The Casebook of Edmund Forrester - ready to ship!

The Casebook of Edmund Forrester is now ready to ship for all those who pre-ordered a copy. You should recieve a message from me very soon regarding how to pay and then the extremely limited edition book will be winging it's way to you.

There are still a handful of copies left so if you want one, leave a message with your email address and I'll get back to you as soon as possible.

The e-book version will be available by the end of the month.

The Casebook of Edmund Forrester - Coming Soon!

Thanks to the wonders of Lulu (the website, not the singer), a collection of short stories involving Edmund Forrester will shortly be available to purchase.
The Casebook of Edmund Forrester will feature the swashbuckling thrills of "Strictly Business" (first published in Crossed Genres Issue 7) and two brand new, totally exclusive tales.
Gasp with amazement as Forrester goes up against a deadly Chinese assassin in "The Guardian of the Vaults"!
Squeal with terror when a hunt for three escaped convicts on a desolate moor turns into a fight for survival in "Red Mist"!
The collection will be available as a signed, numbered paperback (limited to 50 copies only) and then as a very reasonably priced e-book.

The Casebook of Edmund Forrester will be available early June 2010.

Throw Down Your Dead

A quick bit of good news... my short story "To Kill a Dead Man" has been accepted by Sonar4Publications forthcoming anthology of Western Horror stories called Throw Down Your Dead. I imagine the anthology will be out some time towards the end of the year.

Dead Man's Hand

My short story, Dead Man's Hand can now be read online at Ron Warren's rather lovely webzine The Nautilus Engine.

A Quick Update and Some Good News

I've been "off-radar" for some time now. Busy with work, busy with the baby, busy writing reviews for Booksquawk (which is going swimmingly and is well worth a visit - the site is updated daily so there is always something new to see)... There's been so much going on that I've barely had time to work on The Sound of Shiant... I'm about two chapters away from completing the first draft and hope to have that done by the end of January. The next step would be to go through it and flesh it out a bit by adding more period detail...
Anyhow, the good news is that I've just received an email from Ron Warren, the editor of a nice little webzine called The Nautilus Engine (www.thenautilusengine.com). He's accepted a story of mine called Dead Man's Hand for inclusion in the February 2010 issue. I'll provide a link when the story goes live. For now, you'll just have to settle for the promotional blurb.

"We live in a strange world, Sheriff. If we spent all our time worrying about that which we couldn't explain, we'd do nothing else. I'm afraid that men our age don't have that much time left to us."
When a cardsharp begins to dominate the poker tables of Desolation Springs, the citizens are baffled by his unusual talent. A gruff, middle-aged man with a broken nose and a clouded past seems to be the only person capable of challenging him but Sheriff Elmer T. Wyle can't bring himself to trust the stranger.

Booksquawk is now live!

Well, it's actually been live for the best part of a week but I've been horribly busy and unable to update.
An elite team of writers has been assembled and are now in the process of churning out witty and wonderful book reviews for your enjoyment. Go to www.booksquawk.com or click on the hi-tech gizmo on this page to be instantly transported to the new literary hub of the internet.

Rotten Leaves Issue One - out now!

A rather grisly little tale of mine called Wistman's Joy has been published in the first issue of online horror magazine Rotten Leaves.
You can find it here:
http://www.rottenleaves.com/category/allissues/issue1/

Happy Halloween folks!