Here’s the cover for the Masked Mosaic anthology in which I have a short story, “The Man in the Mask”, under my Emma Faraday pen name. The anthology should be out on February 27. Pretty cool, eh? Oh, and here’s the back cover copy:

Thrilling Tales of Canadian Superheroes… and Villains!

75 years ago Canadian cartoonist Joe Shuster co-created the world’s premier superhero: Superman. Over the decades the genre has gone from camp to counter-culture, from pop art to postmodern, from noir to new wave. Today’s superheroes feature in bestselling novels, hit TV shows, Hollywood blockbusters … and Masked Mosaic: Canadian Super Stories.

Mexican luchadores wrestle primordial evil in Vancouver … The Intrepids battle Nazis in Nova Scotia … A mysterious masked man rescues an adventuring heiress in a steampunk Gold Rush–era Yukon … Zombies and ancient Viking magic are unleashed in downtown Toronto … A godlike oracle wanders Calgary with her cyborg handler … The fearsome Iron Shadow stalks the streets of Kingstonia … The Coachwhip and Cat-Girl fight crime in lurid wartime Montreal …

In these 24 all-new tales Canada’s most daring writers reimagine the super genre from its outer limits to its pulp origins, exploring the diverse landscape of Canadian identity and geography.

With stories by:

Marie Bilodeau ~ Chantal Boudreau ~ Kristi Charish ~ E.L. Chen ~ Michael S. Chong ~ Kevin Cockle ~ Emma Faraday ~ Patrick T. Goddard ~ Alyxandra Harvey ~ David Nickle ~ Silvia Moreno-Garcia ~ D.K. Latta ~ Michael Matheson ~ Derryl Murphy ~ Jonathan Olfert ~ Rhonda & Jonathan Parrish ~ David Perlmutter ~ Lisa Poh ~ Jason S. Ridler ~ Rhea Rose ~ Mike Rimar ~ Jason Sharp ~ Emma Vossen ~ A.C. Wise

Featuring an Introduction by Mark Shainblum, creator of Northguard

Two more short stories are now available:

RUNNING AWAY FROM CHRISTMAS

When Faith decides to escape Christmas and her friends’ matchmaking efforts by spending the holiday alone in the big city, she never expects to find Christmas waiting there for her. A romantic short story.

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APTITUDE

When the judge offers Lily six weeks on Ellesmere Island helping at a scientific camp over six months in juvenile detention, she takes it. But the days are long in the Arctic and the work is hard, and she wants to go home. Then she finds the artifact and everything changes.

Previously published in Polaris: A Celebration of Polar Science (2007), edited by Julie Czerneda (Star Ink Books), Polaris received the 2007 Canadian Science in Society Book Award and was a finalist for the Aurora Award, Canada’s reader’s choice award for science fiction and fantasy.

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Tyche Books has now announced the Table of Contents for Masked Mosaic: Canadian Super Stories. The anthology will be published in February 2013 and includes my short story ‘The Man in the Mask’, under my pen name, Emma Faraday. The story is set in the same world as Backli’s Ford, my recently released alternative history novel. See here for more information. In the meantime, here’s the excellent company I’ll be keeping in the anthology:

MASKED MOSAIC: CANADIAN SUPER STORIES

E.L Chen – Nocturne

Kristi Charish – Canadian Blood Diamonds

Silvia Moreno-Garcia – Iron Justice versus the Fiends of Evil

Jonathan Olfert – Never the Twain

Kevin Cockle – Circe and the Gunboat

David Nickle – Knife Fight

Derryl Murphy – On-to-Ottawa

D.K. Latta – The Secret History of the Intrepids

Emma Faraday – The Man in the Mask

Mike Rimar – A Bunny Hug for Karl

Emma Vossen – “Not a Dream! Not a Hoax! Not an Imaginary Story!” The Lost Years of Joe Shuster

Patrick T. Goddard – Giant Canadian Comics

A.C. Wise – Kid Wonder

Rhea Rose – Leaf Man

David Perlmutter – Octopi Bleakly Corners

Lisa Poh – The Seamstress without a Costume

Marie Bilodeau – The Kevlar Canoe

Rhonda & Jonathan Parrish – Sea and Sky

Chantal Boudreau – A Face in the Wind

Michael S. Chong – The Creep

Jason Sharp – Lonesome Charlie Johnstone’s Strange Boon

Alyxandra Harvey – The Shield Maiden

Michael Matheson – The Many Lives of the Xun Long

Jason S. Ridler – Revenge of the Iron Shadow: A Tale of Kingstonia

Finally! Falcon Ridge Publishing has just released the novel Backli’s Ford: Book 1 of the A’lle Chronicles, by my alter ego, Emma Faraday. Here’s a little bit about it:

In the early 1700s, an A’lle generation ship crashed in the woods of Lower Canada. Survivors stumbled out of the wreckage to find French settlers working the land. While many of the colonists sheltered the injured A’lle, some reacted with fear and loathing. Two centuries later, nothing much has changed.

This is the world Constance A’lle, first A’lle investigator for Lower Canada, must deal with when she investigates the beating death of an A’lle boy in the small village of Backli’s Ford.

Set in 1911, Backli’s Ford follows Constance as she survives an ambush that would have killed a human, fights prejudice in the constabulary, and discovers a terrible secret that risks destroying the delicate balance that has endured for two centuries between A’lle and humans.

Contains the first chapter of KIRWAN’S SON.

Published by Falcon Ridge Publishing. Buy links: Smashwords and Amazon. Coming soon to Barnes and Noble, Kobo, Sony, Diesel and other fine e-tailers.