Meet me down at the Red Rock Roadhouse...

[seanan_mcguire]

...meet me down where the river runs red.

I am over the moon to finally be able to announce that "Stingers and Strangers," an original Jonathan Healy and Frances Brown short story, will be appearing in the upcoming Weird West anthology, Dead Man's Hand. To quote the official press release:

"'The weird western is the forefather of steampunk, with a history that includes Stephen King's Dark Tower and Card's Alvin Maker,' editor John Joseph Adams explains. 'But where steampunk is Victorian, weird westerns are darker, grittier, so the protagonist might be gunned down in a duel, killed by a vampire, or confronted by aliens on the streets of a dusty frontier town.'"

"Stingers and Strangers" fits between "No Place Like Home" and "Married In Green." When Johnny and Fran head to Colorado to investigate reports of dead and missing miners, they're in for a whole pile of trouble. It's an engagement not to be taken lightly.

For more information about the anthology, including a full table of contents (Elizabeth Bear! Kelley Armstrong! Ken Liu!), check out the official press release, located here:

http://www.johnjosephadams.com/blog/2013/04/10/new-anthology-dead-mans-hand/

Dead Man's Hand will be released in May of 2014. I'm so excited!

Comments

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

Aaaaah more Johnny and Fran! I've never really read weird Western stuff, but apparently that's where Jonathan and Fran hang out, so I may have to check this anthology out too. I know John Joseph Adams does good work, after all.

May of 2014 is so far awaaaaaaaaay.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

It is, it iiiiiiiis. But at least it's on the schedule now! I've been waiting for this one to be announced for ages.

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

awesome!

Was just thinking of you and incryptid things. Did you know about these critters? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade ? Totally looked like the sort of thing you ought to know about, and trying to think what your imagination would do to build on that is... awesome.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

I do!

[juglore.livejournal.com]

Yeah! Incryptid is really growing on me. Cool.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

I'm glad.

[triskelmoon.livejournal.com]

Yay! I confess, Fran is my favorite. Hail the Priestess of Unexpected Violence!

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

I adore Fran.

[elialshadowpine.livejournal.com]

WOOT.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Glee.

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

Wandering by and seeing this post again and going and looking at the book. I *do* hope you'll remind us of it again when the time gets closer, since I don't see any way for me to pre-order it now. :)

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Since all my upcoming publications are listed in the inchworm posts, which go up pretty regularly, I think there are reminders.