Kristin Janz

Tag: Christian speculative fiction

  • Mythic Orbits Vol. 2 available on Amazon

    If you’re interested in picking up Mythic Orbits Vol. 2, the new anthology that Donald and I have stories in, the Kindle version is available now on Amazon! (Paperback to follow in a few weeks.)

    Our stories are both reprints from Daily Science Fiction. Mine is “The Workshop at the End of the World”, and Donald’s is “Her Majesty’s Guardian”.

    For only $2.99, you get both those stories, and 9 others by different Christian authors, in convenient e-book form!

    The editor and publisher, Travis Perry, is one of the few people in the Christian speculative fiction world who publishes short stories, so of course because of what we’re doing with Mysterion, we hope to see him succeed (even though his approach to “Christian fiction” is a lot different from ours–we think there’s room for a lot of different ways of engaging with the Christian faith in one’s writing and publishing projects).

  • Kickstarter for Mysterion 2

    Donald and I are running a Kickstarter to fund a second volume of the Mysterion anthology. Check it out!

    Our funding target is $5000, which would be just about enough to pay the authors. We are able to cover the other costs involved in putting together a book–cover art and design, layout, copy editing, etc.–but we haven’t sold enough copies of the first book for it to be feasible to go ahead with Volume 2 without doing some fundraising.

    16 days in, 24 days to go, and we’re at 26% of our goal, with 40 backers. So, obviously, we need to get more people to pledge in order for us to go ahead with this.

    What happens if we don’t meet our funding goal? (Kickstarter funding is all-or-nothing, so if we don’t reach our target, we don’t get anything.) Well, we probably won’t quit publishing. But we won’t be able to open to story submissions in 2017.

    We’re the only pro-paying market for Christian-themed short speculative fiction; although we’re not a traditional Christian publisher. Our focus is on work that doesn’t fit comfortably in either inspirational or mainstream publishing–we actively encourage story submissions from authors who aren’t Christian, for instance, and are open to publishing fiction that’s critical of the Christian faith as well as stories that affirm it. Read our Theme Guidelines if you’re interested in learning more!

    And support us on Kickstarter!

  • Table of Contents Announcement

    Donald S. Crankshaw and I are pleased to announce the Table of Contents for our forthcoming anthology Mysterion: Rediscovering the Mysteries of the Christian Faith. Authors include Nebula nominees Beth Cato and Kenneth Schneyer, plus 18 others, newcomers and veterans alike.

    “The Monastic” by Daniel Southwell
    “When I Was Dead” by Stephen Case
    “Forlorn” by Bret Carter
    “Too Poor to Sin” by H. L. Fullerton
    “Golgotha” by David Tallerman
    “A Lack of Charity” by James Beamon
    “Of Thine Impenetrable Spirit” by Robert B. Finegold, MD
    “A Good Hoard” by Pauline J. Alama
    “Yuri Gagarin Sees God” by J. S. Bangs
    “Confinement” by Kenneth Schneyer
    “The Angel Hunters” by Christian Leithart
    “Cutio” by F. R. Michaels
    “St. Roomba’s Gospel” by Rachael K. Jones
    “Yuki and the Seven Oni” by S. Q. Eries
    “A Recipe for Rain and Rainbows” by Beth Cato
    “This Far Gethsemane” by G. Scott Huggins
    “Ascension” by Laurel Amberdine
    “Cracked Reflections” by Joanna Michal Hoyt
    “The Physics of Faith” by Mike Barretta
    “Horologium” by Sarah Ellen Rogers

    We received over 450 submissions, out of which we accepted only 20, turning away many stories that we both would have loved to include.

    The anthology should be out sometime this summer; in the meantime, you can pre-order through our Patreon site, and/or subscribe to the Mysterion newsletter for more frequent updates.