As of this very moment, The PseudoPod Tapes Volume 2: Approach with Caution, is available! Published by Fox Spirit, this is a collection of every outro I did for PseudoPod in 2014. Here are five things you need to know: You don’t have to read 50 or so variations of the ‘we rely on you …
SShock Pao broke the barriers between worlds. Shock survived torture, violence and everything the world could throw at them to close the gap between Slip and here. Slip is the internet with the volume knob broken off. A digital sea where humanity uses avatars to navigate and where everything and everyone can be bought and …
Happy Award Eligibilitymas, everyone! Awards season is upon us, like an unwanted yet strangely enticing magician at a late night coffee shop. I’m eligible for the Best Fan Writer Hugo for my work last year and below you’ll find details of the work you can nominate. Click on the logos and you’ll go through to …
Earlier this month, nominations opened for this year’s Hugo Awards. Full details of who can nominate and how you can be one of them is at that link. If you can nominate, please do before the March 17 deadline. 2016 was a fantastic year for genre fiction and I personally had the exact sort of …
I just got my contributor copy of this anthology from Fox Spirit. It’s a great book, crammed with fantastically turned out idea grenades of stories and you can get full details of the excellent line up and the other books in the series by clicking on the cover. This is mine. This little story’s taken …
The Books What I (Help) Write: Fox Pockets: Piercing the Vale
‘Per ardua ad astra’ translates as ‘through hardship to the stars’. It’s the motto of numerous air forces across the world for obvious reasons. The pioneer spirit that drives and romanticizes aviation and spaceflight is wrapped up in those four words as tightly as it is in four others; ‘Space, the final frontier…’ Both those …
In An Unknown Country, the latest in Fox Spirit‘s Fox Pocket series of anthologies, was released earlier this week. It’s a great book in a great series and if you want examples of how healthy, and viable, flash and short fiction are as markets then buy any volume of this series. My story in this …
Story Notes: Overwatch for Fox Pockets-In An Unknown Country
I’m getting very fond of messy supernatural fiction. The days of being politely introduced to the vampires (Always by the punch), the werewolves (Usually bikers) and the zombies (Dance floor. Every time) are long gone. Instead, the supernatural has definitely started mingling with the rest of the party and the lines aren’t so much …
That’s a new headline isn’t it? Looks like, after a couple of years of me waving off fiction, fiction is done waving off me.
Joan De La Haye is one of the hardest working authors I know. She’s also one of the only authors capable of turning in horror that genuinely unsettles me. Don’t get me wrong, I’m an enormous wuss and will jump at anything, but Joan twists the knife in a way very few others can. …