My story “Demon in Aisle 6” (published in Nightmare Magazine) was a finalist for the Sippy Awards. The winner going to “When Your Child Strays From God” by Sam J. Miller. Of my story, they …
The world is full of cliches of writers as drunks, addicts, horrible spouses, slobs, sociopaths, delusional freaks, hypersensitives, narcissists, hoarders and so on. And there are the cliches of writers as great lovers, wild adventurers, warm-hearted parents, magnanimous, free-thinking geniuses, …
Just discovered this! My story “The Meeker and the All-Seeing Eye” won the #BookTubeSFF Award for Best Short Work, beating The Slow Regard of Silent Things by Patrick Rothfuss, The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami, and Sixth of the Dusk…
Over at Fantasy Scroll Magazine, Iulian Ionescu interviews me in their December issue. I give my life story in three paragraphs, wax philosophical about character creation, and give (gasp!) advice to aspiring writers. Not for the faint of heart! Here’s …
Over at The Brooklyn Rail, Valya Dudycz Lupescu interviews me about King of Shards and my short fiction, delving deep into themes that recur frequently in my work. And Valya really dug deep, finding themes I wasn’t consciously aware of …
TODAY, November 17th, I’m participating in a Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) over in their fantasy subreddit. Come on by during the hours of 11am through about 11pm Eastern Daylight Time.
This month my story “Demon in Aisle 6” appears in Nightmare Magazine, edited by John Joseph Adams. You can purchase the ebook of the issue now, or you can wait until November 18th to read this story for …
Publishers Weekly reviews King of Shards and has nice things to say. They write:
…“…a robustly imagined fantasy world…Kressel advances his plot briskly through a series of alliances, betrayals, separations, and reunions, and the veiled motives of several of
Over at SF Signal, Larry Ketchersid interviews me about the Lamed Vav, writing difficult characters, Kabbalah, and other fiction books that use Jewish mythology that I’ve enjoyed. Here’s an excerpt from the interview:
…Larry Ketchersid: What was your
On Friday I was interviewed by Sally ‘Qwill’ Janin at The Qwillery book blog about my debut novel King of Shards, which is out now. I speak about my writing style (pantser vs. plotter), some of the challenges I …
Alex Shvartsman, a writer, editor, and game designer, and author of over sixty short stories, has a blog series called The Hook where he lets guest authors post a brief excerpt of their novels and then describe what they were …
I first heard of Far Fetched Fables. the sister podcast of Tony Smith’s Star Ship Sofa through my friend and writing buddy Mercurio D. Rivera. And over on their website, you can listen to an excerpt of King of …
Today, October 13, is the release day of my debut novel, King of Shards, and for the last thirty six days I have been featuring one new blog entry a day about a different Judaic myth. I hope that …
Last week I had the pleasure of speaking with Patrick Hester and John Anealio of their Functional Nerds podcast and the episode has gone live today. We talk about pop culture, mythology, and my forthcoming debut novel King of Shards…
To celebrate the October 13th release of my forthcoming debut novel, King of Shards, I will be featuring one new blog entry a day about a different Judaic myth for 36 days. Today’s entry is on Adne Sadeh, The …
I’m happy to announce I’ve sold a new story to Grendelsong, the magazine edited by Paul Jessup. My story is called “The Problem of Meat,” and it’s about inter-dimensional creatures who eat our emotions. Grendelsong, back in the 00s …
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