Thursday 15 June 2017

Promo with Flame Tree



As promotion for the new round of anthology releases, Flame Tree invited authors to respond to some questions with brief passages which could be compiled on the company blog. Two posts went up where you’ll find comments from me about my piece.



There wasn’t room to do all three from each writer, so here’s the third of my passages (dealing with inspirational sources for my story An Echo of Gondwana):

What are your favourite stories from this genre? (can be films/artworks/other mediums too, or authors/film directors/artists)

“Conan Doyle’s The Lost World, of course; and King Kong must be listed; Burroughs’ The Eternal Savage and The Land That Time Forgot. The writings of Lovecraft, Howard, Smith, Carter and others have many evocative passages which bring the “lost worlds” concept into focus.”

I hope to place with Flame Tree in future as their list expands, and if I can then this anthology may be thought back on of as the start of an excellent partnership! The volume is at press at this time and should be available in the weeks ahead.

Cheers, Mike Adamson


* Royalty-free image from Pixabay.

Thursday 1 June 2017

In Print, June 2017 (and Progress)


Compelling ScienceFiction #7 went live today, you can read my story Cogito, Ergo Sum on the website!

I also placed a story today, one of my “Tales of the Middle Stars,” titled North of 25, with the magazine Uprising Review. This is an angry, mal-contented little piece, set in the aftermath of the Colonial War, short as it’s pithy, and is the fifth “Middle Stars” story to be accepted.

This takes me to 24 placements, with currently about 65 stories out, and 473 submissions to date.

Update:

The Alien Way was picked up by the anthology Visions VII: Universe on June 23rd for publication later in the year. This is the sixth "Middle Stars" story to be placed.

R*E*X went live with Syntax and Salt on June 24th -- read free on the site!

Cheers, Mike Adamson


* Royalty-free image from Pixabay.