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TOC for Year's Best Hardcore Horror #6

The Year’s Best Hardcore Horror anthology series, published by Red Room Press, showcases the extreme, harder side of horror, featuring stories that break boundaries and trash taboos.

For the third year running, I have a story included! This year, it's "All the Stars in Her Eyes", first published by Andromeda Spaceways #80.

Here is the full Table of Contents for Year's Best Hardcore Horror volume 6. What a line-up! I'm absolutely thrilled to be included.

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"The Horror of Spawning" posted by the Horror Tree

The Horror Tree is a resource for horror authors, offering information on open submissions plus articles on every aspect of the writing process, fiction, guest posts, blog tours, and more.

Throughout February, they will feature guest blog posts to mark Women In Horror Month. My contribution is "The Horror of Spawning", a contemplation of pregnancy and birth with a nod to the contributors of my upcoming anthology, Spawn: Weird Horror Tales About Pregnancy, Birth and Babies (IFWG Publishing Australia).

https://horrortree.com/wihm-12-the-ho...

Story in Year's Best Hardcore Horror #6

Hat trick! For the third year in a row, editors of Year’s Best Hardcore Horror (Red Room Press) have selected one of my stories for inclusion. This time, it’s “All the Stars in Her Eyes", first published in Andromeda Spaceways #80.
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The Year’s Best Hardcore Horror anthology series showcases the extreme, harder side of horror, featuring stories that break boundaries and trash taboos.
http://www.redroompress.com/years-bes...

My previous works chosen for YBHH include "Hair and Teeth" (2018 edition) and "The Tea and Sugar Train" (2019 edition).

Author interview with Lisa Haselton

Lisa Haselton writes mystery, horror, romance and poetry, and interviews authors. She's posted an interview with me on her blog.

https://lisahaselton.com/2020/12/31/i...

I chat about my crime novella, The Long Shot, published by Twelfth Planet Press.

Ebook giveaway of Dark Waters / Ronnie and Rita

The Horror Tree is giving away TEN ebook copies of my crime-noir novellas, Dark Waters / Ronnie and Rita (IFWG Publishing Australia). Entries close 21 December.

https://horrortree.com/enter-to-win-a...

The back-cover blurb reads:

Each story a mirror-image of the other...
A bad man trying to become good.
A good man turning bad.
Both men motivated by love.
DARK WATERS
Brendan Reilly, a.k.a. Danny Boy, is a veteran of the Overlords, an outlaw motorcycle club. A near-fatal accident leads him to an epiphany: he is determined to quit the life and reconnect with his ex-wife and son. At the same time, the Overlords are preparing for war against a rival gang, the Golden Jackals, and with Brendan's loyalty in question, he is pushed further into the war when all he wants is a way out.
RONNIE AND RITA
Ron Spooner is middle-aged, alone and lonely, a nobody who has mowed lawns for a living ever since he was a boy. When he meets a young drifter, Rita, they fall in love, and want nothing more than a family of their own. Too bad it isn't possible. Or is it? What Rita asks him to do is wrong. Terribly wrong. But Ron is willing to sacrifice everything for this twisted love affair.

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Galactic Chat podcast interview

Galactic Chat is a Ditmar award-winning podcast of Australian Speculative Fiction author interviews.

In the latest episode hosted by Helen Stubbs, I talk about my writing and research methods, a few of my releases (including the crime novella, The Long Shot, and zombie novel Body Farm Z), as well as my TV scriptwriting days for Neighbours and Australia's Most Wanted.

https://galactichat.podbean.com/e/gal...

Author interview for Midnight Echo 15

Midnight Echo, the annual magazine from the Australasian Horror Writers Association, was edited this year by Lee Murray and will be published on November 30. It includes my sci-fi/horror story "Carbon Copy Consumables".

"Midnight Echo 15 Showcase" features behind-the-scenes interviews with the contributors. Here's the link to my interview:
https://www.leemurray.info/post/midni...

The Kindle edition of Midnight Echo 15 is available to pre-order:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08MWD9F1J

New book contract with IFWG Publishing Australia

Wonderful news! I've just signed a contract with award-winning press, IFWG Publishing Australia, for a fiction collection, due for release in 2022.

My collection, to be called "Liminal Spaces: Horror Stories", will comprise stories previously published in magazines and anthologies, plus original work.

My existing collections with IFWG include the award-winning "Perfect Little Stitches and Other Stories" and the award-nominated "Figments and Fragments: Dark Stories".

Here's a link to the press release by Gerry Huntman, IFWG managing director:
https://ifwgaustralia.com/2020/11/18/...

Author interview with the Horror Tree

The Horror Tree is a resource for horror authors, offering information on open submissions plus articles on every aspect of the writing process, fiction, guest posts, blog tours, and more.

The Horror Tree has posted an interview with me about my crime novella, The Long Shot (Twelfth Planet Press). The premise: "Simone Parker visits her home town of Brownbeck after six long years away. When she witnesses a brutal bashing, police officer Mitchell Ross needs her testimony. Simone is keen to help until she discovers her estranged sister, Claire, might be involved."

https://horrortree.com/author-intervi...

Midnight Echo 15 available for pre-order

The 15th issue of the Australasian Horror Writers Association's magazine, Midnight Echo, guest-edited by Lee Murray and featuring a horde of Australasian authors, is up for pre-order in e-book format on Amazon. The print version is forthcoming, with an expected publication date of November 30.

The issue includes my story, "Carbon Copy Consumables".

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08MWD9F1J