Yes, it really is true, World’s Collider is now available to buy for your Kindle!
The trade paperback can be ordered direct from Nightscape Press
More formats to follow.
Buy it. Read it. Tell us what you think!
Check out the roundtable interview with nearly all the writers, and this news posting to find out what Ian Whates thought of the anthology, and to read some interesting (sort of) trivia.
We’re getting very close to World’s Collider’s release date now and in the meantime we have some cool stuff for you.
Firstly is the anthology’s very first author blurb. It comes from the talented and lovely Ian Whates, author of novels City of Dreams and Nightmare and The Noise Within, and editor of Solaris Rising: The New Solaris Book of Science Fiction. He loved the book and provided the following blurb to include on the back cover.
“Editor Richard Salter has overseen the creation of a chilling hi-octane future in which reality has been warped into nightmare by scientific disaster. Each component cranks up the tension and the disparate tales combine in mosaic-fashion to deliver a truly gripping narrative.”
Thanks so much, Ian!
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.
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, but luckily he broke his arm just in time and was unable to carry out the execution.
So he quickly hired his good friend, Steve Lockley, to kill me on his behalf. Steve misunderstood the request and helped him finish his story instead.
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 Giangregorio. He also runs Living Dead Press and Undead Press, the latter of which published a lady called Mandy DeGeit in the anthology Cavalcade of Horror. Tony has a history of messing about with stories right before they are published, usually without warning the author and allowing them time to approve the changes, and usually to the detriment of the story.
I’m proud of (most of) my story sales, but last year when I heard I’d made it into Machine of Death 2 I couldn’t believe it. The sheer volume of submissions (nearly 2,000!) was mind-boggling, and for my tale to be picked out of such a huge slush pile was astonishing and deeply humbling.
So here is the table of contents for the second volume of this best selling anthology series. Courtesy of the Machine of Death site, lots of details have been revealed. There’s no release date yet, but interesting discussions are going on and the titles are intriguing.
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 eye-catching postcards. She also produced an image of the rift that I loved, but the nothing-to-lose offer of a cover from Foxrain, which usually costs a pretty penny, was something I couldn’t turn down. I explained the situation to Carolyn and she was cool with it, and we will still be using that fantastic tower image in the book and for promotion.
So here it is! It went through a few iterations, and at some point I asked for monsters and boy did I get them! I am very grateful to Lukas and Steve, and to Foxrain for the use of their services. And also thanks to Carolyn, the writers, to Nightscape and everyone interested enough to be reading this, for all your support. I may cry a little now. Look away. It’s not seemly.
As for the anthology itself, it’s coming together really nicely and we’re into the final stretch. I’m very excited about how this is turning out and I hope you will love reading it as much as I’m loving putting it together. It’ll be released before you know it…
Right now, you can enter to win a free copy of the new charity anthology, Horror For Good! The giveaway is available via Goodreads and you can enter any time between now and June 7th for a chance to win a free copy of this amazing horror anthology from Cutting Block Press.
The reviews are in for this:
Yes, they are. Indeed. And very lovely they are too. Moving on hastily to this:
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 and he is enormously talented. While I’m sorry to lose him, I do respect his decision and wish him all the best.