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Coming in 2018!

Cover art for Mad Scientist Journal: Winter 2019
Mad Scientist Journal - Winter 2019

New Releases!

Cover Art for Battling in All Her Finery
Battling in All Her Finery: Historical Accounts of Otherworldly Women Leaders
Cover art for Eye for an Eye
Eye for an Eye
Cover art for Mad Scientist Journal: Autumn 2018
Mad Scientist Journal: Autumn 2018
Cover art for Cobalt City: Ties That Bind
Cobalt City: Ties that Bind
Book Cover: Rites & Desires
Rites & Desires
Cover for Kensei Tales: Unorthodoxy
Kensei Tales: Unorthodoxy
Book Cover: The Trouble with the Tick-Tock Tabby
The Trouble with the Tick-Tock Tabby

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News

  • Review of Magic or Die by J. P. Jackson

    My newest book review is up at Mad Scientist Journal for Magic or Die by J. P. Jackson. It’s a fast-paced urban fantasy book with evil corporations, power magic users, and queer romance. It’s the first in a series, and after reading this one, I’m chomping at the bit for the next one, in part because of the agonizing […]

  • Review of Magic or Die

    J. P. Jackson’s novel Magic or Die (NineStar Press, 2018) is a novel that explores the dark side of how people with enormous and uncontrollable magical power might be handled by governments and society. It’s an urban fantasy novel with compelling characters and fast-paced action throughout. The main character, James Martin, is pulled back into […]

  • Upcoming Stories

    I’ve already had a couple of short story sales in 2019, which is fantastic news! My flash fiction piece, “Brick-Red Love,” will be published in The Arcanist in April. This was one of my Drawlloween pieces that I’ve finished, and I’m happy to find it a home. The other story I’ve sold is “Earworm,” which will […]

  • Coming in February: Our Next Anthology Kickstarter!

    Mad Scientist Journal is pleased to announce our next anthology, I Didn’t Break the Lamp: Historical Accounts of Imaginary Acquaintances. We’ll be launching the Kickstarter for this anthology on February 1st, and we’ll be sharing information about the Kickstarter far and wide once it’s up and running. But in the meantime, we thought we’d give our readers a little preview of the cover art, by […]

  • Fiction and the Changing Landscape

    One of the iconic aspects of Seattle transportation–the Highway 99 Viaduct–is currently being deconstructed. And that got me thinking about the way that fiction, and the landscape it’s set in, is a product of its time. Scenes from a Quiet Apocalypse is set in Seattle, even though that’s never explicitly stated. And there’s one scene in the book where […]

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