city.
As if by miracle, an apartment with no rent opens up— in the Haunted Basilio Theater, where new management wants a fresh start after summer camp went wrong. All the twins have to do is perform a show scripted a century ago, and give up bits of their body heat. The show must go on, right? Right?!
Here are the ordering links:
Print: https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/understudies-by-priya-sridhar
PDF: https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/understudies-by-priya-sridhar-1
PARABNORMAL MAGAZINE – MARCH 2023
Stories
Coins For The Dead by Herika R. Raymer
No Photographs, Please by Jeff Provine
Oscillating Temperatures by Jerri Moyes
There’s Something in the Bathroom by Jenna Moquin
This Is the Forest Primeval by Regina Clarke
Poems
An Innocent Item by Matthew Wilson
Damnatio Memoriae by Lamont A. Turner
The Morgue by Philip Madden
They Say by Scott J. Couturier
crow confessions by Sharmon Gazaway
Golem by Christian Dickinson
Articles
The Immortal Soul in This Mortal World by Sonali Roy
Willows Weep House
Here are the ordering links:
Print: https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/parabnormal-magazine-march-2023-edited-by-h-david-blalock-1
PDF: https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/parabnormal-magazine-march-2023-edited-by-h-david-blalock
THE MARTIAN WAVE – MARCH 2023
The Martian Wave features stories of the exploration and settlement of other worlds. In here you will encounter a denizen of the deep ocean on a strange planet; a remote world where nothing much happens—until it does; hallucinations and other labor problems; a remodeling of future Earth; the arrival of not-so-benevolent aliens; and much more!
Here are the ordering links:
Print: https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/martian-wave-march-2023-edited-by-tyree-campbell
PDF: https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/martian-wave-march-2023-edited-by-tyree-campbell-1
Without further ado, then: browse, read, buy, enjoy. If you have any questions or comments, send them to us at hiraethsubs at yahoo dot com. See you in June!
Tyree Campbell
Storyteller and Managing Editor
May 2023