The Judgment of Osiris – A modern retelling of an ancient myth. The ancient gods of Egypt reach through time and claim Owen as their next sacrifice. On the last day of the tour he leads, Owen accepts a gift from a rival tour guide Simon. The miniature sarcophagus contains a mysterious white powder that takes Owen into the mythic Egyptian underworld. Will resurrection come for him as it did for his namesake Osiris?
Today the Travelling Fantasy Round Table is talking about how fantasy books depict disabilities. Carole McDonnell, Warren Rochelle, Chris Howard and Sylvia Kelso. Click to read.
At the MSU-Denver publishing panel last Tuesday, Lynda Hilburn talked about her publishing history. She says she was like so many other writers, happy to get interest in her manuscript. Excited by an offer, she published with a small press against her agent’s advice. The problem? Distribution.
When she got her rights back after they dithered over the third one in the series, she put them up herself. And struck gold. Well, maybe silver.
That’s when she came to the attention of a large agency in NYC who made a deal with Jo Fletcher books, a fabulous editor.
The books are great fun. Psychologist Kismet Knight treats vampire wanna-bes. But wait, some of them actually ARE vampires.
Lynda and I will be on a panel at Left Coast Crime tomorrow at 2:00 p.m. — “This Can’t Be Normal, Can It?” Hope to see you there.
A huge thank you to Kristin Nelson from Nelson Literary Agency, Jennifer Ryan from Fulcrum Publishing, Lynda Hilburn who writes the Kismet Vampire Psychology series, and Betsy Dornbusch writer and editor of Electric Spec for a fabulous panel on the state of publishing today at Auraria Writers Week. A ton of information, free books and great fun. Thanks to David Boop for the picture.
Thanks to Cynthia Kuhn, fabulous professor and Mysteristas web magician, for taking this picture of me reading a story at the Faculty Reading the day before.
I’ll be reading from my short story “The Judgment of Osiris,” Monday, March 18, at 11:45 a.m. in Tivoli Room 320 AB on the Auraria Campus in Denver. The story will appear in spring in the anthology Tales of Firelight and Shadow edited by Alexis Brooks de Vita for Double Dragon Media.
On Tuesday we have our State of Publishing panel, and on Wednesday Gish Jen will present. (See the post below for details.)