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The Goodship Hyperdrive
is to be published by
Murky Depths magazine
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Ruth's Dying Breath in the Night
is now published in issue 8 of
Necrotic Tissue
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FantasyCon 2009
18th - 20th September
Britannia Hotel, Nottingham
Gabriel Strange has made a
film of the short story that
eventually grew into my novel
Digging up Donald.
I'm happy to say it will be
screened as part of the British
Fantasy Society FantasyCon
this year in Nottingham.
The film is entitled
Mr Abershaw's Happening Day
and will be shown as part of the
ShortFilm Showcase.
Hopefully, when Gabriel has
finished using it, I can persuade
him to let me post it to YouTube.
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When Norman Dreamed
is now published in
From the Mouth
anthology from Sonar4.
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have now released the table of
contents details for the upcoming
Haunted Legends
anthology to be published
by Tor in 2010.
It seems I've joined a rather tasty list of
authors involved in the project.
My story, The Spring Heel, is
based (surprisingly :-) on the Spring
Heeled Jack legend - the long-legged,
rather spindley character who was
reportedly seen regularly on dark nights
leaping about the streets of Liverpool
(amongst other places).
Table of Contents:
Knickerbocker Holiday Richard Bowes
That Girl Kaaron Warren
Akbar Kit Reed
The Spring Heel Steven Pirie
As Red as Red Caitlín R. Kiernan
Tin Cans Ekaterina Sedia
Shoebox Train Wreck John Mantooth
15 Panels Depicting the Sadness of the Baku & the Jotai Catherynne M. Valente
La Llorona Carolyn Turgeon
Face Like a Monkey Carrie Laben
Down Atsion Road Jeffrey Ford
Return to Mariabronn Gary A. Braunbeck
Following Double-Face Woman Erzebet YellowBoy
Oaks Park M.K. Hobson
For Those in Peril on the Sea Stephen Dedman
The Foxes Lily Hoang
The Redfield Girls Laird Barron
Between Heaven and Hull Pat Cadigan
Chucky Comes to Liverpool Ramsey Campbell
The Folding Man Joe R. Lansdale
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To Pull a Child From a Woman
is to be published in
the anthology
Side Show 2: Tales of the Big
Top and the Bizarre
available February 2010 from
Sam's Dot Publishing
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Ruth's Dying Breath in the Night
is to be published in
Necrotic Tissue October edition.
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My short story
The Love Ship Guide to Seduction in Zero Gravity
is now published in French in
Galaxies magazine.
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The Book of Ruth
is now published in
Black Static magazine.
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When Norman Dreamed
has been accepted by
Sonar 4 Horror
and Science Fiction Anthology
with a projected June
2009 publication date.
Sonar 4
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Leonard Rom
is now published in
Premonitions magazine.
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The Spring Heel
has been accepted by the
Haunted Legends
antholgy.
Edited by Ellen Datlow and Nick Mamatas, the anthology is to be published in mass market paperback by Tor Books in the summer of 2010.
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The Book of Ruth
has been accepted by TTA Press's
Black Static
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The Love Ship Guide to Seduction in Zero Gravity
is now published in issue three of
Murky Depths
"Steven Pirie writes an amusing tale of a middle-aged crisis and a high-tech, very expensive weekend away. The interaction between the characters develops almost unnoticed until you're suddenly aware of both points of view. Very cleverly written."
Gareth D Jones, Whispers of Wickedness review
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My short story Night Dreaming has won first prize in the Future Fire/Second Life Black Swan short story competition.
The story wins a rather tasty 500 US Dollars, along with publication in both Future Fire and Second Life.
The competition was to visit Second Life , and in particular Black Swan's enclave, and view the stunning, 3-D, animated artwork. The challenge then was to produce a story inspired by what's there. Night Dreaming is a story based on isolation. Believe me, Black Swan have produced a world of splendid isolation.
Go see for yourself--you will need a free Second Life account, and you will need to download Second Life software to drive the world--but the visit is well worth your trouble.
Find the angel, and step into the beam of light to its rear. You will be transported into an upper realm filled with lots of additional imagery.
Black Swan have created a truly remarkable world of art.
Read Night Dreaming
View some images of Black Swan artwork
Visit Black Swan at Second Life
Read a "The Fix" article about Second Life
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I can now reveal that my Zencore story was the rather charmingly titled Mary's Gift, the Stars, and Frank's Pisser
The story won an honorouble mention in the Year Book of Fantasy and Horror, and Zencore as a whole has been nominated for a Bram Stoker award
"...one of the least palatable
and best stories in the book."
ligotti.net
Click
to read what people are saying about
Mary's Gift, the Stars,
and Frank's Pisser
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Lucy's Flower
is now published in
The Horror Express 6
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To Pull a Child From a Woman
is now available in
Sein und Werden Volume 2 Issue 2
Clowns and Ghosts,
whose cover is shown below
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Digging up Donald
was released by
Immanion Press
at the British Fantasy Society
Fantasycon on 21st September, 2007
in Nottingham
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A First Frost, Ben the Mechanical Dog,
Mr Henderson's Cat, Bob's Descent,
and Mrs Dawson's Underwear
have been accepted by
The Twisted Twins
to appear in an anthology to be
published mid 2008
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To Pull a Child from a Woman
has been accepted by Sein und Werden
to appear in the September issue.
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Of Kate, and Love, and the Faraway Door
is now published online at AfterburnSF
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Shipwreck
has been accepted by Route 66
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Bob, and Clair, and the Meaning of Life
has been accepted by Ink Magazine
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The Love Ship Guide to Seduction in Zero Gravity
has been accepted by Murky Depths
to appear either in issue two or three.
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"Colquitt's High-energy Trousers" and
"The Black Arts of Mrs Beelzebub from Number Six"
have been translated into Russian!
They're published as part of the Russian version of The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy shown above
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artwork is done!
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Of Kate, and Love, and the Faraway Door
has been accepted by AfterburnSF
to be published in the July edition
added 22nd May, 2007
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has accepted a so far
"unnamed story" of mine.
For those who don't know
Nemonymous's mode of operation,
it's unnamed because Nemo is all
about anonymity (in fact, for past
issues its authors would not even
be allowed to make this "unnamed
story" declaration).
I love the idea, because stories
are accepted by story rather than
by who's writing them (submissions
are also made anonymously). It's an
even playing field.
Des Lewis, Nemo's creator,
is running a competition here
where the prize is a free copy
of the anthology.
Nemo is well worth winning -
I have all the previous editions
and the quality is superb.
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the artwork for the new paperback
edition of Digging Up Donald
View Vincent's artwork
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this time conducted by the good
people of Hadesgate Publishing
Read the interview
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Mrs Mathews is Afraid of Cricket Bats
published in Dark Doorways
antholgy is to receive an
honourable mention in Ellen
Datlow's Year Book of
Fantasy and Horror.
added 11th April, 2007
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Whispers have now archived
on the web the Steven Pirie
interview by Peter Tennant
originally printed in Issue 12.
Read the interview
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will be reissued soon in paperback.
New cover artwork
will be done by the much
sought after Vincent Chong
View Vincent's artwork
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Whispers of Wickedness
Issue 14, winter 2006/07
Cover Art:
Bob Veon
Fiction:
Monomorium Destructor by David Penn
Artwork by Bob Veon
Version iii by Frank Burton
Artwork by Marcia Borelll
The Fog Catcher by Jim Steel
Artwork by Marcia Borell
A Spirit's Best Friend by Lawrence R. Dagstine
Artwork by Chris Cartwright
In the Water by Gavin Salisbury
The Great Shave by Jason Gaskell
Artwork by Bob Veon
Poetry :
Two Poems by Emma Lee
Artwork by Bob Veon
The Calibrated Angel by Gavin Salisbury
Non-fiction :
The Blue Pootle Column by Aliya Whiteley
Creation of the Humanoids: A Review by David Tamarin
An Indescribable Horror by Terry Grimwood
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