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I have just about managed to avoid a Facebook fixation but have fallen foul of Pinterest this year instead.

Thanks to Natalie Tsang for this xxx

https://www.pinterest.co.uk/priyasharma1

 

Merry Christmas

Mad Hatters and March Hares edited by Ellen Datlow

[image error]Mad Hatters and March Hares, edited by Ellen Datlow and published by Tor Books is out on 12th December 2017.  The cover art is by Dave McKean.

I am proud to be included with “Mercury”.

Tor.com describe it as  “An all original anthology of stories inspired by Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There. ‘Alice’ has been read, enjoyed, and savored by generations of children and adults since its publication. It’s hallucinogenic, weird...

Cloud of Unknowing by Gorillaz featuring Bobby Womack

All the Fabulous Beasts

Mike Kelly, editor at Undertow Publications, has just released the cover art for the paperback edition of my collection, “All the Fabulous Beasts”.

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The beautiful cover art is by C7 and the design by Vince Haig.

To release a collection of my own stories, to have a book with my name on the cover, has been a long held dream of mine. Thanks to Mike and the other good people at Undertow (Vince Haig, Robert Freeman Wexley, Courtney Kelly and Carolyn McDonnell- Kelly) for making it happen.

“All th...

Best Horror of the Year 8

Best Horror of the Year Volume 8 edited by Ellen Datlow (ebook) is on sale in the US for $1.99. Bargain. 

Halloween Reads

One great thing about visiting the dealers’ room at British Fantasy Con (FCon) is that it reminds me how passionate people are who dedicate their time and energy to the small press and how much people still love the printed page.

I’m proud to have had work in TTA Press–  I love it because there’s nothing quite like it publishing short genre fiction in the UK.  Andy Cox, the editor, has an eclectic eye for work and high production values. Interzone, Black Static and Crime Wave win awards, as d...

British Fantasy Awards 2017

The winners of the 2017 British Fantasy Awards were announced during a ceremony FantasyCon 2017 on Sunday, October 1st in Peterborough, UK. Congratulations to all the nominees and winners.

The nominees, with winners in bold:

The Karl Edward Wagner Award (Special Award)
Jan Edwards

Best Newcomer
Erica L Satifka, for Stay Crazy (Apex Book Company)
James Bennett, for Chasing Embers (Orbit)
Daniel Godfrey, for New Pompeii (Titan Books)
Phil Sloman, for Becoming David (Hersham Horror)
Martin Owton...

vinyl

I still have every record I’ve ever bought, even the embarrassing stuff. I rescued them from a cupboard a few years ago and was relieved to find that none had warped from being stored close to the boiler ( shame, shame on me).

I’m not in the  market for either of these but they are things of great beauty.

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Gramavox Vertical Turntable

 

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‘TOC’ Vertical Record Player by Roy Harpaz

Mithila Review Issue 9

Issue 9 of Mithila Review, the journal of international science fiction and fantasy, is now [image error]out.

It contains interviews, roundtable discussions, reviews, essays and poetry.

I am proud to be included with a reprint of “Blonde”, a story which originally appeared in Interzone (Issue 260 / Sept 2015). I’m also part of the roundtable on Women in Colour in Speculative Fiction alongside S.B Divya, Mary Anne Mohanraj, Shveta Thakrar, Mimi Mondal and Isha Karki

Read “Blonde”  and Women of Color in Spe...