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[Rocket Science Books]

Rocket Science Books (an imprint of the award-nominated Dead Letter Press) is giving away a copy of its new magabook Black Infinity, issue #1: Deadly Planets. Black Infinity publishes creepy SF by established writers and new voices, and celebrates the rich history of books, movies, TV series, and authors who helped shape the genre. It's like a trip to the past -- that leads to the future. You can enter to win a copy at the link below. Entrants are simply required to re-tweet the contest. Thanks!
https://giveaway.amazon.com/p/d499e5d794eb93c5

 

[Alasdair Shaw]

Just published the latest edition of the Sci-fi Round-up: https://alasdairshaw.blogspot.co.uk/2017/10/the-october-round-up-of-scifi-books.html

 

[Matthew Hughes]

I’ve sold another Dying Earthish Archonate tale to The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. It’s called “The Prevaricator” and should run sometime next year. It won’t be part of a series, as will be apparent to anyone who reads it all the way to the end.

In the next few days, I’ll prepare my emailed newsletter for November and send it out. If you’re not on the mailing list and would like to be, you can sign up via Instafreebie and also receive a free ebook version of Paroxysm, a thriller written by my crime writing alter ego, Matt Hughes. Here’s a link: https://www.instafreebie.com/book/24407

A reminder: I’ve now got a Patreon account and am grateful to the 32 people who have signed up to support my work by making a monthly contribution. If you’d like to join the crowd, here’s where to go: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4687520

 

[Alasdair Shaw]

An interview with Chogan Swan: https://alasdairshaw.blogspot.co.uk/2017/11/an-interview-with-chogan-swan.html

 

[Alasdair Shaw]

The November Round-up of Sci-fi Books is out now: https://alasdairshaw.blogspot.co.uk/2017/11/november-round-up-of-scifi-books.html

 

[Alasdair Shaw]

Just posted an interview with scifi author Yudhanjaya Wijeratne: https://alasdairshaw.blogspot.co.uk/2017/12/an-interview-with-yudhanjaya-wijeratne.html

 

[Alasdair Shaw]

The December Round-up of Sci-fi Books has some top stories at https://alasdairshaw.blogspot.co.uk/2017/12/the-december-round-up-of-scifi-books.html

 

[Stephen Palmer]

Is narcissism a mental illness?

 

[Matthew Hughes]

I've had an email from editor-extraordinaire Gardner Dozois, inviting me to submit a novelette to another one of his signature anthologies, this one to be called The Book of Legends, due out next year. I look forward to writing something in the next couple of months.

This will be the seventh Dozois antho I've been asked into. It puts me in with the cream of the science fiction and fantasy writing community. Makes me feel as if I'm getting somewhere. I appreciate the encouragement.

Meanwhile, last year's The Book of Swords seems to be selling well, and my story "The Sword of Destiny," which introduced Baldemar the wizard's henchman, is getting good reviews -- and earning me new readers. In a few months, The Book of Magic, which includes my story "The Friends of Masquelayne the Incomparable," will be published.

 

[Stephen Palmer]

Vegetarian Week, Day 1
Vegetarian Week, Day 2

 

[Matthew Hughes]

This is non-sff news, but what the hey.

My suspense novel One More Kill, is now available for pre-order from PS Publishing as a £20 hardcover. There is also a signed, limited (100 copies) edition for £35. An ebook will follow in the next few weeks.

The novel is an extrapolation of a short story by the same title that won me the Arthur Ellis Award (the "Canadian Edgar") from the Crime Writers of Canada several years ago. At the beginning of next month, I will put up the original story as a free read for those on the mailing list for my monthly newsletter. If you're not on the list and would like to read it, you can sign up from my web page.

I don't usually blow my own horn, but I think the novel is some pretty spiffy storytelling.

 

[Av Demeisen]

This is non-sff news, but what the hey.

My suspense novel One More Kill, is now available for pre-order from PS Publishing as a £20 hardcover. There is also a signed, limited (100 copies) edition for £35. An ebook will follow in the next few weeks.

The novel is an extrapolation of a short story by the same title that won me the Arthur Ellis Award (the "Canadian Edgar") from the Crime Writers of Canada several years ago. At the beginning of next month, I will put up the original story as a free read for those on the mailing list for my monthly newsletter. If you're not on the list and would like to read it, you can sign up from my web page.

I don't usually blow my own horn, but I think the novel is some pretty spiffy storytelling.

Great timing. I was actually looking for a new crime novel. Pre-order on the way.

 

[Matthew Hughes]

Great timing. I was actually looking for a new crime novel. Pre-order on the way.

Thanks. Let me know what you think of it.

 

[The Big Peat]

An interview with Juliana Spink-Mills

 

[Av Demeisen]

This is non-sff news, but what the hey.

My suspense novel One More Kill, is now available for pre-order from PS Publishing as a £20 hardcover. There is also a signed, limited (100 copies) edition for £35. An ebook will follow in the next few weeks.

The novel is an extrapolation of a short story by the same title that won me the Arthur Ellis Award (the "Canadian Edgar") from the Crime Writers of Canada several years ago. At the beginning of next month, I will put up the original story as a free read for those on the mailing list for my monthly newsletter. If you're not on the list and would like to read it, you can sign up from my web page.

I don't usually blow my own horn, but I think the novel is some pretty spiffy storytelling.

This PS Publishing blog post contains a sneak peak of Matthew's new book. The (pre-)order page he linked to is pretty bare-bones unless you click on the dust jacket image:
http://www.pspublishing.co.uk/blog/2018/01/22/one-more-kill-by-matt-hughes/

(I hope it's OK for me to post this here.)

 

[Matthew Hughes]

(I hope it's OK for me to post this here.)

It's okay by me.

 

[Matthew Hughes]

In December, John Joseph Adams invited me to send him a story for the 100th issue of Lightspeed in April. I remembered that it was John, then slush reader for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, who would have been the first person in the world to read a Henghis Hapthorn story. He passed “Mastermindless” on to Gordon Van Gelder, who made it my first sale to F&SF.

So it seems appropriate to bring old Henghis back onto the stage. I’ve just sent John a 10,000-word novelette, “Hapthorn’s Last Case,” which picks up his story a couple of weeks after the end of the third Hapthorn novel Hespira. The long-dreaded change from science to magic now looms in the offing.

I hope John likes it.

As I was finishing the draft, it occurred to me that those 10,000 words could make the opening of a fourth Hapthorn novel. That’s one of the projects Patreon may make possible if I draw enough patrons.

I’ve arbitrarily set a total of $1,000 in monthly pledges as the level at which I could afford to stop writing so many short stories for mags and anthologies and go back to mostly writing novels. But I may lower that bar as time goes by. I’m still feeling my way into this new kind of relationship with my readers.

If you’d like to be my patron, here’s a link.

 

[Jo Zebedee]

http://jozebwrites.blogspot.co.uk/2018/02/on-confidence.html - how to become confident in your own writing.

 

[ctrandall]

A review of Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Alien Intelligence

 

[Fish Owl]

I think it may be a good idea to round up all sffworld bloggers and unite into some kind of community to share posts and write comments.