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Monthly Archives: February 2018

Feb 24 2018
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C7-Shiina

 

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All the Fabulous Beasts

Mike Kelly of Undertow Publications has been terrific to work with. One part of the process I’ve particularly enjoyed is helping him to pick the cover artwork for “All the Fabulous Beasts”.

Messages went back and forth between us as we scoured the internet, and both of us are very happy with the final choice for the trade paperback edition.

The artist is Hiroko Shiina, known as C7-Shiina, who is a graduate from Toyko Design Gakuin College.

Her intricate work is picked out in muted tones, painted in ink, acrylic, watercolours and sometimes coffee.

I love the detail of C7-Shiina’s art, which forces me to look again and again at the different elements within it. She repeats her dark themes of reduced anatomies, tattooed flesh, fetishism, of death and unfolding wings, opium poppies and transformation, the primordial forms of embryos and decorated foetal skulls, masked lovers and the black gloves of a killer.

My thanks to her.

http://c7-shiina.tumblr.com/

https://www.facebook.com/C7artworks/

 

 

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Feb 24 2018
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This is Horror Awards 2017

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This is Horror Awards 2017 is open for public voting. More information is here.

Voting closes at 12:01am GMT on Monday 26 February 2018.

Novel of the Year

  1. Black Mad Wheel by Josh Malerman
  2. I Wish I Was Like You by S.P. Miskowski
  3. In the Valley of the Sun by Andy Davidson
  4. The Changeling by Victor LaValle
  5. The Devil Crept In by Ania Ahlborn

Novella of the Year

  1. Agents of Dreamland by Caitlin R. Kiernan
  2. In the River by Jeremy Robert Johnson
  3. Mapping The Interior by Stephen Graham Jones
  4. Quiet Places by Jasper Bark
  5. The Murders of Molly Southbourne by Tade Thompson

Short Story Collection of the Year

  1. Behold the Void by Philip Fracassi
  2. Everything That’s Underneath by Kristi DeMeester
  3. Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria Machado
  4. She Said Destroy by Nadia Bulkin
  5. 13 Views of the Suicide Woods by Bracken MacLeod

Anthology of the Year

  1. Behold!: Oddities, Curiosities and Undefinable Wonders, edited by Doug Murano
  2. Black Feathers: Dark Avian Tales: An Anthology, edited by Ellen Datlow
  3. Looming Low Volume I, edited by Justin Steele and Sam Cowan
  4. New Fears, edited by Mark Morris
  5. The Beauty of Death 2 —Death By Water, edited by Alessandro Manzetti & Jodi Renée Lester

Fiction Magazine of the Year

  1. Apex Magazine
  2. Black Static
  3. Gamut
  4. Nightmare Magazine
  5. The Dark Magazine

Publisher of the Year

  1. ChiZine Publications
  2. Crystal Lake Publishing 
  3. Journalstone
  4. Tor.com Publishing 
  5. Word Horde

Fiction Podcast of the Year

  1. Nightmare Magazine Podcast 
  2. Pseudopod
  3. Tales to Terrify
  4. The NoSleep Podcast
  5. The Other Stories by Hawk & Cleaver

Nonfiction Podcast of the Year

  1. Last Podcast on the Left
  2. Lore Podcast
  3. Lovecraft eZine Podcast
  4. Post Mortem with Mick Garris
  5. The Horror Show with Brian Keene
Tagged Black Feathers, Ellen Datlow, Mark Morris, New Fears, The Crow Palace
Feb 23 2018
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New Fears 2

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Mark Morris has announced the line-up for New Fears 2, out later this year from Titan. Many thanks to Mark for including me in this.

New Fears, which was released in 2017, is still available.

Table of Contents:

MAW by Priya Sharma
THE AIRPORT GORILLA by Stephen Volk
THUMBSUCKER by Robert Shearman
BULB by Gemma Files
FISH HOOKS by Kit Power
EMERGENCE by Tim Lebbon
ON CUTLER STREET by Benjamin Percy
LETTERS FROM ELODIE by Laura Mauro
STEEL BODIES by Ray Cluley
THE MIGRANTS by Tim Lucas
RUT SEASONS by Brian Hodge
SENTINEL by Catriona Ward
ALMOST AUREATE by V.H. Leslie
THE TYPEWRITER by Rio Youers
LEAKING OUT by Brian Evenson
THANATRAUMA by Steve Rasnic Tem
SHACKLES by Aliya Whiteley
HAAK by John Langan
THE DEAD THING by Paul Tremblay
THE SKETCH by Alison Moore
PIGS DON’T SQUEAL IN TIGERTOWN by Bracken MacLeod
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Feb 17 2018
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Weird Fiction Review

Thanks to the good people at Weird Fiction Review who have interviewed me as part of the 9th annual Women in Horror month. They’ve also reprinted “The Nature of Bees”, a story that originally appeared in Issue 38 of Albedo One and that is included in my collection “All the Fabulous Beasts” from Undertow Publications.

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Feb 13 2018
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2018 Undertow Subscription

Undertow Subscription 2018
Undertow Publications is offering a 2018 subscription,  consisting of three books:
“All the Fabulous Beasts,” by Priya Sharma (April 2018)
“Nothing is Everything,” by Simon Strantzas (October 2018)
“Year’s Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 5,” edited by Robert Shearman & Michael Kelly (October 2018)
The Trade subscription is just U.S. $60. The Hardcover subscription is U.S. $90. (These prices include worldwide shipping).
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If you just want to buy a copy of “All the Fabulous Beasts”, you can get it as a hardback here and trade paperback here.
Thank you! x
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Feb 09 2018
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Hellnotes Interview

All the Fabulous Beasts

Thanks to Gordon B. White, who has interviewed me as part of his Deep Cuts series for Hellnotes. His thoughtful questions focus on “Fabulous Beasts”. (N.B. Contains spoilers).

https://hellnotes.com/an-interview-with-priya-sharma-author-of-fabulous-beasts/

 

 

 

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Feb 01 2018
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Locus Recommended Reading List 2017

Locus’ annual Recommended Reading List in now out for 2017.

The list contains stalwarts like Caitlín R. Kiernan, Charles Stross, M. John Harrison, Angela Slatter, Yoon Ha Lee, Aliette de Bodard, Nina Allan, Adam Nevill, Joe Hill, Sarah Pinsborough, Philip Pullman, Jeff VanderMeer and Elizabeth Bear.

It’s terrific to see work on there by Kelly Robson, JY Yang, Victor LaValle, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Usman T. Malik and Carole Johnstone. (As an aside, check out Issue 60 of Black Static, which contains her novella “Skyshine”- I will be disappointed if it doesn’t make shortlists next year).

I love that the  Locus list also includes Sarah Hall’s “Madame Zero”- one on my favourites of last year. Jeffrey Alan Love is also on the list for his illustrations of “Norse Myths: Tales of Odin, Thor, and Loki” by Kevin Crossley Holland. I think he’s a terrific talent.

I am very grateful to have two stories in the list. “Mercury” (my story from “Mad Hatters and March Hares”) and “The Crow Palace” from “Black Feathers”- an anthology of avian-themed horror edited by Ellen Datlow, which also made the Original Anthology category.

Tagged Black Feathers, Carole Johnstone, Jeffrey Alan Love, Locus' Recommended Reading List, Mad Hatters and March Hares, Mercury, Skyshine

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