Well, I Been Busy…

The latest British Fantasy Society mailing came out at the start of the month.

It has Dark Horizons 55, which has fiction from Richard Ford, Naoko Awa, Alex Davis, Mike Phillips, Alison J. Littlewood, Ian Hunter, Mike Chinn, Ralph Robert Moore, Astrid Klemz, Shaun Jeffrey, Douglas Thompson and me; poetry from Michael Fantina, Wade German and Victor D. Infante; and articles by Mike Barret, Paul Campbell and Craig Herbertson on Clifford Ball, C. Hall Thompson, Charles N. Grant and E.C. Tubb.

It also has New Horizons 4, which has fiction by J.M. Harris, Matt Finucane, John Tait, Philip Harris, Mark Butler, Elana Gomel, Eva Eliav and Tom Knights; and an interview with Steve Upham.

Wait! There’s also The British Fantasy Society Yearbook 2009, containing fiction from Mark Morris, Stephen Volk, Christopher Fowler, Allyson Bird, Mark Chadbourn, Juliet E. McKenna, Tim Lebbon, Kaaron Warren, Andrew Lockley, Conrad Williams, Sarah Pinborough, Gary McMahon, Adam L.G. Nevill, Garry Kilworth, Nicholas Royle, James Barclay, Suzi Feay, Gary Fry, Daniel O’Mahony and Rob Shearman.

Finally, there’s a newsletter and a voting paper for the BFS Awards. Join the BFS here and get more fiction than you can read in a year.

Sketchbook Special

The latest Estronomicon has just come out, my fiends. Once again it’s free and is packed with stories, including a short, sharp punch from GSFWC member Graeme Stevenson. Steve Upham’s artwork continues to astound: this issue has one of the most disturbing covers that I’ve ever seen. I think it reminds me of someone…

British Fantasy Awards 2009

The longlist ballot for the BFAs has been posted. British Fantasy Society and Fantasycon members will vote in it and the top five or so will make the shortlist, and another round of voting will decide the winners. I think. Democracy is so confusing.

Anyway, congratulations to Neil Williamson and Hal Duncan from the GSFWC on making it onto the Short Story and Novel lists respectively.

Interzone is nominated for the Best Magazine Award, with Greg Egan’s Crystal Nights (Interzone 215) making it on to the Best Novella list, and M.K. Hobson’s Comus of Central Park (interzone 217) and Jason Sanford’s The Ships Like Clouds Risen By Their Rain (Interzone 217) making on to the Best Short Story list. Warwick Fraser-Coombe was nominated for Best Artist with his artwork in Interzone 215, and TTA Press was nominated in the Best Small Press catagory. Nick Lowe’s film column, Mutant Popcorn, was nominated in Best Non-fiction catagory, as was Bookzoner Paul Kincaid’s What It Is We Do When We Read Science Fiction. Another Bookzoner, Juliet E. McKenna, has a nomination in the Short Story catagory.

Ah, who else? I’m going to miss out someone, somewhere. Well done, also, to Beccon and Screaming Dreams for their nominations for Best Small Press Award, since they have also published (or are about to publish) some of my stuff.

And well done to everyone else. Just to be on the safe side.

It’s still not too late to add a write-in nomination if you think there’s something missing.

Progress

The Progress 2009 Estronomicon is available as a free PDF from Screaming Dreams. It has fiction from Jane Frank, Bob Lock, John T. Carney, J.W. Bennett, Andrew Marshall, Mark Lewis, Benedict J. Jones, Tom Sykes, and Neil Burlington, art by B.A. Bosaiya and Dirk Holzenhaur, and a film feature from the inexhaustible Tony Lee.

Dark Reign

Artwork by Steve Upham.

No Added Time is going to be in an anthology called Dark Reign.  It is being edited by Steve Upham and will be published by Screaming Dreams as a free PDF.  More details when I have them.

Twisted Tongue 12 coming soon

Twisted Tongue 12 should be with us some time this month.  You can pre-order a print copy now, or wait for a free PDF on the website.  As well as featuring the people on the cover, it also has a little festive flash fiction from myself.

Isn’t Steve Upham a genius?