David A. Riley's Blog, page 83

Songs for Christmas

I honestly don't know which of these two I prefer most. Damn it, I like 'em both!

Nice to see

Nice to see one of my own collections and my novel at the top of the list of books on my Amazon author's page for a change rather than the various anthologies I've had stories in. I don't suppose it will stay that way for long, but it's great to see while it lasts.

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Flash Fiction - The Meeting - to be published in Deep Water Literary Journal, Jan 2015

I am pleased to announce that one of my shortest ever stories, The Meeting, will be published next year in Deep Water Literary Journal .

My first published piece: Frank Kafka: Narrator of Nightmares in Shadow # 6

My first published piece was in David Sutton's celebrated fanzine Shadow back in April/May 1969 in its sixth issue. This was an article titled Franz Kafka: Narrator of Nightmares, with a totally inappropriate illustration by yours truly. Other contributors to this issue were Brian J. Frost, Eddy C. Bertin, Alan Jones, and David Sutton.

Indian Summer by Douglas Draa

I was pleased to get a copy of Wishful Thinking, edited by Sheila Hall, published by Fireside Press in the post this morning. Even more pleased at the dedication by Doug Draa for his story Indian Summer. Thanks, Doug!
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Maggie Dudgeon Presents

Just put the last tweaks to a story I wrote a while ago but was dissatisfied with till I did a thorough rewrite. Maggie Dudgeon Presents is a little tale about the trials and tribulations of an amateur dramatic group and of clashing egos, only very tenuously connected, I would hasten to add, to any groups I have had experience with over the years!

Redundant Flesh

After finishing five short stories in the past month (Sir Hector's Quest, A Grim God's Revenge, Boat Trip, Lem, and Dead Ronnie and I), I've restarted writing a novella (or maybe a short novel) called Redundant Flesh, which I worked on a couple of years ago, but dropped by the wayside. Reading it again this week, I found my interest in it reignited. I'm looking forward to finishing this story of a serial killer.

Paperback reprint of Back from the Dead due December from Spectral Press

Simon Marshall-Jones' Spectral Press will be re-issuing the award winning Back from the Dead anthology, edited by Johnny Mains, as a paperback in December with a brand new Les Edwards cover.

The anthology includes my story The True Spirit, one of my Grudge End tales.

New Story: Dead Ronnie and I

Incredibly, I managed to finish off another story, one I started some time ago and abandoned. It's a 4,500 word horror story called Dead Ronnie and I. It's the first story I have written involving a seaplane and isolated Scottish islands.

Must look for something else to work on now.

Another story finished - Boat Trip

Another story finished - the fourth this month. It's a horror story called Boat Trip, 4,300 words long, about a pair of fishermen who are inadvertently involved in a secret war against Lovecraftian deep ones.