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Black Static 34: Out Now!

08 Wednesday May 2013

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Aliette de Bodard, Andrew Hook, Artwork, Ben Baldwin, Black Static, Fantasy, Georgina Bruce, Horror, Interzone, Jess Hyslop, Joel Lane, Lavie Tidhar, Lynda E Rucker, Nigel Brown, Nina Allan, Priya Sharma, Sci-fi, Sean Logan, Shannon Fay, Short Stories, speculative fiction, Stephen Volk, Steven J Dines, The King Of Love My Shepherd Is, TTA Press, Writing

Black Static 34 CoverOut now to order or subscribe, from TTA Press, is issue 34 of Black Static, which contains stories by Nina Allan, Joel Lane, Andrew Hook, Sean Logan and (in case you hadn’t already heard all of my shouting and bawling about it) one from me. Includes the usual column by Stephen Volk and a new column by Lynda E. Rucker.

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The artwork this issue is simply brilliant, with gorgeously unsettling black and white illustrations for each story, and Ben Baldwin’s delicious and nightmare-inducing colour art for the front and back cover.

IZ 246And this month’s Interzone looks to be a fabulous issue as well – with stories by my buddies Priya Sharma and Georgina Bruce (whose TTA debut, Cat World, makes its appearance here – and a wonderful story it is) alongside tales by Steven J. Dines, Jess Hyslop, Nigel Brown, Aliette de Bodard, Lavie Tidhar and Shannon Fay.

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18 Thursday Apr 2013

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Andy Cox, Ben Baldwin, Black Static, Horror, Joel Lane, Michael Griffin, Nina Allan, Sean Logan, Short Stories, The King Of Love My Shepherd Is, TTA Press, Writing

Black Static 34 CoverHere’s a preview of the cover art for the upcoming issue of Black Static from TTA Press. Ben Baldwin‘s art seems to outdo itself from issue to issue, and this awesomely creepy and striking image for issue 34 is my favourite.

Which makes it all the more exciting that I have a story in this particular issue. The ‘King of Love my Shepherd is’ will make its appearance here alongside stories by Nina Allan, Joel Lane, Sean Logan and Michael Griffin. I’m thrilled to be in the same issue as Nina Allan and Joel Lane, two writers whose work I have thoroughly enjoyed over the last few years, and Andy Cox, TTA editor, says The Nightingale by Nina Allan may be her best work to date. Quite a statement.

Seeing this cover has suddenly reminded me that this is all happening imminently and I absolutely cannot wait.

Limbo Dancing

29 Sunday Aug 2010

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Adam-Troy Castro, Black Static, Chess, Horror, Joel Lane, Lightspeed Magazine, Novellas, Novels, Robert Ludlum, Sci-fi, Short Stories, The Blue Mask, TTA Press, Writing, YA

Not the actual wriggling underneath sticks, but more the complex footwork involved after the end of a long project, as you dance your way through the limbo of revising and rewriting and hope to end up at the opposite side of the dance floor in some sort of artful position. Preferably not in a heap with my arse sticking up into the air.

Finished writing the chess horror novella – ‘The Lempkin Variation’ – which is the name I’ll probably stick with. Sounds a little too much like a Robert Ludlum title for my liking, but the content is very different. Length of first draft is 34,675 words. It’s balanced precariously at the moment between being snipped to within an inch of its life by the editing secateurs, hopefully coming down close 25K, or, as one writing compatriot is suggesting, to expand – turn it into a novel. Specifically a YA novel (that’s Young Adult for those unfamiliar with the ridiculous amount of acronyms used by writers) – apparently a very lucrative market, and the story would fit, believe it or not, as it has a teenage protagonist and deals with the paranormal to an extent. Not a route I ever thought I’d take, but then this novella did just mug me one day and demand to be written, so perhaps I should continue to follow its demands before it knifes me and leaves me for dead.

Now that’s over, I enter limbo, and pick up the shreds of old short stories and try to stick them back together. Some are in worse states of disrepair than others, but I want to get at least five of them out into the submissions queue, which means I’d have nine total doing the rounds at the moment. I’m quite comfortable with that.

Other updates – been reading as well as writing. Just finished last night, ‘The Blue Mask‘ by British author Joel Lane, which although it isn’t strictly horror in the sense of his short stories, it could easily be considered horror. The writing was excellent – a model of concision combined with strong and disturbing imagery.  Magazines have been ‘Black Static #18 most recently, with its usual brand of otherworldly horror and disturbing tales. A great short story I read last week was ‘Arvies‘ by Adam-Troy Castro in Lightspeed magazine.

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