Flights of Foundry 2025 Schedule

September 27, 2025

This Sunday I will participate in several programming items for Flights of Foundry, a virtual SF/F convention. Please check it out here as there are many other programming items happening throughout the weekend.

Here’s what I’ll be doing (events listed in East Coast time):

10am: Chill-N-Chat. This is an informal chat with me about my upcoming projects or anything else you wish to ask. It’s limited to 6 participants so you may want to register in advance.

12pm: Interview with 2025 Dream Foundry writing contest winner Victoriia Silina, author of Kharkiv: A War City.

3pm: Building the Sum of Its Parts: The Joy and Challenges of Publishing an Anthology, with Sheree Renee Thomas, Ann LeBlanc, and Dawn Vogel

Comments Off on Flights of Foundry 2025 Schedule | Event Appearances | Tagged: | Permalink
Posted by Alex Shvartsman

Capclave 2025

September 18, 2025

I’ll be in Rockville, MD this weekend attending Capclave! Here are the panels and events where you can find me (and I will also be at the Mass Signing on Saturday at 7pm.)

https://www.capclave.org/capclave25/Admin/individual_schedule.php?pid=203

Comments Off on Capclave 2025 | Event Appearances | Tagged: | Permalink
Posted by Alex Shvartsman

Podcasts! Two stories at StarShipSofa

September 17, 2025

I don’t know why, but I haven’t had many stories appear on podcasts lately. Which is a shame since I so love listening to audiobooks and narrated fiction. In a bid to correct this, there are two fabulous narrations that are up on StarShipSofa now!

“Golf to the Death,” originally from Galaxy’s Edge, is a humorous SF golf story. I really enjoyed making fun of golf, because it’s easy and because golf fans have a sense of humor about their sport as opposed to some of the other fans of ludicrous sports (I’m looking at you, baseball.)

“The Errata” by K.A. Teryna was translated by me into English and originally appeared at Asimov’s. It’s an excellent story and the narration here really elevates it.

Give both of them a listen!


Comments Off on Podcasts! Two stories at StarShipSofa | Acceptances & Publications | Tagged: , , , , | Permalink
Posted by Alex Shvartsman

UFO10 Kickstarter is Live

September 16, 2025

We’re finally back for the tenth volume in the iconic UFO series! It’s been three years since the last volume as I am super overworked but I just couldn’t let the series languish. We got exciting new (and returning) headliners and, as always, will open our doors to newer writers with a submission window once we fund.

Please help spread the word of this campaign far and wide, and consider preordering your copy this way — it’s the most efficient way to help us rather than waiting for the book to become available online and in stores.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ufopublishing/unidentified-funny-objects-10?ref=d7pen6

1 Comment | Publishing | Tagged: , , , , | Permalink
Posted by Alex Shvartsman

UFO10 Kickstarter Coming Soon!

August 31, 2025

I’ll be launching a UFO10 Kickstarter campaign in September! Please follow this link and click Notify me on launch. Even if you do not generally back campaigns on Kickstarter, we’d like as many people to click this as possible to show others that there’s interest in the book and the campaign. So it’s a small way to help that costs you nothing. 🙂

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ufopublishing/unidentified-funny-objects-10

I already have a fistful of headliner stories in hand, with more surely to come by the time we launch. Not announcing them yet, but it’s fiction from people you should be very excited to read.

2 Comments | Publishing | Tagged: , , , | Permalink
Posted by Alex Shvartsman

Worldcon 2025 Schedule

August 13, 2025

As per the previous post, I will spend much of my time at the Card Advantage Games booth, but here are also some panels, signings, readings, etc. where you can find me in the coming days. Please do say hi if you see me! I am friendly and (mostly) house-broken.

Comments Off on Worldcon 2025 Schedule | Event Appearances | Tagged: , | Permalink
Posted by Alex Shvartsman

Introducing Reclusion the video game!

August 13, 2025

In January of this year I joined the new and exciting video game studio, Card Advantage Games, as a Narrative Director. I’ve been working with amazingly talented group of people on our first game — a mashup of science fiction, historical fantasy, and our protagonist’s personal growth.

This week we’ve unveiled the game and will show off an early demo at the Seattle Worldcon. We will soon have the demo video available online as well, so those who can’t attend in person are able to check it out. For now, you can visit our website and follow our social media channels.

But that’s not all! We’ve teamed up with some amazing award-winning and best-selling authors to write stories set in the world of Reclusion and produced a collectable hardcover anthology which you can only get your hands on at exclusive CAG appearances, the first of which is Worldcon!

The book includes stories by Esther Friesner, Alan Dean Foster, R.R. Virdi, Julia Vee, and me. Stop by our booth at Worldcon to get your copy, but hurry because we’re sure to run out of the daily allotment quickly.

Not going to Worldcon or missed your chance? No worries–you can get a FREE ebook of the anthology any time. Simply visit our website and join he mailing list. The EPUB file will be automatically sent to you.

2 Comments | Publishing | Tagged: , , , , , , | Permalink
Posted by Alex Shvartsman

UFO10 Cover Reveal

July 31, 2025

I’m finally–finally!–moving forward with the next installment in the UFO series. Headliner invitations are going out. We plan on having a Kickstarter campaign in October and, contingent on funds raised, an open submissions window in December.

We have a small team of associate editors. If you wish to get involved by helping with any aspect of the project (reading submissions, graphics design, marketing, etc.) please let me know. These are volunteer positions, though all artists and authors contributing work are getting paid. I’ve raised the pay rate to 12 cents per word for this volume.

Stay tuned for one more really exciting anthology announcement from me in August!

Submission guidelines:

UFO Series

Comments Off on UFO10 Cover Reveal | Publishing | Tagged: , , | Permalink
Posted by Alex Shvartsman

The Middling Affliction releases in Bulgarian Translation

July 26, 2025

THE MIDDLING AFFLICTION releases in Bulgarian translation next month! Издателство Протон publishes a mix of translations and Bulgarian authors. I’m in good company as the other American authors they publish are Heinlein and Silverberg!

I don’t envy any translator the task to bring all shades of meaning of the title to another language. In Bulgarian, the title will be THE HALF-MAGE EPIDEMIC.

I will be attending Bulgacon and Sofia Book Festival in September to help promote the release.

Comments Off on The Middling Affliction releases in Bulgarian Translation | Acceptances & Publications | Tagged: , , | Permalink
Posted by Alex Shvartsman

New publication: “Serpent Carriers” by K.A. Teryna

July 1, 2025

“Serpent Carriers” by K.A. Teryna is live at Clarkesworld today!

This absolutely brilliant long novelette is perhaps the most complex translation I’ve had to perform to date, but it is well worth it! I can’t wait for everyone to read this story.

https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/teryna_07_25/

Comments Off on New publication: “Serpent Carriers” by K.A. Teryna | Acceptances & Publications | Tagged: , , | Permalink
Posted by Alex Shvartsman

« Previous Entries
Next Entries »