Women Up To No Good

A project in Nashville, TN by Joanne Merriam
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The Women Up To No Good series are anthologies of dark fiction by marginalized voices.
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Dates: Jun 1st -> Jun 30th (30 days)
Project By: Joanne Merriam
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June 30th - via: kickstarter.com
We made our goal! This otter agrees that you all are wonderful. I'm so incredibly thankful for all of you. I'm grateful you're in this with me. Together we're going to push speculative and horror fiction to be more inclusive. We still have four... (Read More)

Crowd-funding has made the press―and many of our books―possible.

June 29th - via: kickstarter.com
Liz Loves Books posted a guest post with me! Here's an excerpt: My journey into publishing started with a job listing in the local paper for an administrative assistant position at the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia, where I ended up working... (Read More)

“The bees died because they know,” she said finally.

June 28th - via: kickstarter.com
Today we have our final feature! We’re sharing a bit about our final two stories, both featuring insects and the body: Maggie Maxwell’s “Like I Need a Hole in the Head” from Broad Knowledge and Jasmyne J. Harris’s “What the Bees Know... (Read More)

So much for Plan A. Plan B was more flexible. Okay, less well-formed.

June 27th - via: kickstarter.com
Today's feature focuses on two stories of girls with special gifts living on the streets: Rati Mehrotra's "Make Pretty," in which an orphaned girl in a post-collapse Toronto makes art for the aliens she empathically connects with, and Nisi Shawl's... (Read More)

I thought you understood about transformation.

June 26th - via: kickstarter.com
Last night, we posted a new cover for Broad Knowledge, after receiving feedback that it didn't fit its genre. Our donors will choose (in the backer survey sent out after the campaign ends) which of the two covers becomes the actual published version!... (Read More)

Just imagine if people took every word that came out of your mouth as seriously as they take every bullet fired out of a gun.

June 25th - via: kickstarter.com
Today we feature two different takes on the power of your voice. In R. S. Benedict’s “Clara Vox,” that power is very literal: the main character is saved from suicide by a woman with the dubious gift of possessing a voice that people can’t... (Read More)

There’s a slight green sheen. Not from the lichen or whatever, just normal rot.

June 24th - via: kickstarter.com
About today's two stories, editor Octavia Cade writes: Are there limits to the consumptions we’ll perform as a community, as H. Pueyo argues in “I Eat”? When we choose, as ecosystem actors, to act to the detriment of that ecosystem as a whole,... (Read More)

There is a constant buzz that is very nearly comforting.

June 23rd - via: kickstarter.com
Tabitha Sin's "The Donor," from Broad Knowledge, and Kathryn McMahon's "The Honey Witch" (from which today's title comes), from Sharp & Sugar Tooth, both explore the horrific side of preservation. In both, organs are taken over by something else,... (Read More)

There, just behind his teeth, is what I’m looking for: ugly thoughts, viscous as boiled tendon.

June 22nd - via: kickstarter.com
Today we spotlight two stories of eating souls, Crystal Lynn Hilbert’s “Soul of Soup Bones” and Alyssa Wong’s “Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers” (from which today's title comes):  Crystal Lynn Hilbert excerpt Alyssa Wong excerpt... (Read More)

To give that much, so thoughtfully, you have to have a self, well-established, and conscientiously choose to give of it.

June 21st - via: kickstarter.com
Today we feature two stories from Sharp & Sugar Tooth which center around generosity: Erin Horáková's "A Year Without the Taste of Meat" and A. R. Henle's "Strong Meat." But first, a little news! Christi Craig has posted a guest post from me... (Read More)

Scuba diving on Europa was supposed to be fun

June 20th - via: kickstarter.com
Two stories in Broad Knowledge involve space travel (as does Sharp & Sugar Tooth’s “And When We Die They Will Consume Us” by Betsy Aoki, which we featured on June 16th): “The Cold Waters of Europa” by Claudine Griggs (from which our... (Read More)

symptoms involve the development of significant craniofacial deformities

June 19th - via: kickstarter.com
H. P. Lovecraft’s fictional town of Innsmouth, Massachusetts, featured in his famous story "The Shadow Over Innsmouth," forms the background for two stories in Broad Knowledge: Angela Slatter’s “The Song of Sighs” and Megan Chaudhuri’s... (Read More)

I may have a sweet tooth but I'm not delicate.

June 18th - via: kickstarter.com
Today our title is from “A Lie You Give, And Thus I Take” by Damien Angelica Walters, which was first published in Lightspeed in December 2014, along with an author spotlight, in which she says: The only things that surprised me were all the... (Read More)

all that’s between you and the tox is the red

June 17th - via: kickstarter.com
Today’s title is from Clarice Radrick’s “The Red.” In this Broad Knowledge story, a girl must wear a red cloak and hood to cross a wasteland and deliver food to the Ancient, a scientist trying to discover a cure for their broken world, while... (Read More)

I'd gone from botanist to alien landscape within a few hours.

June 16th - via: kickstarter.com
Aliens taking over our bodies is another popular staple of horror, from The Thing to all the versions of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and two of our stories (one in each of our two anthologies) perfectly illustrate this primal fear. In Priya... (Read More)

We're introducing a new reward!

June 15th - via: kickstarter.com
A.C. Wise, author of The Ultra Fabulous Glitter Squadron Saves the World Again and The Kissing Booth Girl and Other Stories, will critique one short story for the lucky person to get to it first!  A.C. Wise She'll also shortly be posting an... (Read More)

My dad’s not so sure that building flamethrowers and rockets in the driveway is such a good idea.

June 14th - via: kickstarter.com
Our kickstarter was featured on the Barnes & Noble Sci-fi & Fantasy Blog, at the bottom of a post on 13 Queer Speculative Short Story Collections and Anthologies to Read Right Now! Broad Knowledge has two very different stories of... (Read More)

To reach the open sea, they’d have to be relentless and brave.

June 13th - via: kickstarter.com
Tammy Sparks at Books, Bones & Buffy: Adventures in Speculative Fiction interviewed me about this kickstarter! "Because June is Pride Month, it’s particularly fitting that your Kickstarter is so inclusive, with a variety of sexual and gender... (Read More)

The day dawns as red as fresh blood on a fishing boat’s deck.

June 12th - via: kickstarter.com
In her introduction to Sharp & Sugar Tooth, editor Octavia Cade writes:  . . . the coastal community of Amelia Gorman’s “She Makes the Deep Boil” is dependent on the sea to sate their hunger. And it does, mostly, supplying enough to keep a... (Read More)

“You should go to the doctor,” she chirped at him, buoyed by the absolute certainty that he would not listen to her.

June 11th - via: kickstarter.com
In Octavia Cade’s introduction to Sharp & Sugar Tooth, she writes, “Both Kathleen Alcalá (in The Dolls Eye) and Catherynne M. Valente (in The Lily and the Horn) take a look at how society changes when poison becomes the conflict resolution... (Read More)

I said you were destroying history

June 10th - via: kickstarter.com
For those of you who are Goodreads fans, we now have pages for each of the anthologies: Broad Knowledge and Sharp & Sugar Tooth. Go add us to your shelf!  Also! The fabulous Martha Wells, author of the Ile-Rien series, the Raksura series, The... (Read More)

Here is more a question of when than where.

June 9th - via: kickstarter.com
Today and tomorrow we’ll be featuring stories involving time travel!  Today, excerpts from Teresa P. Mira de Echeverría’s “Liquid Glass” (trans Lawrence Schimel – and the story from which our title comes), which appears in Broad... (Read More)

Tannins work like that.

June 8th - via: kickstarter.com
Today we feature two stories from Broad Knowledge which have elements of agriculture: pig-farming in “Profanity” (“So I wander over to the barn, stand at the pens, watch the ginormous mama pigs lying in the dirt fattening up their little... (Read More)

This is what the apocalypse looks like

June 7th - via: kickstarter.com
Yesterday we had two interviews and a guest post all go live!  Quick Questions - Octavia Cade and Joanne Merriam of Women Up To No Good, from Charles Payseur. For me dark fiction is inextricably linked to temptation, to identification with the... (Read More)

Horror as the stock which flavors the whole

June 6th - via: kickstarter.com
Today we feature three stories of mothers and children.  In Autumn Christian’s “Flowers for Dogman,” the protagonist, Effy, a senior in high school, believes herself to have ceased to be human because of her father’s emotional absence and... (Read More)

Eventually, she lands. Head-first, then the rest of her a split-second later.

June 5th - via: kickstarter.com
Just as the clown from yesterday's story (Caroline Yoachim’s “The Carnival Was Eaten, All Except the Clown”) grows her own family, so does the protagonist in Charlotte Ashley’s “She Falls,” whose original nature she has forgotten. This is... (Read More)

Sugar magic was messy magic

June 4th - via: kickstarter.com
Another staple of horror stories are clowns, for similar reasons as dolls: childhood attachments blended with the uncanny valley. Caroline M. Yoachim turns this trope on its head in “The Carnival Was Eaten, All Except the Clown,” where the clown... (Read More)

Dolls that LIVE (*evil laughter here*)

June 3rd - via: kickstarter.com
Are you sure your doll is where you left it? Did it . . . move? Is it . . . looking at you? Creepy dolls are a staple of horror fiction, triggering that part of our brain that hates the uncanny valley, as well as tapping into childhood fears of... (Read More)

Women dripping from his wrists

June 2nd - via: kickstarter.com
Thanks so incredibly much for the support so far! It's overwhelming. About ten hours to go in the early bird rewards! We’re featuring three stories today, which in different ways show the dangers of objectifying women. In Aimee Ogden’s “Matched... (Read More)

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