2 Holds, 1 Acceptance - Saddle Up!

Alright, two stories are on hold with two very different collections I really hope to be included in, and one story is accepted today with an anthology I also wanted to get in, being a huge Western movie fan.

The acceptance is for The Zombist: Undead Tales from the Old West which is going to be a brilliant collection of Western genre chaos and already has a few writers in it whose work I enjoy with more to come! Mine is called The Undead Cattle Company. Thanks to the mighty Dr. P and his ever growing empire over at LOTLDP

The two holds, well, hopefully I get to update those with good news down the line - fingers crossed!

French love and American death

A couple of new acceptances this week to make me very happy indeed.

First, and I'm not going to go into how this came to be, an adult tale I wrote called Filthy New Romantics has been accepted by a fantastic-sounding erotica anthology titled Surprise (see my main website for more details!)

Secondly, an old-fashioned horror story I did - That Maternal Instinct - has been accepted by a new horror magazine called Night Chills.

Black Matrix

Very pleased with both of these, for different reasons!

Also, I now have an online bio/credits webpage set up

Harper 1.0

Links etc

Just a note - as these various books are published I will certainly be linking to them.

The Telescopes plus End of the World

News of another acceptance arrived just now - this for the Robert Essig edited antho called Through The Eyes of the Undead, stories told from the zombie POV. A lot harder to write than you might think! Mine is the sad tale of a woman called To Kill A Dead Girl Walking. The title is a riff on a song by The Telescopes, from the unbelievably great Taste album.

More print!

Another acceptance - this one a comedic piece for a book taking the piss out of all those zombie survival guides, kind of a Carry On Zombies if you like - called The Morons Guide To The Inevitable Zombocalypse from the Library of the Living Dead Press. Compiled and edited by Timothy Long.

My effort is called Zombiebowl and is about entertainment during the apocalypse. Happy to be a part of this, its a great idea!


If only this film poster was real...

Accepted!

Victory dance time!
A Splash of Orange was a winner and one of fourteen stories chosen for the ReadMe Publishing sci-fi anthology What If?
The book is scheduled to go to print in October and will be available on Amazon and the usual places thereafter. I'm very, very happy this particular story made it!

Here's the full list of futuristic tales chosen for the collection -

1 Extra Good Care – By Valerie Hodge

2 Not Your Ordinary Little Green Men – By Kelli Wilkins

3 Danger, Maybe – By Marian Powell

4 The Rocket Ship – By Ian Lamberto

5 The House That Doomsday Built – By Justin Woolley

6 Journey to the Surface – By Dixie Sorensen

7 The Last Soldier – By John J. Rust

8 What if Rose Was Right – By Grace Gannon Rudolph

9 Herd Mentality – By Paul A. Freeman

10 Precipitation and Devotion – By Stevie Poppe

11 A Splash of Orange – By Harper Hull

12 Austin 2009 – By Derek Rutherford

13 We Don't Do Windshields – By Don Magin

14 Teleporter – By Jennifer Caddell

ReadMe Publishing

Newsfest/50 Grand

Lots of writing and subs going on, as usual

Good news

A Splash of Orange made it to the final round of a sci-fi story contest, so fingers crossed there.

Also, one of the writing groups I am part of is sending out manuscripts for a 50-story collection with several stories by each of us. It is codenamed Fifty Grand and is a very strong anthology covering all sorts of genres. I have 4 stories involved. And with a bunch of us behind it, it will get a good push until it reaches the right hands. Excited about this! Starting with UK based publishers as most of the collective are based in England, and I think all of us are actually British by birth.