On the Cover of a Grimdark Magazine
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Just wanted to mention that the first-ever Gentlemen Bastards short story, “Locke Lamora and the Bottled Serpent,” will be appearing as a two-part extravaganza in Grimdark Magazine’s issues 40 and 41. Issue 40, GDM’s tenth anniversary celebration, is available for you to grab right now:
“Locke Lamora and the Bottled Serpent” returns us to Camorr some months after Locke’s 13th birthday, which was described in the “Orphan’s Moon” chapter of The Republic of Thieves. Locke, working as a bar-back in a rough-and-tumble Right People tavern, deals with some issues, including the fact that his only real friend on the premises is an aging mercenary named Mazoc Szaba who has an addiction to drinking poisonous wine for contests of chance. Since there are no flashbacks in Thorn, this story was the first time in quite a while I’d “gone back” to Camorr, and I found the experience pretty emotional. The good folks at GDM were lovely enough to give me this chance to play in their pages, so if you harbor any affection for Locke, give ‘em a shot. The individual issue should be about $4, and also comes with a load of fiction and non-fiction from people including Anna Smith Spark, Mark Lawrence, Christopher Buehlman, Cat Rambo, and many others!
If you missed my August updates on novellas, signed bookplates, and other matters, check it all out at: http://www.scottlynch.us/updates.html
And hey, if you didn’t see my short story “Selected Scenes From the Ecologies of the Labyrinth,” published in the Sunday Morning Transport in July, give it a read! No charge.
