Satirica available to buy & 3rd appearance at Well Told Tales

Speculative fiction anthology, Satirica, featuring my story, All for One, is now available to buy from online book sellers. Visit your local Amazon and pick yourself up a copy for the equivalent of just under ten pounds...

Amazon UK
Amazon US

If the gorgeous cover art doesn't sell it to you, let me have one final push...
...24 Stories that hold a mirror up to mankind. Before reading this book, make sure to take your medications as directed. These stories take no prisoners. They are direct, frank, and most skillfully blunt. They are not designed to be politically correct. They are not designed to pamper. They are designed to make you think. Prepare to learn a great deal about yourself... Fasten your seat-belts....

Sadly, print horror mag, City Slab, which was due to publish my short story Lost Lying on Your Back, has permanently closed for business. After three years of hunting for a good home for Lost, I am right back, square one.

Some good news, however - I will soon be making my third appearance over at Well Told Tales with a ghost-slash-revenge tale entitled Hear Not the Murmur on the Wind. Podcasts of my previous two stories are still available, just look for the links at the side of this page.

Satirica

Hardcover anthology, Satirica: An Anthology of Satirical Speculative Fiction, can now be Pre-Ordered from Cowboy Logic Press and should be available soon from Amazon.

For your money you will be getting 110,000 words or 24 stories from the likes of David Thorpe (author of Hybrids ), the ever-prolific Lawrence R. Dagstine, and yours truly.

My contribution, All For One, was previously published in the now-defunct Darker Matter (#2) and received the following review from SF Crowsnest:

...a futuristic outlook of Britain where things haven't gone entirely to plan and something approaching a police state exists. Prime Minister Greengrass is in charge of this political satire which is somewhere between 'Yes, Minister' and 'Children Of Men'. A story and an author to look out for.

In other news...despite making the shortlist, Manny Prior's Halloween was turned down by GUD Magazine, though the editor of issue 4 said it was "nicely twisty" and "really draws one in." I'm disappointed, but at 8000 words I always knew it would be a tough sell. Pity, because I believe it is up there with my best work...