Fantastic Fall: update#1

Posted on October 7, 2011 by Tim C. Taylor

I had hoped to announce a flurry of book launches last week. Unfortunately we did have a hold-up getting In the Rain with the Dead into the Amazon Kindle Store, but I’m happy to report that is now resolved.

So far we’ve managed to:

 Launch Paul Melhuish’s debut novel, Terminus. (SciFi: Hammer Horror meets Aliens).

 

 Publish Mark West’s horror novel, In the Rain with the Dead (edgy stuff).

Publish my science fiction novella Last Man Through the Gate (a revelationary tale of isolation)

There are plenty more launches to come for our Fantasic Fall. Next will be Legends of Light, a high-fantasy saga in six poems by Gill Shutt.

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Author Tim C. Taylor interviewed on goodreads.com

Posted on October 4, 2011 by Tim C. Taylor

I talk about my new time-travelling, steampunk novella, Last Man Through the Gate, and about Greyhart Press.

The interview is over at GoodReads.

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Learn Yerself Skyfirean

Posted on September 19, 2011 by Tim C. Taylor

Terminus

The cracking debut novel from Paul Melhuish is launched at the end of the month. If you imagined the film Aliens had been produced by the same team as Hammer Horror, and then novelized by Dan Brown… well, that would have something like the effect of Terminus.

One of the many guilty delights of Terminus is the language.

If you’re familiar with the frakkin’ in Battlestar Galactica. If it feels natural to see Grudd on a greenie written in the same sentence as Psi-Judge Cassandra Anderson, then you will love Paul’s blog post entitled  Learn Yerself Skyfirean.

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Fantastic Fall

Posted on September 13, 2011 by Tim C. Taylor

Fantastic Fall

During the summer we’ve been busy readying some fantastic fiction for your reading pleasure. To make it easy to see what’s coming and what’s arrived, we’ve created a dedicated page which we’ll update with the latest news.

In the Greyhart Press calendar, fall begins with our first set of book launches on Sept 30th (Greyhart Press is not based in your reality, so our calendars don’t exactly align).

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Our first novella: Last Man Through the Gate

Posted on September 2, 2011 by Tim C. Taylor

 We’re delighted to announce the release of our first novella on Sept 30th. We hope to have more eBooks published on or shortly after that date, but first to be confirmed is this story of time-travel, isolation and revelation.

 If you want a free advanced review copy in return for a review — comment, tweet or mail us (with your mail address and preference of ePUB, Kindle, or PDF format.)

Last Man Through the Gate

Codrin has money, even status. A professor, no less. Not bad considering he’s only a Shreb. Until one day he loses it all, and has no choice but to gamble his family’s fate on a one-way ticket across the Gate to a new life on another world.

Except there is something wrong with the Gate…

 

Cover art by BSFA award winner, Andy Bigwood.

 “Like some hybrid of Van Vogt and Charles Harness, Tim C. Taylor surprises us with worlds at strange angles to ours, and to each other, in a delicious piece of writing which ramps up excitingly through time distortions, grief, conflict, and peril, to paradoxical revelation. An excellent and provocative read.” — Ian Watson on Last Man Through the Gate

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Our first novels; coming soon… Terminus!

Posted on August 5, 2011 by Tim C. Taylor

Before the end of the year we should be providing you with three novellas and two novels. One of those will be the first novel of the Skyfire Saga, a prequel of sorts to Babel, and drenting good. Paul Melhuish is the author, and he told me that when he wrote it he had in mind a comment from one of the creators of Red Dwarf: that they had set out with Red Dwarf to depict the working class in space.

So I can’t help but make Red Dwarf connections in my mind as I’m editing Terminus. I think of it as Red Dwarf meets Evil Dead. Anyway, the reason I mention Terminus now is to show off the artwork. This was created by Andy Bigwood who was twice voted Best Cover Artist of the Year by the BSFA. Earlier this year I was published in a NewCon Press anthology called Further Conflicts. Andy did the artwork. I thought it so good that I asked him if he had any spare slots for commissions…

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We’ve not been slacking, honest!

Posted on August 5, 2011 by Tim C. Taylor

Been a bit quiet on the blog posts but there’s been plenty going on.

In no particular order:

  • We published Babel (short story), Garrison (novelette), and SiGNALS (novelette). The first two are the first we’ve published that are part of a series, and SiGNALS is our first story from a new author, the incomparable Emma Coleman.
  • After months available for nothing on other retailers, our collection of free short stories (Waif, Future Speculation & Fearworld) are now free at amazon.com and amazon.co.uk At one point this week we had Fearworld at #2 in amazon.co.uk short stories and Future Speculation at #4. They’ve since slipped but we might still get three Greyhart stories in the top-10, which would be splendid.
  • Editing is progressing well on ‘Terminus’ a novel that’s a prequel to Babel. The artwork is ready too, so I’ll post that shortly. Hopefully we’ll have two novels edited by the end of August for release later this year. With Terminus and Babel we have stories that are part of the Skyfire Saga. This will be short stories, novels, novelettes, and possibly extras such as additional artwork. I love that mix of short and long. Before eReaders, you couldn’t realistically do that, not through the same channel anyway.
  • I’m expecting the first draft of a fantasy novella soon from another new author. Well, that is to say new to Greyhart but she’s certainly no beginner when it comes to crafting stories.

If you want to keep up to date, you can also follow @GreyhartPress on Twitter. We’ll follow you back, too.

 

Update Aug 10th. We’ve had three stories in top-10 short storyies on amazon.co.uk for a few days now. 

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New e-books

Posted on July 14, 2011 by Tim C. Taylor

Space opera / horror short story Babel is available now at the Kindle Store. This is a short story that is part of the Skyfire Saga. The first Skyfire novel will come out in the fall, and I am talking to Paul about sequel novels and short stories in this setting.

In other launch news, I’m happy to announce that Emma Coleman’s debut e-book with us will come out next week, a disturbing psychological suspense tale called Signals.

And if your poison is grizzled army veterans fighting alongside cavalry mounted on giant spiders, then you will be waiting for Garrison, a new novelette from Nigel Edwards that will also be out next week.

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READ… REVIEW… REPEAT… (how to read all our books for free)

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Tim C. Taylor

At Greyhart Press, we love Twitter. It’s fun, it spreads news at ridiculous speed, and you get to chat with people you would never otherwise meet. @GreyhartPress is now on Twitter and to make this special we’re launching a Twitter deal we call

READ… REVIEW… REPEAT…

READ: one of our stories (including those we’re giving away for free)

REVIEW: the story on Amazon, GoodReads, B&N, or  iTunes. Tweet a link to your review (including @GreyhartPress inside your tweet so we can see it)

REPEAT: Follow @GreyhartPress on Twitter. Direct Message (DM)  or mention (@) us with the title you want, EPUB or Kindle format, and a contact email address. We’ll email you the story DRM-free.

READ: the new story…

REVIEW: the new story. Tweet about your review…

REPEAT: by asking us to mail you the next story for free…

READ… REVIEW… REPEAT…

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In Defense of Short Stories

Posted on July 3, 2011 by Tim C. Taylor

Since launching Greyhart Press, I’ve been delighted to encounter fellow publishers and authors who champion shorter story forms. One of these evangelists is James Everington. I came across him on an online forum and took a chance on his short story collection The Other Room. I was not disappointed.

In fact, I liked it so much that I… Well, I didn’t buy the company but I did a guest blog post on James’ Scattershot Writing blog.

Tim C. Taylor – Publisher

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