I have a new book out! The Mythology of Salt and Other Stories is my first short story collection, and it’s published by Lethe Press. Just look at that beautiful cover!
A collection of short stories themed around women and knowledge, The Mythology of Salt and Other Stories is full of poignant moments. Scientists and ghosts, the natural world and mythology, all meet and circle one another in choreography at times aspiring, at times melancholic.
That’s what it says on the back, anyway. There are eighteen stories in here, some of which you might have read in places like Shimmer, Strange Horizons, Kaleidotrope and Liminal Stories. There are also a couple of stories – “In the Shadow of Yew Trees” and “The Knife Orchard” – that are completely new and previously unpublished.
My favourite story in here is “The Atomic Hallows and the Body of Science,” which mashes up elements of the Arthurian waste land with the development of the atomic bomb. I’m also very glad to have reprinted in here “Cuckoo,” which was one of the first stories I ever had published (and the only vampire story I’ve ever written). It remains one of the stories I’m most happy with.
You can get The Mythology of Salt at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and of course at Lethe Press.
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