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December 10, 2016
Asian Monsters is out!
I am very delighted to tell you that the coffee table book Asian Monsters is released. Fourteen dark short stories and graphic stories about Asia-based monsters and beasties, told by Xia Jia, Ken Liu, Eve Shi, Aliette de Bodard, Usman Malik, Isabel Yap, Sunil Patel, CY Yan, Eliza Chan, Eeleen Lee, Fran Terminiello, Benjamin Chee, Vajra Chandrasekera and Yukimi Ogawa.
Asian Monsters is the third volume of Fox Spirit Books of Monsters, a book series set on showing you all the lovely scary creat...
December 6, 2016
Top Ten Tuesday: authors I discovered in 2016
Chuffed to be on this awesome list by British book blogger Imyril!
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly featurecreated and hosted byThe Broke and the Bookish. We usuallytalk about a bookish topic, in which we all talk about a bookish topic and have fun making lists.This week,we’re looking at authors we read for the first time this year.
I’vedone quite well for exploring new authors this year: I’ve read 23 authors for the first time (some of whom I’ve promptly run out toread more by, becausethey...
October 29, 2016
Monstrous Halloween
Can I point you in the direction of the coffee table books European Monsters and African Monsters for Halloween?
Both volumes are filled with lovely dark art, stories and graphic stories from well known and new authors and artists, who have written about their favourite monster from European and African folklore, myths and legends. These monsters don’t sparkle, they have no other interest in you but tearing you apart. African Monsters was shortlisted as best anthology for British Fantasy Awa...
September 19, 2016
Margrét Helgadóttir’s The Stars Seem So Far Away (2015)
Lovely review from Mark Bould on my debut book. Thank you!
It starts off as little more than a vignette. Nora on the high seas turns stone killer when she needs to in order to survive.
Then it becomes a cycle of short stories. The world has warmed up. The ice has mostly gone. Humans and other animals (and plants) have died off in massive numbers. Cities built to house the enormous refugee populations in the former arctic regions now stand empty, more or less. Plague has taken its t...
September 14, 2016
Table of contents in Asian Monsters
I am very pleased to announce that Fox Spirit Books released the table of contents in forthcoming Asian Monsters today.
Asian Monsters will be the third of the annual monster books published by Fox Spirit Books, the first two covering monster folklore from the continents of Europe and Africa.
The coffee table book will be filled with short stories, graphic stories and art based on Asian folklore, myths and legends about monsters, all written by authors from Asia or with a strong connection to...
August 28, 2016
Few new reviews on my debut book
My debut book The Stars Seem So Far Away has received some lovely reviews lately.
Book blogger Imyril writes: “This is a quiet, unexpectedly gentle novel of brief sentences that implies as much as it tells. The magic for me was in the gaps it leaves for your imagination to fill and the successful evocation of the northern chill.” Read the full review here.
The book has also received a few reviews on Goodreads lately, see here. Author David Sarsfield calls the book a”well-knitted tapestry of...
August 22, 2016
The African Speculative Fiction Society and a new Award
The African Speculative Fiction Society was launched today – I am so very excited about this. The ASFS is a pro and semi-pro organization of African writers, editors, publishers and artists of Speculative Fiction. The society will nominate and vote for the winners of the new Nommo Awards for African Speculative Fiction.
The new Nommo Awards has four categories and the amazing four years’ worth of prize money in hand, thanks to benefactor Tom Ilube. The first award-giving ceremony will be held...
August 4, 2016
African Monsters updates
African Monsters has received some attention recently. It’s wonderful to see that this lovely book with stories and art from African authors and artists is both read and appreciated.
In the end of June, the blogger Bookshy put the book up as one of ten African genre fiction books to read, in this article in New African Magazine. She writes: “This collection has writings from some of the best African science fiction, fantasy and horror writers. … Be warned, sleep with the lights on!”
In July,...
July 25, 2016
Monster Book Giveaway
I am running a book giveaway at Facebook. Enter before August 31st for a chance to win copies of the two coffee table books European Monsters and African Monsters.
See more here.
July 2, 2016
Review: Whispered Echoes
“This is an excellent ghost horror story with all creepy paranormal details and blackened eyes and cackling laughter—which kept me on the edge of my seat—I suspect Michaud had great fun writing it. However, I think that perhaps it is the psychological aspects that is the true strength of this book and even the most compelling part of the plot.”
Read my review of Anne Michaud‘s Whispered Echoes over at The Future Fire here. The book is a lovely start to a YA-series of five books about ghost se...
