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February 21, 2017
The Future Fire about Asian Monsters
[image error]The Future Fire has reviewed Asian Monsters!
Rachel Verkade writes: “…Asian Monsters is a great collection of stories featuring a delicious bestiary of lesser known monsters. It takes us from the forests of ancient China to the streets of war-torn Pakistan, and its monsters are as old as the hill and as young as urban legends. They offer not just a glimpse at some exotic and unknown creatures, but insight into the lands and cultures that created them.”
Read the whole review here.
Wonderful Th...
February 10, 2017
Everyone: Worlds Without Walls
[image error]I am chuffed to tell you that I have one of my stories featured in the coming anthology Everyone: Worlds Without Walls from The District of Wonders.
The coming anthology will be edited by Tony C. Smith, host and owner of StarShipSofa podcast and The District of Wonders network.
The book will highlight new and diverse voices from around the world: “With talent and tales from diverse nations, cultures, races, and experiences, this anthology will explore and celebrate how we are greater together...
January 30, 2017
Editing Round Table
Talking about editing short story collections over at lovely Fox Spirit Books today:
“I reached out to a whole bunch of my favourite editors with a few basic questions around short story collections and the editors perspective. For today’s session I am delighted to welcome Jonathan Oliver of Solaris/Abaddon, Mhairi Simpson and Margret Helgadottir who have edited for Fox Spirit and Farhana Shaikh … Read more →
Source: Editing Round Table
January 15, 2017
The Future Fire interview
[image error]Just a short notice to tell that the wonderful The Future Fire has published an interview with ne today about editing Asian Monsters.
I was a real pleasure to answer Rivqa Rafael’s questions. Thank you so much!
Read the interview here.
The Future Fire is fundraising for a new pro-paying speculative fiction anthology at the moment. Problem Daughters will amplify the voices of women who are sometimes excluded from mainstream feminism. See more here.
January 8, 2017
Problem Daughters: Interview with Nicolette Barischoff
[image error]Futurefire.net Publishing and co-editors Nicolette Barischoff, Rivqa Rafael and Djibril al-Ayad are fundraising for a new pro-paying speculative fiction anthology. Problem Daughters will amplify the voices of women who are sometimes excluded from mainstream feminism. I am so pleased to be able to host an interview with the lovely Nicolette Barischoff today.
Futurefire.net Publishing is looking for beautiful, thoughtful, unconventional speculative fiction and poetry around the theme of interse...
January 7, 2017
Great News: more monster books!
[image error]I am pleased to announce that I will edit four more monster volumes for Fox Spirit Books
UK-based Fox Spirit Books was awarded with British Fantasy Awards in 2015 as Best Independent Press and I am thrilled to be able to work together with them. The monster books are annual coffee table books filled with short stories, graphic stories and art.
We have published three volumes so far:
European Monsters, 2014 African Monsters , 2015, (shortlisted to British Fantasy Awards for Best Anthology 2016...December 30, 2016
My 2016
[image error]Since we are closing up another year tomorrow, I am doing the annual thinking: What did I actually do in this last year? Did I do anything? Did I have a good year? Not?
This is not a post about the state of the world except to tell I am very much affected by it, more than ever. I think many of us are in a state of utter sadness and feeling totally inadequate as human beings for not being able to help all the refugees or able to help the people in Aleppo or suffering people in other parts of t...
December 26, 2016
Bite-size Books: Winter Tales — x+1
Lovely and balanced review of Winter Tales from British book blogger Imyril. Thank you!
Christmas Eve is when Icelanders given books to one another and winter is when we Brits historically told ghost stories by the fire. I’m celebrating the season with a collection of speculative horror stories chosen by MargrétHelgadóttir.
via Bite-size Books: Winter Tales — x+1
December 22, 2016
The Asian Writer features Asian Monsters
[image error]Just a short note to tell you that the magazine The Asian Writer has a special feature on Asian Monsters in late December.
The Asian Writer is an online magazine with a special focus onSouth Asian literature, and British Asian writers, edited byFarhana Shaikh. I am very chuffed that Asian Monsters gets a special feature in this wonderful magazine.
They have both an interview with me about the books and editing, see the interview here and a lovely interviews with two of the contributors, Usman...
December 17, 2016
Asian Monsters : Margret Helgadottir
A blog post from me today over at Fox Spirit Books where I speak about being editor for Asian Monsters, the monster books and the background for the book series:
The World Tour of Monsters by Margrét Helgadóttir I am so happy that Asian Monsters is now out from Fox Spirit Books, after one year of work. Asian Monsters is the third volume of the annual Fox Spirit Book of Monsters series. We started with Europe in 2014 and continued … Read more
Source: Asian Monsters : Margret Helgadottir
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