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Guest blog post: "The Invisible Woman"

In honour of Women In Horror Month, the Horror Tree is featuring guest blog posts from female horror writers. My contribution is "The Invisible Woman". It begins -

In the wonderful TV series Feud: Bette and Joan, Jessica Lange as the ageing film star Joan Crawford laments there are only three kinds of roles written for women: “ingénues, mothers and gorgons”. This seems to be the case in horror fiction too. Where are all the middle-aged female characters?

https://horrortree.com/wihm-the-invis...

"The Long Shot" novella accepted for publication

Great news! Twelfth Planet Press has accepted my romance-suspense novella, "The Long Shot", for publication. (Release date TBC.)

http://www.twelfthplanetpress.com/

The premise:
After a six-year estrangement from her troubled family, Simone Parker returns home to the small Australian town of Brownbeck to attend a funeral. She hopes to reconcile with her younger sister, Claire. Their father, now dead, was a violent and abusive drunk yet Claire always pretended otherwise, which is one of the reasons why Simone cut all ties.

When Simone is the only witness to a brutal and near-fatal bashing, she discovers that Brownbeck harbours a criminal gang trafficking in illegal firearms. At the funeral, she recognises Claire’s new partner as one of the assailants. How can she help police officer Mitchell Ross in his investigation if her own sister might somehow be involved? To complicate matters, Simone is falling for Mitchell.

Author interview with Clare Rhoden

Author Clare Rhoden interviews me about career highlights, my award-winning collection Perfect Little Stitches and Other Stories, current projects, and my latest release, the noir-horror novel Contrition (IFWG Publishing Australia).

https://clarerhoden.com/2019/01/31/la...

Cover reveal: Year's Best Hardcore Horror #4

Year’s Best Hardcore Horror #4 is due for release in April 2019. It includes my story “Hair and Teeth”, first published in Aurealis #113.

For the cover reveal and full TOC: http://www.redroompress.com/years-bes...

Short story to be published in "Beside the Seaside - Tales from the Daytripper"

My horror short story, “The Sand”, has been accepted for the upcoming Things in the Well anthology, “Beside the Seaside – Tales from the Daytripper”.
Things in the Well, the publishing arm of Oz Horror Con, releases themed anthologies, single-author collections and flash fiction magazines.
See their full range of titles here: www.thingsinthewell.wordpress.com

"The Tea and Sugar Train" upcoming in Dimension6 magazine

Dimension6 is the speculative fiction magazine brought out three times per year by Coeur de Lion Publishing, based in Australia.

My horror story, "The Tea and Sugar Train", has been accepted for publication, and will appear in an upcoming issue of Dimension6 in 2019.

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

"Hair and Teeth" upcoming in Year's Best Hardcore Horror #4

Published by Red Room Press, YEAR’S BEST HARDCORE HORROR is an annual collection intended to give recognition to the extreme, harder side of horror, stories that break boundaries and trash taboos.

My short story “Hair and Teeth”, first published in Aurealis #113, will be included in Year's Best Hardcore Horror #4. The anthology is due for release mid-2019.

Aurealis #113 https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...
Year's Best Hardcore Horror #3
http://www.redroompress.com/years-bes...

Author interview with Spine Cracker

Bernadette of the Spine Cracker horror blog interviews me about my latest release the noir-horror novel Contrition, my thoughts on writer's block, and my time as a researcher and scriptwriter on the TV show Australia's Most Wanted.
https://crackyourspines.wordpress.com...

Review of "Thylacines" in Aurealis magazine

Aurealis is Australia's longest running small press science fiction and fantasy magazine.

Issue #115 includes a review of my bio-horror novella Thylacines (Severed Press).

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

"Stagecoach from Castlemaine" in DeadCades: the Infernal Decimation anthology

DeadCades: the Infernal Decimation is the third and final instalment in the Infernal Clock anthology series. Out now, it includes my story “Stagecoach from Castlemaine”, first published in my award-winning collection Perfect Little Stitches and Other Stories (IFWG Australia).

https://www.amazon.com/DeadCades-Infe...

From the back-cover blurb:

The Infernal Clock has previously given you hours and days but now it is feeling more generous and its pendulum has scythed its way across the decades—-or rather, DeadCades. This latest anthology from the Clock weaves its dark stories from the 1880s through the Swinging Sixties and desolate Seventies, and then sprints into the future, finishing at 2020.

Within each DeadCade, you will find a microcosm of darkness preceding the main story but whether one hundred words or five thousand, each is definitely of its time. These tales have been written by authors from across the globe—from Australia, the USA and Europe—and from the Bram Stoker nominated to newer contributors to the world of dark fiction. In this latest anthology, you will find a real wealth of talent.

So take a trip in our time machine and travel the DeadCades, discover where the monsters hide—in our pages or in our own history.

With a foreword by best-selling author of Vox, Christina Dalcher.