A Universe of Stories release event

We will be having a release event for A Universe of Stories this Saturday, August 14, from 11am to 1pm in the American Fork Library Community Room. Come meet the authors, pick up a copy of the anthology, and get it signed! You can see more about it here. We hope to see you there!

A Universe of Stories release!

A Universe of Stories, our collection of winners from the American Fork Library 2019 science fiction short story contest, is up for preorder! A regularly-updated list of links to stores where it’s available is on the anthology page. Pick up your copy today!

Call for submissions: A Hero of a Different Stripe

Since its beginnings in the early 1980s, the Life, the Universe, & Everything Symposium has been a staple of the Utah and Intermountain West author and artist community. Many authors, artists, and editors have found inspiration for their careers at the feet of scores of symposium guests. Influential professors and others have mentored those planning and running the symposium, but many of these mentors have passed on. The symposium helps students of all ages by providing greatly discounted student memberships. Hemelein Publications—in conjunction with LTUE Press—created a series of memorial benefit/charity anthologies to help the symposium continue to help these…

Twilight Tales releases on Thursday!

Twilight Tales will be released on Thursday, February 11, 2021 at Life, the Universe, & Everything 39. This year, it will be all online, so we’ll see how that works out. You can register for LTUE here. The launch event will be on Friday, February 12, at 1:00pm (Mountain Time) in the Douglas Adams Channel of the LTUE Discord server. Once you’re registered as an attendee, you will receive a link to join it. We’ll have as many of the contributors participating as possible. We hope to see you there! Here’s a list of the contents: “Behind the Bookshelf, in…

Updates for June 2020

We are working on several projects right now: We are reviewing and sending out the edits to authors for Twilight Tales, our light horror anthology. This will take a few days due to COIVD-19 impacting how we work on things here at Hemelein, but they are going out. If you’re waiting for your edits, rest assured they are on their way soon! Twilight Tales is scheduled for a February 2021 release. We are also working with the cover artists to finalize the cover. Once that’s done, we’ll share it with you. We are reviewing the submissions for Parliament of Wizards….

Call for Submissions: Parliament of Wizards

LTUE Benefit/Charity Anthology #4 – Parliament of Wizards Note: The call for submissions has been extended to May 30, 2020 due to COVID-19 disruptions. The call is now closed. Thank you for your submissions! Note 2: Due to COIVD-19 issues, we have slightly missed the September 1 deadline we set for ourselves for sending out acceptances and rejections for submissions. We should have those out by September 21. Thank you for your patience!. Since its beginnings in the early 1980s, the Life, the Universe, & Everything academic symposium has been a staple of the Utah and Intermountain West author and…

Tangent Online 2019 Recommended Reading List

Tangent Online has been reviewing short science fiction and fantasy for nearly three decades. Each year, they release a recommended reading list of new short fiction, and their 2019 Recommended Reading List includes two stories from Trace the Stars! “Knowing Me”, by Eric G. Swedin and “Cycle 335” by Beth Buck. Congratulations to the two of you! We’re glad to see your stories getting noticed. There are so many amazing stories on the list, and we are very proud to have these two stories there, too. Thanks to Victoria Silverwolf for reviewing the anthology for Tangent, and to Dave Truesdale…

Twilight Tales update for November 2019

First of all, thank you to everyone who submitted stories to Twilight Tales. We were overwhelmed with the number of submissions we received (more than twice as many as for A Dragon and Her Girl). We also appreciate everyone’s patience while we worked through all of them. That process is complete now, and all of the acceptance and rejections letters have been sent (one for each story submitted, so those who submitted more than one story will receive more than one letter). If you submitted and have not seen a letter yet, please check your spam/junk folder in case your…