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DAIKAIJU!
GIANT MONSTER TALES is now available. For
more Anthology News, click here.
The
first and second sequels, Daikaiju! 2: Revenge
of the Giant Monsters, and Daikaiju!
3: Giant Monsters vs the World, are now available
from Amazon! Check them out here.
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STORIES / ARTICLES SOLD
"Kulpunya",
Exotic Gothic 2, edited Danel Olson,
Ash-Tree Press, expected publication Autumn 2008
"Abandoned"
-- a YA supernatural crime story -- has been accepted
for Trust Me!, an anthology edited
for the educational market by Paul Collins
"Fafrotskies"
-- a short short story -- accepted for Black
Box, edited by Shane Jiraiya Cummings (Brimstone
Press, due Jan 2008)
"Redlight Dead", written for a new shared-world hardcover periodical, Monster Noir, edited by Steven Savile. This project is under development, and is very exciting. Keep an eye out for further information.
A sequence of five separate-but-connected shorts -- which I tentatively think of as my "Weird Apocalypse" series -- has been taken by Angela Challis of Shadowed Realms. The first of them, "First Moment of Dying", appeared in issue 11, 2006. The rest ("Second Moment of Dying", etc.) will follow in subsequent issues.
"Desert Madonna", Tales from a Sunburnt Realm, edited by Nigel Read and Shane Jiraiya Cummings: a shared-world concept anthology. Anticipated publication date: 2007 |
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WHAT'S OUT THERE?
A dark-crime/horror novel Scavengers is currently doing the rounds... as is the epic horror-fantasy Fragments of a Broken Land.
Assorted
short stories have been submitted and are awaiting a
response. Unfortunately, the response isn't always positive.
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NEW BOOKS
Rob is currently working on the title story -- a novella -- for a collection of short horror stories to be published by Altair Australia Books in 2007. The collection will be called Creeping in Reptile Flesh. Apart from the titular novella, it will feature one or two previously unpublished stories and a wealth of stories that have appeared in major magazines in Australia and overseas. Cover art and design will be by the multi-talented and award-winning Cat Sparks. |
Rob
was Featured Author
on the very excellent IDEOMANCER SPECULATIVE
FICTION website during January, February and
March 2003. On the site you will find a new story, "Nobody's
Car", as well as two reprints -- "Rotten Times"
(which was shortlisted for an Aurealis award in 2000)
and "Necropolis" (from Day-dreaming
on Company Time). There is also a new interview
conducted by Deborah Biancotti.
Check
out the site at www.ideomancer.com.
Note:
you'll have to go to the Previous
Issues section now! Time marches on! |
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Recent Stories |
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Recently
accepted stories, awaiting publication
- "Kulpunya",
Exotic Gothic 2, edited Danel Olson,
Ash-Tree Press, expected publication autumn 2008
- "Abandoned",
Trust Me!, edited by Paul Collins,
Ford St. Publishing, date to be advised
- "Fafrotskies",
Black
Box, edited by Shane Jiraiya Cummings,
Brimstone Press, due Jan 2008
- "Redlight
Dead", Monster Noir, edited
by Steven Savile, due 2007/8
- "Second
Moment of Dying", Shadowed Realms
#12, edited Angela Challis, due 2007
- "Third
Moment of Dying", Shadowed Realms
#13, edited Angela Challis, due 2007
- "Fourth
Moment of Dying", Shadowed Realms
#14, edited Angela Challis, due 2007
- "Fifth
Moment of Dying", Shadowed Realms
#15, edited Angela Challis, due 2007
- "Desert
Madonna", Tales from a Sunburnt Realm,
edited by Nigel Read and Shane Jiraiya Cummings,
expected publication 2007/8
Recently
published stories / articles
- "The
Ossuary: Ghosts, Monsters and Chainsaws" in
Studies in Australian Weird Fiction,
vol. 1, edited by Benjamin Szumskyj (Equilibrium
Books, Aust.) [column]
- "Call
of Cthulhu's Mum", Conflux 5 Progress
Report, February 2008 -- read it here.
- "Pseudomelia
of the Masses" -- an SF tale speculating on
the near-future of work -- accepted for publication
in The Workers' Paradise, edited
by Russell B. Farr and Nick Evans, Ticonderoga Press,
2008.
- "In
the Service of the Flesh", Australian
Dark Fantasy and Horror 2007 Edition, edited
Angela Challis, Brimstone Press, 2007 [reprint]
- "Flesh
and Bone", Daikaiju! 3: Giant Monsters
vs the World, edited Robert Hood and Robin
Pen, Agog! Press/Prime Books, 2007
- "Monstrous
Bright Tomorrows", In Bad Dreams: Where
Real Life Awaits, edited Mark Sin Deniz
and Sharyn Lilley, Eneit Press, 2007
- "Dear
Mary", Conflux 4 Program,
September 2007 -- read it here.
- "Luxury
Goods", Fantastic
Wonder Stories , edited Russell B.
Farr, Ticonderoga Press, March 2007
- "Gold
and Black Ooze", Dr Who Short Trips:
Destination: Prague, edited Steve Savile,
Big Finish, July 2007
- "God
of War", Borderlands, issue
8, 2006
- "First
Moment of Dying", Shadowed
Realms #11, edited Angela Challis
- "A
Giant Against Giants: Ultraman for the New Millennium",
in G-Fan
#77, 2006.
- "Birthmark",
cØck,
edited by
Keith Stevenson and Andrew Macrae, Coeur
de Lion Press, 2006
- "Man
and Super-monster: A History of Daikaiju Eiga and
its Metaphorical Undercurrents", Borderlands
#7, 2006.
- "Touched",
Fables and Reflections #8, edited
by Lily
Chrywenstrom, 2006.
- "Cross-currents",
Cosmos, Issue 5, November 2005.
- "Divided
Kingdom: King Kong vs Godzilla", in King
King Is Back! An Unauthorized Look at One Humongous
Ape, edited by David Brin (BenBella Books,
2005).
- "In
the Service of the Flesh", Aurealis
#36 , 2005.
-
"<term UNTRANSLATABLE>", Ticonderoga
Online, No. 4, June 2005
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