The Place Where All Things Rebecca Gransden Meet
I had the privilege recently of contributing a selection of readings to an album of recordings for the wonderful Librivox site. Titled L’Art pour l’Art the other pieces included are recorded by the incomparable Sean Kilpatrick
Listen at Librivox here and at Internet Archive here. Sean’s readings are also collected on his YouTube channel here. Endless thanks to Sean.
The annual Silent Motorist Media list of the Ten Weird Writers to Save Us All has been announced, and I’ve been included in the 2019 selection. Thank you to all who sent a vote my way or put in a good word for me. Find the list here. I’m in great company and strongly suggest investigating the other writers featured.
My new novella Sea of Glass is out!
Smoke fills the city air, choking the street, curling up and around the tower. Kattar Bassis hits the ground and crawls blindly through the chaos. A light shines out in the black, leading him to the entranceway of his building. So begins his ascent and search for the ever elusive EXIT.
Available on Amazon UK and US. Also Lulu, Leanpub and various others
Thank you to monkeelino for assisting me with the cover.
This week HorrorBabble is showcasing authors for its Author Spotlight. My tongue-in-cheek horror homage/deconstruction, The Boredom Drive, is today’s offering, read perfectly by the amazing Ian Gordon.
My short story, Upsweep, is included in the new Nightmare Press anthology Animal Uprising!
“A lion, a hybrid, a bear – oh no! A goat, a gull, and a big black dog! Can’t forget the roaches, the deer flies, and the tarantula hawk, or the abominable insect that rises from the earth! We got creepy crawlers and killer critters for everyone. Oh, you want mythical creatures? How about a malevolent spirit posed as a fox, a rambunctious jackalope, or a herd of unicorn-gazelles on a distant planet? Let’s not forget the supernatural silver stag with the power to raise the dead. Oh, did I mention the giant mantis shrimp? Yeah – we got a giant mantis shrimp. Humankind really has their work cut out for them in this collection of terrifying tales of beastly butchery. Need to know more? Check out Animal Uprising! for all of the mayhem.”
My story features a mantis shrimp. Find out more about this creature here and here
THE ANTI-AUSTERITY ANTHOLOGY is out! Features writing by me, and a collective of writers I greatly admire. More importantly, proceeds from this book will go to food bank charities.
After many brutal years of austerity measures, this anthology serves as a reminder that this regime is continuing to claim the lives of the most vulnerable among us while creating untold hardship for millions more. We must keep making a noise about it any which way we can and try to mitigate the damage being caused to our communities – Rupert Dreyfus
The divide between the rich and the poor is widening all the time. The contributors of this book are standing up and making a noise about the draconian nature of modern austerity, so by buying a copy, telling your friends and spreading the word, you’ll be a part of The Anti-Austerity Collective yourselves. Never give up hope, y’all! – Harry Whitewolf
Available on Amazon UK in Paperback and Kindle
And here for the Amazon US Paperback and Kindle
THE ANTI-AUSTERITY COLLECTIVE are:
Rupert Dreyfus (Editor), Harry Whitewolf (Editor), Mike Robbins (Editor), M. J. Black, Guy Brewer, Andy Carrington, Ford Dagenham, Matthew Duggan, Rebecca Gransden, Jay Spencer Green, Chris Harrison, Ruth F. Hunt, Bradford Middleton, Mary Papastavrou, Riya Anne Polcastro, Leo X. Robertson, Connor Young
With Steve Topple (Foreword). Steve also gives an insightful account of what the collection is about in an article for The Canary, which can be found here.
Teenage poetry kept in a drawer. Titled Gas-works, via electronic typewriter.
Part of the Dead Liner Notes project.
Spag was created by me at some point in my early teenage years. His mission was a heavy one. Nothing. He’s not exactly a worm, I’m not sure he’s anything. Just a spag. I could describe him as anti-narrative, anti-conflict, pro-monotony, pro-boredom, but these would imply active intent. This is Spag’s one and only adventure, as it said all he had to say.
Part of the Dead Liner Notes project addressing constructed memory among other things.
I was exceptionally fortunate recently to participate in the fake interview series on the Gnome Appreciation Society website where I took on the part of Spring-heeled Jack.
Check out the full interview here.
Thank you to Jason Denness for the opportunity and robust questioning. Find Jason on Goodreads to follow his insightful reviews, and on Twitter as well.
