The British Invasion
New horror anthology The British Invasion is now available to pre-order from the Cemetery Dance website, a link for which you can find on my Links page. Apparently copies are selling out fast, so if I were you I'd order sooner rather than later. The gorgeous cover by Les Edwards is featured below. My own contribution to the anthology is a 10,000 word story called Puppies For Sale.
The first five months of 2008 has brought three deadlines, two of which I've now managed to fulfill - and a couple of weeks ahead of schedule too.
I delivered my new Doctor Who book, Ghosts of India, on April 1st, and have just delivered a 15,000 word version of my 2005 novella, Stumps, (which first appeared in the Cemetery Dance anthology, Fourbodings, edited by Pete Crowther) to Barrington Stoke. Barrington Stoke are a publisher who publish books for 'reluctant readers', and my previous book with them was The Dogs, which came out in 2001.
Now that Stumps has been delivered, I'll be spending the next few weeks doing re-writes to my Hellboy novel, The All-Seeing Eye, and then will be writing a long (50,000 word) novella called It Sustains for Earthling Publications in the States. I've also got a new short story collection called Long Shadows, Nightmare Light coming out from Humdrumming in September, so I need to write some new stories for that.
And once that little lot's out of the way, I'll be turning my attention to a new horror novel, which I've actually been working on, on and off, for the past couple of years. Most of the book's already written, but it needs quite a bit of re-working and re-writing to turn it into exactly the kind of book I want it to be. I'm hoping to have a new revamped version of the novel available to deliver to my agent by October or November. Now that horror is on the rise as a genre again, there are already a couple of publishers showing interest - so fingers crossed.
Before I go, I just want to mention alt.fiction, which is being held at the Assembly Rooms in Derby next Saturday (26th). Basically alt.fiction is a one-day celebration of the horror, fantasy and science-fiction genres. There'll be panels, readings and signings, and a chance for fans to meet and chat with many of the best genre writers in the UK in very informal surroundings. Together with Simon Clark, Tim Lebbon, Sarah Pinborough and Conrad Williams, I'll be appearing on the Horror panel at 4pm in the Reception Suite. Other writers scheduled to attend include Graham Joyce, Brian Lumley, Eric Brown, Charlie Stross, Ramsey Campbell, Mike Carey, Michael Marshall Smith, Justina Robson and many more.
Hope to see you there!
The first five months of 2008 has brought three deadlines, two of which I've now managed to fulfill - and a couple of weeks ahead of schedule too.
I delivered my new Doctor Who book, Ghosts of India, on April 1st, and have just delivered a 15,000 word version of my 2005 novella, Stumps, (which first appeared in the Cemetery Dance anthology, Fourbodings, edited by Pete Crowther) to Barrington Stoke. Barrington Stoke are a publisher who publish books for 'reluctant readers', and my previous book with them was The Dogs, which came out in 2001.
Now that Stumps has been delivered, I'll be spending the next few weeks doing re-writes to my Hellboy novel, The All-Seeing Eye, and then will be writing a long (50,000 word) novella called It Sustains for Earthling Publications in the States. I've also got a new short story collection called Long Shadows, Nightmare Light coming out from Humdrumming in September, so I need to write some new stories for that.
And once that little lot's out of the way, I'll be turning my attention to a new horror novel, which I've actually been working on, on and off, for the past couple of years. Most of the book's already written, but it needs quite a bit of re-working and re-writing to turn it into exactly the kind of book I want it to be. I'm hoping to have a new revamped version of the novel available to deliver to my agent by October or November. Now that horror is on the rise as a genre again, there are already a couple of publishers showing interest - so fingers crossed.
Before I go, I just want to mention alt.fiction, which is being held at the Assembly Rooms in Derby next Saturday (26th). Basically alt.fiction is a one-day celebration of the horror, fantasy and science-fiction genres. There'll be panels, readings and signings, and a chance for fans to meet and chat with many of the best genre writers in the UK in very informal surroundings. Together with Simon Clark, Tim Lebbon, Sarah Pinborough and Conrad Williams, I'll be appearing on the Horror panel at 4pm in the Reception Suite. Other writers scheduled to attend include Graham Joyce, Brian Lumley, Eric Brown, Charlie Stross, Ramsey Campbell, Mike Carey, Michael Marshall Smith, Justina Robson and many more.
Hope to see you there!
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