Reckoning Press

18/11/2024

Reckoning will be even less available via this platform than previously. It just doesn't fit our mission. To find out what we're up to, please seek us on the web at reckoning dot press.

We'll leave you with this:

“Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope.”– Ursula K. Le Guin

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31/10/2024

I'm excited to be at the 2024 A2 Community Bookfest in Ann Arbor this Sunday, selling Reckoning Press and Stelliform Press titles including my books THE JAGUAR MASK and NIGHT ROLL. I don't get to Ann Arbor that often and am very much looking forward to this chance to immerse myself in its delightful progressive weirdness! Fingers crossed I get to meet and get inspired by lots of fellow environmental justice stans.

17/10/2024

Stelliform Press will be at World Fantasy this weekend, for Saturday only, at the Stelliform/Reckoning table in the dealer's room. Stop by and say hi!

27/09/2024

I'll be at The Word on The Street Festival in Toronto tomorrow, signing THE JAGUAR MASK and helping sell Stelliform Press books!

Also, a panel I proposed got accepted to VICFA, which is in a couple weeks, so I wrote a new fall tour update post on the blog.

Fall Tour 2024
The Jaguar Mask
Michael J. DeLuca

September 28 - 29
Word on the Street Festival, Toronto, ON

October 9 - 12
Virtual ICFA - Online

October 16 - 19
World Fantasy Convention, Niagara Falls, ON

November 3
A2 Community Bookfest, Ann Arbor, MI

https://mossyskull.com/news/upcoming-events-part-3-word-on-the-street/

08/08/2024

My Reddit AMA is today! I made this silly banner about it. You could come on there and ask me about all kinds of crazy things such as my mushroom poisoning experience, what are the best stories and poems and essays in Reckoning Press you haven't read, what is Selena Middleton like to work with as an editor, what does Scott H. Andrews think of the 2024 Mexican Chocolate Kentucky Breakfast Stout, who would win in a fight Qetzalcoatl or Black Panther, or other questions you think of your own self. Come on over and ask me anything!

06/05/2024

Huge thanks to Rebecca Campbell for these lovely, generous words about Michael J. DeLuca's THE JAGUAR MASK!

"The Jaguar Mask is a gorgeously capacious novel. It is sophisticated, playful, frightening, leaping from hardboiled murder mystery to family biography, telling tales of revolution and magic along the way. Best of all, The Jaguar Mask is illuminated by a fierce love for Guatemala City, revelling in radical politics and fried chicken and coffee and reggaetón, and an equally fierce belief in the human capacity for transformation, even in the face of imperial violence and the degradations of climate change."

THE JAGUAR MASK is available for pre-order from our website. In Canada the book is also available to order via Raincoast/PGC.

30/04/2024

A 2021 study found that 80 percent of parents agreed that the impact of global warming on their child’s health should be discussed during their routine visits. But, only 4 percent said that it had actually happened in the past year. A 2021 study found that 80 percent of parents agreed that the imp...

22/04/2024

ICYMI, Octavia Cade's YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE & OTHER STORIES is a Julius Vogel Award Finalist! Thank you to the SFFANZ for recognizing this collection and the other wonderful collections on the finalist's list!

22/04/2024

Reckoning 8 cover artist Martins Deep is also a pretty great writer and poet. Now he's been accepted to an MFA program in TN, but he needs funding for travel expenses. Martins deserves to go to grad school in the US! Join us in helping him get there?

Link is in the comments. Emails us your donation receipt (reckoningmagazine at gmail) and we'll send you an ebook of Reckoning 8 featuring his cover atwork "Breaking Points".

16/04/2024

For a small experiment, Michael J DeLuca is going to be representing Reckoning at an Earth Day event this Saturday at the farmer's market in Royal Oak, MI! Come on by and get one of Al Bogdan's beautiful bluebird magnets, a book, a skull guy pin, or an earful about environmental justice writing. :D

08/04/2024

Let's kick off the week with a deal announcement! We're thrilled to announce that we have acquired Syr Beker's WHAT A FISH LOOKS LIKE, a wonderfully q***r climate novella in fairy-tale retellings, for publication in 2025. Syr is a powerhouse of energy, enthusiasm, and stunning prose and we are very excited to work with them!

The deal reads: Lambda Fellow in Fiction Syr Hayati Beker's WHAT A FISH LOOKS LIKE, a q***r climate novella in fairy-tale retellings, to Selena Middleton at Stelliform Press, in a nice deal, for publication in fall 2025 (world English).

03/04/2024

Performers Pattie Gonia and Quinn Christopherson teamed up with cellist Yo-Yo Ma to spread a message of hope and joy.