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.