Gary Fry's chapbook 'Abolisher of Roses' is now available to pre-order from the
Spectral Press website for £3.50UK/£4.50EU/$8US and $12 RoW. The chapbook, in a limited edition of only 100 signed and numbered copies, is due to be published in the first week of May.
You can also get a four issue subscription (£13.50UK/$30US/£16EU/$40RoW) which will of course include my chapbook,
Nowhere Hall.
Other Monday news...
I have three stitches in my head - I'd have you believe they are a luminous blue, but they're possibly just blue, I guess only nighttime will tell. I do hope I glow in the dark. I haven't decided whether to tell folk I've had my muse removed (could confuse the non-writing people) or I've had a lobotomy (most suspect I had one years ago).
I have a box of chocolate vampires and I haven't eaten them. I may never eat them.
Last line I wrote in my WIP before venturing here (and twitter, and facebook, and twitter, and statcounter, and goodreads etc etc rinse and repeat):
"So about this minion business," Rose said.Guess I should get back to work.
Simon Marshall Jones' has revealed the cover of my chapbook 'Nowhere Hall' over on his blog. It's by Daniele Serra and is gorgeous. So excited and I can't believe I get another awesome cover. Luck can't keep spinning my way. I've printed the cover out and pinned it to my inspiration board.
Finally opened the file for 'The Museum of Impossible Artefacts' today. Okay, I've opened it on other days, but today I actually added words. Phew! I wrote myself into a corner on the 30th while trying to get as many words as possible down and I think I've just about crawled out. Gosh, it was dark in there. I'm hoping to finish the first draft this week (I'm off work - yay! Supposed to be Christmas shopping - boo!), and maybe then I'll write a short story and edit another. Or I may just twitter the week away. Goodness, I hope not.
Aaron Polson has added a Weird and Creepy Shopping List for Christmas on his blog, but he forgot one book... This. I've said it before and I'll say it again, typing 'Loathsome Aaron Polson' is just wrong.
Simon Marshall Jones has announced the line-up for the initial chapbooks to be published by Spectral Press.
What They Hear in the Dark, by Gary McMahon (April/May 2011)
The Abolisher of Roses, by Gary Fry (September 2011)
Nowhere Hall, by Cate Gardner (January 2012)
Gulp!
Subscriptions for the first year (all three chapbooks) will open shortly (more details on Simon's blog). I imagine as Mr McMahon and Mr Fry are involved, sales should be pretty healthy.
Excited.
I'm not here. I'm over at Simon Marshall Jones' blog wittering on about reviews in a guest post. Please visit me there.
It may be Wednesday but there's no WIP post from me today, I'm too hyper to string more than eight words together. I've been a total pimp this week... And the worst sort, it's all me, me, hey have you heard about me. Thank you to everyone who's played along (or intends to play along) with my cheeky meme contest. Your support is much appreciated and I hope you all win. erm...
Anyhow, apologies for yet more pimpage (it ends here), but Strange Men in Pinstripe Suits just received its first review from Simon Marshall Jones over at Beyond Fiction and it is fanblinkingtastic. Many thanks to Simon, Mark Deniz and all the guys over at BF who've seriously made my week.
Eek! Late addition to the post...
Thank you to everyone who preordered a copy. I can't believe I left that part out.
You're being very circumspect as to the need for these stitches, Ms Gardner. :p Anyway, there's a barbershop here in Stoke, called 'Short, Back and Lobotomies'. I've not ventured inside.
Wait, you can't just tell us in passing that you have three stitches in your head and NOT tell us why! My own guess is that one of your characters was impatient to get out, and just clawed his way out before he was written down. I hope you're okay.
Trying to add to my mystique, Mike ;)
OMG! Kate, you're right. How did you know? I'm guessing it's happened to you.
I'm thinking you had to fight off an intruder after those chocolate vampires.
At least you weren't attacked by garden gnomes...or maybe you were. Perhaps the character was a gnome, and you thought, no...gnomes are overdone these days, and the bugger went for the light. That might have happened.
Or not.
Take care. (of course)
I tried to get a minion in college, even posted a posted outside my door. No one was interested : P
I'll bet it WAS the garden gnomes. I hope you're all right, Cate <3
You'd think so, Danielle.
I do hope gnomes aren't overdone, I'm sure they can inflict more evil, Aaron
You can't get the staff these days, Natalie ;)
I'm totally fine and milking the stitches, Katey.
Was it the zombies again? I hope you're okay. I keep missing everything by not being able to blog daily like I used to.
Congratulations on the honorable mention. :-D