Short Story Acceptance

Had an email today from Pill Hill Press telling me they had accepted my short story Jack for the third in their monster hunter series called Use Enough Gun: Legend’s Of The Monster Hunter III.

This is my second story for them, my first is Groundhog Day which appeared in the previous anthology called The Trigger Reflex.

Very chuffed about this, this makes my third short story in print – the third is Death Rides A Pale Horse due to appear in the  Dead Rush anthology being put out by Wicked East Press.

As soon as I get publication dates for both these anthologies I’ll put them up.

 

Adventures In Writing

Seems like ages since I did any sort of update on the various projects I have boiling, simmering and just gathering ingredients for. So please excuse the lack of information on my part.

So, did I tell you I’d had another short story accepted? No? Well I have, its called Death Rides A Pale Horse and is in the forthcoming anthology called Dead Rush being put out by Wicked East Press. Its a collection of stories with the theme of the Old West. I’ve had the galley proofs so am guessing publication should be pretty soon.

There are still two months to go until the deadline for the Fantasy Writing Contest being run by Fantasy Faction. I got my submission called You Can’t Avoid A Little Blood submitted soon after subs opened, I also opted for the Entry Plus service where I’ll get a detailed critique from one of the judges. Not sure if I get this if accepted or not? Doubtful I’ll hear anything from this until after the closing date, there was a post on their forum saying Entry Plus subs wouldn’t be going out till then so that people couldn’t revise their entry and get it back in.

I’m waiting on an email from Pill Hill Press for my submission to the last in the Monster Hunter trilogy anthology they are putting together. According to their forum they have read all stories submitted so far and acceptance/rejection emails are going out as we speak. One person has posted saying they’ve had their’s so its a waiting game now.

I submitted a short script – about 7 minutes – for the second season of Twisted Showcase. The first season is up on line with a great selection of weird, creepy and scary stories. Not sure when I’ll get any news on that but from Twitter I know they’ve filmed the first episode already and are still considering other submitted stories.

I’ve only just (yesterday) submitted a short story to 2000AD for a Judge Dredd competition. Only 2,000 words, short and sharp with blood and guts. Deadline is May 23rd so nit sure when will hear anything.

I’ve finished the polish on the stories I’ve collected together that I aim to self publish on Kindle. I’ve settled on three stories that cover horror and steampunk. I’m sending them out to a couple of readers next week and am at present working on a cover design.

That’s it, all up to date now. I’m now project free for the first time in ages, but I have begun research and note making for a planned novel set in the same universe as one of the stories in my anthology. Its early stages at present so doubt I’ll even have the first draft ready until later in the year.

 

Short Story Submission & Other News

I finished another short story last night and submitted it to Pill Hill Press for consideration in their forthcoming anthology Use Enough Gun.

This anthology is the last in the Monster Hunter trilogy, the publishers project to re-boot the monster hunting genre.

I now plan to return working on my own anthology that I aim to self-publish on Kindle in the summer. I already have five short stories earmarked for inclusion and am writing a sixth. The title of the collection is Beyond The Event Horizon, and will contain a mix of genre stories covering zombies, horror, steampunk and urban fantasy.

 

 

Submission Acceptance Received

Had an email from Wicked East Press - https://sites.google.com/a/wickedeastpress.com/wicked-east-press/ - yesterday informing me that my short story Death Rides A Pale Horse has been accepted for their Dead Rush anthology.

The anthology will feature horror stories in an Old West setting.

Really please with this, I will now have two short stories and three flash fiction shorts in print.

publication news to follow.

Further Adventures In Writing

I had that email from Pill Hill Press last night regarding my submission to their Steampunk anthology. I had been building my hopes up seeing they’d kept hold of it for so long. But the pain of rejection was softened by some personal feedback from the publisher.

They’d had my story on the shortlist for a while, they were looking for more military/war themed stories to come in, but unfortunately none did meaning my story was on it’s own. Because of this the direction of the anthology veered away from my story resulting in it not making the cut.

They did say that it would fit nicely with a publication called Steampunk Tales - http://www.steampunktales.com/ - which looks like a great place for stories of that genre. But only draw back I can see is their submission policy has a word count of 4,500 and my story is 6,602 words. That’s a hell of a lot to prune off for a short story.

Unsure what I’m going to do yet, I am working on a anthology of my own that I plan to self publish on Kindle, I might put my story in there. But as it is due to other project’s I’ll let my steampunk story sit for a while and take a look at it in a couple of months.

 

Fantasy Writing Contest # 2

A while ago I posted about the Fantasy Factions planned writing contest for an anthology due out later in the year. At midnight February 1st the submissions opened for this book and earlier today I submitted my short story You Can’t Avoid A Little Blood.

The anthology will be a mix of new and unsigned authors who’s work will appear alongside established writers such as Mark Lawrence, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Jon Sprunk. Myke Cole and Michael J Sullivan. There are other authors planned but not announced as yet.

Submissions will remain open until June 30th.

Anyone interested can find the details on the Fantasy Writing Contest website – http://fantasywritingcontest.com/ - and join in the conversations over on the Fantasy Factions forum via the main site - http://fantasy-faction.com/ - and lastly both can be followed on Twitter @FantasyFaction or @FantasyContest

 

Fantasy Writing Contest

Have you ever thought you have a good fantasy story in you? Do you like to read good fantasy stories? Well now you could kill two birds with one stone.

The guys over at Fantasy Faction - http://fantasy-faction.com/ - have announced that they are publishing an anthology. It will contain stories from established authors, but they also intend to showcase new and unknown talent.

To this end they have launched The Worlds Greatest Fantasy Writing Contest - http://fantasywritingcontest.com/ - which will be open for submissions from February 1st until June 30th 2012.

I for one already have a story in hand for this that just needs some work doing to finish it off.