Priya Sharma's Blog, page 18

typicalbooks #54

 

Thanks to Lydia Peever, horror author and journalist from Ontario, Canada, for reviewing my collection on typicalbooks, her YouTube channel.

Lydia’s short stories have appeared in Postscripts To Darkness, Dark Moon Digest, For When The Veil Drops, Memento Mori, her small collection, Pray Lied Eve and it’s sequel Pray Lied Eve 2. The follow up to her first novel Nightface has also been written.

 

British Fantasy Awards 2019 Shortlist

I am thrilled to be both in the short story and Best Collection category alongside writers whose work I read and admire but I am MORE thrilled to see so many friends and people I know from British Fantasy Con in the shortlist.

The winners will be announced at the annual British Fantasy Awards Banquet and Ceremony, this year to be held on Sunday 20th October, at FantasyCon in the Golden Jubilee Convention Centre, Glasgow.

And WOW, I don’t envy the jury of the Best Horror Novel category!
Best F...

2018 Shirley Jackson Awards

My huge congratulations to ALL the winners and nominees of the 2018 Shirley Jackson Awards. The awards — for outstanding achievement in horror, psychological suspense, and dark fantasy fiction — were presented on 14th July 2019 at Readercon 30 Quincy MA, USA.

I feel very honoured to have been listed alongside Gemma Files, Michael Griffin, Lucy A. Snyder, and Sean O’Brien in the Single Author Short fiction Collection group. And I also can’t believe that I’ve won. Is this real? Will someone ann...

The Beautiful Observations of Elena Limkina

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[image error]Elena Limkina is a freelance artist specialising in printmaking and watercolor illustrations: botanical illustrations, jewelry illustrations and sometimes scientific illustrations. She has been painting since childhood. She’s studying medical engineering, but also creates patterns, illustration and artwork for brands, interior design, and for magazines.

https://www.limkina.com/

https://www.etsy.com/shop/limkina 

Ormeshadow review by Publishers Weekly

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This short, sharp tale is often wrenching and worth savoring.

-Publishers Weekly.

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Locus Award Winners

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The Locus Science Fiction Foundation announced the winners of the 2019 Locus Awards during the Locus Awards Weekend in Seattle WA, June 29, 2019. My HUGE congratulations to the winners! I feel very privileged to have made it to the shortlist longside some amazing pieces of work.

SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL: The Calculating Stars, Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor)

FANTASY NOVEL: Spinning Silver, Naomi Novik (Del Rey; Macmillan)

HORROR NOVEL: The Cabin at the End of the World, Paul Tremblay (Morrow; Titan...

Ormeshadow ARC

I can’t quite believe this is a real book.

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Ellen Datlow and Ormeshadow (Advanced Review Copy)

What’s New? with Priya Sharma by Simon Bestwick

Thanks to Simon Bestwick for including me in his mini-interview series, What’s New?, with writers.  Find out What’s New? with me.

Other authors interviewed are Damien Angelica Walters, Ray Cluley, Joely Black, Penny Jones, Gwendolyn Kiste, Thana Niveau, John Llewellyn Probert, and Kristi DeMeester.

Mythic Journeys edited by Paula Guran

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I am a huge lover of myths and legends, so am a very happy to be included in “Mythic Journeys: Myths & Legends Retold” from Night Shade Books, edited by Paula Guran. My story is a reworking of the Minotaur myth, with Thesea instead of Theseus. It was originally published in Interzone (Issue 246) and reprinted in Steve Haynes’ Best British Fantasy 2014.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: A Map or Maybe Not

“Lost Lake” – Emma Straub and Peter Straub
“White Lines on a Green Field” – Catherynne M....

The Best of British Fantasy 2018 Edited by Jared Shurin

I am very proud to be included in NewCon Press‘s Best British Fantasy 2018 edited by Jared Shurin with a reprint of A Son of the Sea, a story original to my collection.

Editor Jared Shurin spread his net wide to discover the very best work published by British and British-based authors in 2018, whittling down the nearly 200 stories under consideration to just 21 selected (22 in the hardback edition) and two poems. These stories range from traditional sword and sorcery to contemporary fantasy,...