Our bundle of green

If you fancy lots of weird British SF then this could well be the digital bundle bargain for you. Storybundle’s latest includes novels by great writers such as Adrian Tchaikovsky, Stark Holborn, Lavie Tidhar, Adam Roberts, and even EJ Swift’s The Coral Bones, which was one of my favourite reads of last year; it’s currently a shortlisted title for the upcoming Clarke Award. It’s very lovely to see the adventures of my space-travelling bio librarian Penelope Greensmith as one of the bargains, too – you can buy four books for as little as $5 and all ten from $20, I think, but you can check the details here. I’m proud of Greensmith, and the cover is magnificent. Here’s my cue to post it up yet again, just because I like it so much.

Another green thing – the Green Ink Sponsored Write for Macmillan Cancer Support takes place on 14 October 2023. There are a number of writers taking part, and we will write non-stop from 10.30am until 5.30pm to come up with a story relating to a prompt that will be supplied by Paul Tremblay. After that, the results will be collected into an anthology and sent out to all who are kind enough to sponsor us. I’m really looking forward to the challenge. Here’s the sponsorship page if you’re interested.

I just wanted to mention an open submission period that’s coming up for a very interesting anthology based on the novel We by Evgeny Zamyatin. Submissions will be accepted in October, so that gives people plenty of time to get something down on paper, and I think it might make for an exciting collection. In the meantime, I think I’ll give We a reread. October seems far away, but something tells me I’ll blink and –