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Website updated

Website updated: New page for my fantasy fiction, new review blurbs and my May reading list

https://www.williammeikle.com/

William Meikle’s Fantasy Fiction

For anyone interested… I’ve finally updated my rolling list of fantasy publications with recent and forthcoming appearances Source: William Meikle’s Fantasy Fiction Advertisements

Island Life

I love monsters....especially black and white ones with the zips showing. Treat this novel like a fifties monster flick and you'll have a great time with it.

https://www.williammeikle.com/aboutis...

THE WATCHERS trilogy

"...a confident and breathless romp through an alternative Jacobean history. Aims for entertainment, and hits the mark." - Simon Morden, Vector, the magazine of the British SF Association

https://www.williammeikle.com/whywatc...

"The author is relentless; just when you catch your breath, something new and exciting happens, sending you spinning into another part of the adventure, and keeping you flipping pages to see what's next." - David Wilbanks, Horrorworld

"Anyone who's fond of a good story and a good piece of writing will enjoy Meikle's clever conceits, interesting and earthy characters, and well turned prose." - Dread Central

"Meikle has taken on a much abused genre and re-invented it to present us with a refreshingly different and sinister tale." - Counterculture

"The book is very well-written. The language is rich, and... I found myself carrying the book everywhere, and taking slightly longer over lunch than I should have, as I just had to know what was happening!" - The Dracula Society

The Concordances of the Red Serpent

The Concordances of the Red Serpent is a thriller set in the USA, Canada and Scotland and is my attempt at one of those glossy caper movies Hitchcock used to make back in the day with a blonde in peril. Mix that with a bit of Da Vinci Code type musings on alchemical secrets and stir well.

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My April Reading

My April reading was dominated at the start by a reread of the Dark Tower series and at the end by rereads of some of my favorite vampire novels.

My 2019 reading - April Update

What I've been reading in 2019 - April Update https://www.williammeikle.com/annualr...

The Boathouse - A Newfoundland Supernatural

In this one you'll find a hurricane, a scrimshaw chess set, a derelict boatyard, beer, cigarettes, a Newfoundland fishing town, more beer, sigils, totems, a ouija board and an old whaler, going to rot...among other things.

https://www.williammeikle.com/aboutbo...

Newfoundland and Me

Newfoundland is worming its way more and more into my soul, and out again in my writing.

When I started writing in the '90s in Scotland most of my stories were set either there, or in London where I spent the '80s. I appear to need to be tied to a sense of place for work to come easily. With Newfoundland, the ties fell into place naturally.

We came over on holiday in 2005, primarily on a whale watching trip to Trinity, and fell in love immediately with the area. There is much here that reminds me of home, in both the maritime landscape, and the warmth of the people, and although they're mostly of Irish descent around here, I felt an immediate kinship with their stories of ekeing a living out of a harsh sea, as it's something my own family have much experience of on the opposite side of the same ocean.

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The Kew Growths at 99c

My Professor Challenger collection, The Kew Growths and Other Stories, is currently only 99c on Amazon