Hello dear readers. Yes, it's certainly been a long time since I posted an update to this fair site. I'm sure you've been unable to breathe in the meantime, so I'm sorry if you ended up asphyxiating on my account. The day job bestowed upon me a promotion at the start of 2013 and things have been insanely hectic ever since. My writing output for the last five months has slumped to almost nothing.
But stuff has happened. Oh yes! It has happened. Let's crack on with some exciting updates!
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World’s Collider goes Italian!
There have been lots of fantastic reviews for World's Collider recently, but the most unusual is certainly this one from Il Futuro E' Tornato. Yes, it's all in Italian. You can try Google Translate, like I did, but you'll find the result is rather garbled. It's difficult to tell whether or not they like it at all! So I turned to an old friend of mine, Tristan Tarrant, a genuine Italian and one of my old university housemates. Tristan graciously agreed to translate and you'll find the readabl...
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World’s Collider FREE this weekend!
This weekend only, Nightscape Press is offering its three debut titles for FREE on Amazon Kindle. That means you can download World's Collider for nothing on Friday, Saturday and Sunday (September 14th to 16th).
You can also download Peter Dudar's debut novel, A Requiem For Dead Flies, and Colliderist Trent Zelazny's novella, Butterfly Potion, all for zero dollars (or zero pounds if you're in the UK).
Pretty cool huh?
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News, reviews and birthday blues…
Lots to catch up on. Firstly, a bittersweet day this past Wednesday. This site turned one year old and I tried to think of a fitting way to celebrate. Unfortunately, the day job intervened and I didn't have time, which is more or less the story of my life for the past eight months. Ho hum.
So happy birthday, website and I'm sorry the best I could come up with was a balloon image. You've done pretty well over the last year, and I hope you last for many more.
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An incredible week!
So World's Collider was published on July 10th and sold pretty well out of the gate, but then something happened on Thursday morning (July 19th) that changed everything.
This e-mail was sent to everyone in the UK who had previously bought one of Aaron Rosenberg's books from Amazon.
So basically, Amazon UK saw that World's Collider featured Aaron, assumed this was his latest book (which it only sort of is) and publicized it to all his previous customers. Now Aaron has sold quite a lot o...
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World’s Collider coming July 10th 2012!
The time is nearly here. On July 10th 2012, World's Collider will be released and you'll be able to download a copy to your Kindle or order a trade paperback. You can even pre-order a copy now, direct from publisher Nightscape Press! The final Table of Contents has been released. You can see it on the World's Collider page.
If you can't wait until July 10th, here's an extract from Simon Kurt Unsworth's story, The Coming Scream.
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World’s Collider – Delivered!
I am proud and somewhat relieved to have delivered the complete manuscript for World's Collider to Nightscape Press. In the end it took an extraordinary amount of effort, and not just on my part. Pity Steven Savile who had agreed to write the final story. Steven was given a detailed brief explaining how to wrap up all the various plot threads, but given the time crunch towards the end I was still tinkering with the storyline while the final story was being written. Steven was ready to kill me,...
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Why World’s Collider Quit Open Casket Press
So it's all over the internet, there isn't much need to be diplomatic any more. I don't go out of my way to badmouth anyone, but in this case I think it's important that everyone who has had negative dealings with a certain publisher needs to speak out. The more of us come out of the closet on this, the less new writers will fall into the same trap.
I'm talking of course about Open Casket Press, one-time publishers-to-be of World's Collider. This small press is a one-man show, run by Anthony ...
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The story behind the World’s Collider cover!
So here it is, the cover to World's Collider. I'm pretty pleased with it.
The cover image was produced by Lukas Thelin of Foxrain, a digital media company based in Sweden and associated with World's Collider contributor, Steven Savile. He approached me around the time we were looking for a new publisher and offered Foxrain's services for a cover. Now, I already had a cover artist lined up, the fantastically talented Carolyn Edwards who produced the wonderful Eiffel Tower image that adorns our...
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The Large Hutchinson Collider
Anyone who "likes" the World's Collider Facebook page will know that we announced a new contributor to the anthology this week. Dave Hutchinson, pictured left, has now come aboard and we're thrilled to have him.
This wasn't exactly planned upfront. Unfortunately Adam Colston decided recently to withdraw from the anthology. While this is a shame, I remain hopeful that his story, A Million Tiny Kisses, will one day see the light of day, perhaps as a web story. Adam's story features a great idea...
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