Strap up and skate on: GLITTER AND MAYHEM is available now!: seanan

Strap up and skate on: GLITTER AND MAYHEM is available now!

Well, it's here: at long last you, too, can join the roller party already in progress. Glitter and Mayhem is available now from a bookseller near you! Twenty-one stories, twenty-one parties you know you want to be invited to.

The scores are in:

"Though stories range from humorous to horrific and from innocent to explicit, they stick to the theme with thoroughly enjoyable results. The diverse cast includes gay, lesbian, transgender, and drag queen characters, all portrayed in sensitive and positive lights. This collection definitely brings the party, with nary a poor choice to spoil the evening." —Publishers Weekly

"Glitter and Mayhem not only justifies the risks and faith required from its kickstarter backers, it shows that there is an audience for anthologies that take risks to bring short fiction outside of the usual bounds to a genre audience." —SF Signal

"Most of the stories here are weird, clever, and weirdly clever. Many of them involve roller skating. I never knew that I needed them. But now I want more sci-fi and fantasy stories about roller skating." —Revolution SF

"Glitter and Mayhem reminds me of the sweat and liquid latex-scented parties of the '90s Lower East Side. Only with, like, 50% more murder." —Kelly Sue DeConnick

Basically, come to our party if you want a good time...and if you want to meet Antimony "Final Girl" Price, the roller derby doll little sister of our beloved Verity. Annie's got another bout coming up in February, when she'll be taking on all challengers in "Jammed," but it all begins with "Bad Dream Girl" in Glitter and Mayhem.

See you on the track!

ohari

August 26 2013, 20:00:15 UTC 3 years ago

New comment

I was trying to come up with some sort of fake upper crust British accent sort of tone, but, I just can't make it work.

WOOHOO! NEW BOOK DAY! Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes! WooHoo!

Ahem.

Thank you for the reminder, Ms McGuire. I shall immediately proceed to my nearest bookseller to acquire a copy of this most excellent tome.

seanan_mcguire

August 27 2013, 18:15:39 UTC 3 years ago

Yay!

bzarcher

August 26 2013, 20:02:43 UTC 3 years ago

I got my kickstarter reward on Sunday and started chowing down on the sweet, sweet fiction.

I'll be honest, I enjoyed the entire collection, but I -did- skip ahead to Bad Dream Girl. Really liked the ending.

August 27 2013, 18:16:00 UTC 3 years ago

I'm really glad. I love that whole crew.

ladymurmur

August 26 2013, 20:50:56 UTC 3 years ago

REALLY looking forward to reading this anthology. :-) This was my first literary Kickstarter, and it is thrilling to see it come to fruition!

August 27 2013, 18:16:21 UTC 3 years ago

I'm so pleased with the buzz it's been getting.

dimestore_romeo

August 26 2013, 20:54:01 UTC 3 years ago

I saw the post on the facebook page about two minutes ago and instantly bought it on AmazonUK Kindle. So excited!

August 27 2013, 18:16:38 UTC 3 years ago

Deleted comment

August 27 2013, 18:16:56 UTC 3 years ago

Awesome.

listicath

August 26 2013, 22:20:13 UTC 3 years ago

I saw the announcements on Twitter earlier. It's on my Kindle now (or will be when I turn the wifi on), ready to read in bed in the morning.

For now it's time for thud.

August 27 2013, 18:17:13 UTC 3 years ago

Thud is good.

3 years ago

oneminutemonkey

August 26 2013, 22:31:54 UTC 3 years ago

Party on!
This book will always be one of my great regrets, in that I didn't finish a story in time to submit. This antho is awesomesauce.

mariadkins

August 27 2013, 16:32:35 UTC 3 years ago

ME TOO!

crewgrrl

August 27 2013, 00:16:20 UTC 3 years ago

Hoping that some libraries will acquire it.

August 27 2013, 18:18:13 UTC 3 years ago

Put in requests and they may.

missingvolume

August 27 2013, 02:33:14 UTC 3 years ago

I'll be looking at this collection for the Hugo ballot next year. There were some great stories in there.

August 27 2013, 18:19:12 UTC 3 years ago

Oh, that is high praise for the book!

kyrielle

August 27 2013, 02:35:54 UTC 3 years ago

Eeee! Bounce! I skipped ahead and much enjoyed meeting Antimony; now to double back and meet the other authors' friends. :)

August 27 2013, 18:19:23 UTC 3 years ago

August 27 2013, 16:32:16 UTC 3 years ago

i always go all fangirlly when i see PW reviewing something from apex :) can't wait to get my copy of this one .... guess i need to call jason. LOL he can throw me a copy as he drives by ... ROFL

October 8 2013, 16:57:21 UTC 3 years ago

August 27 2013, 18:22:59 UTC 3 years ago

There were a few that didn't click with me but that almost always seems to happen with any collection.

October 8 2013, 16:57:30 UTC 3 years ago

True.

wendyzski

August 27 2013, 18:41:16 UTC 3 years ago

*adds to online birfday list*

October 8 2013, 16:57:36 UTC 3 years ago

notalwaysweak

August 28 2013, 00:31:26 UTC 3 years ago

Ordered a hard copy from Book Depository since they have the best track record in getting stuff to me in a timely fashion. I also ordered Carniepunk in hard copy because my Seanan shelf isn't yet taking over the library and that's not right.

August 28 2013, 00:46:53 UTC 3 years ago

Further to this, I just went through your bibliography on your website and I kind of now have nine new books on the way and two to be notified of when they are rereleased. Gods all bless the Book Depository's free shipping to Australia!

joyce

August 29 2013, 01:28:14 UTC 3 years ago

I just might love Antimony bestest.

October 8 2013, 16:58:08 UTC 3 years ago

Me, too.

Post a new comment
36 comments

Log in

Strap up and skate on: GLITTER AND MAYHEM is available now!

Error