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 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.
The hilarious, talented and insane Marshall Payne inspired this post. His blog post on Tuesday reminded me that a blog shouldn't be all me, me, me (except of course when it's about me) and that I should set some blog time aside to pimp others. Hence the birth of Somebody Else Saturday TM. Now let me introduce my first victim, ahem, I mean someone you should take a little time to stalk. Oh dear, that doesn't sound any better...
I am fortunate enough to remember Simon Bestwick from way back when he was the editor of the anthology, Oktobyr, in the 1990s. An anthology that attracted the likes of Simon Clark, Jonathan Aycliffe, Tim Lebbon and me. Grins and promises she's not pimping herself, she's only proving that as an editor he attracted the outstanding, the famous (who are also outstanding), and took pity on an unknown because he was kinda cool like that.
This week marks the publication of Simon's short story collection, Pictures of the Dark, published by Gray Friar Press, and the collection was put together by Gary Fry. Hey, how did Gary slip in here, if it can't be about me, then it can't be about him. Boo! :o Maybe I should take away the boo, I shouldn't really antagonise people higher up the food chain than me. Okay, that's everyone. Nice boo!
Here's the blurb from the back of the book:
There are dark places everywhere.
The world outside your front door, and the one inside your head. Dreads and longings. Pasts and futures.
Loneliness and relationships. Love and hate. Life and death . . . and what might lie beyond.
And then there’s the place the stories come from.
The council estate where the dead walk . . . The farmhouse attic filled with mummified corpses . . .
The old tramp’s blanket, and what slept in it at night . . .
Tempted. I was, hence the picture of the collection standing just behind Mr. Grim (out of shot, because it's not about him either). Oh dear, my too read pile is set at wobble.
And if the above hasn't tempted you to check out Mr. Bestwick. Perhaps the fact that his novella, The Narrows, has made the British Fantasy Awards 2009 shortlist, or that, The Narrows, has also been selected by Ellen Datlow (I refuse to boo Ms. Datlow for appearing here, instead I'll curtsey) to appear in Best Horror of the Year #1.
Now go stalk him, or buy his book, or lick the copy of Best Horror when it arrives later this year.
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