The Bureau of Spectral

Hot on the heels of my novella acceptance from Alchemy Press, I am (again) delighted to announce that Simon Marshall Jones has accepted my novella 'The Bureau of Them' for Spectral Press. It should appear in early 2015.

Spectral published my chapbook Nowhere Hall in 2011 and I'm delighted to be working with them again.

Out of a Broken Birdcage

I am delighted to announce that Peter Coleborn has accepted my novella 'In the Broken Birdcage of Kathleen Fair' for the Alchemy Press Novella line. It will appear as an eBook later this year and then in print as part of a collection of novellas sometime next year.

This makes me smile and possibly happy dance.  Who am I kidding? I so shook my ass when I found out. I should add, I was on a train. No one saw although I may be on CCTV.

If you have a strange novella hiding in your bottom drawer or are working some strangeness into novella form, then the guidelines are here: http://alchemypress02.blogspot.co.uk/p/blog-page.html

A Story of Somebody Else

Seen as my last post was all about me, I think it's time to make one all about someone else.

I've met Priya Sharma on a couple of occasions at writing events in Liverpool and Halton, and she has to be one of the modestest (is that even a word - it sounds wrong) people I've ever met. Her latest story 'Rag and Bone' is published at Tor and is set in my home town, Liverpool. It's a marvellous story of a rag and bone seller, with emphasis on the bone, and the poor in an alternative 19th century Liverpool. Trust me, you should read it.

Link here: Rag and Bone by Priya Sharma