365 Shorts Success!

Nov 30, 2013

I’m as surprised as you are, but it seems I succeeded in the task I thought I was certain to fail. Towards the end of last year, I set myself a task to see if I could read 365 short stories in 365 days. I thought I’d never get close, but I wanted to record...

AHWA winner judges report

Nov 29, 2013

I just received the judges report for my AHWA Short Story Competition winner. Here’s what one of the judges said: ‘Showing his great proficiency of the written word, Alan Baxter gives an all too believable tale with “It’s Always The Children...

Top Ten Horror Stories from Jones and Campbell

Nov 24, 2013

Over at This is Horror recently, Stephen Jones, one of Britain’s most acclaimed and prolific anthologists of horror and dark fantasy, posted a list of ten of his favourite horror stories. Here are the stories he listed (click the link back there to see the full list...

Great and powerful opening lines

Nov 17, 2013

My pal and horror writer extraordinaire, Robert Hood, wrote a blog post recently about great opening lines. He links to an interview with Danel Olson on the subject, since Olson’s anthology, Exotic Gothic 4 (P S Publishing), recently won the World Fantasy Award...

“The Darkness in Clara” to be published in SQ Mag 14

Nov 14, 2013

I’m very happy to announce this one. SQ Mag approached me recently and asked if I’d be interested in submitting a story for their Australiana-themed issue 14, due out in May next year. I was honoured to have been asked and offered them my novelette, The...