Coyote Wild & the Year's Best Honorable Mentions

[pameladlloyd]

I recently encountered the online magazine Coyote Wild, due to mentions in the journals of people on my flist. The most recent issue had a YA focus and was edited by sartorias, with the help of a reading panel composed of teens. Many of the authors are on LiveJournal. I'm listing all the connections I know, although I'm only giving out RL names if they're listed in the profile, obvious, or if I'm otherwise aware of an online admission of identity (which surprisingly turns out to be almost everyone in the issue). I'll start by mentioning janni (Janni Lee Simner) and asakiyume (who admits she wrote "The Oracle," but doesn't give her name directly). Via janni, I am able to add jeffsoesbe (Jeff Soesbe), jimhines (Jim C. Hines), mistful (Sarah Rees Brennan), rhinemouse (who admits to the story "I Have Heard the Angels Singing, Each to Each", which is a sequel to a prior story, City of Angels also published in Coyote Wild), and shweta_narayan (Shweta Narayan), and via asakiyume, I can also add: alanajoli (Alana Joli Abbott), faerie_writer (Maggie L. Wood), fairmer (Merrie Haskell), and drachin8 (Michelle Muenzler).* Whoosh! That's a lot of LJers. *g* So far as I can tell, the remaining authors aren't on LJ, but if you know differently, and you can share without spilling secret identities, please feel free to chime in.

I really enjoyed this issue, which had a YA focus, and recommend that you drop by and read as many stories as you can manage to find time for if you haven't already. I've also been checking out a few of Coyote Wild's other offerings. Tucked away on their blog, I found links to three stories that received Honorable Mentions for The Year's Best Science Fiction for 2007: The Ladies by Elizabeth Bear (matociquala), Marsdog by Beth Bernobich (beth_bernobich), and The King of Elfland's Stepdaughter, by Barbara Gordon (who has a blog, Bibliographic Searcher, wherein she mentions LJ, but doesn't share her user name). I loved all of these stories; they were all great and very different from each other.

* If I goofed and listed your name or other identifying information that you don't want listed here, please let me know and I'll make it go away very, very fast.

ETA: Barbara Gordon is bmlg.

Comments

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

It was a marvelous issue; I really adored janni's piece and fairmer's piece in particular, but all of them had special bits and good portion, and as I read each one, I was thinking, yes this one is fantastic. Plus--all these new writers to follow!

I think matociquala had a good story in the very first issue of Coyote Wild (which had an excellent story by sartorias--a novella, actually: Summer Thunder. Yes, here it is: Bear's "Abjure the Realm"

[pdlloyd.livejournal.com]

Coyote Wild (http://coyotewildmag.com/) has a surfeit of good things to read, most assuredly.

If you loved janni's story, you will love Bones of Faerie even more. I was fortunate enough to get to read some of the very early chapters from the book and the imagery has stayed with me ever since. It's writing that crawls deep into you and won't let you go.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I'm very much looking forward to Bones of Faerie.

[pdlloyd.livejournal.com]

Me, too. I've waited years for this story. :)

[faerie-writer.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I *loved* 'Summer Thunder!!!'

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Me too--I really want to have more of that portion of the Sartorias-deles storyline. It was **excellent**

Have you read a lot of Sherwood's stuff? I've read Crown Duel and A Stranger to Command, but not yet Inda and The Fox. Oh, and I really enjoyed A Posse of Princesses and Flian, too. (Flian went by another name in print, I think.)

[faerie-writer.livejournal.com]

In Sherwood's YA stuff, I've read the 'Wren' books and the 'Crown Duel' books, but none of her newer works (yet!). I *LOVED* 'Inda!' Haven't read 'Fox' yet. Am saving it for my reward for when I finish 'The Princess Heir.' Sherwood told me that 'Summer Thunder' is from a novel that will come out after the 'Inda' series is finished. Can't wait for that!

[pdlloyd.livejournal.com]

I'm looking forward to it. :)

[faerie-writer.livejournal.com]

I so enjoyed reading all the stories too! Thanks for the blog mention! :D

[pdlloyd.livejournal.com]

You're very welcome. I love having the opportunity to trumpet people's achievements to the world. (Or, at least the very small part of it that my dime-store kazoo trumpet can reach.)

[clarentine]

You might want to know about the White List - a list of writers and writing industry people collected on LJ: http://domynoe.livejournal.com/80319.html

[pdlloyd.livejournal.com]

lol - I did know, but I'd forgotten entirely about it. Thank you for the reminder. :)

[crinklequirk.livejournal.com]

*waves back* Hi! :D

[pdlloyd.livejournal.com]

:D

[bmlg.livejournal.com]

All kinds of belatedly, my LJ name is bmlg, and also called Bibliographic Searcher. I'm really only here to keep up with my workshop classmates, but I've posted a little bit of writing.
-Barbara Gordon

[pdlloyd.livejournal.com]

Hi Barbara! *waves* Welcome. No need to apologize for the delay; I'm a bit amazed you found my obscure little journal at all. *g*