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Acquisition announcement
Violet Lichen Books is thrilled to announce the acquisition of The Cellar Below the Cellar by Ivy Grimes, a delightfully weird and surreal coming-of-age, folk-horror novella inspired by the legend of Alpine winter witch Frau Perchta and the Russian fairy tale “Vasilisa the Beautiful.” When Jane finds herself isolated in a small village in the…
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ECO24: The Year’s Best Speculative Ecofiction
Violet Lichen is proud to announce the launch of a new annual anthology, ECO: The Year’s Best Speculative Ecofiction, edited by Marissa van Uden. This anthology showcases some of the most vivid, thought-provoking, and emotionally affecting ecofiction published in the previous calendar year. Speculative ecofiction is defined as stories that explore our place in the…
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Violet Lichen open to novella queries
It has been a truly wonderful few months reading all of the delightfully weird, creepy, and imaginative queries we received this summer. Almost all queries from our initial opening have been responded to. If I requested a full manuscript from you and you still haven’t heard back, your novella is still in consideration! Our mid-winter…
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First Query Window
Our very first query window opens from July 1 to July 14! If you have a novella of 20-40K words that might fit our guidelines, please do consider submitting it during this period. As a reminder, the sub-genres I am looking for are Weird Fiction, New Weird, Eco-Speculative Fiction, Folk Horror, Surreal Fiction, and Literary…
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Welcome to Violet Lichen Books!
Apex Book Company is delighted to announce the launch of a new imprint, Violet Lichen Books, to be headed by Editor-in-Chief Marissa van Uden. Violet Lichen Books aims to publish unique novella-length horror, and dark fiction, focusing especially on New Weird, Weird, folk horror, eco-horror, and eco-science-fiction. Inspired by the mysterious beauty of lichens growing…
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