Pre-order the CHOOSE WISELY anthology!

Most excellent CC fans,

I’m writing to you this evening to share something I’ve worked on for nearly two years (!). Almost twenty-four months of labor to push this baby into the world. A labor of love and discovery of so many very talented women writers who do their thing every. single. day.

This baby is the Choose Wisely: 35 Women Up to No Good anthology, and it is available now for pre-order. It will be out for real (in ten days!) on March 31st. Dark fiction stories by Joyce Carol Oates, Aimee Bender, Diane Cook, Cat Rambo, Rachel Swirsky, plus a bunch more. The full table of contents is below, plus links to a few of the stories available online.

Joanne Merriam of Upper Rubber Boot brought it aboard, helped collect a few remaining stories, co-edited it with me, and made it beautiful. (Writers, she’ll be at AWP showing it off to everyone, so if you’ll be in attendance, make sure to drop by and stroke its perfect cover.)

Below are various links for you to click and spread around (pretty please?). We want this anthology to be seen. It’s THAT good (if we do say so ourselves).

Click to check out the book at Upper Rubber Boot

‘Til the cows come home,

H. L. Nelson
Head Beef in Charge

Table of Contents:

• Janet Shell Anderson, “Every Purpose Under Heaven”
• Sidney Archer, “Woman Enough”
• Alisha M. Attella, “Rise”
• Gwen Beatty, “Angel Thinks She Will Die Very Soon”
• Aimee Bender, “Broke”
• Tina Connolly, “Hard Choices”
• Diane Cook, “Moving On”
• Kathy Fish, “The Hollow”
• Amina Gautier, “A Cup of My Time”
• Amelia Gray and Lindsay Hunter, “Sisters”
• Tina May Hall, “Vampire”
• Rebecca Jones-Howe, “Better Places”
• Andrea Kneeland, “Imagination”
• Molly Laich, “Kristen Doesn’t Like Surprise Parties”
• Heather Lindsley, “The Angel of Death Has a Business Plan”
• Holly Lopez, “The Head”
• Kelly Luce, “Rooey”
• Mesha Maren, “Eminent Domain”
• Jessica McHugh, “In the Silt”
• Mary Miller, “This Boy I Loved a Rock”
• Ellen Birkett Morris, “After the Fall”
• Joyce Carol Oates, “Spotted Hyenas: A Romance”
• Jennifer Pelland, “The Kennel Club”
• Cat Rambo, “Ms. Liberty Gets a Haircut”
• Joani Reese, “Good Neighbors”
• Marytza K. Rubio, “Clap If You Believe”
• Nisi Shawl, “Looking for Lilith”
• Quill Shiv, “The Bitter Sea”
• Emily Slaney, “Bear Traps”
• Amber Sparks, “We Dressed Up Like Other People”
• Rachel Swirsky, “The Sea of Trees”
• Meg Tuite, “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?”
• Damien Angelica Walters, “Girl, With Coin”
• xTx, “Today I Am A Wife”
• Bonnie ZoBell, “Tricking the Moon”

Story from the book available online:

• Kelly Luce, “Rooey” (The Literary Review)