Trench Foot

It's that time of year again. Fantasy Magazine are running a 'Best of' poll. If you enjoyed my story Trench Foot, I'd love it if you could take a moment to vote for it, and if you didn't, there are many other wonderful stories that I am sure would love to receive your vote.

All About Me (and some fairies)

There's a whopping great spotlight hovering over my head today, check it out before the light dims. The lovely Rae Bryant has interviewed me over at Fantasy Magazine in the wonderfully titled Listening to Sane People Is No Use At All. I guess most of you already knew that.

Well that was a short post.

Trench Foot 2 - The Competition

To celebrate the publication of my first pro-rate accepted story, I'm running a pirates and fairies competition. It was going to be a comp to celebrate my first pro-rate publication but my story in Necrotic Tissue beat this one by a few weeks - life is so hard. :)

So what do you have to do to enter. Head over to Fantasy Magazine and read my story Trench Foot, leave a comment on the story page (doesn't have to be gushing, even hate will be accepted as an entry but beware, I will be asking for your address if you win), and then come back here to tell me you've entered.

Now for the important part - the prizes.

There will be 2 first prize winners, who will receive goody bags containing the above which includes: Inflatable Parrot, Pirate Flag, Pirate Tattoos, Fairy Tattoos, Pirate Mask, Pirate Stickers & Pirate Pencil, 2 Fairy Bookmarks, and a real pirate (shown to scale).

You also get to choose one of the following books, which I will have Amazon ship directly to your door: Alex and the Wigpowder Treasure by Adrienne Kress (or if you're in the US, Alex and the Ironic Gentleman - same book), or Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr, or Wondrous Strange by Lesley Livingston. Yep that's books with fairies and pirates in.

The 2 first prize winners will also receive one of the below cards with a note from me thanking them for supporting my story. I know, you just want the card. Breathe.

The second prize winner will receive: Inflatable parrot, Pirate Stickers & Pirate Pencil, Fairy Bookmark, Fairy Tattoos, Pirate Tattoos and a Pirate Mask.

The third prize winner will receive: Inflatable Parrot, Pirate Stickers, Pirate Tattoos and Fairy Tattoos.

Competition closes midnight Monday July 19th. Good luck and thank you for entering.

Trench Foot Part I

Bouncing in my seat and putting this post up prematurely. My story Trench Foot is now live over at Fantasy Magazine. Oh my goodness!

I'll be running a bumper competition later today (and all week) to win prizes. All you have to do is head over to the Fantasy Magazine site and leave a comment on the story. More details when the shackles are unbound and I can fly home from work.

Short Fiction is Not Dead

Fantasy Magazine's Sean Wallace is going to Readercon and he is taking some goodies with him. The second picture made my day, possibly my week, probably my month. Full of July goodness. I can't wait for my story to appear on the site, I have loads of prizes stacked up for my promotion thingy and I need to use them asap as my niece keeps wandering off with them (so far I've lost a pirate flag and an inflatable parrot). I'm doomed if she discovers the fairy and pirate tattoos.

Oh, and if you go to the con, be sure to pick one up.

Marching On... (Groan!)

Fantasy Magazine have adopted a Clarkesworld like submissions tracker so you can now submit through the site. I find these things addictive. It's a long way from the bad old days when you had to submit everything by snail mail, only it wasn't 'snail' then, just plain old mail. I know things can disappear into the ether with emails, but back then the post office could lose them for decades. At the moment I'm number 7 in line at Clarkesworld for a rejection, I mean consideration.

In other Fantasy news, if you have the time, I highly recommend checking out The Adventures of Petal, the Paperdoll Pirate by Paul Jessup. Wonderful, surreal, and engaging.

And in YAY! news: 'See Saw' - a humorous, dark sci-fi tale - sold to M-Brane SF yesterday. Nice start to the month.

Abnormal Service

Note to self: when you have flu like symptoms and are a wee bit delirious with a fever don’t watch a television show about a plague that kills most of the population, it will give you nightmares.

Checked my email today for the first time in 48 hours (that’s a record) to find an acceptance from Cat Rambo and Sean Wallace of Fantasy Magazine for Trench Foot - if I still had my voice I would have whooped.

Normal service will be resumed when the world stops spinning.