Today, I launched a Kickstarter for a new online horror magazine to be edited by me, called NIGHTMARE.

About the Magazine

In Nightmare‘s pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror. No subject is off-limits, and we will be encouraging our writers to take chances with their fiction and push the envelope.

Edited by bestselling anthologist John Joseph Adams, every month Nightmare will bring you a mix of originals and reprints, and featuring a variety of authors—from the bestsellers and award-winners you already know to the best new voices you haven’t heard of yet. When you read Nightmare, it is our hope that you’ll see where horror comes from, where it is now, and where it’s going.

Nightmare will also include nonfiction, fiction podcasts, and Q&As with our authors that go behind-the-scenes of their stories. Our planned publication schedule each month will include two pieces of original fiction and two fiction reprints, along with a feature interview and an artist gallery showcasing our cover artist. We will publish ebook issues on the first of every month, which will be available for sale in ePub format via our website and also available in other formats such as Kindle and Nook. We will also offer subscriptions to our ebook edition in a variety of formats. Each issue’s contents will be serialized on our website throughout the month, with new features publishing on the first four Wednesdays of every month. (more…)

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Here’s the table of contents and cover copy for Other Worlds Than These. (In case you missed it, we just recently revealed the cover.)

Cover Copy

What if you could not only travel any location in the world, but to any possible world?

We can all imagine such “other worlds”—be they worlds just slightly different than our own or worlds full of magic and wonder—but it is only in fiction that we can travel to them. From The Wonderful Wizard of Oz to The Dark Tower, from The Golden Compass to The Chronicles of Narnia, there is a rich tradition of this kind of fiction, but never before have the best parallel world stories and portal fantasies been collected in a single volume—until now.

Table of Contents

• Foreword — Lev Grossman
• Introduction — John Joseph Adams
• Moon Six — Stephen Baxter
• A Brief Guide to Other Histories — Paul McAuley
• Crystal Halloway and the Forgotten Passage — Seanan McGuire
• An Empty House With Many Doors — Michael Swanwick
• Twenty-Two Centimeters — Gregory Benford
• Ana’s Tag — William Alexander
• Nothing Personal — Pat Cadigan
• The Rose Wall — Joyce Carol Oates
• The Thirteen Texts of Arthyria — John R. Fultz
• Ruminations in an Alien Tongue — Vandana Singh
• Ten Sigmas — Paul Melko
• Magic for Beginners — Kelly Link
• [A Ghost Samba] — Ian McDonald
• The Cristobal Effect — Simon McCaffery
• Beyond Porch and Portal — E. Catherine Tobler
• Signal to Noise — Alastair Reynolds
• Porridge on Islac — Ursula K. Le Guin
• Mrs. Todd’s Shortcut — Stephen King
• The Ontological Factor — David Barr Kirtley
• Dear Annabehls — Mercurio D. Rivera
• The Goat Variations — Jeff Vandermeer
• The Lonely Songs of Laren Door — George R. R. Martin
• Of Swords and Horses — Carrie Vaughn
• Impossible Dreams — Tim Pratt
• Like Minds — Robert Reed
• The City of Blind Delight — Catherynne M. Valente
• Flower, Mercy, Needle, Chain — Yoon Ha Lee
• Angles — Orson Scott Card
• The Magician and the Maid and Other Stories — Christie Yant
• Trips — Robert Silverberg
• For Further Reading — Ross Lockhart

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Here’s the cover for my anthology, Other Worlds Than These, forthcoming from Night Shade Books in July 2012. The cover and design is by the amazing Cody Tilson (who also designed and illustrated my Brave New Worlds anthology.)

What if you could not only travel any location in the world, but to any possible world?

We can all imagine such “other worlds”—be they worlds just slightly different than our own or worlds full of magic and wonder—but it is only in fiction that we can travel to them. From The Wizard of Oz to The Dark Tower, from Philip Pullman’s The Golden Compass to C. S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia, there is a rich tradition of this kind of fiction, but never before have the best parallel world stories and portal fantasies been collected in a single volume—until now.

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Good news, everyone! Lightspeed and I are again both nominated for the Hugo Award. Lightspeed is again up for best semiprozine and I am again up for best editor (short form). Thanks to everyone who thought my work was worth nominating, and congratulations (and best of luck!) to all of the other nominees. [The other nominees.]

Voting is set to open today (Monday, April 9) and closes on July 31, which also happens to be my birthday. (And you know what would make a really great birthday gift? A HUGO AWARD. Just sayin’!) If you’re a full or supporting member of this year’s Worldcon, you can vote your favorites in each category. [Vote!]

My eligible works last year include my anthologies Brave New Worlds and Lightspeed: Year One, and, of course, Lightspeed Magazine itself. If you want to do some reading before you vote (and you should!), you can still read everything published in Lightspeed online, plus Worldcon will also have our July 2011 issue available for free as part of the Hugo Voter Packet, in a variety of ebook formats. Brave New Worlds will also be be available in the Voter Packet, so huzzah for lots of great free reading!

And if you still can’t decide whether or not to vote for Lightspeed after reading all that, please consider the environment; if Apex, Locus, or NYSRF wins the award for best semiprozine, the Worldcon committee will have to produce THREE Hugos for the winner, whereas if Lightspeed (or Interzone, to be fair!) wins, only one will be necessary. [I kid! Well, I mean, that’s all true! But I kid about you basing your decision on that at all. :)]

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A lot of people have been asking about the ebook edition of ARMORED, so I thought that question warranted its own post, even though that information is on the ARMORED site. ARMORED is available in ebook format, but it is only available via Baen’s ebook site, www.baenebooks.com. Baen’s ebooks are all DRM-free, provided in multiple formats (and all are available to you via a single purchase), and should work on all ebook reading devices, including iPad, Nook, and Kindle.

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Armored is now available at traditional brick and mortar bookstores nationwide (i.e., via Barnes & Noble or various independent booksellers), via online retailers such as Amazon.com or Barnes & Noble.com, or from various other vendors. It is also available as an ebook via Baen Ebooks.

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My new anthology, ARMORED, comes out next week (March 27), and accordingly, I’ve just launched the official website for the anthology, which features a few stories from the anthology to read for free, as well as interviews with most of the authors.

Currently, you can read the following content in its entirety:

• Foreword—Orson Scott Card
• Introduction—John Joseph Adams
• The Johnson Maneuver—Ian Douglas
• Jungle Walkers—David Klecha & Tobias S. Buckell

In the coming days and weeks, the following stories will become available:

• Transfer of Ownership—Christie Yant
• Nomad—Karin Lowachee

I also have a giveaway ongoing over at Goodreads. (Ends March 26!)

So pop on over to the official website and check it out, and if you dig it, please tell a friend!

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