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March 30, 2014

Welcome to Dimension6

D6masthead-1024x249Dimension6 is the new baby from Keith Stevenson’s Coeur De Lion Publishing and will launch on April 4.


The inaugural table of contents will feature stories by Charlotte Nash, Jason Nahrung and Richard Harland, and I’m running interviews with each of the authors this week.


Today, publisher and editor Keith Stevenson answers
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Published on March 30, 2014 15:00

Reading Time

wolfAs I finally finished my last edits to Vigil on Thursday night and sent the damned book off to an agent, I’m taking a well-earned rest. Obviously, my brain is totally empty.


So I am refilling it by binge reading. I just finished John Connolly’s The Wolf in Winter, which keeps the quality
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Published on March 30, 2014 05:50

March 27, 2014

A Book of Horrors – in Russian!

971552_10152022547837304_1406736908_nWell, as the header says, here it is!


Very exciting. My work’s now been translated into Czech, Romanian, Japanese and Russian.


A very vintage kind of Crypt Keeper illustration!

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Published on March 27, 2014 01:51

March 23, 2014

Spectral Press Chapbook: Home and Hearth

1912502_10152349104439813_635754832_nA sneak peak at the cover (by Mr Neil Williams) for my Spectral Press Chapbook “Home and Hearth”.


Blurb:


Caroline’s son returns to home and hearth at last. She’s a good parent or so she tells herself. She did everything a mother could to bring Simon back, even lied for him. The only problem
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Published on March 23, 2014 06:28

March 17, 2014

ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE! ENDGAME

ZA1I’m so very pleased to announce that my story “Red Dust,  ZA2White Earth” will appear in Stephen Jones’ latest Zombie Apocalypse anthology, ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE! ENDGAME.


I’m especially fond of this series as they’re done in a mosaic style, telling tales via letters, diary entries, emails,
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Published on March 17, 2014 04:13

March 16, 2014

Black Static #39 and Midnight and Moonshine

War by War by Ben Baldwin

War by War by Ben Baldwin


The lovely Mr Peter Tennant has reviewed a LOT of Australian books in Black Static #39, including Lisa’s  midnight-and-moonshineand my Midnight and Moonshine.


Among other things he had this to say:


“Hannett and Slatter have each
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Published on March 16, 2014 00:21

March 13, 2014

Ch-ch-changes!

badger-techYes, the site looks different.


No, it’s not finished.


But it is on its way.


The Tech Support Badger is working his way through the upgrade in between work and life in general, so please be patient.


Normal transmission will resume presently. :-)


If it looks particularly borked, then hit refresh.

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Published on March 13, 2014 15:24

March 4, 2014

Over at Shadow Writer

frozenI’m the Guest Writer for Paul Kane’s Shadow Writer site. You can read my story “Frozen” here (not related to the fairy tale film). A sample is below. There’s also Horror 101, reviews, and loads more goodness.


They found a child last winter, frozen on a bench outside the
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Published on March 04, 2014 14:39

March 3, 2014

She Walks in Shadows

20140205144348-squidOkay, so Silvia Morena-Garcia and Paula Stiles are putting together the first all-woman anthology of stories inspired by H.P. Lovecraft. And there’s a funding campaign over here at IndieGoGo – ten days left to fund it.


There’s a new reward: to sweeten the pot, I’m offering  signed paperback copies of Sourdough and
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Published on March 03, 2014 14:39

February 27, 2014

The Female Factory is done!

And so last night, Lisa and I finished our Twelve Planets collection for Twelfth Planet Press, and sent it off. The collection-formerly-known-as-Baggage is now called The Female Factory, after the final tale (which is a novella).


And as a teaser:


By WrittenOnTheSand at DeviantArt

By WrittenOnTheSand at DeviantArt


Baggage


‘You packed the white push-up Effy ordered,’
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Published on February 27, 2014 15:46