Happy to see my fantasy short story, Legacy, already published. It is appearing in Aurora Wolf Volume 3, Issue 10. Also nice to see an illustration going with it. Pay a visit, it is free to read.
Double play this morning. My heroic fantasy short story, "Legacy" was accepted by Aurora Wolf Magazine, and my Cthulhu Mythos story (second I have written and published) was accepted by Lovecraft eZine.
Both are satisfying sales.
"Legacy" was one that had some trouble finding a home, and yet I always believed in it – it is unique on a number of levels. I believe this story will be published on 1st October 2012.
"Dom and Gio's Barber Shop" is one of my more recent creations, I am a noticeably better writer than a few years ago, and it was a pleasure to have my story accepted by a very discerning market, who specializes in, and are authorities of, Lovecraftian stories. Publication date is still to be determined.
All in all, a good day.
As I stated a short while ago, SQ Mag, who I have close association, wanted a steampunk story to add to a soft SP theme running in the 1 September 2012 issue, so I gladly obliged. After close consideration, the editor agreed to publishing it nine days after submission. This is my fourth steampunk story published, and there are two under consideration elsewhere in the market, so perhaps, one day, I will compile an anthology, or derive a novel from them – as most have some common threads.
Another pleasure about this publication, is that I am sharing the same edition with other excellent writers, including the luminaries Jay Lake and Gary McMahon.
SQ Mag came to me for a steampunk piece, as their cover had a steampunk theme, but there were no acceptable submitted steampunk stories. I was pleased to find that they accepted the story nine days later, and now I'm being published in the ezine.
The story is inspired from looking at Vincent van Gogh's 'Starry-Night', which also inspired Don McLean's famous song (but in an entirely different way).
Glad to have published Ginger Fred, The Pavement Artist in Ticon4, a very good speculative fiction ezine run by Ticonderoga Publishing. This story is quintessentially Australian in flavour and needed to be published by an Australian publisher, so this is a great result for me.
By all means, visit the site and read my story.
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Happy to announce that my Evyntyde short story, Submerged, has been accepted by Blood and Lullabies magazine. It should be published in Northern Hemisphere's Fall, 2012.
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Happy to announce that my scifi flash fiction, 'Fred Has A Productive Day', is now out in Kindle and Paperback through Amazon, in the anthology Battlespace Vol1 (a military themed science fiction). It has an extensive and quality selection of short stories and flash pieces, and all proceeds go to a worthy cause. Details are here.
Very pleased to have sold my subtle dark fantasy short story, Ginger Fred, the Pavement Artist, to Ticon4 (Ticonderoga Publications). Should be published online in a month or so.
A Far Away Place is probably my favorite kid's story and I was pleased to publish it in Beyond Centauri 31 a few years ago. Kid's 'Magination, an online children's site, is a fantastic place for families to visit and I am happy indeed that they chose to reprint my story for everyone to see.
Visit Issue 11 of Kid's 'Magination and let your children read this story – it is about overcoming pain and I warn you, it is sad (but in a good way).
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Happy to announce that Stupefying Stories has accepted my dystopian scifi short story, Blue Stripped, for their publication – they are a good group and consequently this means a great deal to me. Also, this story, among only 2 or 3, has special meaning for me.
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The Chronicles of Evyntyde 