New Release: The Body Parts Room

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Just came out of the virtual Launch Party for the Aussie Speculative Fiction group’s anthology, Journeys, where my horror piece, ‘The Body Parts Room’, is one among many stories included. All of them are excellent! The ASF did a great job – a very active group.

This story is about a journey, like all 15 in the anthology, but this one is about a man’s tragic story, intertwined with an event that occurred in the early 20th century, which is still journeying to this day. Say no more.

This is a good link to purchase this ebook. www.books2read.com/u/4AxBVe

Short Fiction Sale: The Body Parts Room

I am very pleased with the sale of my horror piece, The Body Parts Room, to Deadset Press/Aussie Speculative Fiction group’s anthology, Journey – to be published later this year. This is a fairly intense piece – good to see it have a home.

New Story: Hime Gyaru

My Lovecraftian, very weird piece, titled Hime Gyaru, will be published in The Asylum Diaries by Oscillate Wildly Press, in a few weeks. This was a story I enjoyed writing, oddly mixing a set of Japanese protagonists and antagonists, with a setting in Sydney, and most pertinently Bondi Beach. You’ve got to read it to make sense of it.

There’s an interesting connection I fabricated with this very adult short story and my upcoming reprint middle grade fantasy novel, Guardian of the Sky Realms (Meerkat Press, January 2020): the art gallery in the Rocks features in both!

Keep an eye out for it in coming days, buy it, and enjoy it – top writers and artists involved.

Brown Eyes in Bards and Sages Quarterly

Happy to see my dark piece, Brown Eyes, appear in the July 2018 edition of Bards and Sages Quarterly. Good to see a story set in a familiar Melbourne locale appear in an international format publication. It’s all about guilt.

It can be purchased through Amazon.

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Market News: ‘Brown Eyes’ sold to Bards & Sages Magazine

Pleased to have my dark fantasy short story, ‘Brown Eyes’, sold to Bards and Sages. An unusual piece that starts in the Museum of Antiquities in Cairo, and finishes on Queen’s Bridge over the Yarra in Melbourne. I believe it will be published in July 2018.

Market News: ‘How the Mighty Fall’ sold to Trickster’s Treats #1, ed. S Dillon

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Pleased to see my flash piece, ‘How the Mighty Fall’ joining an excellent TOC in Trickster’s Treats #1: Tales from the Pumpkin Patch, edited by Steve Dillon. All stories had to be 666 or less words – mine ended up something like 660. All the stories are grouped under sub themes – mine under ‘carnival’ which is apt for a Circus story…

The chap-book-sized title is on sale now:

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Cover Reveal: Poetry Showcase Volume IV, by Horror Writers Association

Here’s the cover for the Horror Writers Association’s Poetry Showcase, where my poem, ‘The Oak Tree’s’ Shade is include.

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Market News: Journey to the Depths in Anemone Enemy anthology

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I am very much pleased to have my flash fiction piece, Journey to the Depths, included in Oscillate Wildly Press’ anthology, Anemone Enemy, edited by Claire Fitzpatrick. The anthology is a horror-themed collection of flash fiction stories associated with the sea – something I can’t resist. I have wonderful writers sharing the TOC with me, including Deborah Sheldon and Lee Pletzers.

Do yourself a favour and purchase this lovely book.

Market News: Poem, The Oak Tree’s Shade, sold to HWA Showcase

It has been a long time since I put pen to paper to write poetry, and I am very pleased to announce my poem’s acceptance for the HWA Horror Poetry Showcase Volume IV. Wow – I managed to dust those cobwebs off my poetry brain.

Market News: They Can Never Find Out

Double pleasure in this announcement. A story I published in an anthology a fair number of years ago has been picked up by Deadman’s Tome – their March to the Grave war-themed edition. Aside from seeing this story get a new lease on life, it is also great to share the TOC with Deborah Sheldon. This is a Texas publication, but it has two Aussies contributing to it.

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Red Roses, White Flags, by Pete Clark
No Man’s Land, by David Wing
A Light Just Out of Range, by Gary L. Robbe
They Can Never Find Out, by Gerry Huntman
The Blue Light, by Phoebe Reeves-Murray
Across the White Desert, by Deborah Sheldon
Aftermath, by Christopher Pulo

Available now on Kindle, and soon in all good online print book stores.