Two Days In

The Preditors & Editors Poll is up, so if you have time head over there and vote for your favourite author / anthology / short story / magazine of 2008. And if your favourite story etc of the year isn't listed, you can add it. How cool is that.

I added Aaron Polson's 'Reciprocity' to the Sci-Fi/Fantasy nominations (apparently it will take an hour or so to appear on the nomination list) - if you loved the story as much as I did then go vote for him. Actually, go vote for him anyway because if he comes in last he might kill me. :)

I'm still convinced 2009 is going to be a scary year. January 1st hated me. My printer refused to print out 'Cyclone of Painted Shells' so that I could send it out to Fantasy & Science Fiction - I won in the end. :) Then when I went searching for an envelope for an SAE, one of the knobs on my storage drawers fell off and while I'm trying to reattach it (mumbling that 2009 hated me), the entire front of the drawer fell off. Then I was making a stupendous roast dinner and my Mum rushes in from the garden to say a helicopter looked as if it was out of control and it was above our house. When I got outside it was gone - but hey, I believe it was there.

Wrote my first short story of the year today - Golden Age of the Pumpkin Heads - and kind of got submission happy and sent it out already. I really do need to learn a little Stephen-King-patience.

The HELP Anthology

HELP, the charity anthology benefiting Preditors & Editors is now available at Lulu as a download, paperback or hardback.

It contains my story 'Bob's Spares & Repairs', plus 'Feats of Magnificence' by Erik Smetana, 'Memory Lane' by Natalie L Sin, 'The Final Quarter' by Jeff Parish, 'Red Cap' by Tim Deal, 'A Visit from a Friend' by Terrie Leigh Reif plus many, many more.

Oh, and talking of charity anthologies. Check out the Shroud Forum where they have posted a copy of the cover for the Northern Haunts anthology edited by Tim Deal. It is beyond awesome. Much gnawing of fingernails going on here.

HELP! - Preditors and Editors Anthology

My surreal, serial killer, robot tale 'Bob's Spares & Repairs' is to appear in the Preditors and Editors Charity Anthology 'HELP!'. Woo-Hoo!!!

It's going to be a whopper of an anthology with stories from almost 70 authors including: Erik Smetana, Jeff Parish, Natalie L Sin, Gustavo Bondoni, Gary Braunbeck, Garry Charles, Stephen Mark Rainey, Joseph McGee, JG Faherty, Sheryl Nantus, Sara Creasy, Michael R Colangelo, John Grover, Colin Harvey, Eric Christ, Mari Adkins, Guy Anthony De Marco, William Blake Vogel III, Karen L Newman, Mark Leslie, Ellen Meister and many, many more... You can find the whole list at the Preditors and Editors My Space page.

In other news: Still waiting to hear whether The Moth Brigade has or has not made it into Permuted's Robots Beyond anthology. Seriously, I am down to my knuckles, everything else is gnawed away. Apparently Lane received 30 extra submissions in the last two days... OMG!!!