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Review of "Hand to Mouth" by Kendall Reviews

A great review for my upcoming novelette "Hand to Mouth" (release date January 31) from Kendall Reviews. In part, Richard Bell writes, “Deborah seems to capture that repressed sense of guilt, paranoia, cathartic release and exasperated hopelessness with aplomb.”

The review also includes an in-depth author interview with me. UK-based Kendall Reviews promotes horror and the darker genres with reviews, interviews, guest posts and more.

https://kendallreviews.com/short-shar...

Author interview with Demain Publishing

My author interview on the Demain Publishing blog includes the ideas behind my novelette, "Hand to Mouth", and its inspiration.

https://demainpublishingblog.weebly.c...

The back-cover blurb of "Hand to Mouth":
“When the truth doesn’t satisfy, people make up stories.”
An imprisoned man writes letters to his son, trying to explain the bizarre circumstances that led to his incarceration. But can his son believe him?
Award-winning author Deborah Sheldon keeps you guessing with this novelette of secrets, lies, conspiracies and paranoia.

(Release date January 31.)

https://www.amazon.com/Hand-Mouth-Sho...

Short story to appear in Year's Best Hardcore Horror #5

My short story "The Tea and Sugar Train", first published in Dimension6, will be included in Year's Best Hardcore Horror #5, due for release later in 2020.

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.

(Year's Best Hardcore Horror #4 included my story, "Hair and Teeth", first published by Aurealis magazine. I'm on a hat trick!)

http://www.redroompress.com/years-bes...

Pre-orders now available for "Hand to Mouth"

Pre-orders are available now for my twisted, dark novelette, "Hand to Mouth", to be released by Demain Publishing UK on January 31.

The back-cover blurb reads:
“When the truth doesn’t satisfy, people make up stories.”
An imprisoned man writes letters to his son, trying to explain the bizarre circumstances that led to his incarceration. But can his son believe him?
Award-winning author Deborah Sheldon keeps you guessing with this novelette of secrets, lies, conspiracies and paranoia.

https://www.amazon.com/Hand-Mouth-Sho...

My novelette, "Hand to Mouth", to be published in January 2020

My epistolary novelette, "Hand to Mouth", will be released by Demain Publishing in January 2020. As a stand-alone piece in Demain's popular "Short Sharp Shocks!" horror series, "Hand to Mouth" will have its own cover, designed by graphic artist Adrian Baldwin.

For more information on Demain Publishing:
https://demainpublishingblog.weebly.com/

The "Short Sharp Shocks!" series:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08...

And Adrian Baldwin:
https://adrianbaldwin.info/retro-covers

My novelette, "Barralang, pop. 63", upcoming in Dimension6

Since 2014, Coeur de Lion Publishing has produced three issues of Dimension6 per year, featuring some of the very best in Australian speculative fiction. Sadly, 2020 will be the magazine's last year of publication.

My psychological-horror novelette, "Barralang, pop. 63", will be included in the April issue. I'm proud to be involved in this magazine's swansong year.

https://coeurdelion.com.au/dimension6/

Midnight Echo #14 is out now!

The 14th issue of the Australasian Horror Writers Association's magazine, Midnight Echo, guest edited by yours truly, is out now!

It has a terrific line-up with flash fiction, short stories, original artwork, poetry, a novelette, and the winning entries in last year's AHWA Flash Fiction & Short Story Competitions.

The TOC includes Chris Mason, Rebecca Fraser, Liz Simrajh, Erol Engin, Gregory Long, Renee De Visser, Hari Navarro, Ian Middleton, Robyn O'Sullivan, Tabatha Wood and Matthew Morrison, with a cover by Greg Chapman, and internal artwork by Denny Marshall and Brian Quinn.

https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B08273JFCH/

Short story published in Breach #12

Breach is a bi-monthly online zine for SF, horror and dark fantasy short fiction, showcasing Australian and NZ writers and artists,

My dark fantasy story “The Littlest Avian” is published alongside work by L.L. Hanley, Tom Adams and Tabatha Wood in Breach #12, guest edited by Lee Murray.

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...

Ebook giveaway at the Horror Tree

The Horror Tree is running a giveaway of my new collection, Figments and Fragments: Dark Stories (IFWG Publishing Australia).

Ten digital copies are up for grabs. The giveaway ends in just under a week.

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

The back-cover blurb reads:

Brutal. Compelling. Sinister.
From wheat farms, roadhouses, caravan parks and beaches to quiet suburban streets and inner-city apartments, award-winning author Deborah Sheldon tells distinctly Australian stories about violence, loss, betrayal and revenge.
Figments and Fragments includes three new stories written especially for the collection.

ARKfest Short Play Festival 2020

My monologue “Post hoc ergo propter hoc” – based on my flash fiction piece of the same name – makes the final cut for the ARKfest Short Play Festival 2020.

The festival will take place in March. Held in an arts centre in Melbourne's Yarra Ranges, 30 plays will be performed by theatre companies from around the state of Victoria.

Here's a list of plays on the program:
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