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Today sees the paperback launch of both Chinese Whispering Anthologies, The Red Book and The Yin and Yang book, the later of which contains my story, This Be The Verse. The twenty or so authors come from Australia, the UK, Europe, and the US so the launch event will be running for as many hours as it is December 1st somewhere.

You can read the opening of my story, This Be The Verse, here. The books are available to buy over at the eMergent Publishing official bookstore and each purchase of the paperback comes with a free ebook copy. Bargain!

I find what’s left of my love asleep at the kitchen table, arms folded under a lolling head, face hidden, red hair tumbling over pale skin – a contrast so severe it nearly breaks me to see it…….

I am also interviewed by editor Christopher Allen as part of his excellent series of ex-pat author interviews over on his blog, I Must Be Off.

From the Dirty Bristow site:

Dirty Bristow Issue Two.
80 pages packed with essays, stories, opinion pieces and artwork on the theme of ‘Beast’.

There’s no such cliche here as a ‘difficult second issue’, everything about pulling this together was a complete joy—otherwise we just wouldn’t do it. From being astounded that we managed to flog enough of issue one to make issue two a viable thing, to almost weeping at the unexpected artistic delights that the contributors leaked, it was one tiny gorgeous death after another. Weeping from the eyes. The eyes.
Attached to the front of a limited number of the copies is the finest half inch of plastic and magnetic tape seen since Kylie’s Got to be Certain cassingle. Featuring four new and exclusive cover versions from our favourite acts and something a bit special — Dirty Bristow the Game, for the 48K ZX Spectrum. As we hope will continue to be a possibility we’ve gone off at some tangential tangents with extra-curricular activity; if you’ve not got a cassette attached to the front cover don’t fret, the contents are all online if you should but hunt.
By hunt they mean check out the links here.

Spilling Ink Review Issue 5 is live and free to read online right now, featuring a whole host of short and flash fiction, prose poetry and non-fiction. In amongst issue 5′s virtual pages is my short story Jump Start.

The excellent Monkeybicycle has published my one sentence story, Catchin’ Out, along with a whole host of other top fiction nuggets. Read the latest batch of One Sentence Stories, mine included here.

Issue 35 of The View From Here features my short story Connecting.

Issue 35
Gorgeous, Eye Catching, Coffee Table Worthy! The View From Here - The Best of the Best in the new and emerging literary scene! Contents:

• Interview with Anna Lanyon.
• Guest article from Richard Beard the Director of The National Academy of Writing.
• Original Fiction: Catherine McNamara, Dan Powell & Quin Herron.
• Original Poetry: Neal Whitman, Marc Carver & Nicholas Petrone.
• Chapters 5-9 of our serialisation of Death Knell by Kathleen Maher
• Book Reviews: One of Our Thursdays is Missing by Jasper Fforde & Fire & Song, The Story of Luis de Carvajal by Anna Lanyon.

Issue 4 includes my first piece of published creative non-fiction, ‘A Father’s Arms.’

My story 'Medushair' is amongst the stories presented in the debut edition.

'Neon is a UK-based literary magazine, published online and in print every quarter. We publish poetry and prose by authors from anywhere in the world. Our focus is on work that is beautifully written, cold and contemporary.'

This latest edition is available now, featuring a whole host of fiction and poetry, including my story. Neon is a top journal that has published some of my favourite short fiction by up and coming authors so I am super pleased to have a story published in its pages.

You can read issue 25 for free online here and buy an ebook of the issue here. You can also order print copies here.

I would like to shout out a big thank you to anyone reading this who has already downloaded any of my work available on the Ether app. I have two more stories due to appear there soon. If you like what you have already read, please check them out when they appear.

If you have an iPhone/iPod touch and haven't tried Ether yet, check it out, there are a whole of host great works on there from established and new authors.

The Metazen Christmas Charity E-book 2010 is nearly ready for release. I am a big fan of Metazen and am very happy to have my story ‘The Last Year of Father Christmas’ included in this year’s fundraising Christmas collection.

Here’s the details from the mouths of the editors themselves:

‘Last year we raised a few hundred dollars at Christmas time.
Metazen asked authors to contribute Christmas-ish stories/ poems for an E-Book.
Metazen asked people to donate for a chance to read the E-Book on Christmas Day.
All of the donations were given to an orphanage in Cambodia.
This year we are doing the same.’

The ebook will be available on Christmas Day. Apparently the cover will be something special so I’ll post a pic as soon as possible. I hope you’ll download a copy and support a worthy cause. For your trouble, you’ll get a collection of some of the bestest/strangest Christmas fiction avaliable.