Introduction:
June is upon us, not quite sure how that happened. With the usual stress and strain of work including long hours I have been slipping with some of the aspects of this site. There are so many emails that I have yet to work around to answering that it is quite scary. If yours is one of these I can only apologise and try harder to get to it as soon as I can.
On a lighter note I have just come across a short story title that I believe is utterly wonderful. The tale in question is by Mark McLaughlin and it is 'Dead Cat Matches Wits with Ratnarokh, the Ultimate Sentient Super-Computer, on the Blood-Red Planet of the Porn-Bots.'
That is quite superb. I have absolutely no idea what the story is like but the title made me smile. It will be included in the next Dead Cat Bouncing anthology for anyone who wants to give it a try.
Press Release & Events:
Please RSVP: Leslie Esdaile Banks, Hip Hop, and Poetry. Anyone in the Philedelphia area is invited to an event to celebrate the release of the L.A. Banks vampire novel Minion.
Click here for details
This Month's Non-Fiction:
W.B. Vogel III's Theories in Chaos - Apocalypse Moments (Opinion)
General SF/F/H News:
Artist/Book News:
Fantasy artist Jael has a newly redesigned website for you to visit at http://www.jael.net/. If you like looking at good fantasy art, pop along and have a look.
Author/Book News:
Congratulations are due to horror writer Matthew Warner and his girlgriend, horror illustrator Deena Holland. They have announced their engagement to be married.
Lois Duncan's DOWN A DARK HALL, the story of a girls boarding school where the headmistress is brainwashing the girls and using them to channel the ghosts of dead artists so she can sell the artwork, is to become a TV series.
J.K. Rowling and her publisher Scholastic are suing the New York Daily News over the paper's publishing of small exerpts form her fifth novel Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
Anthony Hernandez has recently began a new column entitled "Two Cents". In this he will share his thoughts on a wide variety of topics affecting publishing (e-publishing in particular). The current column is "Musings on eBook Piracy." http://www.epicauthors.com/twocents.html.
Michael Perry's non-fiction book UNTANGLING TOLKIEN — a Chronology of the Lord of the Rings could now see a major publication. This book (released POD by Perry) had been the subject of a long running copyright dispute with the Tolkien estate, but with the author having made substantial changes to the book the estate withdrew its objection and the matter has been settled out-of-court.
For fans of L.A. Banks there is now a forum on her website where you can discuss her work amongst other things. www.vampirehuntress.com.
L.A. Banks will be appearing at the Harlem Book Fair on Saturday, July 19, 2003 under the St. Martin's Press tent.
Publisher News:
Prime Books are launcing two new imprints in July 2003. Library Empyreal wil concentrate on releasing non-fiction works and the first two releases will be A Cottage on the Moss, the autobiography of Lawrence Dyer, and Nick Mamatas's 3000 Miles Per Hour In Every Direction.
The other new imprint will be Prime Classics Library, although no books have been confirmed for this imprint as yet.
Stories Sold:
Details of all short story sales we've heard of recently...here.
Book Deals:
Details of all short story sales we've heard of recently...here.
Market News:
Details of all open markets we've heard of recently...here.
Award News:
The 2003 Wooden Rocket Awards have been announced. Click Here for more details.
Terry Sheils's book The Craving has been announced as winner of the 2003 Independent Publisher Award for Best Horror.
2003 International Horror Guild Winners Announced. Click here for details.
2003 Sidewaise Awards Finalists Announced. Click here for details.
2003 Prix Aurora Nominations Announced. Click here for details.
2003 Theodore Sturgeon Nominations Announced. Click here for details.
2002 Bram Stoker Winners Announced. Click here for details.
The 2003 Compton Crook Award (for best science fiction or fantasy first novel published during 2002) has been awarded to Patricia Bray for her novel Devlin's Luck.
2003 Mythopoeic Awards Nominations Announced. Click here for details.
2002 AnLab Awards Winners Announced. Click here for details.
2002 Asimov's Readers' Awards Winners Announced. Click here for details.
Obituary
Ken Grimwood, winner of the 1988 World Fantasy Award for his wonderful novel Replay died on June 6, 2003 at the age of 59.
Author Interviews:
Scarlett Dean (H)
Steven E. Wedel (H)
This Month's Short Fiction:
Michael A. Arnzen's How to Grow a Man-Eating Plant
Steven E. Wedel's Biological Clock
This Month's Sample Chapters:
Dan Thomas's The Reckoning (H)
Steven E. Wedel's Shara (H)
Books Delivered:
Simon Clark - The Skin (Leisure)
Reader Resource
audiobooksTODAY.com is a site dedicated to promoting all forms of audiobooks (fiction and non-fiction). Click here to read their press release.
New Reviews Added:
Isaac Asimov - Opus 100 (misc)
James Herbert - Domain (h)
Diana Kemp-Jones - Sisters of the Wind (ss)
Stephen King - Bag of Bones (h)
Stephen King - Insomnia (f/h)
E.E. Knight - Way of the Wolf (h/sf)
Ian R. MacLeod - The Light Ages (f)
Alistair Kinnon (Hugh McCracken) - The Knotted Cord (h/ya)
Hugh McCracken - Grandfather and the Ghost (h/ya)
William Meikle - Watchers: the Battle for the Throne (h)
Simon Morden - Heart (f)
Gavin Newman (Guy N. Smith) - An Unholy Way to Die (non-genre)
Garth Nix - Lirael (f/ya)
Mike Resnick - Walpurgis III (sf)
Steven L. Shrewsbury - Depths of Savagery (f/ss)
Smallville (Nancy Holder) - Hauntings (sf/tv/ya)
Guy N. Smith - Deadbeat (h)
Ed. Nicole Thomas - Femmes de la Brume (h/ss)
Freda Warrington - The Court of the Midnight King (f)
Walter Jon Williams - The Praxis (sf)
New Bibliographies Added
Scarlett Dean Main Bibliography (h)
Steven E. Wedel Main Bibliography (h)
Mark West Main Bibliography (h)
Mark West Short Story Guide (h)
Books Received
Kevin J. Anderson - Hidden Empire (Earthlight (Simon & Schuster))
Kevin J. Anderson - A Forest of Stars (Earthlight (Simon & Schuster))
Elaine Corvidae - Heretic Sun (NovelBooks, Inc)
Elaine Corvidae - Wolfkin (NovelBooks, Inc)
Scarlett Dean - Unfinished Business (Amber Quill Press)
John B. Ford - The Evil Entwines (Rainfall Books)
Shaun Jeffrey - Evilution (The Invisible College Press)
E.E. Knight - Way of the Wolf (Roc)
Kathryn Sullivan - Agents and Adepts (Amber Quill)
Dan Thomas - The Reckoning (Black Death Books)
Simon Wood - Dragged into Darkness (Medium Rare Books)