New Year New You

<p><strong>**2025 INDIE AUTHOR PROJECT WINNER: RUNNER-UP SCIENCE FICTION CATEGORY**</strong></p><p><strong>STORIES FEATURED IN: T<em>he Best Weird Fiction of the Year Vol. 1</em> • <em>ECO24: Year's Best Speculative EcoFiction</em> • <em>Podcastle: The Fantasy Fiction Podcast</em></strong></p><p></p><p><strong>From award-winning authors Elizabeth Bear Daryl Gregory and twenty-two other groundbreaking writers in science fiction and fantasy comes an anthology packed with riveting stories of time-travel simulations transformation magic alternate realities and personal reinvention.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>New Year's resolutions and self-help gurus ask us to reinvent ourselves-be better prettier perfect. But the writers in this anthology know that reinvention contains both potential </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>and </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>pitfalls.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>One woman's doppelgänger offers her a chance to fix her flaws - for a small price. Against the wishes of her family an eel-person yearns to reveal her true nature. A showgirl in a backwater lunar cabaret seeks cosmic fame-and will do anything to get it.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>From cutting-edge voices in science fiction and fantasy comes a mind-bending collection of twenty-four tales that span the vast reaches of magic and space and delve into the intimate spaces between people.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>The authors featured in this anthology have had short fiction published in </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Clarkesworld Locus Asimov's Raleigh Review</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Lightspeed</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> and more. They are joined by two of the industry's most celebrated authors: Hugo and Sturgeon Award-winner </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Elizabeth Bear</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> </span><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>and World Fantasy winner </span><strong style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Daryl Gregory</strong><span style=color: rgba(68 68 68 1); background-color: rgba(252 252 252 1)>.</span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> Editor </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Chris Campbell's </strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>work has received recognition and support from the Massachusetts Cultural Council for his contributions to Afrofutrist literature.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Stories by</span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>: </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Charlotte Ahlin⬩Elizabeth Bear⬩Chris Campbell⬩Catherine Castellani⬩F.E. Choe⬩Rowan Copley⬩Julie Danvers⬩Nick DePasquale⬩Anastasia K. Elliott⬩Neil Flinchbaugh⬩Daryl Gregory⬩Trae Hawkins⬩Ash Howell⬩Adianu Etinose⬩C.R. Kellogg⬩Alec J. Marsh⬩Victor Pope⬩Allison Pottern⬩Taylor Lykiardopoulos⬩Melinda Smith⬩Shannon Spieler⬩Shen Tao⬩Avani Vaghela⬩Brigitte Winter</span></p>