My first anthology sale, and it’s still looking for submissions!

I just got the go-ahead to announce this, as Ann and Jeff VanderMeer are looking for “micro submissions” and have listed the existing writers.

Not the cover- just the proposal cover

I have a soft spot in my heart for Thackery T. Lambshead. When the first book, the Hugo and World Fantasy Award nominated The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric and Discredited Diseases came out, Jim bought me the limited edition signed copy. It’s hard to get an anthology signed by all the contributors, and it took about a year after publication to arrive (he bought me another copy of the hardcover so I could at least read it while I waited for the collectible to show up. I loved the book — it was so delightfully strange! — so I was thrilled to write a short piece for the next book about Lambshead’s odd life.

From Jeff’s blog:

Contributors will include Mike Mignola, Greg Broadmore, China Mieville, Holly Black, Naomi Novik, Minister Faust, Alan Moore, Cherie Priest, Michael Moorcock, Tad Williams, Jake Von Slatt, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Jeffrey Ford, Gio Clairval, Garth Nix, Stepan Chapman, Michael Cisco, Will Hindmarch, Ekaterina Sedia, Reza Negarestani, Lev Grossman, Ted Chiang, Carrie Vaughn, Kelly Barnhill, Mur Lafferty [ed: squee], Helen Oyemi, and several more. John Coulthart will be doing a lot of art for, with additional work by Jake von Slatt, Eric Orchard, Yishan Lee, Eric Schaller, and others.

Unfortunately, the specific nature of the fiction being commissioned doesn’t allow us to have a standard open reading period.

HOWEVER, we are having an open reading period, starting today [ed: August 16 is the date of the blog post], for a micro-fiction section in the back of the anthology, which will consist of a list, with descriptions, of items from Dr. Lambshead cabinet that are not described in the stories.

For guidelines, check the blog post.