Publisher Gavin Grant of Weightless Books writes to tell us the DRM-free ebook and e-magazine store “has added two new esubscriptions to its growing list of magazines: Weird Tales, edited by Ann VanderMeer, and Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine, edited by Marvin Kaye. Individual issues are $2.99 and 4-issue subscriptions are $11.95.”
The 357th issue of Weird Tales magazine is “a celebration of short fiction, with a selection of great new stories by Karen Heuler, J. Robert Lennon, Karen Tidbeck, N.K. Jemisin, Peter M. Ball, and Mark Meredith. Features include The Eyrie, Lost in Lovecraft, and an interview with Caitlin R. Kiernan.”
The fifth issue of Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine is “a special Holmes Fiction Issue, which features an amazing new Holmes short novel by Carla Coupe, ‘The Adventure of the Haunted Bagpipes,’ plus great Holmes stories and features by Bruce I. Kilstein, Mark Wardecker, Gary Lovisi, Paula Volsky, Marc Bilgrey, Stan Trybulski, Len Moffatt, Robert Eighteen-Bisang, Lenny Picker, Alan McCright, and M J Elliott.” It’s also the biggest issue ever, topping the scales at 196 pages.
Grant reminds customers that Weird Tales and Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine are the latest magazines to join Lightspeed Magazine, Fantasy Magazine, Clarkesworld Magazine, Apex Magazine, and others on Weightless Books, a fast-growing indie ebooksite dedicated to featuring DRM-free titles from many of today’s best book and magazine publishers.
Related stories previously published on SFScope:
Lightspeed Magazine now available through Weightless Books’ esubscriptions (20 December 2010)
LCRW now offering electronic subscriptions (29 November 2010)