The final selection has been made and the following authors will be appearing in the anthology, “Fantastic Detectives”:
- Reed Bonadonna – “Perchance to Dream”
- Gregg Chamberlain – “This Sword for Hire”
- Robert Finegold – “A Madness Most Discreet”
- David Keener – “Jonelle Crosse”
- Emma Melville – “Penance”
- Jeff Patterson – “Sister Autumn and the Angel’s Blade”
- Maria Prokopyeva – “Worshippers of Baser Stuff”
- Daniel Robichaud – “Out Among the Pecan Trees”
- Donna Royston – “The First Censor’s Statement”
- Shannon Taft – “The Codicil”
- David Tatum – “Tumbling the Lord”
- Martin Wilsey – “Justice in the Mist”
- Austin Worley – “The Skull in the Tree”
There you have it…a solid baker’s dozen of awesome fantasy detective stories! We’re anticipating a March 2023 publication date.
We’re producing an anthology called Fantastic Defenders. It’s targeted for five novelettes/novellas in the range of 10K to 20K words. It’s a semi-curated anthology, which basically means, at least in this case, that four of the slots have been filled by hand-picking authors we’re familiar with and who have a track record of doing excellent stories at this length.