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09:21 am
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Books!
Not one but two books officially released this week - in a strange coincidence, both my collaborations with Nir Yaniv are coming out this week. And so...
 The Tel Aviv Dossier
Chizine Publications
 רצח בדיוני
הוצאת אודיסיאה
Follow the links to the books' respective sites, offering free PDF sample copies of the first few chapters, ordering information, etc.
And not to worry - the next book (The Apex Book of World SF) is only due in two months...
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02:36 pm
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SF Signal Mind Meld on International SF
SF Signal have a feature on international SF this week (the first in a series, I believe) that I took a small part in - answering the question, What is going on right now in the international sf/f scene that anglophone readers might be missing out on?
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04:05 pm
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Story Sale
"The Spontaneous Knotting of an Agitated String" to Fantasy Magazine.
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09:53 am
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Story Sale
"The Last Butterfly" to GUD Magazine, for their issue 6.
Also 6pp comics, "Them", for a future issue of Murky Depths.
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01:49 pm
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Apex Lottery
Apex are holding a lottery - with one package including some of the Apex Digest issues I've been in (2,7,8,9,10), a copy of HebrewPunk and a copy of The Apex Book of World SF. There are a lot of other prizes, and I think tickets are $1.
"At Apex, we love dark SF/horror writers so much that we snap up their souls as often as we can. But just because we own their black little hearts doesn’t mean we won’t share the darkness with you. From now through June 30th, we’re holding the Apex Author Lottery. Forget gambling your paycheck away on scratch tickets with $2 prizes. We’ve got books, and lots of ‘em. Signed books, limited editions, some with pleas for help tucked inside, scrawled by authors who think they can escape into an unwitting reader’s mind. Read them at your own risk. Own a little piece of a writer’s soul. Check out the prize packages and enter the lottery featuring your favorite author, editor, or minion of doom."
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09:43 am
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Tel Aviv Dossier MP3s now available
Read by Matt Moore - go here and then click on audio on the left.
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09:20 am
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"Transylvanian Mission" podcast
"Transylvanian Mission" (from HebrewPunk) is now available in audio as part of StarShipSofa No. 86.
Also, does anyone wants an Interfictions II proof?
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05:10 pm
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The Tel Aviv Dossier in Paperback
The Tel Aviv Dossier is now available for pre-order in paperback for $15.25 - books shipping July 1st .
You can also download the first 40pp of the novel in this handy PDF file.
And I am told audio samples will be available shortly.
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10:38 pm
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Phantom
I popped to the post office today and lo! - my contributor copy of the Phantom anthology has arrived. So small and so shiny...
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09:22 pm
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Kung Fu Mahjong?
Anyone seen Kung Fu Mahjong 2? I caught this on TV the other night, have to say it was fun. I love the HK gambling movies (The Conman in Tokyo was great!) though not God of Gamblers, for some reason. Now I hope they show 1...
Nir and I have a book coming out in Israel in - gasp - less than a month! Possibly the end of May! The final title is Retzach Bidyoni (A Fictional Murder) - I didn't realise it would be out so quickly! A tongue-in-cheek murder mystery set in an Israeli science fiction convention... cause I'm a massive fan of Bimbos of the Death Sun, that's why! I'll try and post the blurb (in Hebrew) in the next few days.
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12:05 pm
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Story sale
"Out of the Blue" to Abyss & Apex.
Also ,a short-short is currently up at 3AM Magazine: Elvis.
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04:21 pm
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Alive
Still alive, just not in a blogging frame of mind. Didn't want to completely abandon it though.
Anyway, turns out I sold "The Insurance Agent" to Interzone last week. Only my second time there, and the first to the proper editors - the last one was the special mundane sf issue.
So that's nice... and I shall fade away again from blogging for a while (don't blame me - it's 36 degrees celsius outside!)
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10:05 pm
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Story sale
"The Integrity of the Chain" to Fantasy Magazine.
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10:00 am
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New story up
"The Dying World" is now up at the new April issue of Clarkesworld Magazine.
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11:20 am
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The Apex Book of World SF available for pre-orders!
 The Apex Book of World SF is now open to pre-orders!
The book retails for $15.95, with publication expected September 1, 2009. All pre-orders come with free shipping in the United States.
Please consider ordering a copy, or mentioning the book on your blog! Or check out the World SF blog for daily news about international science fiction, fantasy, horror and comics.
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09:26 pm
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Apex Book of World SF - Cover Art
Love the cover - artwork is by Randall McDonald ("The Lost Dog of Shanghai") and cover design by Justin Stewart.
I am told pre-orders should be open soon.
Current Mood:  pleased
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11:09 am
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An update of sort
I gave the novel a rest for a few days, with the result of pottering - pottering in this case meaning writing two more comics strips and selling one of them, tidying up and sending off a couple of short stories that have been sitting on the hard drive for a while, and finishing at last a novella began in December. That sort of thing.
My comics stories to date are:
"The Butcher & The Fly Keeper: A Christmas Love Story" - 6pp, published in issue 6 of Murky Depths, with art by Thomas Tuke.
"Finger" - 3pp, coming up in Murky Depths with art by Neil Roberts.
"Mr. Spellman's Last Dance" - 6pp, coming up in new American comics anthology Grave Concerns, edited by Scott Nicholson, artist TBA.
Writing "Mr. Spellman's Last Dance" got me thinking there was another story there, and so "Mr. Spellman's Holiday", a very grim 9pp story - an addition to my Holocaust-related stories, this time in graphic form - will be published in a future issue of Murky Depths.
Meanwhile I've been updating the ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) worldsf blog - I believe we now have cover art, and a mockup cover is being worked on.
Other than that, it's very, very quiet at the moment. Novel's at the half-way point, numbers-wise - it currently stands at 40,000 - and I've been thinking about a new novella idea. E-mail is at a virtual standstill...
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04:21 pm
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World SF update
Been updating the new worldsfblog the last few days - so far covered some Polish fantasy, Thai time-travel and Indian superheroes. Stay tuned! Plenty more to come...
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09:47 pm
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Book news
Well, a while ago Nir and I wrote a short novel in Hebrew - a murder mystery set in an Israeli SF convention. It took a while, but it's got itself a publisher - and so רצח בדיוני (A Fictional Murder) - as the provisional title, at least, is - should be out some time this year in Israel from Odissea Publishers.
It's a fun book, I think. Hope people like it. A thinly-veiled version of Nir gets to die in it, which I'm sure would make a lot of people happy...
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02:25 pm
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Comics and stuff
Been browsing DeviantArt - some great stuff there, it has to be said (this is in the hope of finding a suitable cover for the Apex Book).
I sold a comics story recently - my third one - and have just finished scripting a very strange picture book that's going off to the artist soon (I hope he makes sense out of it!). So yes, been playing around with graphic narratives recently - kinda fun... I have a fourth comics story to finish writing, though it's a terribly depressing one.
I couldn't find an e-copy of James Cook's journal from his second voyage - how irritating is that? But then thought to try IRC and at least got the second part of it. Why is it not on Gutenburg?
And the new novel is coming along. 30,000 words so far, which isn't bad.
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