From Lettie to Emily to Jacq, loads of suspects get a good probing this week. But did any of them do it? Meanwhile, I’ve been watching House of Cards and starting a mailing list. Sign up now!
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It’s been a while since I had any new fiction out there except for regular Hobson & Choi updates, but the wait is over. Pleasant genre-merchants Seventh Star Press have included my stories in two (yes, two) of their upcoming anthologies. They’ve done cover reveals at their own blog in the last few days, we’re definitely all public now, so let’s talk about it a bit.
First up, in the Hero’s Best Friend anthology, I have a story called The Violet Curse. The theme of the book is animal companions – all manner of hero-helping creatures from cute internet-ready cats to that armoured lion thingy on the cover. Find out more here.
My specific piece is about a loyal dog who wants nothing more than to help its owner – the resident fantasy hero – but discovers she might be a crucial part of his undoing instead, thanks to a pesky purple magic spell. Bummer, right?
And you can now buy Hero’s Best Friend in electronic format in the following places by clicking on their respective links:Amazon US – Amazon UK – Nook US
Elsewhere, in A Chimerical World: Tales Of The Unseelie Court, there are some evil fairies about. Note that this is a two-book set of anthologies, with the good section of the fey appearing in Tales Of The Seelie Court, but I am only in the Unseelie volume. This is because I am a terrible person. Full details of both books right over here.
My story is called The Fool And His Money and is thoroughly contemporary. You know how that economic crash happened recently, and everyone explained it as “Well, they thought there was all this money, but it didn’t really exist”? It turns out there’s a fairy-based explanation for that…
And you can now buy A Chimerical World: Tales of the Unseelie Court in electronic format in the following places by clicking on their respective links:Amazon US – Amazon UK – Nook US
Both books should be available for print ordering a week after that – rest assured I will be posting the links up when that happens. In the meantime, if you want a brief preview from the actual text of both stories, I intend to put out such a thing on the new mailing list soon, so definitely subscribe to that, either in the blog sidebar or by clicking on this link right here.
Woo! Publication again! Twice! Pretty excited by this, guys. Now, back to angsting over my editing/synopsis/choice of socks…
The third day of the story dawns properly, as Hobson and Choi go after the Vole family at home. Meanwhile, out back, I discuss living in a post-Chapter-50 world.
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Both the heroes have to escape from their places of rest to join in the action! Can they defeat some journalists and Choi’s Mum? Meanwhile, as #50 of the H&C prose serial hovers into view, Nick gets quite excited in the outro.
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Twenty episodes in and we’re still going! This week, I voice the entire of the world’s media and reveal the apparent weakness in the first draft of this episode. There’s some Sherlock talk too.
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The IGS massacre continues this week in the story, as the police finally turn up. About time, really. Meanwhile, on the flipside, we’ve checked and it’s definitely 2014 this time.
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