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Dear Readers,
Do a search and you’ll find a lot of self-help books with titles including words such as grit, perseverance, resilience, determination, and discipline. Another word I heard a lot in the 70s was sticktoitiveness. This mouthful implies that you stick to something through thick and thin, ups and downs, fog and bog, sunburn and sore feet—even when giving up might be, well, a lot easier.
Maybe even smart.
Sticktoitiveness perfectly describes what we’ve gone through to bring you Passages—Best of NewMyths Volume I audio.
That’s right, we just released our first AUDIO BOOK
Voice actor Mike Sears began recording the project pre-COVID, but through the lockdowns, health issues, family issues, missing recording equipment, and disappeared audio files, we stuck-to-it until we finished recording and producing a fantastic audiobook. This couldn’t have been possible without our talented voice actors, Mike Sears and Tommy McCarthy (a really great guy and singer from No Authority), Angelica Duardo, our summer issue editor who helped keep Tommy on track, and Rob E. del Sol, our producer.
I hope you check it out. Here is a link to a FREE SAMPLE to whet your appetite.
Also, if you have an extra five minutes are doing our first major survey. We want to improve NewMyths for both readers and contributors, and your feedback would be greatly appreciated.
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Thank you for your love of wonder fiction, and especially your continued support.
Scott T. Barnes—editor and founder
Memories of Lucinda Eco
“With thrilling worldbuilding, bold writing, and a heroine to root for, Memories of Lucinda Eco has all the elements I’m looking for in a fantasy.” ~ Lauren Kate, New York Times bestselling author of the Fallen series
Somebody cursed Lucinda’s Abuelita.
But who? And why?
And why are the authorities and her family too frightened to investigate?
When Lucinda recognizes she is Abuelita’s only hope for survival, she and her best friend enlist the help of the most unlikely ally, the son of the local gang boss…
…the gang boss Abuelita killed.
Using bruja witchcraft, Lucinda and her friends open a gateway to relive Abuelita’s memories, only to discover terrible secrets and powerful enemies who pose an even greater danger than a single curse.
Best of NewMyths V: The Growers
Whether it’s a dystopia after the end of civilization, a distant world with fantastic beings, or a far future with advanced technology, it will need farmers. Thirty-six of the world’s best fantasy and science fiction authors celebrate in prose and poetry the few who feed the globe:
A grieving widow from another world with a struggling desert farm who rescues a strange creature…and must find a way to provide for them both.
A combat robot at the end of its career who escapes to the countryside and must make peace with a sheepdog to find a new home.
Bickering families at the edge of space who must work together or be destroyed by a terrifying monster.
Join our authors in honoring the fantastic, the uncanny, and the conceivable farmers.
Best of NewMyths VI: Janus Gates
Coming Summer 2026
Passages: The Best of NewMyths Volume I is now available on Amazon, and breaking news! soon will be out as an Audiobook!
Featuring over 400 pages of speculative fiction and poetry that looks at hopes, dreams, and supernatural experiences from the viewpoint of every stage in life, children, young adult, mid-life crises, and senior memories.
Twilight Worlds: The Best of NewMyths Volume II is now available for purchase. Featuring over 400 pages of speculative fiction and poetry, the anthology explores what happens when eras end and dawns break. It includes “best of” and original material. Please support your favorite online spec-fic magazine by purchasing, reviewing, and promoting Twilight Worlds!
Neosapiens: The Best of NewMyths.com Anthology: Volume III, now available for purchase. Featuring stories and poems from the non-human point of view. Androids developing self-awareness, animals evolving sentience, aliens watching us, or mythical beings hiding among us.
Available on all your favorite platforms here.
Is it spirit? Is it magic?
Where on Earth — or outside of Earth — does inspiration come from?
NewMyths contributors explore the unknowable Muse in the fantastic and the future. This anthology of 43 short stories and poems features winners and nominees for Writers of the Future, Rhysling, Baen Fantasy Adventure, Dwarf Star, and Nebula awards. About half the anthology is a "best of" NewMyths magazine, while the other half is first published here. Available here.
The Gwendy Trilogy
By Stephen King and Richard Chizmar
©2025 Gallery Books
Reviewed by Peter Jekel
Stephen King’s major publishing debut in 1974 was Carrie, and he hasn’t rested since. The prolific writer of best-selling dark fantasy has produced more than sixty novels and numerous short fictions. A major force in King’s success is his ability to set stories in middle-class America, moving fantastic horror from the Gothic castles and forests of Europe to your own backyard. Several of his tales were collaborations with others who write in a similar genre, such as Peter Straub, his sons Owen King and Joe Hill, and most recently, The Gwendy Trilogy with Richard Chizmar.
The trilogy begins with a collaborative novella, Gwendy’s Button Box. Gwendy is a 12-year-old girl living in King’s make-believe American town of Castle Rock, Maine. She is approached by a stranger who asks her to take care of a wooden box. It has seven buttons of different colours, each of which, when pressed, will impact a different continent, and two buttons, one red and one black, that aren’t attached to a destination. The black one is dangerous, according to the stranger, but the red one can be pressed as many times as she wishes and will produce chocolate animals, silver dollars, and good luck. Gwendy resists pressing any button until she turns 17, when she’s tempted…(READ MORE)