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December 13, 2015
Blog posts African Monsters
The coffee table book African Monsters is out Tuesday 15th. We are running a blog tour in the coming weeks over at Fox Spirit Books with posts from the editors and several of the contributors.
I will not post each time a new blog post is out, but all the links will be found both here and at Fox Spirit Books. The authors and artists will tell a little bit more about the monster they have written a story about, about African monsters in general or other things on their minds. We start today wit...
December 12, 2015
African Science Fiction 101: update 2
Lovely post from awesome Mark Bould and a mention about African Monsters – thank you! *beams* African Monsters is out Tuesday 15th.
The months since my last update have been crazily busy with other things, so there has been little time for research and even less time for actually reading any of the goodies I’ve uncovered. Most of which are annoyingly inconvenient sizes and shapes to lug around with me over my Xmas perambulations. But I thought I would post another list before Xmas...
December 8, 2015
African Monsters Release
Short note to share these wonderful news from Fox Spirit Books: That’s right folks, we are releasing a selection of monsters from the continent of Africa into the wild for your reading pleasure next week!
Working with writers from various countries in Africa or with strong links and a mix of African and Europeanartists, editors Margret Helgadottir and Jo Thomas have … Read more
Source: African Monsters Release
December 5, 2015
My Favorite African Science Fiction and Fantasy (AfroSFF) Short Fiction of 2015
A lovely list from Wole Talabi, and a mention to coming African Monsters (thank you).
Originally posted on Wole Talabi:
Image via Paul Lewin
I have always loved ‘Best-Of’ SF/F short story collections, lists, anthologies. ‘The Hugo Winners’ anthology originally edited by Isaac Asimov was where I first foundmost of my favorite authors. There is something about stories that move someone enough to want to collect them in a group and say to someone else, “Here, you should rea...
November 15, 2015
Cover reveal African Monsters
Just a short note to tell you that Fox Spirit Books has revealed the cover of the forthcoming coffee table book African Monsters.
The gorgeous cover is by Daniele Serra, who also did the cover on volume one, European Monsters.
African Monsters will be released late in December.
November 14, 2015
Book giveaway
I am running a book giveaway over at Goodreads for a month. Enter to win one of two signed copies of my debut book The Stars Seem So Far Away from awardwinning Fox Spirit Books
The giveaway closes Dec 14th. It’s open to people in most of Europe, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Argentina, Brasil, and Japan.
Enter the giveaway here.
Read more about the book here.
November 3, 2015
Table of contents for African Monsters
Fox Spirit Books revealed the table of contents for the coming coffee table book African Monsters today.
African Monsters is the second book of Fox Spirit Books of Monsters that I am editing together with Jo Thomas. The book will be published in December and we plan a launch party in London early in 2016. More details to come.
African Monsters is filled with wonderful dark stories, graphic stories and art based on African folklore, myths and legends. There are some really scary monsters on th...
October 26, 2015
British Fantasy Award
Last night Fox Spirit Books was awarded the British Fantasy Award for Best Independent Press. Well deserved for Adele Wearing after three years with all the hard work.
Sadly I couldn’t be at FantasyCon, but I have cheered and toasted from my couch in Denmark and also cried a little, I’ll admit.
I am especially happy on a personal level because Adele was the one picking out a story of mine in September three years ago, as one of the winners in her Talk Like a Pirate Day writing competition. Th...
October 9, 2015
Table of contents for Winter Tales
Today Fox Spirit Books released table of contents for Winter Tales, the wonderful anthology I am editing, coming early 2016.
I received over a hundred submissions to this anthology – so many excellent winter tales and poems. It was a difficult task to select the final stories and poems. I am very pleased with the table of contents. The book will open with a great story from Mat Joiner and continue with dark and frosty tales from both new and established authors like Adrian Tchaikovsky, Ruth B...
September 25, 2015
Review: Waiting for the Machines to Fall Asleep
“Many of the tales circle around ethical questions connected to the relationship between humans and machines. Though there is disappointingly little about this book that screams “Swedish”, except for the nationality of the authors and the editor, I would still recommend the book for all lovers of science fiction, because the tales told are a really good read.
Read my review of the anthology Waiting for the Machines to Fall Asleep, edited by Peter Öberg, over at The Future Fire here.
