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February 29, 2016
Winter Tales anthology is out!
I have a book out today! The anthology Winter Tales was released by Fox Spirit Books earlier today. It’s a collection with dark and grim winter stories and poems from established and new authors.
From more than a hundred submissions received, I selected the 22 speculative poems and stories, written by both well established and new authors (a few have their debut, how cool is that). See table of contents below. The one element that binds the tales together is the winter.Unsettling, dark, bizar...
February 18, 2016
New story out: Arnhild
My short story ‘Arnhild’ is published in the new anthology In An Unknown Country.
The book is volume seven of Fox Pockets from Fox Spirit Books, a lovely book series with ten books thematically ranging from dead kings to piracy. See more about the books here.
In An Unknown Country explores other worlds and unfamiliar territory through wonderful stories from authors like Alasdair Stuart, Kim Bannerman, Chloë Yates, Tracy Fahey, Jenny Barber and Sarah Anne Langton.
My story is about the eagle s...
February 14, 2016
Anniversary
I have a little anniversary today: My debut book The Stars Seem So Far Away was released one year ago
I am very grateful for Adele Wearing and Fox Spirit Books for publishing the book. It’s been wonderful and scary to have my words out there.
It’s been a good year and a year of trying to promote the book amongst the many thousands of new releases. I am happy to say that it has received several reviews. A few reviewers have not been so enthusiastic, but mostly it seems people have enjoyed read...
February 2, 2016
New review of The Stars Seem So Far Away
“There’s friendship here, and love, grief and hope, all set against the harsh and unyielding backdrop of a dying Earth.”
Just a short note to tell about a new review of The Stars Seem So Far Away. This time from Strange Charm, created to showcase the best speculative fiction by female authors.
It’s a balanced review. Thank you! Read it here.
February 1, 2016
Book Review – “African Monsters” by Jo Thomas and Margret Helgadottir (ed)
Lovely review of African Monsters. Thank you!
AFRICAN MONSTERS by JO THOMAS AND MARGRET HELGADOTTIR (ed)
Ebook, 198 pages, Fox Spirit.
African Monsters: Volume 2 (Fox Spirit Books of Monsters)
is available on Amazon.
Following on from the success of Fox Spirit’s previous coffee-table volume European Monsters: Volume 1 (Fox Spirit Books of Monsters)
, African Monsters takes the series a step further, drawing on African mythologies, written by authors and illustrated by artists who,...
January 28, 2016
Cover reveal Winter Tales
The lovely cover for the coming anthology Winter Tales was revealed yesterday.
Awesome artist S.L. Johnson has made the cover. I think it fits the mood in the book perfectly. The book should be out late in February from Fox Spirit Books with 22 speculative stories and poems from new and established writers like Mat Joiner, Ruth Booth, Masimba Musodza, Tim Major, James Bennett, Jan Edwards, Adrian Tchaikovsky and Verity Holloway. See full table of contents here.
December 26, 2015
Interview with the editors of African Monsters
A quick note to tell you about this great interview with us editors of African Monsters over at A Fantastical Librarian.
Lovely Mieneke van der Salm talked with us about editing the monster books, books in general and even how we organize our books.
Read the interview here.
December 22, 2015
New story out: Nightmare
My tiny story ‘Nightmare’ is out this week in the new anthology Things in the Dark.
The book is volume six of Fox Pockets from Fox Spirit Books, a lovely book series with ten books thematically ranging from dead kings to piracy. See more about the books here.
Things in the Dark contains stories around, yes, things lurking in the dark, from awesome authors like Kate Laity, Chloe Yates, Danie Ware, Jenny Barber and many more. And the lovely cover is by Sarah Ann Langton.
My story was written al...
December 19, 2015
Blog post and book giveaway
I have a guest blog post today over at the wonderful The Book Smugglers, where I talk about African speculative fiction and the new books AfroSF and African Monsters. The good people at The Book Smugglers are also hosting a book giveaway for a week for a copy of both
African Monsters and my debut book The Stars Seem So Far Away.
The guest post is part of Smugglivus 2015: The Book Smugglers have daily guests in December – authors and bloggers – looking back at their favorite reads of 2015, lo...
December 15, 2015
African Monsters is out!
Good news! African Monsters was released today worldwide.
This beautiful coffee table book is filled with illustrated short fiction and graphic stories by African authors. They have all written dark stories about monsters from the continent of Africa, based on folklore, legends and myths. See the list with authors and artists here
Because of all the art, the book is only available in paperback. Get it at Amazon here (UK) and here (US).
I wish to thank all the contributors for all the wonderfu...
