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Stone Skin on the Rocks, Round 4: Something Orange, Something Black

Welcome to another installment of Stone Skin on the Rocks, our weekly column where our authors provide a liquid pairing suggestion for their short fiction. This week brings us two entries, one a heady cocktail and the other a beverage

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Stone Skin on the Rocks: The Lion and the Aardvark, Round 1

When it comes to drinks, some things just go together. Gin and Tonic. Scotch and Water. Brandy and Soda. Writers and any booze they can lay their hands on. This symbiotic relationship often extends beyond the artists and into their

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Toronto Celebrates The Lion and the Aardvark

Last night’s Toronto launch of our modern fables anthology The Lion and the Aardvark exceeded expectations, thanks to a packed house of fable enthusiasts. Our supply of the book sold out at half-time. Writers Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer, Ann Ewan, Heather J.

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Lion and the Aardvark Toronto Launch Event

With offices in London and writers from the US, UK, Canada, Australia, Ireland and arguably France, Stone Skin Press is a decidedly post-national operation. Yet since Creative Director Robin D. Laws calls Hogtown home, a nice swath of The Lion

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Lions and Aardvarks over at Dork Towers

There’s a lovely mention of The Lion and the Aardvark by industry legend and LatA contributor John Kovalic over at Dork Towers. Check it out here!

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The Wolf and Death from The Lion and the Aardvark

Wolf, old and alone, spent the better part of a week tracking a herd of bison, waiting for the youngest one to succumb to the heat of the unusually long summer. He followed them into a valley, where the scent

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Look Out For The Lion and the Aardvark

The Lion and the Aardvark has now gone out to the Fabulist level Kickstarter backers so keep an eye on your mail boxes! It’s also now available in bookshops all over the UK including Blackwells, Waterstones, Foyles and a bunch

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The Lion and the Aardvark is here!

Three boxes arrived at Stone Skin Towers yesterday and nestled within were these beauties. The blue covers are the back and front of the hardback without the dustjacket. The printing quality is excellent and we couldn’t be happier with how

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Factors in Arranging The Lion and the Aardvark

Ordering the stories in a fiction anthology is always an exercise in multi-level thinking. The Lion and the Aardvark, the upcoming book of modern fables I am editing for Stone Skin Press, adds some new wrinkles to the task. In

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Shub-Niggurath Syndrome

When I agreed to serve as creative director for Stone Skin Press, one of my challenges to myself was to always treat writers as I would want to be treated. This is simpler to say than to live up to.

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