Geoff Nelder's Blog, page 44
February 28, 2010
Home page
Umm, very good for morale. I am on the front page of Kalkion for a few days. http://www.kalkion.com/
Anyone wanting to buy a paper version of Exit, Pursued by a Bee can go to http://geoffnelder.com/exitbee.htm
and ebook at
http://www.double-dragon-ebooks.com/single.php?ISBN=1-55404-577-0
There is also a number of articles I've written at Kalkion, the latest on Hiding the Truth over UFOs here
http://www.kalkion.com/column/935/hiding-truth-over-ufos
February 21, 2010
Casting Shadows
A gang of three poetesses (or is it more PC to say poets – like there are no actresses any more?) sent me their collection of stories and poems in a noir mild horror vein. I like reading the fiction of poets: they can't help leaking literary grace into their stories. Here is my review:
Casting Shadows
A collection of dark tales and poems written by Joleen Kuyper, E.J. Tett and Jo Robertson 
Published by the authors at Lulu.com 2009
ISBN: 978-1409284154
Reviewed by Geoff Nelder
This eclectic...
February 19, 2010
BeWrite Books Blog
My favourite small press of utmost integrity married with entertaining literary fiction has its blog whirring away again at
http://www.bewritebooks.blogspot.com/
All power to the elbow of chief editor, Neil Marr and his staff.
February 18, 2010
updates
Phew, for a while I'd thought the serialization of my science fiction novel – Exit, Pursued by a Bee – was lost in the many interesting articles and files of Kalkion, but here it is! http://www.kalkion.com/node/645
A vastly more update is the birth of my first granddaughter, Amy Nelder. Born to my son Robert, and more so to his fiancee, Tracey, in Robin Hood's city of Nottingham on February 11th 2010 and weighing in at nearly 9 pounds. Keeping a watchful eye is her big sister, Liddie-Ann.
Baby...
February 17, 2010
Review of The Occult Files…
The Occult Files of Albert Taylor: A Collection of Mysterious Cases from the World of the Supernatural
Author: Derek Muk
Reviewed by Geoff Nelder
Paperback: 208 pages
Publisher: CreateSpace (October 1, 2009)
ISBN-10: 144954195X
ISBN-13: 978-1449541958
This is an anthology of eleven stories of the occult ranging through ghostly apparitions, Jack the Ripper visiting the present in San Francisco, to UFO landings. They are written through the perspective of a professor of the occult, Albert Taylor – a s...
February 14, 2010
Expecting too much?
I decided to give non and token-paying magazines a miss this year and try damned hard to get into the biggies. So I wrote a short science fiction story for Interzone. It's been through two critique groups, reworked and polished. I'm not saying it is perfect but I believe fellow editors would see its worthiness.
I've bought and noted the changes in story styles in Interzone over the decades. I said this in
my cover. However, once again Andy sends me the standard form
reject letter with no hint...
February 10, 2010
write submit write submit write…
I read an ebook today on how to win writing contests by John Yeoman (to be found at http://www.writers-village.org/welcome.php ) He reckons we should be submitting around 20 contests per week. Pause while I work out that is 1,000 per year. Not just any contests, but those with a spread of paying prizes or prestigious publishing outcomes. It reminds me of a consistent winner of prizes I'd met at the Winchester Writers' Conference who said she has at least 300 contests entered at any one time. ...
February 4, 2010
Authors who are too busy…
5,000 people were abjucted by pirates on the Mediterranean island of Gozo in 1551. Their souls cry for revenge but wait until one of their descendents unknowingly meets the descendent of one of the pirates. The novel, Xaghra's Revenge, and my US agent suggests I ask famous fantasy writer, Ramsay Campbell, for his endorsement. I wouldn't expect him to read all 103,000 words but a sample, synopsis, etc. His agent, John Jarrold, was kind enough to ask on my behalf but replied that as Ramsey is...
January 31, 2010
Review of And Now the Nightmare Begins
And Now the Nightmare Begins: The Horror Zine
Volume One – to purchase see the page below this
An anthology of horror stories edited by Jeani Rector
Reviewed by Geoff Nelder
Paperback: 260 pages
Publisher: Bearmanor Fiction (Dec 2009)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1593933568
ISBN-13: 978-1593933562
Jeani Rector edits and started a monthly online zine of horror featuring fiction, articles, images and poetry many years ago and the current website is at www.thehorrorzine.com Twenty of the finest stories and...
January 29, 2010
The Horror Zine
Hooray, the postman delivered the second anthology for me to review. This one is getting my juices going already. The title is And Now The Nightmare Begins: The Horror Zine. This is volume one, hopefully of a series edited by Jeani Rector. Luminaries are in there such as Ramsey Campbell, Simon Clark, Joe R Lansdale and Trevor Denyer. I am already shivering having NOT resisted reading the first creepy tale: Folks Don't Always Come Out Of Ratwitch Cave The Same by Lawrence Barker. If you can't...
