Sometimes it’s not what you say, but how you say it. These are the words of Crawford Award-nominated fantasy author J.M. McDermott ( Last Dragon and Never Knew Another ). McDermott says it with aliens, magical frogs, and the Berlin wall. Share his discoveries in nature, bug-infested basements, and visions of death. Visions of the future. Visions of forgotten pasts. It's all here in J.M. McDermott's powerful collection of dark fantasy and horror from Apex Publications. Table of Contents Happiness Is Possible if You Have the Right Pen Lights, Bugs The Transformation of Mr. Toad Gods of the Spiderhole Speaking of Butterflies I Am Nature The Lovesong of Jack McNally Man in the Mountain Dragon Came to Galveston to Die Aliens and Pie The Jamcoi The End of Her World Dave Jones and the Survivor Death’s Shed Last Star
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His first novel was plucked from a slush pile and went on to be #6 on Amazon.com's Year's Best SF/F of 2008, shortlisted for a Crawford Prize, and on Locus Magazine's Recommended Reading List for Debuts. His short fiction has appeared in Weird Tales Magazine, Fantasy Magazine, Apex Magazine, and Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, among other places. He has a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Houston, and an MFA in Popular Fiction from the Stonecoast program of the University of Southern Maine. By night, he wanders a maze of bookshelves and empty coffee cups, and by day he wanders the streets of San Antonio, where he lives and works. He tries to write in between.
