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Apr 17, 2024 | 
audiobooks.com | Eugen M. Bacon
Chasing Whispers is a unique Afro-irrealist collection of Black speculative fiction in transformative stories of culture, longing, hybridity, unlimited futures, a collision of worlds, and folklore. It contains thirteen stories, eleven of which are original, with a commanding introduction by D. Harlan Wilson.
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Apr 16, 2024 | 
reachyourapex.com | Eugen M. Bacon
I am a private person and the process of writing is a cloistered one. I once hosted a writing date, where a bunch of authors came together at a set time to (individually) write. The experience reminded me how private I am. Everyone else had eyes glued to their screen, fingers on the keyboard silently tic tic tac tac tictictactactoc! Others furiously scrawled ideas as the muse whispered spur. I was paralyzed. Couldn’t write a darn word. I felt like the cat having a dump—everyone watching.
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Mar 12, 2024 | 
reachyourapex.com | Eugen M. Bacon
…poetry matters because it captures the nuances of human experience, fosters connection… and has the power to effect meaningful change both on a personal and societal level.
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Feb 22, 2024 | 
apex-magazine.com | Eugen M. Bacon
She remembers landscapes, the history of silence loud in horses wearing blankets in a lush green farm near the Yarra Valley rodeo no longer in use. Vision remembers scent, the car’s “sweet lily of the valley” in a fragrance leisurely releasing from a hung freshener on the indicator stalk of a custom-made dash. K steered with one hand and fiddled with the radio, his eyes off the road. “What’s in your head?” she asked. He didn’t answer.
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Feb 20, 2024 | 
storybundle.com | Barbara Krasnoff |Brenda S. Tolian |Isabel Yap |Eugen M. Bacon
The Twice-Drowned Saint by C. S. E. Cooney The History of Soul 2065 by Barbara Krasnoff Blood Mountain by Brenda S. Tolian Never Have I Ever by Isabel Yap Chasing Whispers by Eugen Bacon Shadow Atlas edited by Carina Bissett, Hillary Dodge and Joshua Viola Dark Breakers by C. S. E.
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Oct 26, 2023 | 
largeheartedboy.com | Eugen M. Bacon
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others. Eugen Bacon and Andrew Hook’s Secondhand Daylight is a propulsive time travel novel.
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Aug 21, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Eugen M. Bacon |Tlotlo Tsamaase |Terry Pratchett |Justin Anderson
Bacon (Ivory’s Story) and Hook (Interzone) bring a remarkable amount of compassion to this snappy time-bending tale. While dancing with a stranger in a hotel bar in 1990 Melbourne, Australia, slacker Green sees a blinding light and inexplicably jumps two hours forward in time. Then he skips forward by a week, sparking a fight with his best friend, whose barbecue he missed. Then six months, missing his father’s wedding.
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Jun 19, 2023 | 
audiobooks.com | Eugen M. Bacon
Chasing Whispers is a unique Afro-irrealist collection of Black speculative fiction in transformative stories of culture, longing, hybridity, unlimited futures, a collision of worlds, and folklore. It contains thirteen stories, eleven of which are original, with a commanding introduction by D. Harlan Wilson.
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May 23, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Paul G Tremblay |Rebecca Turkewitz |Jonathan Strahan |Eugen M. Bacon
These 15 invigorating horror shorts from Tremblay (The Pallbearer’s Club) showcase the author’s imagination and versatility. Two are radically different ghost stories: in “Ice Cold Lemonade 25¢ Haunted House Tour: 1 Per Person,” the narrator reflects on the youthful experiences that haunt his adult self, while “I Know You’re There” explores the ways in which grief repeatedly reshapes a character’s perceptions of reality.
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May 18, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Jacqueline Carey |Rebecca Turkewitz |Jonathan Strahan |Eugen M. Bacon
Jacqueline Carey. Tor, $30.99 (528p) ISBN 978-1-250-20833-0With this lyrical, BDSM-infused romantasy, Carey circles back to her Locus Award–winning debut fantasy, Kushiel’s Dart, 21 years after its first publication—but the epic love between courtesan Phédre, who was sold into sexual slavery as a child, and celibate warrior Joscelin, here retold from Joscelin’s point of view, sits differently in 2023’s sexual and political landscape.
