Saturday, April 14, 2007

Shadow Plays Anthology - Upcoming Release

...a shadow may cast a man as often as a man casts a shadow...

The Shadow Plays anthology now has a new website (http://elidan.site.net.au/index.html) to coincide with its upcoming release on 21st April.

Described by editor Elise Bunter as twelve original stories that "cover the spectrum of darkness and light, fear and wonder, intrigue and adventure", Shadow Plays looks like it has turned into exactly the sort of anthology I'd want my first published story to appear in... and it does!

First, look at that marvellous Les Petersen cover! It is very different to any of Les' work I've seen before, and I love it!

And then, there is the author listing:

  • Ashley Arnold - The River Man's Spirits
  • Brendan D. Carson - The Omensetter and Hu Lijing
  • Sarah Drummond - The Red Curtains
  • D.H. Duperouzel - Of Wind and City
  • Richard Harland - Musgrave
  • E.J. Hayes - Crystal and Iron
  • Ren Holton - Bab and Anusha
  • George Ivanoff - Nigella and the Clockwork Man
  • Penelope Love - Whitey
  • Andrew J. McKiernan - Calliope: A Steam Romance
  • Robert J. Santa - A Jury of Peers
  • Nigel Stones - When the Black Crow Flies

It all looks like Elise has done an excellent job of bringing this anthology together and I'm really looking forward to getting my hands on it. I hope you are too :)

Shadow Plays will begin shipping April 21st, but you can pre-order direct from the website now:

Shadow Plays Website
Order Shadow Plays Anthology

Site: http://elidan.site.net.au/index.html
Source: Elise Bunter

Sunday, March 11, 2007

Shards: Forty Short Sharp Tales

I was pretty excited to notice that Ticonderoga Publications have announced the publication in October 2007 of "Shards: Forty Short Sharp Tales" - Shane Jiraiya Cummings' first short story collection, and my first collection of illustrations!

As the title so obviously suggests, "Shards" will contain 40 of Shane's stories reprinted from publications such as Shadowed Realms, Dark Wisdom, Andromeda Spaceways, Apex Digest, Borderlands, and Shadow Box, including those that have been honourably mentioned in the Aurealis Awards and in Ellen Datlow's Year's Best Fantasy & Horror anthology, as well as a swathe of material original to the collection.

Each of the 40 stories has its own black and white full-page illustration, by me.

I think that this book - with its combination of brilliant short, dark tales and dark, moody images - will be something quite different to what everyone else is producing for the adult horror/dark-fiction market at this time.

Ticonderoga Publications will be publishing a limited edition trade paperback and a signed 30-copy numbered edition of Shards. Pre-ordering is available now at the Ticonderoga.

ISBN: 978-0-9803531-0-5

Numbered Edition tpb (30 signed copies): Aus$49.50 / US$40

Limited Edition tpb (500 numbered copies): Aus$24.95 / US$20

Of course, now I'm going to urge you all to rush over to Ticonderoga and pre-order yourself a copy! Support poor starving Andrew, Shane and Russell (and Australian small press in general) and head on over to: http://ticonderogaonline.org/publications/shards.html. Your nightmares will love you for it.