Uncommon Miracles

“If Julie C. Day was a singer she’d have a five-octave range. This is a collection of astonishing variety and power. She is one of those alchemists of the short story who offers uncomplicated engagement, while provoking knotty thoughts and mutable responses. This is not merely a promising debut, it is simply astonishing.” –Interzone 277 Collection Review “Julie C. Day’s new collection, Uncommon Miracles, relates stories about what happens when strangeness, dream-like and nightmarish, infiltrates the lives of everyday people. A unique new voice in short fiction – sharp writing and a wonderfully idiosyncratic imagination.” —Jeffrey Ford, author of The Girl in the Glass, The Physiognomy, The Drowned Life, A Natural History of Hell, and many others. World Fantasy Award winner, Nebula Award winner, Shirley Jackson Award winner, Edgar Allan Poe Award winner. “You never know what or who you might encounter in a story by Day, or how the everyday world will be twisted and turned into something new, eerie, and unsettling, but then, that’s exactly what makes this collection so very good.” –Maria Haskins Collection Review “Julie C. Day makes a bold debut with this genre-bending collection of stories. At times whimsical, at times heartbreaking, but always clear-eyed and honest, Uncommon Miracles proves that Day has joined the front ranks of the writers carrying American fantasy into a new golden age.” —Nathan Ballingrud, author of North American Lake Monsters and The Visible Filth. Shirley Jackson Award winner. Shortlisted for the World Fantasy, British Fantasy, and Bram Stoker Awards. “A collection of stories to unsettle your dreams and make the world a stranger and more delightful place.” —Kelly Link, author of Get in Trouble, Stranger Things Happen, and Magic for Beginners. Pulitzer Prize Finalist, Hugo Award winner, Nebula Award winner, World Fantasy Award winner. “Julie C. Day’s stories are strongly strange, whether happening in a sort of now in this country or in a weirdly altered past. These stories seem to be what the term American Gothic was meant for.” —John Crowley, author of Little, Big and the Ægypt tetralogy. World Fantasy Award winner for Best Novel, World Fantasy award winner for Life Achievement, & recipient of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award in Literature.

Spec Boston October 25th, 2018 Trident Booksellers & Cafe 338 Newbury Street Boston, MA Speculative Boston is a new quarterly event, featuring authors of science fiction, fantasy, and horror of all kinds. Each event features two to three authors who read from and discuss their works, followed by a Q&A session. There will also be time for mingling and — of course — getting books signed. Group Reading Hillary Monahan, Paul Trembley, and Julie C. Day Charm City Spec October 31th, 2018 Bird in Hand Coffee & Books 11E. 33rd Street Baltimore, MD A speculative reading series in the city of Baltimore. Group Reading Sam J Miller, David D. Levine, Sherri Cook Woosley, and Julie C. Day World Fantasy Convention November 1-4, 2018 Baltimore Renaissance Harborplace Hotel, Baltimore, MD WFC2018 plans to explore all forms of safe havens. From churches to oases and ports, sanctuaries for the body and refuges for the spirit, no place offering respite to the characters in our favorite fantasy, horror, and weird tales will be ignored. Reading Saturday, Nov.3 11:00-11:30 am Panel: Monsters and the Monstrous Saturday, Nov. 3, 4:00 pm Group Reading: Kaleidotrope Authors Sunday, Nov. 4 11:30-noon Lovecraft Arts & Sciences Arcade Asylum Author Series December 1, 2018 Arcade Providence, 65 Weybosset Street Providence, RI The Lovecraft Arts & Sciences Council is a nonprofit organization based in Providence, Rhode Island that serves as a networking center for scholars, authors, artists, and fans of the Weird literary world, inspired in part by Providence author H. P. Lovecraft and expanded upon by so many others. We strive to foster a vibrant and diverse global weird fiction and art community, and to provide a home for this community here in Providence. Group Reading Fantastic Fiction at KGB January 16, 2019 KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street, NYC Fantastic Fiction at KGB is a monthly reading series held on the third Wednesday of every month at the famous KGB Bar in Manhattan. The reading series features luminaries and up-and-comers in speculative fiction. Admission is always free. Group Reading Arisia January 18-21, 2019 Westin Boston Waterfront Boston, MA Arisia is a convention for fans of science fiction and fantasy, in all forms of media, held annually in January on Martin Luther King Jr. weekend at the Boston Westin Waterfront hotel in the booming Seaport District. Boskone February 15-17, 2019 Westin Boston Waterfront Boston, MA Brought to you by the New England Science Fiction Association (NESFA), Boskone is an annual science fiction convention, the oldest in New England. International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts March 13-16, 2019 Orlando Airport Marriott Orlando, FL The International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (ICFA) is an annual scholarly conference devoted to all aspects of the fantastic (broadly defined) as it appears in literature, film, and the other arts. The ICFA is held annually in Orlando, Florida, USA. Necronomicon August 22-25, 2019 Providence, RI NecronomiCon Providence is an expansive exploration and celebration of all the greats of weird fiction, including predecessors and contemporaries of Providence’s H.P. Lovecraft and the many authors and artists who have forged their own paths of weird.