Sky Whales and Other Wonders

Today brought the contract for the appearance of my story "Breaking Laws" in the anthology Sky Whales and Other Wonders, edited by Vera Nazarian (norilanabooks), which is to be published in December.

At the same time as the contract came the somewhat distressing news from Vera that there are going to be other people's stories in the book aside from my own.

I mean . . . really!

Who are these interlopers? Well, I gather the running order has yet to be finalized, but the line-up looks like this:

The Sky Won't Listen by Tanith Lee

The Tin and the Damask Rose by Anna Tambour

What a Queen Does with her Hands by Erzebet YellowBoy

The Gifting of Nyla's Son by Linda J. Dunn

Stone Song by Sonya Taaffe

Sky Whales by Lisa Silverthorne

Death's Appointment Book, or the Dance of Death by JoSelle Vanderhooft

The Sugar by Mary A. Turzillo

She Who Runs by Mike Allen

Breaking Laws by John Grant

Only One Story But He Told It Well by Robert Brandt

(Notice how gentlemanly all the chaps are, letting the ladies go first . . .)

There's still some work being done on the cover, but at the moment it looks like this:

Yes, I know I've shown that image before, but it's so goldurn purty I thought I'd show it again! The artist's name is Ahyicodae and you can find lots more of her art here and here.