Monthly Archives: June 2014
Bound by Alan Baxter
So, my mate Alan Baxter has a book out on 1 July 2014. Bound is an action-packed, kickass, pulpy urban fantasy with martial arts, evil demons (is there any other kind?), a troubled hero, a take-no-crap heroine, and a really
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Is me … and will be me for a while
If you could turn this into a wheel, that would be more appropriate.
*goes back to grindstone*
Snurched from somewhere in the internetz
The Spectral Book of Horror Stories
Very happy to announce that I’ve got a story in this inaugural volume from Spectral Press and edited by the redoubtable Mark Morris!
Look at that ToC!
ON THE TOUR – RAMSEY CAMPBELL
THE DOG’S HOME – ALISON LITTLEWOOD
FUNERAL RITES – HELEN MARSHALL
SLAPE – TOM FLETCHER
THE NIGHT DOCTOR
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The Witch’s Scale – WiP
Hard at work on my Spectral Press novella, The Witch’s Scale, purely because the idea sprang forth fully formed the other week. It details an episode in the history of Patience Sykes (one of my favourite characters) in between the
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Metropolitan Magic – Part Four
Alchemy • Lucy Sussex
Three figures walked in single file in the evening heat haze besides the Euphrates River, heading homewards.
All women, shawled, hunched by the baskets on their backs. The last, youngest and smallest, was further slouched by the year-old baby
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Metropolitan Magic – Part Three
The Land of Heart’s Desire • Holly Black
If you want to meet real-life members of the Sidhe—real faeries—go to the café Moon in a Cup, in Manhattan. Faeries congregate there in large numbers. You can tell them by the slight point
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Metropolitan Magic – Part Two
Seeing Eye • Patricia Briggs
The doorbell rang.
That was the problem with her business. Too many people thought that they could approach her at any time. Even oh dark thirty even though her hours were posted clearly on her door and on
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Papercuts
One of the things I love about working with Kathleen Jennings is that when she’s mid-creative flow she sends me texts with images of what she’s doing. So imagine my delight the other night when I received these three, all for my Black-Winged Angels collection (Ticonderoga Publications).
Loud squeeeing noises ensued.
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Metropolitan Magic – Part One
A new reprint anthology from Prime Books and the wonderful Paula Guran is here.
As Paula says in her her Introduction to Magic City: Recent Spells, “Without reality, there was no magic. The real and the unreal coexisted and were mutually dependent. Without
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