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BOFF and a free book

August 18, 2010
By alan
BOFF and a free book

If you’re a regular around here you’ll know that I periodically post a bit of free fiction under the Friday Flash banner. Friday Flash is the brainchild of J M Strother. His idea was that every friday people post a piece of flash fiction (1,000 words or less) on their websites and share said...
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RealmShift special on Kindle

August 12, 2010
By alan

If you’re a Kindle owner and haven’t read RealmShift yet, my publisher (Gryphonwood Press) is running a special offer at the moment where the book is available for just US0.99c from the Amazon Kindle Store. Its usual Kindle price is US$2.99 so it’s a pretty good offer. I think the special is only going...
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Posted in Books, Dark Fantasy, Ebooks, Fantastic Fiction, Horror, Marketing, News, Small Press, Writing | 2 Comments »

Baggage anthology from Eneit Press

June 17, 2010
By alan
Baggage anthology from Eneit Press

Baggage is a new anthology of short stories, published by Eneit Press and edited by Gillian Polack. You may remember Gillian being mentioned on here before – she was kind enough to officiate for me at the book launch of MageSign late last year. This anthology that she’s put together is a pretty awesome...
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Dark Pages preview #2

June 14, 2010
By alan

In the ongoing series of previews from the Dark Pages anthology from Blade Red Press, here’s an excerpt from the second story in the collection: Heart of Ice by Martin Livings Lidja sits astride the deacon’s sodden corpse as he writhes, his erect penis cold and wet inside her. Sweat runs down the young...
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Dark Pages preview #1

June 7, 2010
By alan

Blade Red Press is very proud of its first anthology of dark fiction, Dark Pages. Over the coming weeks we’ll be publishing here (and in various other places online) excerpts from all the great stories in this excellent collection. If you haven’t got yourself a copy yet, these previews are sure to convince you...
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Neil Gaiman and the $45,000 appearance fee

May 12, 2010
By alan

My friend Michael made me aware of this news over at Boing Boing. It’s since caused a fair stir, with opinions all over the interwebz. So I thought, what kind of writer or blogger am I if I don’t weigh in too? Basically there’s been outrage that Neil Gaiman would charge $45,000 for an...
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Posted in Book Tour, Books, Fantastic Fiction, Interview, Marketing, News, Quote, Speeches, Writing | 7 Comments »

Ghost Of The Black novella now on Kindle

May 10, 2010
By alan

A Kindle edition of my novella Ghost Of The Black: A ‘Verse Full Of Scum is now available at Amazon. It’s US$0.99, but they add a couple of bucks for international Kindle users. It’ll show here as costing $2.99. Good old Amazon. So, if you’re keen to get the ebook version, it really is...
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Read my novella on real paper pages

May 3, 2010
By alan

Interestingly enough, after mentioning this in my previous post just minutes ago, it’s now official. My serial novella, Ghost Of The Black: A ‘Verse Full Of Scum, is now available in print from Amazon. I originally posted this story in weekly episodes right here on my website throughout 2008. It’s still available here for...
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Posted in Books, Fantastic Fiction, Fantasy, Marketing, News, Publishing, Religion, Sci-Fi, Serial Novella, Small Press, Writing | 6 Comments »

My books now available from Gryphonwood Press

April 29, 2010
By alan

I’m very happy to announce that the Gryphonwood Press editions of my books are now available. The newly edited RealmShift and MageSign can be bought direct from Gryphonwood or, more easily, get them through Amazon. At Amazon you can find RealmShift here and MageSign here, both just $9.99 each. There are also Kindle editions...
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NSW Society Of Editors talk with Bill Congreve

April 28, 2010
By alan

I’m very honoured to have been invited by the NSW Society Of Editors to talk at their monthly meeting next week. I’ll be sharing the honour with Bill Congreve, writer and owner of MirrorDanse Books, and we’ll be talking all about speculative fiction in general, with an emphasis on the nature of the spec...
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