Prime Codex is for sale! And you have multiple reasons to want a copy.
I’ve sort of kept mum about one of them, I realize. You already know that my story, “Rampion” appears in the anthology. But there’s this other thing I forgot to mention.
After I sold them “Rampion,” I had one of those conversations with the editors, Lawrence Schoen and Michael Livingston, where I foolishly said, “Who’s your art director?”
I need to learn to stop asking this question. This is how I started working with Shimmer , too. Not that I mind, you understand, but it does seem to be a dangerous question because after a little bit of conversation the answer turned out to be, me.
Lawrence and Michael picked out David Ho’s fantastic art, before I came on board as art director, so all I designed was the cover and interior. It just felt a little awkward to mention since I have a story actually in the anthology and all. But, it does give you another reason to want the anthology, right?
Plus! Look at the table of contents:
1. James Maxey, “To The East, A Bright Star”
— from Asimov’s (December 2005)
2. Cat Rambo, “Ticktock Girl”
— from CyberAge Adventures (September 2005)
3. Ken Scholes, “The Man With Great Despair Behind His Eyes”
— from Talebones (Winter 2005)
4. Geoffrey Girard, “Wizards’ Encore”
— from Beyond Centauri (April 2005)
5. Elaine Isaak, “The Disenchantment of Kivron Ox-master”
— from The Worlds of Fantasy (2001)
6. Jim C. Hines, “Sister of the Hedge”
— from Realms of Fantasy (June 2006)
7. Mary Robinette Kowal, “Rampion”
— from The First Line (Spring 2005)
8. Eric James Stone, “Salt of Judas”
— from Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show (March 2006)
9. E. Catherine Tobler, “Button by Button”
— from Would That It Were (April/June 2001)
10. Matthew S. Rotundo, “Black Boxes”
— from Absolute Magnitude (Spring 2001)
11. Tobias Buckell, “Tides”
— from Ideomancer Unbound (December 2002)
12. Tom Pendergrass, “Urban Renewal”
— from Shimmer (Summer 2006)
13. Mike Shultz, “As the Stars of the Sky”
— from Leading Edge (April 2004)
14. Ruth Nestvold, “Rainmakers”
— from Asimov’s (June 2005)
15. David W. Goldman, “Radical Acceptance”
— from Analog (January/February 2007)
You can order your copy of Prime Codex at the Paper Golem website.
It has always been a mystery (to me) how you find the time to do so much. I read once where a large majority of overacheivers and geniuses rarely got more than 2 to 3 hours sleep each night. How much sleep do you get, Mary?
With Shimmer, well, you might recall that we (mostly Beth) courted you for a good long while (could have been a few weeks), that you initially refused citing time constraints, and ultimately you gave in to our evil schemes and arm-twisting after we “sneakily” sent you an early draft of “The Plan,” which you could not resist commenting on. We had always intended on bringing you aboard the SS Shimmer. We would have persisted even if you had never asked the question. Nevertheless, Shimmer would have been only an electronic downloadable zine produced in MS Word and certainly nowhere near as fab as it is today had you not enlisted for duty as Captain Art Director. We always knew you had extraordinary talent. It is not surprising that everyone else knows as well.
Geez, what an amazing cover, and even better stories!
I’ll order a copy next month 🙂
Just ordered my copy – it looks beautiful and I can’t wait to get it.
Ah ha! Mr. Radley, the truth comes out of your nefarious plans.
Worldy and Laura Lee: Thanks for the support! Having had a chance to read the stories, they really do rock.
See what I get for leaving a group in a huff? ;p
I’ll make sure you get extra pretty artwork for your story in Shimmer. See! The authors don’t get artwork in Prime Codex.
Boy, do you know how to pull my strings…;p
That’s my job.
Hey, that’s awesome! Congratulations, you author/art director, you.
Why, thank you, sir!