"Scarecrow" Cover Reveal

Behold the official cover of Scarecrow, a speculative fiction anthology that includes my short story, "The Straw Samurai." The anthology is edited by Rhonda Parrish and published by World Weaver Press. The official reveal can be found here along with a Goodreads giveaway, but I thought I'd share portions of the press release below.


Cover Copy:

Hay-men, mommets, tattie bogles, kakashi, tao-tao—whether formed of straw or other materials, the tradition of scarecrows is pervasive in farming cultures around the world. The scarecrow serves as decoy, proxy, and effigy—human but not human. We create them in our image and ask them to protect our crops and by extension our very survival, but we refrain from giving them the things a creation might crave—souls, brains, free-will, love. In Scarecrow, fifteen authors of speculative fiction explore what such creatures might do to gain the things they need or, more dangerously, think they want.

Within these pages, ancient enemies join together to destroy a mad mommet, a scarecrow who is a crow protects solar fields and stores long-lost family secrets, a woman falls in love with a scarecrow, and another becomes one. Encounter scarecrows made of straw, imagination, memory, and robotics while being spirited to Oz, mythological Japan, other planets, and a neighbor’s back garden. After experiencing this book, you’ll never look at a hay-man the same.

Featuring all new work by Jane Yolen, Andrew Bud Adams, Laura Blackwood, Amanda Block, Scott Burtness, Virginia Carraway Stark, Amanda C. Davis, Megan Fennell, Kim Goldberg, Katherine Marzinsky, Craig Pay, Sara Puls, Holly Schofield, Laura VanArendonk Baugh, and Kristina Wojtaszek.

List price:

Ebook: $5.99 

Trade Paperback: $12.95

Official page:

https://www.worldweaverpress.com/scarecrow.html

Goodreads:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25360944-scarecrow 

The official release day is August 4th, when I plan to post more about my story "The Straw Samurai." Stay tuned!