Celestial Echo Press will open for submissions May 1, and close June 1, for our next anthology, Behind the Revolving Door: an Anthology of Choices. Visit our website for submission guidelines and the link to the google form to submit.

Submission Guidelines - Celestial Echo Press

Joanne McLaughlin's Chasing Ashes, published by Celestial Echo Press, is now available in audiobook format! Narrator Linda Jones did a phenomenal job with characterization.

Check it out here: https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Studios-on-Brilliance-Chasing/dp/B0F6PGMB22/ref=sr_1_2?s=books

My short story, Breathing Exercise was published in the online magazine A Sufferers Digest #3. It can be found at A Sufferer's Digest - ISSUES. Hopefully they will correct the spelling of my last name and add the missing 'S'. LOL

I'm excited to report that both of my entries in the 2025 PA Press Club Communications contest took first place!

CATEGORY 11A — Fiction for Adults —  Novels (More than 40,000 words)

1st place —  Phil Giunta, Allentown, for “By Your Side”

CATEGORY 15A — Short Stories —  Single Story

1st place —  Phil Giunta, Allentown, for “A Thorne in Time”

All 33 first-place winning entries in PA will be forwarded to the National Federation of Press Women Communications Contest for another round of competition against first-place winners in other state affiliates. Results will be announced in June. Last year, another of my novels ranked second place nationally. Fingers crossed for a repeat performance! 

I'm happy to announce (better late than never) that my short story, "Lisa's Little Lie", was the winner of February's Shooter Flash contest.  

The story is up at the following link -  amiss: https://shooterlitmag.com/2025/02/10/lisas-little-lie/

Launching Feb. 1. Available for pre-order now.

"When a world-renowned poet disappears, her unpublished works inexplicably arrive at Mimi’s door. Is Mimi Jones a suspect, or is she the only one who can solve the puzzle of the missing poet? The unexpected twists and turns of this romantic mystery kept me turning the pages."

—Gail Priest, Award-winning Author of Soul Dancing

A science team’s mission on a desolate planetoid unravels into danger, discovery, and personal reckoning.

Thrilled to announce that my science fiction story "In the Span of a Heartbeat" was published in Black Cat Weekly #176 on January 12, 2025. Black Cat Weekly is an online magazine of science fiction, fantasy, mystery, and suspense. Issue 176 can be found here! 

I'm thrilled to announce that my science fiction story "Isaac Geary's Instant Utopia" was accepted by Delaware-based small press, Oddity Prodigy Productions, for their upcoming anthology, Bright Mirror. This marks my second time working with OPP. In 2020, they published my ghost story, "Burn After Writing," in their horror anthology, Scary Stuff.

Science fiction is replete with dystopian societies (it often feels as if we're living in one now), but what about utopian futures as presented by Star Trek for example? We could use more of those. The idea behind Bright Mirror is to offer tales of discovery and promise.  You can read more about the project here. 

As with OPP's previous genre anthologies, Bright Mirror will be funded by a Kickstarter campaign. It launches on December 10th. 

Celestial Echo Press hosted a reading/signing/launch for our latest two anthologies, Ruth and Ann's Guide to Time Travel, Volumes I and II, at Philcon last weekend. GLVWG's own Jonathan Maberry and Phil Giunta wrote stories for Volume I.

The launch was incredibly successful. Eleven authors read excerpts of their stories, and attendees were enthralled. Then we noshed and ate cake.

Here's the link to B&N if you want to check out the anthologies: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/ruth%20and%20ann's%20guide%20to%20time%20travel

Whew! Celestial Echo Press has published our second anthology of the year, Ruth and Ann's Guide to Time Travel, Volume II.

We're so excited about both volumes. In the first, 21 authors wrote incredible stories; in the second, 30 authors reveal their vision of time travel.

Here's the B&N link: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/ruth-and-anns-guide-to-time-travel-volume-ii-ann-stolinsky/1146448056?ean=9781951967055

Please share this info with everyone! Thanks.