Category: Publication Notes

• March 5, 2023

  Book Release Party at Midtown Reader!

  I am thrilled to be celebrating the release of Babes in Toyland’s Fontanelle with Midtown Reader in Tallahassee, FL. If you are in the area, come by to check out their awesome Piebrary, and stay for a discussion of the Babes influence on music and the feminine catharsis. A signing will follow! What: Event signing…
• February 9, 2023

  Release Day: Babes in Toyland’s Fontanelle!

  My new book, Babes in Toyland’s Fontanelle, is out today! It is the latest in the 33 1/3 series from Bloomsbury Academic. Babes in Toyland was one of the most influential and underrated bands of the 1990s, and they were my favorite band growing-up. Their stage presence was enigmatic, their lyrics vitriolic, and their Kinderwhore…
• August 7, 2022

  Babes in Toyland’s Fontanelle available for pre-order

  Can you believe that 30 years ago, Babes in Toyland’s Fontanelle was unleashed on the world? The band was changing lives years before this, but this was the album that broke through the mainstream and has kept them being rediscovered again and again. Babes in Toyland were a formative discovery for 12-year old me (I…
• November 30, 2020

  33 ⅓: Babes in Toyland’s Fontanelle by Selena Chambers

  So…my 13-year old self just swooned through the future to fall into my 39-year old arms as a major dream has come true…  I will be writing the 33 ⅓ series installment on the band that changed me forever–Babes in Toyland–and their seminal album Fontanelle! 33 1/3 Books made the announcement this afternoon, revealing their…
• September 16, 2019

  Lost Transmissions: The Secret History of Science Fiction and Fantasy

  Congratulations to Desirina Boskovich, who has done it again with the glorious coffee table book LOST TRANSMISSIONS: The Secret History of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Published by Abrams Image, all sorts of people are spilling the beans in here:  Charlie Jane Anders, Neil Gaiman, Paul Tremblay, Molly Tanzer, Nick Mamatas, Annalee Newitz, Christie Yant, Darran…
• November 27, 2018

  BOOK RELEASE: MECHANICAL ANIMALS

  While it is true Marilyn Manson’s MECHANICAL ANIMALS has turned 20 years old, another MECHANICAL ANIMALS has been just born, and I hope will grow up to be as long-lasting and epic. This is the anthology I co-edited with the brilliant Jason Heller (whose STRANGE STARS came out earlier this year, and needs to be…
• October 24, 2017

  Leonora Carrington’s Centennial & Some Giveaways at WeirdFictionReview.com

  For the past few months, I’ve been living in the bizarre and exquisite surreal world of Leonora Carrington. This year is her centennial, and the publishing world celebrated by bringing most of her writing back into print! Dorothy, a publishing project published THE COMPLETE STORIES OF LEONORA CARRINGTON in the US, while Silver Press launched…
• October 3, 2017

  Happy Book Release Day to MIXED UP: COCKTAIL RECIPES (and Flash Fiction) FOR THE DISCERNING DRINKER (and Reader)

  I know this may look familiar, but while bookstores and contributors have been receiving copies early, today is the official release date for MIXED UP: COCKTAIL RECIPES (and Flash Fiction) FOR THE DISCERNING DRINKER (and Reader). Mixologists and Fabulists are going to be thrilled with this new anthology from Nick Mamatas and Molly Tanzer. Published…
• September 21, 2017

  Publishing Notes: New story in MIXED UP, edited by Nick Mamatas & Molly Tanzer

  Mixologists and Fabulists are going to be thrilled with this new anthology from Nick Mamatas and Molly Tanzer. MIXED UP: COCKTAIL RECIPES (and Flash Fiction) FOR THE DISCERNING DRINKER (and Reader), published by Skyhorse Publishing, is a lovely new gift book that pairs fantastic fiction with annotated and updated recipes. Even better, it’s now shipping…
• July 10, 2017

  CALLS FOR SUBMISSION: Electric Lit, Lovecraft Ezine, & Hemingway Days

  Some other great stuff has been going on in #CFSBOOK land in addition to the great event I had at Midtown Reader in Tallahassee.   June, Lovecraft eZine Review In June, Calls for Submission received another glowing review from Lovecraft eZine’s Acep Hale, who calls it: “the showcase of a writer with a deliberate and…