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October 4, 2023
Unsettling Reads review of my novel CRETACEOUS CANYON
Unsettling Reads posts a terrific review of my action-packed horror novel, Cretaceous Canyon (Severed Press).
In part, Robin Knabel writes,
"As for the humans, Sheldon does a fantastic job showing us the reasons why they behave the way they do. I enjoyed getting little snippets of their life stories here and there, a personal glimpse at the emotional baggage and damage they’re carrying. In some scenes, it made my heart break. There were a few moments in this novel where I hurt for the characters and felt their sorrow and fear. It was gut-wrenching, and it kept me engrossed in the book.
"This story also has intense moments of suspense and terror. Talk about having bated breath! I definitely stayed up too late reading this book, because I needed to know what was going to happen next. I highly recommend Cretaceous Canyon, especially if you’re a creature feature lover like me!"
For more information about Cretaceous Canyon:
https://deborahsheldon.wordpress.com/...
In part, Robin Knabel writes,
"As for the humans, Sheldon does a fantastic job showing us the reasons why they behave the way they do. I enjoyed getting little snippets of their life stories here and there, a personal glimpse at the emotional baggage and damage they’re carrying. In some scenes, it made my heart break. There were a few moments in this novel where I hurt for the characters and felt their sorrow and fear. It was gut-wrenching, and it kept me engrossed in the book.
"This story also has intense moments of suspense and terror. Talk about having bated breath! I definitely stayed up too late reading this book, because I needed to know what was going to happen next. I highly recommend Cretaceous Canyon, especially if you’re a creature feature lover like me!"
For more information about Cretaceous Canyon:
https://deborahsheldon.wordpress.com/...
Interview about my story in THE BLACK BEACON BOOK OF HORROR
Black Beacon Books is an independent publisher founded by author and anthologist, Cameron Trost. It began in Australia in 2013 and is now based in Brittany. They publish gripping and intriguing fiction that falls into the genres of mystery, suspense, post-apocalyptic, psychological horror, and folk horror.
Black Beacon Books, on the cusp of releasing its anthology The Black Beacon Book of Horror on Friday October 13, interviewed me about my story, "Cameo".
You can read the interview here:
https://blackbeaconbooks.blogspot.com...
The anthology is available to purchase here:
https://www.amazon.com/Black-Beacon-B...
Black Beacon Books, on the cusp of releasing its anthology The Black Beacon Book of Horror on Friday October 13, interviewed me about my story, "Cameo".
You can read the interview here:
https://blackbeaconbooks.blogspot.com...
The anthology is available to purchase here:
https://www.amazon.com/Black-Beacon-B...
September 12, 2023
Interview with the Horror Tree about my novel CRETACEOUS CANYON
The Horror Tree is a resource for writers, offering submission information on all the latest horror anthologies and publishers. The Horror Tree also posts articles, news and interviews.
The Horror Tree has posted an interview with me about my latest title, the action-packed horror novel Cretaceous Canyon, recently published by Severed Press.
In part, interviewer Robyn O'Sullivan writes:
"I could not put this book down, so I was pleased to be able to speak with Deborah about how this scintillating story came to life."
You can read the full interview here:
https://horrortree.com/deborah-sheldo...
For more information about Cretaceous Canyon:
https://deborahsheldon.wordpress.com/...
The Horror Tree has posted an interview with me about my latest title, the action-packed horror novel Cretaceous Canyon, recently published by Severed Press.
In part, interviewer Robyn O'Sullivan writes:
"I could not put this book down, so I was pleased to be able to speak with Deborah about how this scintillating story came to life."
You can read the full interview here:
https://horrortree.com/deborah-sheldo...
For more information about Cretaceous Canyon:
https://deborahsheldon.wordpress.com/...
September 10, 2023
Calling all horror book bloggers!
Silver Dagger Book Tours will be running a promotion for my action-packed horror novel, Cretaceous Canyon, recently published by Severed Press. The week-long blog tour is scheduled from September 27th to October 4th. If you're a book blogger/reviewer and would like to take part, please feel free to register your interest with Maia. The more the merrier!
https://www.silverdaggertours.com/tou...
The back-cover blurb for Cretaceous Canyon:
Australia’s outback holds a mysterious canyon. Hidden deep within is a forest of pine tree that dates from the Cretaceous Period. A megacorporation sends in a team of experts to research this canyon for botanical riches.
The expedition enters a no-man’s land formed 100 million years ago when Australia was still attached to Antarctica, and dinosaurs ruled the super-continent. But the canyon has more prehistoric and dangerous species than anyone could have possibly imagined.
Trapped and terrified, unarmed and unable to communicate topside, the team’s extraction deadline is six long hours away.
The frantic race for survival is on.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CGTQW636
https://www.silverdaggertours.com/tou...
The back-cover blurb for Cretaceous Canyon:
Australia’s outback holds a mysterious canyon. Hidden deep within is a forest of pine tree that dates from the Cretaceous Period. A megacorporation sends in a team of experts to research this canyon for botanical riches.
The expedition enters a no-man’s land formed 100 million years ago when Australia was still attached to Antarctica, and dinosaurs ruled the super-continent. But the canyon has more prehistoric and dangerous species than anyone could have possibly imagined.
Trapped and terrified, unarmed and unable to communicate topside, the team’s extraction deadline is six long hours away.
The frantic race for survival is on.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CGTQW636
September 2, 2023
Short story in crime anthology ILLICIT MOTIONS
Out now from Unnerving Books is the crime anthology Illicit Motions, which includes my noirish story, “Fork in the Road”.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C7FCY2JY
The back-cover blurb:
Behind closed doors, down quiet streets, through the night fog rolling along the coasts, and deep within thick shadows the world over, criminals, opportunists, and maniacs roam; their hands, feet, and minds busy with Illicit Motions. Within these pages are fourteen crime stories; take a trip through the seedy side of the everyday world, the violence of professional hits, the chances to break away from the tedium of normalcy, and much more.
Illicit Motions includes stories from Charles Ardai (winner of the Shamus, Edgar Allan Poe, and Ellery Queen awards, and founder and editor of Hard Case Crime), Michael Bracken (winner of the Edward D. Hoch Memorial Golden Derringer Award), Nick Mamatas (author of I Am Providence and The Second Shooter), Deborah Sheldon, (winner of an Australian Shadows Award), as well as Joe Allegretti, Serena Jayne, Chris Kuriata, Justine Gardner, Armand Rosamilia, P.M. Raymond, M.E. Proctor, Robert Petyo, Tom Milani, and Eddie Generous (founder and editor of Unnerving).
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C7FCY2JY
The back-cover blurb:
Behind closed doors, down quiet streets, through the night fog rolling along the coasts, and deep within thick shadows the world over, criminals, opportunists, and maniacs roam; their hands, feet, and minds busy with Illicit Motions. Within these pages are fourteen crime stories; take a trip through the seedy side of the everyday world, the violence of professional hits, the chances to break away from the tedium of normalcy, and much more.
Illicit Motions includes stories from Charles Ardai (winner of the Shamus, Edgar Allan Poe, and Ellery Queen awards, and founder and editor of Hard Case Crime), Michael Bracken (winner of the Edward D. Hoch Memorial Golden Derringer Award), Nick Mamatas (author of I Am Providence and The Second Shooter), Deborah Sheldon, (winner of an Australian Shadows Award), as well as Joe Allegretti, Serena Jayne, Chris Kuriata, Justine Gardner, Armand Rosamilia, P.M. Raymond, M.E. Proctor, Robert Petyo, Tom Milani, and Eddie Generous (founder and editor of Unnerving).
August 31, 2023
OUT NOW from Severed Press: my novel CRETACEOUS CANYON
Severed Press has published my novel, Cretaceous Canyon: a Prehistoric Thriller. It's available in both paperback and ebook formats:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CGTQW636
The back-cover blurb:
Australia’s outback holds a mysterious canyon. Hidden deep within is a forest of pine tree that dates from the Cretaceous Period. A megacorporation sends in a team of experts to research this canyon for botanical riches.
The expedition enters a no-man’s land formed 100 million years ago when Australia was still attached to Antarctica, and dinosaurs ruled the super-continent. But the canyon has more prehistoric and dangerous species than anyone could have possibly imagined.
Trapped and terrified, unarmed and unable to communicate topside, the team’s extraction deadline is six long hours away.
The frantic race for survival is on.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CGTQW636
The back-cover blurb:
Australia’s outback holds a mysterious canyon. Hidden deep within is a forest of pine tree that dates from the Cretaceous Period. A megacorporation sends in a team of experts to research this canyon for botanical riches.
The expedition enters a no-man’s land formed 100 million years ago when Australia was still attached to Antarctica, and dinosaurs ruled the super-continent. But the canyon has more prehistoric and dangerous species than anyone could have possibly imagined.
Trapped and terrified, unarmed and unable to communicate topside, the team’s extraction deadline is six long hours away.
The frantic race for survival is on.
July 28, 2023
Editor interview about KILLER CREATURES DOWN UNDER with Nightmare Fuel Magazine
Nightmare Fuel is an online magazine that publishes dark fiction and poetry from Australian writers. Recently, they invited me to discuss Killer Creatures Down Under: Horror Stories with Bite, my latest anthology that I conceived and edited, which IFWG Publishing released in May.
In part, interviewer Emma Nayfie writes, "You’re no stranger to deadly creatures, with many of your novels featuring terrifying encounters with animals. When Killer Creatures Down Under landed in my hands, I knew you would do a collection like this justice."
Here's the full interview:
https://nightmarefuelmagazine.com/202...
Killer Creatures Down Under: Horror Stories with Bite is available from brick-and-mortar bookshops and online retailers.
https://www.amazon.com/Killer-Creatur...
In part, interviewer Emma Nayfie writes, "You’re no stranger to deadly creatures, with many of your novels featuring terrifying encounters with animals. When Killer Creatures Down Under landed in my hands, I knew you would do a collection like this justice."
Here's the full interview:
https://nightmarefuelmagazine.com/202...
Killer Creatures Down Under: Horror Stories with Bite is available from brick-and-mortar bookshops and online retailers.
https://www.amazon.com/Killer-Creatur...
July 20, 2023
Short story translated and published by the Finnish magazine SPIN
My short story "Carbon Copy Consumables" is translated and published in the latest issue of Finnish spec-fic magazine, Spin 1/2023. In Finnish, the title is "Kopiokoneisto". Jee hurraa!
https://terrakoti.net/tsfs/spin-2023/
Spin is a quarterly magazine published by the Turku Science Fiction Society (TSFS). Founded in 1976, Turku is the oldest science fiction, fantasy and speculative fiction society in Finland.
https://terrakoti.net/tsfs/
"Carbon Copy Consumables" was first published in the award-winning Midnight Echo #15 (AHWA, 2020).
https://www.amazon.com/Midnight-Echo-...
https://terrakoti.net/tsfs/spin-2023/
Spin is a quarterly magazine published by the Turku Science Fiction Society (TSFS). Founded in 1976, Turku is the oldest science fiction, fantasy and speculative fiction society in Finland.
https://terrakoti.net/tsfs/
"Carbon Copy Consumables" was first published in the award-winning Midnight Echo #15 (AHWA, 2020).
https://www.amazon.com/Midnight-Echo-...
July 7, 2023
Aurealis Magazine reviews my anthology KILLER CREATURES DOWN UNDER: HORROR STORIES WITH BITE
Aurealis is Australia's longest-running small-press science fiction and fantasy magazine. Issue #162 includes a terrific review of the anthology I conceived and edited, Killer Creatures Down Under: Horror Stories with Bite *IFWG Publishing, 2023).
In part, reviewer Clare Rhoden writes, " Killer Creatures Down Under gives free rein to the horrific imaginings that seem to gather around an old Aussie saying: Yeah, nah, what’s the worst that could happen? Plenty, as it turns out. Ranging across the wide brown land, this collection features stories from bush
stations to the surf coast. The subtitle is no joke. These tales really do bite you."
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...
The back-cover blurb for Killer Creatures Down Under: Horror Stories with Bite:
Australia: the land where everything wants to kill you. A continent filled with some of the deadliest animals in the world. From creepy-crawlies to crocodiles, you’ll have plenty to fear in this anthology penned by Australian authors. Killer Creatures Down Under: Horror Stories with Bite offers disturbing tales that range from the action-packed and visceral, through the historical and futuristic, to the phantasmagorical and supernatural. Prepare to confront your animal phobias… And perhaps develop some new ones.
https://deborahsheldon.wordpress.com/...
In part, reviewer Clare Rhoden writes, " Killer Creatures Down Under gives free rein to the horrific imaginings that seem to gather around an old Aussie saying: Yeah, nah, what’s the worst that could happen? Plenty, as it turns out. Ranging across the wide brown land, this collection features stories from bush
stations to the surf coast. The subtitle is no joke. These tales really do bite you."
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...
The back-cover blurb for Killer Creatures Down Under: Horror Stories with Bite:
Australia: the land where everything wants to kill you. A continent filled with some of the deadliest animals in the world. From creepy-crawlies to crocodiles, you’ll have plenty to fear in this anthology penned by Australian authors. Killer Creatures Down Under: Horror Stories with Bite offers disturbing tales that range from the action-packed and visceral, through the historical and futuristic, to the phantasmagorical and supernatural. Prepare to confront your animal phobias… And perhaps develop some new ones.
https://deborahsheldon.wordpress.com/...
July 2, 2023
Submission callout: SPAWN 2: MORE WEIRD TALES ABOUT PREGNANCY, BIRTH AND BABIES
The anthology I conceived and edited, Spawn: Weird Horror Tales About Pregnancy, Birth and Babies (IFWG Publishing, 2021) featured work by Australian writers. It was nominated for five awards and won two of them, including the Australian Shadows 'Best Edited Work' Award.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
Spawn 2: More Weird Tales About Pregnancy, Birth and Babies, edited by yours truly (award-winning author and anthology editor) will open to submissions on Monday 31 July 2023 to Australasian writers (citizen/resident/ex-pat). On-spec submissions are welcome from Australasian writers of every persuasion including non-parents. IFWG will release my anthology in November 2024.
Here are the full submission guidelines:
https://ifwgpublishing.com/2023/06/30...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
Spawn 2: More Weird Tales About Pregnancy, Birth and Babies, edited by yours truly (award-winning author and anthology editor) will open to submissions on Monday 31 July 2023 to Australasian writers (citizen/resident/ex-pat). On-spec submissions are welcome from Australasian writers of every persuasion including non-parents. IFWG will release my anthology in November 2024.
Here are the full submission guidelines:
https://ifwgpublishing.com/2023/06/30...
