Turning Folk Green

The post to make you all feel very, very jealous. Look at the goodies that I received in the post over the course of a week.

I shall list them all and then sit back and watch your green-o-meter increase with each line.

From left to right (top row):

Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror by Chris Priestley (MG)

Wondrous Strange by Lesley Livingston (YA, First Novel)

Talebones issue 37

Sand issue 3

Space And Time issue 106

From left to right (bottom row):

The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E Pearson (YA)

Dead Girls Don't Write Letters by Gail Giles (YA)

American Gods by Neil Gaiman

The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan (YA, First Novel)

Unwind by Neal Shusterman (YA - reading, fricking brilliant)

Actually Unwind is leaving me with a slight dilemma. It's one of those books that is so wonderful (I am sure the other books are too, but I haven't got to them yet) that you want to pass it onto someone else. Half my family don't read books (the shame) and as for the ones who do... It's not my mother and cousin's type of book, the little ones are too little and the not so little one is still too young at only 9 years old. As for my friend, she has had a book for the last eight or so years in her desk drawer and she's still only on about page nine. Why am I surrounded by these people? Anyhow, as such it will join the other goodies in the competition due some time this month.

Phew!

The folks at Sand: A Journal of Strange Tales have accepted my story 'Sneakers on Asphalt' for issue 4 due out in May 2009. I can now cease having panic attacks that I'll never get another acceptance - well for a week at least.

*Picture to the left is of their 2008 anthology, which includes my story 'Through the Warped Eye of Death'.

The Wolf Dude Presents

The Wolf Dude and I have a competition for you. He has decided he wants to form a band - despite being unable to sing (shush! I never said that) - and he would like you all to choose a suitable name for that band. Now of course we wouldn't expect you to do that for nothing so we are offering a few prizes for the winners.


First prize:

The WolfSongs Volume 1 anthology which is edited by MH Bonham and includes my story 'The Graveyard of Dead Vehicles'.

The Sand: Strange Tales anthology edited by Edward Lupak (cover art by Aaron Polson) and including my story 'Through the Warped Eye of Death'.




Second Prize:

Wolfsongs Volume 1 anthology








Third Prize:

Sand: Strange Tales anthology










Here are the rules and other bits and bobs:

1. Leave a comment stating the name you think the Wolf Dude should give his band.
2. Competition is open from now until Midnight Saturday 13th December 2008 GMT.
3. You can enter as many times as you like.
4. The winners will be chosen by two teenagers, my mother and a three year old who prefers princesses and hates the Wolf Dude - I will have nothing to do with the judging process.
5. Check back on Sunday 14th/Monday 15th when I will be posting the names of the winners along with my email address so that you can contact me re receiving your prizes.

Bloody October & Sand TOC's announced

The Corpulent Insanity Press anthology "Bloody October" Table of Contents have been announced:

1. October’s Gift - Christopher Fulbright
2. Heck Yeah - Rob Rosen
3. The Farmer’s Child - Lawrence Dagstine
4. Plough Monday - Tom Johnstone
5. Mask Murderer - Karen L. Newman
6. Beneath the Orange Moon - Christopher Allan Death
7. The Devil’s Grotto - Sam Leng
8. Left Behind - Kris Ashton
9. Hunting - Aaron A. Polson
10. Dead Parachutes - Catherine J. Gardner

Bloody October is now due to go on sale mid September*.

*So that people can read it in October and not November...



The Sand Table of Contents (in no particular order) for the fall issue have been announced:

"Intervention" by Fred Warren
"Through the Warped Eye of Death" by Catherine J. Gardner
"Daylight" by Kevin M. White
"Trojan Man" by Bruce Cooper
"Bubbles" by T.J. McIntyre
"The Pool" by Patrick O'Leary
"Cold Burial" by Eric Pinder
"The Savage Sword of Loehman" by Sanford Allen

Sanford has a cool blog - check it out my fellow procrastinators.

Two Strange Tales

I'm having a very Happy Birthday and chocolates and presents are only half the reason.

Sand: A Journal of Strange Tales has accepted 'Through the Warped Eye of Death'. Woot, woot, woot! It will appear in the Fall issue - or if you're UK based like me, the Autumn issue.

I also today recieved Christopher Allan Death's edit of my story 'Dead Parachutes' due out in October in the BLOODY OCTOBER anthology.

It's going to be a good October.*

*Definite overuse of the word.