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Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2021 Edition
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The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Six
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Science Fiction World
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“Very Surely Do I Not Dream”
Psi-Wars: Classified Cases of Psychic Phenomena
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Clarkesworld Magazine #158
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Queen of Static
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2019 Nebula Awards Showcase
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Other Covenants: Alternate Histories of the Jewish People
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The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2018 Edition
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The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 3
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Analog Science Fiction and Fact
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Shades Within Us
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Nightmare Magazine 63
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Mad Hatters and March Hares
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Cyber World
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Interzone #221
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The People of the Book
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“Cameron Rhyder’s Legs”
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Tag king of shards

Word Bookstore reading with Rajan Khanna

word-bookstore-greenpoint-brooklynOn Tuesday, November 10th at 7pm, I’ll be reading at the Word Bookstore in Brooklyn alongside Rajan Khanna. Rajan will be reading from his new book Rising Tide, and I’ll be reading from King of Shards. Hope you …

Publisher’s Weekly reviews King of Shards

Publisher's WeeklyPublishers Weekly reviews King of Shards and has nice things to sayThey 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

Interview at SF Signal

SF SignalOver 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

Interview at The Qwillery

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 …

Speculate Podcast with Ellen Datlow

Speculate! PodcastLast week I participated in the Speculate Podcast, episode 144, hosted by Gregory A. Wilson and Bradley P. Beaulieu, and I was joined by Ellen Datlow, who I co-host Fantastic Fiction at KGB with. We speak about the origin …

Geeks Guide to the Galaxy on Jewish Science Fiction

Geeks Guide to the GalaxyThis week I had the pleasure of participating in Episode 172 of the podcast Geeks Guide to the Galaxy, hosted by David Barr Kirtley. I was joined by the award-winning writers and editors Jack Dann, and Rachel Swirsky. We …

Guest Post on The Hook

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 …

Far Fetched Fables Interview & Excerpt

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

NPR Reviews King of Shards

NPR Reviews King of ShardsYesterday was the book launch day for King of Shards. And while I was busy getting ready for my book release party that evening, I discovered that NPR reviewed King of Shards.

Reviewer Jason Heller says of the book…

36 Days of Judaic Myth: Day 36, The Lamed Vav, The Thirty-Six Hidden Righteous

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

36 Days of Judaic Myth: Day 35, The Feast at the End of Days

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 The Feast at

36 Days of Judaic Myth: Day 34, The Evil Eye

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 The Evil Eye

36 Days of Judaic Myth: Day 33, The Pargod, The Divine Curtain

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 The Pargod, The

36 Days of Judaic Myth: Day 32, The Fear of Death

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 The Fear of

36 Days of Judaic Myth: Day 31, Dybbuks, the Possessing Spirits

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 Dybbuks, the Possessing

36 Days of Judaic Myth: Day 30, The Origin of Chaos

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 The Origin

36 Days of Judaic Myth: Day 29, Dune, Frank Herbert, and The Shortening of the Way

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 Dune, Frank Herbert,

Functional Nerds Podcast

fnLast 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

36 Days of Judaic Myth: Day 28, The Business of Demons

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 The Business of

King of Shards Audiobook & Pronunciations

The King of Shards audiobook is now available for pre-order. The book is narrated by Jonathan Davis, whose bio is pretty impressive!

Jonathan Davis has received critical acclaim for his narration in a variety of genres. He has garnered

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