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Aurélien Police

One of the joys of writing is artists. I love art and design but until I had a personal investment in a book I’d never understood how crucial it is. I was recently sent the cover the to French translation of my novella “Ormeshadow” from Le Bélial’ and discovered artist Aurélien Police. His work is just beautiful,  be it for the cover of “Frankenstein” or his illustration for “Dune”.

Freelance illustrator and graphic designer Aurélien Police was born in France in 1978. He works on projects for...

Ormeshadow and Le Bélial’

I am very proud that “Ormeshadow” is to be released in April 2021 in France by Le Bélial’. It’s been translated by Anne-Sylvie Homassel and the cover art is by Aurelian Police.

Erwann Perchoc, editor of Le Bélial’, discussed this year’s publishing schedule here, which includes work by Nancy Kress, Poul Anderson, and Ken Lui.

The Sinister Horror Company’s Advent Calendar

Justin Park of The Sinister Horror Company had tried to spread some Christmas cheer for horror fans with an advent calendar of microfiction. As it’s been a dire year, he’s running the calendar to the end of December. If you’ve met him you’ll know his devotion to the horror genre is absolute. 

The writers so far are Tracy Fahey, Lex H. Jones, Penny Jones, Chad A. Clark, Em Dehaney, Matt Boultby, James Jobling, C. L. Raven, Lily Childs, John McNee, Andrew Freudenberg, J. R. Park, ...

Fantastic Fiction at KGB

Massive thanks to Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressell for inviting me to their virtual Fantastic Fiction at KGB.

It’s now on YouTube. I’d urge you to listen in as Justin C. Key is just brilliant. I’ve not read any of his work but I will be after last night. Read “The Perfection of Theresa Watkins” on Tor.com.

Justin was a hard act to follow. I read “Egg”, a story that first appeared in Paula Guran’s Once Upon A Time: New Fairy Tales and then All The Fabulous Beasts, my col...

Fantastic Fiction At KGB

Fantastic Fiction at KGB is a monthly speculative-fiction reading series held on the third Wednesday of every month originally at the KGB Bar in New York City, and now on YouTube, hosted by Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel.

Previous readers include Joyce Carol Oates, Joe Hill, Jeffrey Ford, Scott, Kelly Link, China Miéville, Nancy Kress, Paul Tremblay, Peter Straub, Catherynne Valente, Ellen Kushner, Jeff VanderMeer, Naomi Novik, Elizabeth Bear, and William Gibson, just to name a few.

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The Sinister Horror Company

Justin Park of The Sinister Horror Company has decided to bring some much needed joy to fans of dark fiction at the end of the year with an online advent calendar of Christmas themed microfiction. So far there’s been work by Tracy Fahey, Lex H. Jones, and Penny Jones and I’m sure there will be many more fine writers to come. Plus me. I’ll be in there somewhere. 

Early Sunday Morning

I came across Peter Mitchell’s work on Instagram. He’s a photographer who moved to Leeds after graduating from art college in 1972.

I was partcularly drawn to the images from the 1970s and 80s. He took them on Sunday mornings while making deliveries as a truck driver. They’s been collected in a book called Early Sunday Morning from RBB Books.

See Early Sunday Morning on Peter Mitchell’s website / Peter Mitchell interview at It’s Nice That / Early Sunday Morning at RBB Photobooks.

British Fantasy Awards 2020 Shortlist

The BFA 2020 shortlist has now been announced and I am delighted to be on there with “Ormeshadow”. One of the joys of attending Cons and getting to know the writing community online is that I am as delighted to see friends and people I know on the list. Congratulations to everyone.

Whatever the outcome I am always grateful to Ellen Datlow and the good people at Tor.

Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)

The Bone Ships – RJ Barker (Orbit)The Migration – Helen Marshall (Titan)...

Undertow Publications at The Last Bookstore, LA

The Last Bookstore, California’s largest used and new book and record store, is now stocking titles by Undertow Publications.

If you want to know more about the shop watch this Award-winning 11 minute documentary by director Chad Howitt on owner Josh Spencer.

Undertow Publications is a celebrated independent press in Canada dedicated to publishing original and unique genre fiction of exceptional literary merit. Since 2009 they’ve been publishing anthologies, collections, and nov...

Eating the Fantastic with Scott Edelman

Scott Edelman has a stellar and varied career as a writer. He’s worked in comics (for DC and Marvel), for TV (Hanna-Barbera and Tales from the Darkside), magazines (SCI FI Magazine and Rampage), as well as releasing numerous short story collections.  He is a multiple Stoker Award finalist, Shirley Jackson Award finalist, and Lamda Literary Award finalist.

Scott’s been a Con goer for years and interviews people while having dinner with them for his Eating the Fantastic Podcast. This year he’s con...