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The Mammoth Book of the Mummy: 19 Tales of the Immortal Dead

Well, the UK edition of The Mammoth Book of the Mummy: 19 Tales of the Immortal Dead edited by Paula Guran will be out in January 2017!

Time to pre-order your copy, peeps – read it and do your research before the Tom Cruise remake of The Mummy comes out.

The US edition will be out a month or two later, details to follow!

The ToC:

Kage Baker, “The Queen in Yellow”
Gail Carriger, “The Curious Case of the Werewolf That Wasn’t, the Mummy That Was, and the Cat in the Jar”
Paul Cornell, “Ramesses on the Frontier”
Terry Dowling, “The Shaddowes Box”
Carole Nelson Douglas, “Fruit of the Tomb”
Steve Duffy, “The Night Comes On”
Karen Joy Fowler, “Private Grave 9”
Will Hill, “Three Memories of Death”
Stephen Graham Jones, “American Mummy” (original to this collection)
John Langan, “On Skua Island”
Joe R. Lansdale, “Bubba-Ho-Tep”
Helen Marshall, “The Embalmer” (original to this collection)
Kim Newman, “Egyptian Avenue”
Norman Partridge, “The Mummy’s Heart”
Adam Roberts, “Tollund”
Robert Sharp, “The Good Shabti”
Angela Slatter, “Egyptian Revival” (original to this collection)
Keith Taylor, “The Emerald Scarab”
Lois Tilton & Noreen Doyle, “The Chapter of Coming Forth by Night”

The Mammoth Book of the Mummy : 19 Tales of the Immortal Dead

Well, the UK edition of The Mammoth Book of the Mummy : 19 Tales of the Immortal Dead edited by Paula Guran will be out in January 2017!

Time to pre-order your copy, peeps – read it and do your research before the Tom Cruise remake of The Mummy comes out.

The US edition will be out a month or two later, details to follow!

The ToC:

Kage Baker, “The Queen in Yellow”
Gail Carriger, “The Curious Case of the Werewolf That Wasn’t, the Mummy That Was, and the Cat in the Jar”
Paul Cornell, “Ramesses on the Frontier”
Terry Dowling, “The Shaddowes Box”
Carole Nelson Douglas, “Fruit of the Tomb”
Steve Duffy, “The Night Comes On”
Karen Joy Fowler, “Private Grave 9”
Will Hill, “Three Memories of Death”
Stephen Graham Jones, “American Mummy” (original to this collection)
John Langan, “On Skua Island”
Joe R. Lansdale, “Bubba-Ho-Tep”
Helen Marshall, “The Embalmer” (original to this collection)
Kim Newman, “Egyptian Avenue”
Norman Partridge, “The Mummy’s Heart”
Adam Roberts, “Tollund”
Robert Sharp, “The Good Shabti”
Angela Slatter, “Egyptian Revival” (original to this collection)
Keith Taylor, “The Emerald Scarab”
Lois Tilton & Noreen Doyle, “The Chapter of Coming Forth by Night”

Over at The Wheeler Centre …

… I talk about working with words.

What’s the best (or worst) advice you’ve received about writing?

‘Write every day’. It’s a bit of advice about building a habit of writing, but it doesn’t always work because some days you are just empty creatively. Trying to write then is like grinding gears with no oil in the reserve. You need sometimes just to not write, but to go off and refill the well ? not keep pushing stuff out, but pull it in ? the stuff that inspires you, makes you laugh, makes you cry, makes you think. Like binge-watching Midnight Sun or The Expanse, or sitting down with a book and not doing anything for a day but reading, or going for walks or lying in the pool for a few hours. Sometimes there’s action in that which appears actionless.

The rest is here.

Patreon art update

Oooooh, in colour now!

Mad Hatters and March Hares

John Tennial’s wonderful Alice

Huzzah! A new anthology from Ellen Datlow, Mad Hatters and March Hares, will be published by Tor next year.

I’m very excited to have a story in this (representing with Kaaron Warren), along with these amazing authors:

Gentle Alice – Kris Dikeman  (poem)

My Own Invention – Delia Sherman

Lily-White & The Thief of Lesser Night – C.S.E. Cooney

Conjoined – Jane Yolen                              

Mercury – Priya Sharma                          

Some Kind of Wonderland – Richard Bowes

Alis – Stephen Graham Jones          

All the King’s Men – Jeffrey Ford

Run, Rabbit – Angela Slatter                         

In Memory of a Summer’s Day – Matthew Kressel

Sentence Like a Saturday – Seanan McGuire

Worrity, Worrity – Andy Duncan

Eating the Alice Cake – Kaaron Warren

The Queen of Hats – Ysabeau Wilce

A Comfort, One Way – Genevieve Valentine

The Flame After the Candle – Catherynne M. Valente

Moon, Memory, Muchness – Katherine Vaz

Run, Rabbit, Run – Jane Yolen (poem)           

 

A Shout-out to Be. Bangles

I ordered a couple of gifts from the lovely Be. Bangles for Christmas – imagine my delight to find a lovely little message when they arrived! So, go and throw them some love and money (although not in a manner that will offend morality laws); not only are they awesome, the business helps push some good things back out into the world, like education for girls. As with all shopping experiences, check the sizing guide before you order!

Patreon peeks

So, one of the things I’m working on (in between all the other end of the year deadlines) is a Patreon account.

One of the reward levels will get you a scroll once a month with some sort of story-related artefact on it. Kathleen Jennings is doing the art for me.

Exhibit A is A Brief History of the Hind-Girls:

 

Dreaming in the Dark is launched!

And so the Dreaming in the Dark anthology, the flagship publication of PS Australia, edited by the legendary Jack Dann has been launched.

Dymocks in the city have several signed copies, so if you couldn’t get along tonight you know where to find copies – and I imagine Pulp Fiction Press will get in a couple of the limited edition signed-by-all version that PS is producing as well for the serious collectors!

Madly signing the sheets for the super-duper limited edition.

Crowd!

Paul Brandon and Sarah Calderwood

Jack Dann and a tale of beagles and wombat poop.

Winter Children

The signing sheets arrived just this afternoon, so I’ve spent the last couple of hours 200 sheets for the limited edition Winter Children and Other Chilling Tales! They’ll be back to PS Publishing tomorrow via an especially fast pigeon in order to be tipped into books that will be sent out in time for Christmas or the non-denominational holiday of your choice!

Dreaming in the Dark: Brisbane Launch

Oh, poor neglected blog, don’t worry. I’m home now for months on end and I swear I’ll not neglect you for a long while.

Which brings me to: the Dreaming in the Dark launch! In Brisneyland!

This is PS Publishing’s first Australian imprint release, edited by the legendary Jack Dann.

The launch is on next week, Thursday 8 December at Dymocks in the City, from 6pm-8.30pm.

Welcome to the undiscovered worlds of some of the most talented authors working in Australia…authors who are making rules and breaking rules.

Garth Nix dishes up the dirt on those pesky super-heroes while Sean Williams shows you that matter transmission is more frightening than you ever thought possible.

Paul Brandon explains the nature of fallen angels and love while James Bradley dreams about Mars and the fate that awaits all cultures.

Discover hot new writer Rjuik Davidson’s world of ice and betrayal and Terry Dowling’s melding of graffito with the art of magic.

Lisa Hannett will give you a glimpse of the mating rituals taking place on an alien world, and Jason Nahrung will show you an Australia you’ve never even dreamed of; and in case you’re interested in discovering the shape of eternity, take a trip to Adam Browne’s “Liquid Palace” and the tiny eyeship sailing within.

And the fabulations by featured writers Kim Westwood, Sean McMullen, Angela Slatter, Richard Harland, Venero Armanno, Rosaleen Love, Alan Baxter, Anna Tambour, Janeen Webb, Kirstyn McDermott, Kim Wilkins and Simon Brown, all of whom will amaze you, terrify you, make you see the world under new lights, and carry you away to new realms of experience.

Books will be available to purchase on the night.