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Galatea by Vylar Kaftan for your tunage pleasure

August 6th, 2008 · No Comments

Vylar contacted me today and let me know that her story Galatea can be enjoyed the old fashioned way - somebody reading for you!  Galatea was first published in Heliotrope#2 by some really awesome people and can be read here in its original, vintage - dare  I say - classic format (it’s really going to [...]

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Tags: Galatea · Heliotrope · Heliotrope Magazine · Vylar Kaftan · podcasts

Bookspot Round-up 6/19/2008

June 19th, 2008 · No Comments

*opens newly tinted windows*
Yes, tint people, because we are pimpin’ this week. Anyway here is a summary of what has happened this week at the  ‘bookspot and all our fiefdoms given to
-Heliotrope:
We named out final contributor to our forthcoming fall issue and it’s the legendary Alan Moore. Big time thanks to Chris Staros who has [...]

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Tags: Book Reviews · Bookspot Round-up · Heliotrope · Heliotrope Magazine · books

Heliotrope’s Final Contributor for the 2008 Fall issue named

June 17th, 2008 · No Comments

Heliotrope is proud to announce it’s latest and last contributor to our forthcoming issue. To follow in the tradition of the previous announcement a fictional name is given here for your trivia nerds and the official straight-forward announcement. Here it is:
Detective Wanda Synaesthesia Jackson
Get the scoop at Heliotrope.
He’s possibly responsible for more great fiction [...]

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Fall 2008 Heliotrope Contributor List

June 10th, 2008 · No Comments

Table of Contents is a bit farther off, but over at Heliotrope I just dropped the list of contributors for our next issue. The official, no-fun list that is! Test your Speculative Fiction knowledge by finding out via some of their fictional creations:
The Rev
Metatron
Fat Charlie
Don Entrerosca
Erevis
Roxanne Bonaventure
Luther Arkwright
Ayako
Shadrach
 Or just go to Heliotrope and check out the list!

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Tags: Heliotrope · Heliotrope Magazine · Uncategorized

Heliotrope#4 is out!

May 13th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Heliotrope is out! Get your nostalgic fill as this issue represents the last look at this format as we bring you new hotness next fall! In this issue our line-up includes:
G-O-O-D-B-Y-E by Nick Mamatas
Succession At Quandon Creek by Anna Tambour
The Shadow Cabinet: Spotlight on Dedalus by Jeff Vandermeer
A Virtual Anthology: Weinachtabend by Ian [...]

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FBS Stuff for the week

May 4th, 2008 · 5 Comments

Just want to highlight some recent FBS stuff:
- Craig Gidney gets the Truth About Celia by Kevin Brockmeier.
An elegiac mediation on grief created out of scraps of genre fiction.
-Val continues going through the classics, this time hangin’ on Discworld for the second spin with The Light Fantastic. I love me some Discworld as it’s really [...]

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Tags: Book Reviews · Fantasybookspot.com · Heliotrope Magazine · Reviews · books

Heliotrope Update

March 29th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Just wanted to let people know Heliotrope that the latest issue has its first fiction contribution announced.
- The FSB guy

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‘Trope Update

March 5th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Just wanted to point to a small update at the Heliotrope site addressing some common issues I have been seeing.
This is more of a read for potential contributors/submitters, not an announcement regarding content.
Helio Stuff

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New Heliotrope Site Up

January 13th, 2008 · No Comments

Been a bit busy lately with the holidays and moving, but apparently Damon has been doing his best Dave impression and remodeled what was a very stock Heliotrope site originally.
Because of being busy, I’m probably a month and half behind getting back to people (though I started cutting through the pile last week) so please [...]

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Heliotrope#3 is Live!

November 2nd, 2007 · 5 Comments

Please go check it out!

The final table of contents looks like this (more added):
Fiction:
Red-Haired Man in a Sweater by Brendan Connell
Moon at the Starry Diner by Tina Connolly
He Angles, She Refracts by Rob Vagle
Poetry:
The Witch by Theodora Goss
Articles/Columns:
The Anatomy of “Sleep” by Jeffrey Ford
Plus ca Change by Michael Moorcock
The Shadow Cabinet by Jeff Vandermeer
Previews/Exclusive Excerpts:
Once [...]

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Tags: Heliotrope · Heliotrope Magazine · books

Fall 2007 Heliotrope Table of Contents announced

October 26th, 2007 · 2 Comments

I just posted the table of contents for the next issue of Heliotrope.
I had this whole write-up on it I was going to post, but then I realized I was retyping my editorial and I’m just not creative enough to write about something twice and have something original to say. This would be a surprise [...]

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Tags: Fantasybookspot.com · Heliotrope · Heliotrope Magazine · Pimpage

Helio#4 Content Announcement

October 5th, 2007 · No Comments

Okay, it’s been awhile but I’m back with some announcements and content!
Here is the former first :
New contributor announced for our fourth issue.
Will have another announcement this week hopefully, plus table of contents for issue#3 - Coming this month!
I have had some time to recharge those batteries and will be back to clean up [...]

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Bored on the Fourth of July

July 4th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Over at FBS we have started our revamped Book Club, Patrick and Brian chose Scott Lynch’s The Lies of Locke Lamora. pretty good choice considering the second book (Red Seas Under Red Skies) comes out soon and the paperback just hit. Right now we are discussing the prologue to interlude II. I have to [...]

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Tags: Comics · G.I. Joe · Heliotrope Magazine · Interview · Red Seas Under Red Skies · Scott Lynch · The Lies of Locke Lamora · books

Helio gets eternal…

June 28th, 2007 · No Comments

I just announced the final contributor to the Fall 2007 issue of Heliotrope.
“the master story-teller of our time” - Angela Carter
Check it out!

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Role Reversal: Origin of Helio mini-interview

June 8th, 2007 · No Comments

Last week or so I contacted Anna Tambour to gauge her interest in providing the poetry for Heliotrope’s forthcoming Winter issue (Helio4). I became a fan of Ms. Tambour’s work first from reading her novel Spotted Lily and then read her collection (where I read examples of her poetry) Monterra’s Deliciosa & Other [...]

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