On October 1-2, 2011, Hydra House and en theos press will have a booth at the newly reinvigorated Bookfest in Kirkland, Washington. You can find the information here: http://www.northwestbookfest2011.com/

Danika Dinsmore (“Brigitta of the White Forest”) will be there, teaching two workshops: one on creating Dystopian fiction, the other on creating Imaginary Worlds. J.D. Munro (“The Erotica Writer’s Husband”) will be on a panel called “Taboo: Crossing the Line – Sex and Sexuality in Literature” at 5pm on Saturday. Not sure where our booth will be, but you can bet we’ll be selling books and giving away chocolate!

Nice to see Bookfest making a comeback. Back about ten years ago, I was on the board of the Eleventh Hour Productions, which oversaw the Seattle Poetry Festival. We shared an office with Bookfest in that incarnation down in Columbia City (Seattle), and we all saw how much work those ladies put into Bookfest. So I sympathize with Sheryn Hara and the others in putting this event together. It’s not easy!

With a great deal of pleasure, we are pleased to announce the publication of speculative fiction short stories by West Seattle writer K.C. Ball entitled “Snapshots from a Black Hole & Other Oddities,” slated for release in November, 2011.

The book will feature twenty four stories, eighteen previously published and six of them brand new.

“Snapshots” is edited by Redmond author Cat Rambo, and features a kick-ass cover by Seattle artist Christopher Sumption. The plan is to launch the book at Orycon in November.

K.C.’s writing is snappy and cool, and marches the reader through some bizarre twists and turns before arriving at emotionally satisfying conclusions. She is a Writers of the Future winner and a graduate of Clarion West. She has been published in Lightspeed Magazine, Analog, Every Day Fiction, and Kasma, among many others.

We are very excited to be releasing K.C.’s book as the first official release of Hydra House. Watch for more great work to come from this author and many others.

Come out and see us this weekend at Foolscap in Redmond! We just found out a few days ago that both Danika and Tod will be sitting on panels there as well as reading on Saturday.

The gracious Patrick at Fairwood Press will be handling book sales for us, and there will be a few copies at Park Place Books, so if you haven’t got a copy of “Brigitta of the White Forest,” now’s your chance, and Danika will bring her special stamp along!

The schedules are:

Danika Dinsmore
Friday 4:00 PM Elk Why So Much Fantasy and So Little SF?
Saturday 5:30 PM ? Reading
Saturday 9:30 PM Canyon For Love and/or Money
Sunday 2:00 PM Canyon Writer Inspiration: What Inspires You to Write?

Tod McCoy
Saturday 8:00 PM ? Reading
Sunday 11:00 AM Alder New Paradigms for Creativity and Compensation?

Tod will have chocolate and wine at his, so come out and see him!