PRISMS and BLACK STATIC

I’m delighted to be able to announce that the anthology Prisms, edited by Darren Speegle and Michael Bailey, is now available for pre-order from PS Publishing. This anthology got pushed back a few years, so my story “Encore For an Empty Sky”–a rare jaunt by me into science fiction–has been waiting for a while to see the light of day. That fine cover is by British Fantasy Award-winning artist Ben Baldwin.

As you can see, the lineup is wonderful:

• WE COME IN THREES – B.E. Scully 
• ENCORE FOR AN EMPTY SKY – Lynda Rucker
• THE GIRL WITH BLACK FINGERS – Roberta Lannes
• THE SHIMMERING WALL – Brian Evenson
• IN THIS, THERE IS NO STING – Kristi DeMeester
• THE BIRTH OF VENUS – Ian Watson
• FIFTY SUPER-SAD MAD DOG SUI-HOMICIDAL SELF-SIBS, ALL IN A LEAKY TIN CAN HEAD – Paul Di Filippo
• RIVERGRACE – E. Catherine Tobler
• SAUDADE – Richard Thomas
• THERE IS NOTHING LOST – Erinn L Kemper
• THIS HEIGHT AND FIERY SPEED – A.C. Wise
• THE MOTEL BUSINESS – Michael Marshall Smith
• EVERYTHING BEAUTIFUL IS ALSO A LIE – Damien Angelica Walters
• THE GEARBOX – Paul Meloy
• DISTRICT TO CERVIX: THE TIME BEFORE WE WERE BORN – Tlotlo Tsamaase
• HERE TODAY AND GONE TOMORROW – Chaz Brenchley
• THE SECRETS OF MY PRISON HOUSE – J. Lincoln Fenn
• A LUTA CONTINUA – Nadia Bulkin
• I SHALL BUT LOVE THEE BETTER – Scott Edelman

In other news, that stalwart of British horror, Black Static, is coming to an end. My last column, “Notes From the Borderland,” was in the November/December issue, and editor Andy Cox will be switching to a digest format for a little while as he winds everything down. Black Static, its forerunner The Third Alternative, and TTA Press mean more to me than I can really properly say here. Andy plucked me out of the slush and published my first story after I’d spent years beating my head against a solid wall of rejection. He bought six of my first eight published stories. If you like my writing–well, if not for Andy Cox, you probably wouldn’t be reading it. So pop over to the page and pick up a copy of Black Static while you still can. In the meantime, I suppose I will have to find another outlet for my blatherings on all things horror and then some.