Phobophobia for sale and a Solaris Rising review

Usually I don't need an excuse to repost the gorgeous cover to Phobophobia, but this time I actually have one. This chilling collection, featuring stories about phobias from A-Z, is now available to order. Please do pick up a copy, especially for the stories by World's Collider contributors Steven Savile, Jonathan Green and Simon Kurt Unsworth. You can order from the Dark Continents Publishing website. And let me say this, the more I see of DCP, the more impressed I am. (more…)
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Two shiny things and a reminder…

First shiny thing, I have a new job! Just got the offer and it looks good, so in a week or two I'll be starting at the new place. Thanks for everyone's kind words and support. Somehow I managed to convince someone else to take me on at some point during my six interviews. Didn't get much writing done during my time off - it's amazing how busy unemployment can be! Second shiny thing, the astonishing cover to Phobophobias, the new horror collection from Dark Continents Publishing, edited by Dea...
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Bigfoot Tales Released!

This time last year I never expected to be writing a Bigfoot story. But here it is! It's called Loggers, it appears in the newly released collection Bigfoot Tales from Open Casket Press (publishers of World's Collider) and it was a blast to write! I saw a call for submissions to a different Bigfoot anthology some time back. Honestly I was stumped. How on Earth could I think of something new and interesting to do with a creature seemingly so limited in scope and appeal. So I moved on to someth...
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Solaris Rising released!

It's release day for Solaris Rising: The New Solaris Book of Science Fiction. I still have to pinch myself that my little skewed-time story is part of a lineup that includes Peter F. Hamilton, Alastair Reynolds, Stephen Baxter, Paul di Filippo and Adam Roberts. Excuse me while I sit down for a moment... OK, that's better. (more…)
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