Priya Sharma's Blog, page 19

Guest Post: Shouting About Trying To Be So Quiet by James Everington

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James: Uh, who’s this? What’s going on?

James: It’s an interview, remember? To promote your new mini-collection, Trying To Be So Quiet & Other Hauntings.

James: Uh…

James: You remember, for Priya’s blog. I mean, you are late doing it so you might have forgotten.

James: Are you… Is this Priya?

James: Do I sound like Priya? I’m you.

James: You’re me?

James: You.

James: Me? But… Why are, uh, you interviewing me? Where’s Priya?

James: She’s a Locus and Shirley Jac...

Guest Post : So Leben Sie Noch Heute by Steve Toase

So Leben Sie Noch Heute: An exhibition of contemporary European illustrated versions of Brothers Grimm Fairytales

International Youth Library, Munich

Hans pulled his handkerchief out of his pocket, wrapped up the lump in it, put it on his shoulder, and set out on the way home.  (Hans in Luck)

I make no secret that the International Youth Library in Munich is one of my favourite places on earth. How could it not be? A library housed in a 17th century castle that’s home to a children’s lending...

Suffer Little Children by Penny Jones

PS: Welcome Penny Jones. Congratulations on your collection with Black Shuck Shadows! Tell us about the themes and how it developed.

[image error]PJ: There are a couple of themes that run through the collection, one being mental health and the other being a loss of control. These two themes tend to be intrinsic in most of my writing, and I find that they crop up time and time again when my protagonist or antagonist in a story is a child. There is something naturally chaotic about a child’s control over th...

Locus Award Finalist

This still feels very surreal.

SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL

Record of a Spaceborn Few , Becky Chambers (Harper Voyager US; Hodder & Stoughton) The Calculating Stars , Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor) If Tomorrow Comes , Nancy Kress (Tor) Revenant Gun , Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris US; Solaris UK) Blackfish City , Sam J. Miller (Ecco; Orbit UK) Embers of War , Gareth L. Powell (Titan US; Titan UK) Elysium Fire , Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz; Orbit US) Red Moon , Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit US; Orbit UK) Unholy Land , La...

Shirley Jackson Award Nominations

The nominees for the 2018 Shirley Jackson Award have been announced. Awarded every year in recognition of Shirley Jackson’s legacy, the awards honor exceptional work in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and dark fantasy.

The 2018 Shirley Jackson Awards will be presented on Sunday, July 14, at Readercon 30, Conference on Imaginative Literature, in Quincy, Massachusetts.

Congratulations to everyone on the list and my huge thanks to everyone at Undertow Publications, without whom...

Blonde on Escape Pod

“When did you go bald?”
Only Clarice would ask such a forthright question.
“Leave her alone,” Jake drains his beer. Only he would dare contradict his sister.
The clock hands have gone from late at night to early in the morning. Jake’s bar is empty of customers. The staff, who are sitting round the table, fall silent, intent on their drinks.
“It’s okay,” Rapunzel says. “I was sick and it all fell out.”
Her scalp is shiny, every follicle devoid of life. Nor does she have any eyebrows. Or hair e...

Cover Reveal for Ormeshadow

I’m very excited about the release of my first novella, “Ormeshadow”, by Tor later this year. They’ve allowed Bookish to reveal the novel. Do you want a look?

“The Ballad of Boomtown”

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“The Ballad of Boomtown” is now up in its entirety on the Nightmare website. This was originally published in Black Static magazine in 2012. Read it for free here.

Thanks to both John Joseph Adams of Nightmare and Andy Cox of TTA Press.

The entire issue of Nightmare is available to purchase for just $2.99, and an annual subscription is just $23.88/year.

 

It’s estimated that in 2011 there were 2,881 semi or unoccupied housing developments in Ireland.

There was a time when we put our faith i...

Undertow Publications Land at News From Nowhere

News From Nowhere is currently stocking a selection of titles from Undertow Publications. If you’re looking for a copy of one of the books pictured below, you can find them at this wonderful bookshop on Bold Street, Liverpool.

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L-R:  “This House of Wounds” by Georgina Bruce, “Singing With All My Skin and Bone” by Sunny Moraine, “All the Fabulous Beasts” by me, “Skein and Bone” by VH Leslie.

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Nightmare Magazine

[image error]Issue 79 of Nightmare Magazine is now out and includes original fiction from Mari Ness (“The Girl and the House”) and Dennis E. Staples (“The One You Feed”), along with reprints by Stephen Gallagher (“Shepherd’s Business”) and myself (“The Ballad of Boomtown”). There’s also a regular column on horror, “The H Word,” plus author spotlights and a media review from Adam-Troy Castro.

The stories are made available to read online for free, week by week. If you can’t wait,  the whole magazine is ava...