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Murder in the Mail!
My contributor copies of Murder Ballads have arrived in the mail! So much excitement! This is such a gorgeous book, with a ToC filled with authors I’m delighted to sit next to! Thanks, Egaeus Press – these are limited
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MURDER BALLADS. Now available to pre-order.
Check out this beauty!
A collection of seventeen dark tales & novellas, in which some of today’s finest weird story writers provide previously unpublished work inspired by traditional murder ballads. The results are sometimes enigmatic, sometimes witty, sometimes desperately grim; just
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Murder Ballads from Egaeus Press
I’m delighted to announce that I’ve sold “The Heart is a Mirror for Sinners” to Egaeus Press for their superb new collection, Murder Ballads.
In the early months of 2017 Egaeus Press will publish MURDER BALLADS, an anthology of stories
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The Sourdough Posts: Sister, Sister
“Sister, Sister” has its roots in my childhood: one of the books we had to read was an old collection of my mother’s, called Norwegian Folk Tales. I suspect it was an old book when Mum first got it as a kid,
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The Sourdough Posts: The Story of Ink
Kathleen’s drawing from Bitterwood’s “Spells for Coming Forth by Daylight” – works well here too.
“The Story of Ink” follows on from “Ash” in that it traces
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The Sourdough Posts: Gallowberries
Arthur Rackham
“Gallowberries” was one of the stories I wrote while writing other stories for MA. It has all the same kinds of fairy tale themes but it’s not one of the re-written/re-imagined tales that went into Black-Winged
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The Sourdough Posts: The Shadow Tree
Alas, a Rackham will have to do.
So, I’ve been sort of missing writing about The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings and I thought ‘Why not give Sourdough and Other Stories the same
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Egaeus Press, Book the Second
Oh my, the next release from Egaeus Press is a doozy. The follow-up to Reggie Oliver’s 
gorgeous Shadow Plays is Stephen J. Clark’s In Delirium’s Circle.
To which I say “Huzzah!” and “Squee!” Stephen did the
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At long last
Here it is, the damned thing. All bound and delivered to the postgrad office, with only one minor heart attack when I found the doors of said office closed. This is, of course, not the end.
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The Surreal Drive-by: Stephen J Clark
I always used to look at Tartarus Press covers and wonder idly about the lovely, creepy illustrations on the covers. Then I got the illustration for the cover of my very own Tartarus book andI learned
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