Michael Kelly's Blog, page 49

Honourable Mentions

Very happy to report that the first issue of Shadows & Tall Trees garnered four Honourable Mentions in Year's Best Horror 3. Thanks to Ellen Datlow and congratulations to Sandra Kasturi (short list), and Geordie Flantz, Joel Lane and Simon Strantzas (long list).

Another story bought for issue 2

I've just bought Louis Marvick's "Devil's Music" for publication in issue 2 of Shadows & Tall Trees.

Story sale

No, not a sale to Shadows & Tall Trees. Rather, news today that my story "A Guttering of Flickers" will appear in a future edition of Dark Horizons. Possibly in the autumn, or next spring at the latest.

I promise to have news of the journal in the next few days.

Norman Partridge

One of my favourite writers, Norm Partridge, gives a shout-out to Chilling Tales on his blog:

http://americanfrankenstein.blogspot.com/

Closed to submissions

We are currently closed to unsolicited submissions.

Stock update

There are 10 copies left of the inaugural issue of Shadows & Tall Trees. As well, there are but 5 copies left of Apparitions, a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award.

Space & Time issue 113

The latest issue of the venerable Space & Time magazine is now available. I've a short tale in this issue, "Hark at the Wind."

I had a story, "The Black Ones," way back in issue 87 of Space & Time, 2002. Guess I'm getting old.

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Space & Time 113

Pick it up here, or, if overseas, through Chris Reed's BBR catalogue.

http://spaceandtimemagazine.com/wp/su...

Other projects

Aside from my own imprint, Undertow, I occasionally write (and sometimes even publish fiction), and also edit. I figure visitors here might be interested in some of these projects.

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Available everywhere on March 1 is Chilling Tales, an anthology of, well, chilling tales, featuring an all-Canadian line-up. And it's a killer line-up:

Introduction: A Disquieting Solitude by Michael Kelly

Tom Chestnutt's Midnight Blues by Robert J. Wiersema

King Him by Richard Gavin

404 by Barbara Roden

Stay by Leah Bobet

Blacklight by Michael R. Colangelo

The Deafening Sound of Slumber by Simon Strantzas

Last Waltz by Jason S. Ridler

Sympathy For the Devil by Nancy Kilpatrick

The Needle's Eye by Suzanne Church

Looker by David Nickle

Cowboy's Run by Christopher K. Miller

Safe by Brett Alexander Savory

The Carper Maker by Brent Hayward

Foxford by Sandra Kasturi

My Body by Ian Rogers

The Shrines by Gemma Files

Dead by Claude Lalumière

The Weight of Stones by Tia V. Travis

Another tale added to the Table of Contents

I've just bought another story for issue 2 of Shadows & Tall Trees: "Memento Mori," by Sunny Moraine.

Almost sold out!

There are but 15 copies still available of the inaugural issue. Signed and numbered. Once these are gone, that's it.