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State of the Crow - Morrigan Books Update
by Amanda Pillar
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It is an exciting time to be a member of the Morrigan Books’
team. Sometimes, it startles me to realise how far the
company has grown in such a short time. When Mark created
the company, we had one book on offer. Since then, we’ve
published three books, with another three due out this year:
Dead Souls, Grants Pass and The Phantom
Queen Awakes. The hard work has been rewarded, as we
scored highly on the Preditors and Editors poll this year,
with Morrigan Books coming in the top 15 publishers,
Voices making the top 20 anthologies and Mark coming 12th
in the book editor results.
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We’ve also contracted a number of big name authors, like
Katharine Kerr, C.E. Murphy, Elaine Cunningham, Ed Greenwood
and many more to write for our anthologies. Luckily for me,
I’m heavily involved in two of the projects they’re involved
in: Grants Pass and The Phantom Queen Awakes.
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Grants Pass
came across my desk around a year ago now. It was presented
to Morrigan Books by Jennifer Brozek, who had conceived the
idea many years before, after she had made a post online.
The concept: What would you do if the world ended tomorrow?
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A few years into the future from now, Kaylay Allard wrote a
blog entry about what she would do if the apocalypse
arrived. She’d go to Grants Pass, Oregan, and invite as many
people as she could. It would be a safe haven.
Scant months after her post, an act of bio-terrorism reduces
the world’s populace to 1 in 10,000. Her blog entry is
plastered over the internet, television and newspapers as a
survival guide, leading the survivors to search out Grants
Pass, in the hope that someone else will have gone there,
too. But there’s a problem: not everyone can make it to
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How to Make Monsters
by Gary McMahon |
Stories written by Ed Greenwood, Cherie Priest, Jay Lake and
others will lead you on a journey through the end of the
world as we know it.
The Phantom Queen Awakes
is a dark fantasy anthology about the goddess Morrigan. It
is probably unsurprising to learn the collection was named
after our company’s tutelary goddess.
When Mark S. Deniz mentioned the concept to me, I jumped up
and waved my arm to grab his attention (with perhaps a shred
more dignity than a child waiting to be called upon in
class). Wisely, he chose me as his co-editor. We prepared
the guidelines, approached some authors and waited for the
stories to arrive. Mark and I were looking for tales that
presented unique and interesting perceptions of a goddess
who represented war, love, fertility, prophecy and death.
And we got them.
The Phantom Queen Awakes
discusses the nature of man as much as it talks of the
otherworldliness of gods. It speaks to the human heart in a
way that only mythology can. With tales from Katharine Kerr,
C.E. Murphy, Anya Bast, Elaine Cunningham and Three
Crow’s own, T.A. Moore, it’s well worth a read. |
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The Even
by T.A. Moore |
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Voices Anthology |
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