We’ve got a new Cirsova Classics page up here on the Cirsova website.
It includes direct links to all of our Cirsova Classics titles in all formats.
The Amazon versions will be rolling out slowly over the next few months, but there’s no reason why you can’t just go ahead and buy the Lulu versions now!
We’re taking ads for Spring 2022 right now. We’re under a bit of a time crunch, and we’ll need everything in by February 7th.
Our specs and rates can be found here.
We have 11 slots. Back cover is already taken.
Morgan over at Castalia House recently did short reviews of the contents of our most recent issue.
If you haven’t picked it up already, be sure to check out this awesome issue!
Things seem slow at the Cirsova blog because SO MUCH IS GOING ON!
I hope to be able to share more details about them soon, but I have so much on my plate right now. I hope you guys are as excited about this stuff as I am:
A new free D&DBeyond 5e adventure is turning D&D into Coffee Talk, because I guess nerds can’t get enough of pretending to serve coffee to quirky gay monsters.
I don’t really know what this is, but it doesn’t really strike me as Dungeons & Dragons. It doesn’t strike me as something that would appeal to people who have actually worked service, either. But, uh… given how popular Coffee Talk is, I guess it’s not surprising that it’s showing up in the D&D-as-a-lifestyle scene. Is this the tabletop equivalent of hauling crates as a virtual dockworker in Shenmue?
Anyway, our readers might get more out of Gron and Krim’s Blood & Guts Tavern.
Just for the hell of it, I decided to rewatch Gummi Bears to see if the series was as dark as I remembered it.
“Ah, I’ve finally found Gummi Glen, one of the great warrens! Hundreds of Gummies could live here! I can’t wait for the welcoming party! Why are there only 6 of you?”
So, you have a bright and colorful show set in a magical fantasy world, featuring cute and cuddly bears…
…who are the sole surviving/last remaining members of their particular tribe/warren.
As far as the Gummi Bears themselves are concerned, they are living in the post-apocalyptic ruins of their people’s fallen empire. Attempts to contact and meet other large tribes of Gummi Bears are usually met with failure or disappointment. Great cities lay almost entirely abandoned, though many of the traps and mechanisms still work, often maintained by one or two handibears, like Gruffi.
As a little kid, I always assumed the main characters were a family. Rewatching it now, it seems pretty obvious that they’re just the only ones who are left and therefore Grammi has assumed a maternal role out of necessity. Their actual familial relations are never addressed by the show [or if they are, I’ve missed it].
A friend of ours claimed that “Gummi Bears is a better high fantasy than ASOIAF [A Song of Fire and Ice].”
What makes the show and its premise interesting also makes it antithetical to modernist fantasy. It is not “crapsack” nor “crapsaccharine”, as TVTropes would put it. Gummi Bears is purely heroic and hopeful in the face of all of the despair that surrounds the characters who are in the twilight of their race’s fortunes. Rather than wallow in contemplating vanitas, they live their lives. They have adventures, they have fun, they make friends, they do their chores. They are not ignorant of the dire circumstances they find themselves in; they do fight to preserve their home and their traditions at the end of their era. But they are not miserable or fatalist, either.
It’s a new year, and a bunch of things are on tap for Cirsova, and I’m already trying to decide if I’m up to my eyeballs in work or if I have time to veg out and play Skyrim or something…
But first up is the WSFA Small Press Awards!
http://wsfasmallpressaward.org/The_Rules.php
Our contributors are able to submit their own stories for nomination, provided they meet the length requirement. As editor, I’m only allowed to pick three stories, so I can’t choose everyone’s. Sorry! Be sure you follow all of the rules in the linked post if you’re going to submit your story.
There are two other points that must be addressed in your submission.
How Many Books We Published This Year: Cirsova published 9 titles
Subscriptions: Cirsova sells its flagship magazine in both Print and eBook, however Cirsova does not sell its magazine by subscription. Combined Print and Digital sales of each issue is >200 within the year of its release.
January 2, 2022
For more information contact:Â admin@wsfasmallpressaward.orgFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The Washington (DC) Science Fiction Association (WSFA) is pleased to announce that the submission period for the 2022 WSFA Small Press Award is now open and will close on March 31, 2022.
The WSFA Small Press Award honors the efforts of small press publishers in providing a critical venue for short fiction in the area of speculative fiction. The award showcases the best original short fiction published by small presses in the previous year (2021). An unusual feature of the selection process is that all voting is done with the identity of the author (and publisher) hidden so that the final choice is based solely on the quality of the story.
The winner is chosen by the members of the Washington Science Fiction Association and presented at their annual convention, Capclave (www.capclave.org), held on September 30 – October 2, 2022 in Rockville, MD.
Submissions should be sent to admin@wsfasmallpressaward.org
See our webpage  http://wsfasmallpressaward.org/The_Rules.php for details.Cathy GreenFor the WSFA Small Press Award CommitteeAward Sponsored by Washington Science Fiction Association andCapclave — Where Reading is not Extinct
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