Lookee here

If you squint, you can just make out that my name is on the cover (and what a cool cover it is too).

As this is only the second time this has happened (I'm usually bundled up in the phrase and others) I'm quite excited by it.

So here we have Arkham Tales #7:



If you'd like to read Rajiv and the Bn Stalks and other fine stories of much weirdness, you can go to http://arkhamtales.leucrotapress.com/ and download a PDF copy of the issue for a measly $1.99.

Sneaky Friday

A few days ago, Arkham Tales posted a sneak peak of the artwork provided by Mari Anne Werier that they'll be using for the cover of AT #7. Now that I know I'll have a story in this issue, I'm a whole lot more interested in it.

I give you Roots Like Hands:

Pretty awesome.

Beanz meanz horror

A nice bit of writing news that has just come to hand in a week otherwise dominated by dawn to dusk Arvo Jobbing whilst battling a voice-stealing, snot-producing, energy-siphoning lurgy is that my humorous horror story Rajiv and the Bn Stalks is scheduled for the July issue of Arkham Tales.

Which means that my forthcoming section will soon look decidedly lean with ... uhmmm ... a grand total of exactly zero stories due to appear in upcoming publications.

Note to self: must make some kind of bookish sacrifice to the fickle god of publishing.

Sunday Score!

Good news, everyone - I've just sold a story to 'Arkham Tales.'

So after being submitted 11 times (which, of course, means it was rejected 10 times) 'Rajiv and the Bn Stalks' has finally found a home - just in time for my end-of-the-month status report.

This story first went out 26/11-08, was well received a few times, and bagged a few times too, but hey, that's all water under the bridge now. Yay!

This is my first, and hopefully not last, acceptance for 2010.