The Cookie Tin Collection – looking good

Posted on September 14, 2012 by Tim C. Taylor

The forthcoming fantasy short story collection from Nigel Edwards is looking good. The proofs were inspected and passed at our New England offices 🙂   (actually Armand Inezian, who very kindly offered to take a look)

The Cookie Tin Collection will be published later this month in paperback and eBook editions. Copies will be available at FantasyCon later this month.

I love the front cover artwork, which was produced by Defeenah over at IndieDesignz.com

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The Last Sunset – giveaway on Goodreads

Posted on September 13, 2012 by Tim C. Taylor

As promised, another day, another Goodreads giveaway. We’ve got a paperback copy of Bob Atkinson’s Scottish time travel Romance, The Last Sunset, to give away to US and UK readers. Follow this link to enter. The contest runs until Sept 19th.

There will be another FantasyCon giveaway announced tomorrow.

Our UK-only FantasyCon special giveaway of science fiction-horror novel, Terminus, is still open http://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/32797-terminus

Most of our Goodreads giveaways until now have been won by Canadians for some reason. Not sure how that works, but that’s how it turned out. We’ll be doing a Canada-only Goodreads promotion a little later in the year.

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FantasyCon Giveaway#1 : Terminus

Posted on September 12, 2012 by Tim C. Taylor

At the FantasyCon convention in Brighton, England later this month, we will be launching a collection from Paul Melhuish of dark science fiction horror called Unauthorized Contact. The book is set in the same Skyfire Chronicles universe as the short story eBook Babel, and the novel that started it all: Terminus.

So I thought it would be a great idea to giveaway a copy of Terminus in time to read it at FantasyCon. The giveaway is for UK residents only and is being hosted on Goodreads until September 18th here:  http://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/32797-terminus

Disgruntled readers who aren’t Brits will be pleased to hear there’s another giveaway due for tomorrow that’s more international.

If you win the copy and are coming to FantasyCon, bring your book along so Paul can sign it for you.

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Our little bit of the FantasyCon website has been updated

Posted on September 11, 2012 by Tim C. Taylor

We have some updated info presented on the FantasyCon book launch page. We’re second from last to launch, so I’m afraid you’ll need to scroll almost down to the bottom. http://fantasycon2012.org/launches.htm

We’ll have a small number of all our paperbacks there, as well as our launch titles, so I’d take good advantage of our 3-for-2 offer if I were you 🙂

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The Skyfire Chronicles Timeline

Posted on September 11, 2012 by Tim C. Taylor

Paul Melhuish has written seven stories in his Skyfire series, five of which are about to be launched at FantasyCon in the collection, Unauthorized Contact.  These stories stretch over a 600-year period. By the power invested in me by long-standing science fiction tradition, I now declare the need for a science fiction timeline.

And here it is…

 

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Good to see The Last Sunset charting…

Posted on September 8, 2012 by Tim C. Taylor

Still very early days, but Bob’s book about time travel, soldiers, and Scottish lassies has started charting.

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The Last Sunset is now available in paperback, and eBook editions

Posted on September 7, 2012 by Tim C. Taylor

I’m delighted to announce that Bob Atkinson’s time travel adventure story set in the Scottish Highlands is now available to buy in several formats. Please see our Last Sunset page for further details.

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The Last Sunset will be launched tomorrow

Posted on September 6, 2012 by Tim C. Taylor

When a lady called Terri contacted me last night asking where the Last Sunset page was on Amazon, I decided it was time to bring forward the launch. You see, Terri was far from the first to ask me that question.

So we’re going to publish tomorrow. [Update: the paperback is available now from amazon in US  and UK editions. And the Kindle version from amazon.com and amazon.co.uk ]

The Last Sunset is a tale of Romance and rebellion set in the lochs, hills, and glens of the Scottish Highlands. And, yes, there’s time travel too, along with cows, muskets and self-loading rifles, and home-made whisky that I can’t recommend you try. The novel should be available from tomorrow in paperback, Kindle eBook and ePUB eBook editions, available from amazon.com, amazon.co.uk, amazon.es, amazon.it, amazon.fr, amazon.de, and Smashwords. In the coming weeks, eBooks will also be available from Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Sony, Diesel, and Apple. There will be copies available at FantasyCon later this month.

I did write ‘should be available from tomorrow’ because we’re relying on several third parties here.

You can find out more on our The Last Sunset page, which also has a link to the recent article that featured Bob and his book from BBC Scotland.

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The Cookie Tin Collection… it’s another new book

Posted on September 5, 2012 by Tim C. Taylor

Another September launch is a debut collection from Nigel Edwards, The Cookie Tin Collection. Details below. This will be available in paperback at FantasyCon. For no reason other than prioritizing time in this very busy month, this will be our first release that will initially be paperback only. eBook editions will follow soon after.

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‘What would you do with a machine that forced you to feel the emotions of other people? What would it do with you?’

‘When the garrison of a remote fort is cut off by spider cavalry, what is the old veteran prepared to do to keep his unit alive?’

‘What drives the nice widow who lives in Little Twee Cottage to consider adding anti-personnel mines to her vegetable garden’s defences?’

Nigel Edwards poses these and other questions in this collection of quirky and thoughtful fantasies.

Praise for Nigel’s writing:

“Well-written” doesn’t even begin to describe Ferryman; it’s engrossing.” — Book Brouhaha

“Suffused with surreal charm.”  — Ian Whates

Contents

The Cookie Tin

Waif

Ferryman

Garrison

The Tower

Lettuce

Dimensions 6″ x 9″  trade paperback, 144pp

 

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The Horror of FantasyCon

Posted on September 5, 2012 by Tim C. Taylor

We’re busy readying releases for launch and for our trip to FantasyCon in Brighton, England later in the month. We won’t be the only publisher there by any means, Pendragon Press being one of our fellow publishers present. Now, it was Pendragon who first published Mark West’s ghostly novelette The Mill as part of the anthology We Fade to Grey, a book which has won many fine reviews, and was nominated for the British Fantasy Society Award in 2009.

Pendragon have recently announced they still have signed hardback copies of We Fade to Grey, and have reduced their prices. You can buy both The Mill and We Fade to Grey at FantasyCon. If you wave your copy (having had it signed by the author, naturally) around Chris Teague or at the Pendragon book launch, Mark says you might get a further discount.

Hopefully this is good news for TheBronteSister who recently reviewed The Mill at her excellent review site, but was left wondering whether the entire anthology would have been more satisfying.

Mark West is a little greedy in my opinion, because his short fiction is getting published in so many places over the next few months that I’ve given up trying to keep track of it all. I do remember that Mark’s ghost story in the NewCon Press/ Un:Bound anthology Hauntings will be launched in print at FantasyCon, possibly because NewCon have the launch slot after us on FantasyCon Sunday. Also, by some quirk of coincidence, I built the Kindle version, which is already available.

You can see Mark West reading from his Hauntings story at the Un:Bound video event here:

 

Talking of anthologies and collections… stay tuned for a surprise announcement.

 

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