John Klima’s anthology Logorrhea: Good Words Make Good Stories goes on sale today. Published by Bantam, “every story in the anthology is based on a spelling-bee winning word.”
The table of contents is:
“The Chiaroscurist” by Hal Duncan
“Lyceum” by Liz Williams
“Vivisepulture” by David Prill
“Eczema” by Clare Dudman
“Semaphore” by Alex Irvine
“The Smaragdine Knot” by Marly Youmans
“A Portrait in Ivory” by Michael Moorcock
“The Cambist and Lord Iron: A Fairy Tale of Economics” by Daniel Abraham
“Logorrhea” by Michelle Richmond
“Pococurante” by Anna Tambour
“From Around Here” by Tim Pratt
“Vignette” by Elizabeth Hand
“Plight of the Sycophant” by Alan DeNiro
“The Last Elegy” by Matthew Cheney
“Eudaemonic” by Jay Caselberg
“Softer” by Paolo Bacigalupi
“Crossing the Seven” by Jay Lake
“Tsuris” by Leslie What
“The Euonymist” by Neil Williamson
“Singing of Mount Abora” by Theodora Goss
“Appoggiatura” by Jeff VanderMeer
Klima is very excited about the book. “It’s been a lot of work in a short amount of time. I sold the book in January of 2006. There were only two out of 21 stories written at that time. To get more than 100,000 words written, edited, and pushed through the publishing process in just over a year took a great amount of effort. I’ve gotten the chance to work with a lot of authors that I admire.” During that 15-month span of time, he also “completed my MLIS, my wife gave birth to our first child, I took a full-time job at a great public library in New Jersey, changed to a full-time job in Iowa, and moved halfway across the country from New Jersey to Iowa. I’m not sure what I’ll do with my free time now that the work on the book is essentially done.”