Gabino Iglesias’s review of Broken Fevers is now up on the Locus Magazine website if you’re on the fence or just want to see what others think.
I enthusiastically welcome use of the word ‘superb’ in reference to my work, but the following may be the best encapsulation:
The beauty of Broken Fevers is that Johnson talks about important things while telling an entertaining story, offering a diverse cast of characters, and exploring multiple genres. There are discussions here about racism and social justice as well as a very present feminist undercurrent, but these elements are a part of tales that range from horror and science fiction to fantasy and even crime, and none sound preachy.
July 12, 2021 | Categories: Updates | Tags: broken fevers, Reviews, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction | Leave A Comment »
Hugo Award winning Lightspeed Magazine has weighed in on Broken Fevers (courtesy of Arley Sorg). Spoiler alert: it’s recommended. The review includes choice phrases like “All told, it’s really breathtaking work.” I did not pay him. It is glorious. See for yourself.
March 25, 2021 | Categories: Updates | Tags: afrofuturism, Books, broken fevers, New Release, Reviews, Short Stories, Short Story Collection, Speculative Fiction | Leave A Comment »
I really couldn’t ask anything more from a review than the one I just discovered from PW (yes, discovered, perhaps I’ll keep closer tabs on this in the future). Color me pleased.
Broken Fevers is out March 2nd, 2021, but available for preorder now from Tombolo Books and Amazon.
January 12, 2021 | Categories: Bibliography, Updates | Tags: afrofuturism, Books, broken fevers, New Release, Publisher's Weekly, Reviews, Short Stories, Short Story Collection, Speculative Fiction | Leave A Comment »
The short short Bare is up at Creative Pinellas Magazine. If you’d rather hear it click here.
August 3, 2018 | Categories: Updates | Tags: Short Short, Short Stories | Leave A Comment »
“The Swell of the Cicadas,” a ghost story, is out now in Prime Books’ Shades of Blue & Gray. The anthology has stories by Connie Wilkins, Nick Mamatas, and many more.
More Americans were killed during the years of the Civil War (1861-1865) than any other date in history. Men shattered,women lost, families broken. In Shades of Blue & Gray, editor Steve Berman offers readers tales of the supernatural, ghost stories that range from the haunts of the battlefield to revenants on the long march home. Yank. Rebel. Both finding themselves at odds in flesh and spirit…
Shades of Blue & Gray cover
September 7, 2013 | Categories: Bibliography, Updates | Tags: Anthologies, ghost story, Short Stories, spec fic, Speculative Fiction | Leave A Comment »
Heads up. Radio, my romantic favorite, is still out there and this week “How the Carters Got Their Name” tripped across its waves. It was featured on the Black Tribbles show’s inaugural Octavia City episode, a showcase of all stories and topics, Afrofuturistic. Check out it here
April 30, 2013 | Categories: Updates | Tags: afrofuturism, black tribbles, dystopia, mosaic novel, podcast, R/evolution, Radio, Reading, Rep War World, Science Fiction, Short Stories, spec fic, Speculative Fiction | Leave A Comment »
Double Dragon has just released the Love and Darker Passions anthology.
Love and Darker Passions is a collection of provocative short stories by today’s up-and-coming authors of dark, urban and Gothic fantasy. One man falls in love with an ancient monster, another becomes enchanted by a voice that drives him to a frenzy of self-punishment, and another can’t understand three very odd days he’s spending with his girlfriend. Award-winning author Karen Duvall sends a Millennial Alice through a very different looking glass, and acclaimed author Lee Barwood sends the Sighted bard of her upcoming series into the passionate world of faerie to find a child and a special destiny. Bestseller C.E. Murphy makes her twisted fairytale tell what drives a lover into the arms of her questionable beloved, and Tenea D. Johnson works a soul-stealing spell of magic. In Love and Darker Passions, edgy and cult fantasy authors combine their talents to make us question what inspires love, why we crave revenge against those who’ve stolen love from us, and why we despair when love’s pain is lost.
June 24, 2012 | Categories: Updates | Tags: Anthologies, double dragon publishing, LGBT, love and darker passions, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction | Leave A Comment »
I’m very pleased to announce I’ll be co-editing the 2013 edition of Heiresses of Russ anthology, with Steve Berman next year. For Tor.com’s review of this year’s inaugural edition, check this out.
March 25, 2012 | Categories: Updates | Tags: Anthologies, Coming Soon, Short Stories | Leave A Comment »
“Only Then Can I Sleep,” a short dark fantasy story about what one will do for love will be published in the upcoming anthology Love and Darker Passions out soon. I’ll update with exact publications info as soon as I can.
February 1, 2012 | Categories: Updates | Tags: Anthologies, Coming Soon, Dark Fantasy, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction | Leave A Comment »
People are starving, biogenetic adaptations are prevalent amongst the privileged, and the poor are being ground to a sharp and dangerous point. This is the future US where in the struggle for survival citizens are pushed to the breaking point as relationships start to fracture along the lines of class and race. These are stories of the leaders and the followers, the victims, heroes, and the everyday people caught in history’s wake, chief among them Dr. Ezekiel Carter, a genius in his field, who decides to offer genetic reparations to those being left behind. In this world, what will become of the people at the fringes and of humanity itself?
R/evolution (Book One), a novel-in-stories, will be released in ebook and print this Fall.
September 18, 2011 | Categories: Updates | Tags: mosaic novel, Novel, novel-in-stories, R/evolution, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction | Leave A Comment »
Want some public sex and magic in your life? Check out Release in A minor appearing in Tangle XY from Blind Eye Books. Available now.
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December 13, 2010 | Categories: Bibliography, Fiction | Tags: Anthologies, Blind Eye Books, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction | Leave A Comment »
