everything old is new again
starting over
hello! you are receiving this email if you signed up for one of my past newsletters:
anne underground at tinyletter, which was mostly musings on nostalgia and creativity
need at substack, which was mostly about pop culture
yester-fear at buttondown (here!), which was about classic horror movies
if you choose to unsubscribe, there will be no hard feelings (and if there are, that’s my problem, not yours).
tinyletter is gone. substack platforms nazis and transphobes (the venn diagram of the two is a circle). and yester-fear was an experiment i couldn’t keep up with — not only did my attempt at making it a paid project fail to go beyond breaking even, but i simply had too many other (good!) things going on.
over the last six(ish) months, i read nearly 1,300 flash stories as a guest editor for interstellar flight magazine and selected twelve to run over the course of this year; i finished writing a novel and started another; and after three and a half years of querying over four books, i signed with a literary agent and have begun editing one of those novels with her, for submission to publishers.
but i miss blogging, and newsletters are the new blogs. so if you choose to stick around, you’ll get a mashup of the type of emails i’ve sent from all of the past iterations of my newsletter, plus updates on my writing (like i did at patreon when i tried that — damn it, blogs really were simpler).
i’m not going to try to stick to a strict schedule, but my best guess is i’ll probably send one or two emails a month, maybe as often as once a week when i have a lot to say. and they’ll all be free, because i don’t have time to monetize this (nor do i want to, though I will occasionally post tip jar links, because I am paying for this service).
before I go, here are some links for you:
archive of the odd issue 4, containing my very small story “transmissions from a dying whale” (also in ebook)
this is my most recent publication! it was also, until about twenty-four hours before publication, the last story i’d sold, and i was very seriously wondering if that was it for me and short stories! then i, uh, sold three more in about two weeks. so i guess not. more on those to come! and in the meantime—
honey in her hands by devan barlow
wolves by lisa short
lilt and luster spring newsletter by susan taitel
you can leave your helmet on by tehnuka
to kiss the chrysanthemum moon by wen wen yang
i am fire by y.m. resnik
chief scavenger’s log in the climate apocalypse by p.a. cornell
all of these were selected and edited by me, and imho are some of the best that flash fiction has to offer. i’m so honored to share them! more to come from interstellar flight, one story a month through 2024.
xxoo,
annika