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Alan Smale

PO Box 475, Greenbelt, MD 20768-0475
Email: alan (at) alansmale.com
www.alansmale.com
Active member: SFWA, HWA

Published Fiction

[22.] "Quartet, with Mermaids" online at Abyss and Apex, Issue 25, First Quarter 2008

[21.] "Wearing the Dead" in the new edition of Book of Dead Things, edited by Tina Jens and Eric M. Cherry, released in summer 2007 by Twilight Tales

[20.] "A Trade in Serpents" in Realms of Fantasy, August 2007 issue

    (Featured in Locus's Recommended Reading List for 2007)
[19.] "Bound" in " Horror Library Vol 2, edited by R.J. Cavender and Vincent VanAllen, released in spring 2007 by Cutting Block Press

[18.] "The Happiest Day" in The Greatest Chapbook Ever, an anthology of the Mid-Atlantic Horror Professionals, released in 2004

[17.] "Sailing to the Temple" in Low Port, an original anthology from Meisha Merlin, eds. Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, released in fall 2003. See Meisha Merlin's Webpage about Low Port

[16.] "Kristin, with Caprice" in Realms of Fantasy, August 2003 issue

[15.] "Golgotha" in Paradox, issue 1, April 15 2003. Check out the Paradox web site for information about this new "Magazine of Historical and Speculative Fiction"!

[14.] "Bridges" in Dark Regions, May 2001, issue 16

[13.] "When Centaurs Dance" in Adventures of Sword and Sorcery, Winter 1998, issue 5, p.4

[12.] "Behind the Wheel" in Crimson online magazine, 1998, issue 1, p.5

[11.] "Moments of Truth" in Realms of Fantasy, June 1998, vol. 4, issue 5, p.50

[10.] "The Quantum Physics of Woodland Sprites" in The Leading Edge, February 1998 (mislabeled August 1995 on the cover), issue 35, p.17

[9.] "Feathers" in Night Terrors, November 1997, issue 5, p.45

    (Received an Honorable Mention in Year's Best Fantasy & Horror #11, ed. Datlow & Windling, 1997)

[8.] "Wings," in Writers of the Future Vol. 13. Bridge Publications, Inc. 1997. ISBN 1-57318-064-5 (pb). p. 335. Available from Writers of the Future.

[7.] "Vox Vampirica" in Erotica Vampirica, ed. Cecilia Tan. Circlet Press, Inc. 1996. ISBN 1-885865-08-2, p.125

[6.] "The Smooth Man" in A Nightmare's Dozen: Stories from the Dark, ed. Michael Stearns. A Jane Yolen book. Harcourt Brace & Co. 1996. ISBN 0-15-201247-8 (hc). p. 141. Available from Amazon.com

    (Received an Honorable Mention in Year's Best Fantasy & Horror #10, ed. Datlow & Windling, 1996)

    (Also available in a Danish edition, entitled "Den Skaldede Mand" in En Lyd I Natten, published by Gyldendal, 1996. ISBN 87-00-29418-7 (pb))

[5.] "The Game, and After" in Terminal Fright, Summer 1996, issue 12, p. 25

[4.] "Cleopatra's Dogs" in S/M Pasts, ed. Cecilia Tan. Circlet Press, Inc. 1995. ISBN 1-885685-06-6, p. 50

[3.] "Nanotuned" (poem) in Argonaut, Summer 1995, #20, p. 30

[2.] "By the Lake, Near the Sky" in Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine, Winter 1994, issue 22 (vol. 6, #2), p. 24

[1.] "The Breath of Princes" in A Wizard's Dozen: Stories of the Fantastic, ed. Michael Stearns. A Jane Yolen Book. Harcourt Brace & Co. 1993, ISBN 0-15-200965-5 (hc), 0-590-86542-0 (pb), p. 99. Available from Amazon.com

Currently Marketing

  1. Barbarian Summer, young adult fantasy novel; 60,000 words

  2. Sisters in Magic, young adult fantasy novel; 80,000 words

  3. and a dozen or so unsold novellas and short stories