Dead Trees and a Few Pixels

It's a good day for short story fans (and not because of my story because well... how lame would that comment be)... Ahem!

M-Brane SF #15 is released today and it contains my science fiction story, Treading the Regolith. And it's not at all dark or fantastical, but pure SF- now there's a first. There are also stories by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Erica Hildebrand, Kaolin Imago Fire, Jason Heller, and Deborah Walker.

A new issue of New Bedlam has also gone live today, with stories from:  Brock Cooper, John Grover, Michael C. Pennington, Darlene Henderson, Dave Rex, and Zombie Zak. And of course Jodi Lee has also released the trade paperback of Courting Morpheus. I can't wait to read this book, I'm waiting on the rather excellent hardback.

And finally, though it should never be on the end of any lists, I received issue 10 of Necrotic Tissue in the post today, and it contains (among other wonderful folk - sorry, left the magazine downstairs and I'm in lazy mode) work by the ever fabulous Aaron Polson and the always delightful Katey Taylor.

Okay, I'm done. Have a fabulous Easter. If anyone feels the need to help me decorate (my Easter chore), most of you have my address. :D

Call me William

Someone found my blog today by googling Shakespeare Angel... Ah shucks! But you found the wrong place. Though I am, of course, angelic most of the time (except when I'm doing bad things to innocent characters).

Cool weekend. Drew pictures with beautiful nephew and niece, and said niece joined the, 'will you please stop singing' club - all family members join in the end. :( See googler, even my singing is demonic.Then, the wonderful Chris Fletcher accepted my science fiction story 'Treading the Regolith', which is neither dark nor fantastical (I think), at least it's not my usual flavour of dark, for M-Brane SF. It will appear in the April issue.

And today, I fell back in love with my WIP. Let's hope we don't have a one-night stand.

Publication Day

Two stories published in one day - I feel almost famous.

Insomniac Ink is available to read at Jodi Lee's New Bedlam. I'd love it if you have the time to head over their and read it and possibly leave a comment. You'll also find fiction from Barry Napier, R Scott McCoy, Jeff Parish, Jodi Lee plus others. But be warned, it's a scary place to visit even for a little while. If you have heart problems perhaps you should creep away and pretend you were never here.

And the folks at M-Brane SF have published my funny (I hope) sci-fi short 'See Saw', which is available in print & pdf.

Don't forget New Bedlam is now open to new residents, check out the submission guidelines

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.