Bwahahahaha! On ebay right now you can buy a copy of Scenting the Dark and other Stories for a mere $102.57. One hundred and two dollars and fifty-seven cents! Or… you could buy a brand new copy from the publisher for $25. I just– what possible rationale is there for the ebay price? I mean. […]
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Joe Sherry says very nice things about Scenting the Dark and Other Stories over on Adventures in Reading. Here’s an excerpt. There are only eight stories in this 80 page collection from Mary Robinette Kowal, but there is not a wasted word here. The stories of Scenting the Dark and Other Stories should delight readers
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I feel like I should frame this, the way people do with My First Pair of Shoes or My First Blanket. My First Amazon Review is for my collection Scenting the Dark and Other Stories. How is the review? First, let’s discuss short stories a bit. Short fiction is hard for me to review. Simply
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I’ve been seeing reports that people have received their copies of Scenting the Dark and Other Stories from Subterranean, which is very cool. YetiStomper has a particularly glowing review, which covers each of the stories and finishes by saying: All in all, Scenting the Dark makes it clear that Kowal can do in 5 pages
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Woot! Scenting the Dark and Other Stories has come back from the printer which means that Subterranean will be shipping them shortly. This is excellent news, in part because it means that they’ll be here in time for Christmas. What? You don’t think I’m spoiling the surprise that our folks are getting copies do you?
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Publisher’s Weekly has reviewed Scenting the Dark and Other Stories. Whee! Scenting the Dark and Other Stories Mary Robinette Kowal. Subterranean (<http://www.subterraneanpress.com>www.subterraneanpress.com), $25 (80p) ISBN 978-1-59606-267-2 Campbell Award–winner Kowal presents a broad spectrum of stories in her chapbook-slim first collection. The heartbreaking “Just Right,” in which a family struggles with a child’s strange behavior, isn’t
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Subterranean is running a 50% off sale and one of the titles is my collection “Scenting the Dark and Other Stories.” We’ve been receiving a ton of requests that we run one of our 50% off sales, which we haven’t done in quite some time. Tim and I have carved a little time out of
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. . Hey come down to the KGB bar tonight at 7:00 pm for the KGB Fantastic Fiction reading series to hear Brian Francis Slattery and me read. As an added enticement, I’m including a very short monologue with a puppet. Brian is bringing a bass, a violinist and fiction! Should be fun tonight.
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Well look! My story “Scenting the Dark” from Apex Digest made the long list for StorySouth’s Million Writers Award Notable Stories 2008. The purpose of the storySouth Million Writers Award is to honor and promote the best fiction published in online literary journals and magazines during 2008. I’m very pleased to be on the list.
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Today was long, but very good. I got the ARCs for Scenting the Dark in the mail, which was pretty darn exciting. I wasn’t looking for them to arrive, so I hauled them up to my production meeting although I did not actually give in and show them off. Here they are, next to the
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Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to introduce you to my first collection, Scenting the Dark and Other Stories. I’ve loved Subterranean Press for a long time now and can’t describe how ecstatic I am about this little book. The cover art is an original by Sandro Castelli and the book design is by Gail Cross.
Michele Lee’s Book Love has nice things say about “Scenting the Dark.” Mary Robinette Kowal’s “Scenting the Dark†(Apex Online-Aug. 24) is enchanting, if not for the story itself, then for the intriguing use of a blind main character. An apt metaphor for a human exploring a new planet with only a few supports, this
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Apex has my short story Scenting the Dark up in their new online issue. For those who aren’t familiar with Apex, they do SF Horror. Here’s the teaser on mine. Lifting the stopper from the vial to his nose, Penn inhaled slowly. Against the neutral backdrop of his ship’s cleanroom, he picked out aromas of
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Yesterday, I sold “Scenting the Dark” to Apex Digest and felt like, given everything, that I should hold onto the news until after April Fool’s was over. Many thanks to those of you who read a draft of this. Your comments helped me enormously. Edited to add: The story will be in the next issue
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