Jan's Demonologia Biblica

Huuuuge congrats to Alchemy writer Jan Edwards who is having a story published in the Western Legends anthology The Demonologia Biblica.  Edited by Dean M Drinkel, this is the first in collection of anthologies to be published throughout 2013 under the banner “Tres Librorum Prohibitorum” 

Authors in this volume include: Barbie Wilde, William Meikle, Jan Edwards, John Palisano, Tracie McBride, D.T. Griffith, Kate Jonez, Simon Kurt Unsworth, Raven Dane, Jonathan Green, Lily Childs, Daniel I. Russell, Christine Dougherty, Mark West, Magen Cubed, Colleen Anderson, Emile-Louis Tomas Jouvet, Dave Jeffery, Nerine Dorman, Adrian Chamberlin, Sean Sweeney, Andy Taylor, Sam Stone, Dean M. Drinkel, Sandra Norval, Nicholas Vince.

More information on when, where and how much as soon as we get it!

Pirate Jen

Congrats to Alchemy writer Jenny Barber, whose story Past Lives will be appearing in the Fox Spirit Books anthology -Piracy: Fox Pocket Anthology Volume #1.
News on release date when we get it!

Jen has also had her story Hunting Ground accepted for the Elektric Milk Bath Press Urban Fantasy Anthology - details to be forthcoming.

Debbie's Paying the Piper

Fans of Debbie Bennett's gritty crime book Hamelin's Child can now get their hands on the sequel - Paying the Piper.
The blurb:

Michael is piecing his life back together after his time spent as a rent boy. But it's hard and although he's been clean of drugs for months, the nightmares are still too real and he can't come to terms with Lee's death and Eddie's impending trial.

Sometimes other people's troubles can seem easier to deal with. When Michael meets Amanda at the cashpoint, it's a chance to focus on someone other than himself, and finding Amanda's missing husband and baby may just be his salvation.

But the shadows of his past won't let him go. The bank account they've set up for him is full of easy cash and Eddie's old boss Carl can help Amanda. And suddenly Michael is in deeper than he ever imagined possible.

This thriller is set six months after the events in Hamelin's Child and contains adult material.

Paying the Piper is available in paperback and multiple ebook formats as follows:

Kindle
Amazon UK : Amazon USA (and all other amazon sites)

Various Formats
Diesel

Nook
Nook UK
Barnes & Noble USA

All E-Formats
Smashwords

Print Books
Amazon UK  :  CreateSpace USA

Jan's in Darkness

Big congrats to Alchemy Writer Jan Edwards who will be appearing in the charity anthology When Darkness Falls. WDF is edited by Emma Audsley and will be published by Screaming Spires.  All proceeds will go to Pictor School in Cheshire, UK and Autism Awareness.

Table of Contents:
1. Crows View of Autumn by Joe S Pulver.
2. Jennifer by Jack Bennett.
3. The Greek Widow by Stephen Laws.
4. In the Name of God by Stuart Young.
5. Antidote by Max Xavier.
6. Stick Around by Brian Hodge.
7. What is it For? by Rebecca Brown.
8. Trufflepig by Colin F Barnes.
9. What the Dark Does by Graham Masterton.
10. Castigation Crunch by Jasper Bark.
11. The Psychoanalyst by Rhys Hughes.
12. Greenfingers by Lisa Jenkins.
13. ‘Til Death by Eric Smith.
14. House of Dandridge by Jason White.
15. Know Our Hearts Bleed by Frank Duffy.
16. Webbed Fingers by Stephen Bacon.
17. The Stranger by Tom Lynch.
18. 212 by Seb Doubinsky.
19. Penumbra Over Millwall by Jan Edwards.
20. If I Should Wake by Brian Hodge.
21. That Night at The Grief by Gary McMahon.
22. The Stones of Calder Hall by Raven Dane.
23. In the South, an Arise by R J Barker.
24. So Much to See by Frazer Lee.
25. In the Dark, the Monsters by Alison Littlewood.
26. Hey, Karen by Marianne Halbert.
27. Suicide Solution by R D Teun.
28. ’77 Coupe De Ville by D M Youngquist.
29. Nailbiter by Amelia Mangan.
30. The Spoon by Rhys Hughes.
31. On Delivery by Jack Bantry.
32. Old School by Gary Fry.
33. Sea of Souls by Mark West.
34. The Other Side by Ramsey Campbell.

Mike's Moments

And big congrats to Alchemy member Mike Chinn on the acceptance of his story Bring Me These Moments Back for Unspoken Water 4.  More news on when it'll be appearing soon!

Jan Gets Grimm

Congrats to Alchemy member Jan Edwards whose story Princess Born has been published in the Fringeworks anthology Grimm and Grimmer Vol. one (edited by Theresa Derwin).  It is currently available as an ebook for the Kindle from here and a hard copy version will be available shortly.

Mike Does It Twice!

Big congrats to Alchemy Writer Mike Chinn who is having his story Welcome to the Hotel Marianas podcasted on Tales to Terrify. Originally appearing in the Pill Hill Press anthology The Bitter End in 2009, the podcast version of Marianas is rumoured to have an Australian narrator... we'll have more news about when it'll be appearing soon...

Not content at being podcasted, our Mike has also had another story accepted for publication!  Look for his story Holding It In in the upcoming anthology There Ain't No Sanity Clause - edited by Theresa Derwin. More information on the website here.

Jan's Christmas Ghost

Congratulations to Alchemy Writer Jan Edwards, whose story Concerning Events in Leinster Gardens will be appearing in the Spectral Press anthology - The Thirteen Ghosts of Christmas 2012.

More news on how to get it and when, exactly, it's appearing can be found on the Spectral Press website here!

Jan in Print

Alchemy member Jan Edwards has had several stories published recently (woohoo!)

Her story Midnight Twilight is in the Hersham Books anthology Alt-Zombie: The Alternative Zombie Anthology.  Edited by Peter Mark May and to be launched on 16th June at the Mug House pub in London, Alt-Zombie features tales from a whole mess of writers: Stephen Bacon, Stuart Young, Gary McMahon, Dave Jeffery, Jay Eales Mark West, Zach Black, Jan Edwards, Rachelle Bronson, Selina Lock William Meikle, Katherine Tomlinson, Adrian Chamberlin, R. J. Gaulding, Shaun Hamilton, Shaun Jeffrey, Stuart Hughes, David Williamson, Richard Farren Barber, Allison Littlewood, Joe McKinney.

Alt-Zombie can be picked up from assorted online stores or see their website here for details.

Jan's story Jack Out Of The Box has also recently appeared in the Father Grim’s Storybook anthology published by Wicked East Press.  Edited Jessica Weiss, it includes fiction from Suzanne Robb, Bennie L. Newsome, S.C. Hayden, Jon-Michael Emory, Chris Allinotte, Michael Constantine McConnell, George Wilhite, Shannon Wendi, Teresa Black, Jan Edwards, Brent Abell, Jeff Chapman, David W. Landrum, Mel Obedoza, E.F. Schraeder, William R.D. Wood, and a new novella by Jay Raven. Father Grim is available on Amazon or see the Wicked East Press website for details.

April saw the release of Jan's fab pirate story Damnation Seize My Soul in the Newcon Press anthology Dark Currents.  Edited by Ian Whates, Dark Currents has fiction from Adrian Tchaikovsky, Adam Nevill, Tricia Sullivan, Rod Rees, Nina Allan, Andrew Hook, Finn Clarke, Lavie Tidhar, Jan Edwards, Emma Coleman, Rebecca J Payne, Sophia McDougall, Una McCormack, Neil Williamson, Aliette de Bodard and V.C. Linde.  Available in all good bookstores or from Newcon Press direct on their website here.

Not only that, but April also saw the publication of Jan's story Gallery Green in the Terror Scribes anthology.  Edited by Adam Lowe and Chris Kelso with fiction from Rachel Kendall, Richard Barber, Sharon Kae Reamer and Rob Rowntree, Derek M. Fox, Chris Kelso, Wendy Jane Muzlanova, David Price, John B. Ford and Steve Lines, Jan Edwards, A.J. Kirby, Selina Lock, Jay Eales, Marie O'Regan, Deb Hoag, Mark West, Adam Lowe, John Palisano and Sue Phillips with a selection of flash fiction by Christy Leigh Stewart and a selection of poems by Paul Bradshaw.   Available from Lulu here.

And there's more!  Jan's stories Wade’s Run and Redhill Residential saw publication in the Ghostly Reflections anthology from Infinity Publishing.  Alchemy member Peter Coleborn also has his story The Old Manor published in this anthology.  Edited by Chris Nadeau, Ghostly Reflections can be found on Amazon.com.

Mike's eMandates

Alchemy Press has released the ebook edition of Alchemy Writer Mike Chinn's Paladin Mandates. This is a spanky new revised version of the original Paladin Mandates with a bonus story written especially for the ebook.

Get it from Amazon by clicking through here...

Peter's Old Manor

Congrats to Alchemy member Peter Coleborn who has had his story The Old Manor accepted for the anthology Ghostly Reflections due for publication by Infinity Publishing. More news as and when we hear it!

More Eldritch

The tentacles have spoken - here's more on Eldritch Chrome, in which our Sam will soon be found...
Edited by Glynn Owen Barrass and Brian M. Sammons, published by Chaosium, full of stories of Cthulu~meets~cyberpunk from the following:

Playgrounds of Angolaland – David Conyers
The Blowfly Manifesto – Tim Curran
SymbiOS – William Meikle
Obsolete, Absolute - Robert M. Price
Open Minded – Jeffrey Thomas
The Battle of Arkham – Peter Rawlik
The Wurms In the Grid – Nickolas Cook
Of Fractals, Fantomes, Frederic and Filrodj – John Shirley
The Gauntlet – Glynn Barrass and Brian M. Sammons
Indifference – CJ Henderson
Dreams of Death – Lois Gresh
Inlibration – Michael Tice
Immune – Terrie Leigh Relf
Hope Abandoned – Tom Lynch
Sonar City – Sam Stone
The Place that Cannot Be – D.L. Snell
Flesh & Scales – Ran Cartwright
Real Gone - David Dunwoody
CL3ANS3 - Carrie Cuinn

News on when it's available as soon as we get it!

Sam's Cthulupunk!

Congratulations to Alchemy member Sam Stone whose Cthulupunk story Sonar City has been accepted to the anthology Eldritch Chrome.

The anthology will be published by Chaosium and more information will be forthcoming as soon as we wrench it from the tentacles of those with the secret knowledge of the universe...

Jan and Sam are Hammered!

It being January means that the Hammer Out Book of Ghosts is now officially out! In it you can find stories from Alchemy Members Jan Edwards and Sam Stone so don't delay, get your copy now!

Published by Fantom Films, all money raised from the anthology will go to the charity Hammer Out which helps fund research, raise awareness and provide support for people suffering from brain tumours.

The hardback edition can be had for £10.99 here.

Contents:
Foreword by Tracey Childs
Immortal Monster by Sam Stone
The Widow and the Deserter by Alex Barrett
Sleeping Lions by Niall Boyce
Orbyting by Jan Edwards
The Noise from the Flat Upstairs by S.E. Branson
Tower Song by Richard Howard
Deadline by Paul W.T. Ballard
The Attic Nursery by Raven Dane
Chillers and Breathers by Sam Stone
We Attract that which we Fear the Most by Louise Jameson
Last Rites by Simon Guerrier

Jan in Cities of Death

Congratulations to Alchemy member Jan Edwards who has had her story Bone Wary accepted for the A-Z Cities of Death anthology coming out from Static Movement.

Edited by Dean M. Drinkel, Cities contains 26 stories of horror in cities, with Jan's story covering S for Stoke on Trent!

Mike's Midnight Diner

Excellent news from Alchemy member Mike Chinn - his story Once Upon an Easter has been accepted for The Midnight Diner vol.4. More news on publication date when we get it!

Alchemy 2011

It has, it must be said, been quite a funky year for Alchemy members in 2011.

Debbie ventured into e-publishing and saw the release of her short story collection Maniac and Other Stories, and her novels Hamelin's Child (adult thriller) and Edge of Dreams (YA fantasy). She also saw the publication of her stories On the Edge of Forever in the Kindle Coffee-Break Collection anthology (edited by Saffina Desforges) and Moira on the Everyday Fiction site.

Not only that, Debbie has also guest blogged on Steve Lockley's Confessions of a Technophobe blog with When Too Much is Not Enough, had several posts on the You're Booked crime writers blog and regularly blogs at Authors Electric.


Jan was especially prolific this year - she saw the publication of Grey Magic for Cat Lovers in New Horizons/ BFS Journal (Summer 2011); Mayday Springs Askew in Tales from the Greenmantle (July 2011); The Clinic in the Alt-Dead anthology; Ballad of Lucy Lightfoot in Full Fathom Forty:40th Anniversary of the BFS; Roberta in Ethereal Tales #12; Redhill Residential in True Personal Ghost Stories; Valkenswaard in Unspoken Water #2; Wade's Run in Ghost Stories; Oblation in Andromeda's Offspring #3 and she finished off the year with the publication of Thirteenth Day in the Estronomicon Chrismas edition.

She's also had acceptances for several stories due out in 2012, guest blogged on Steve Lockley's Confessions of a Technophobe blog with Do We Dare To Comment?, and looks set to take over the world sometime soon!


Jenny has been mostly slush reading for Fantasy Magazine and judging the BFS Best Newcomer award, but has also guest blogged on Floor to Ceiling Books with Alice in Zombieland, and regularly posts over at the Girls' Guide to Surviving the Apocalypse blog.


Mike has seen the release of his e-novella Sailors of the Skies (available from Amazon), has had his story Cold Rain published in the Morpheus Tales Urban Horror Special, his story Only the Lonely appeared in Dark Valentine Issue #4/Spring 2011 and his story Sons of the Dragons appeared in Kzine Issue 1. Not only that but his story Saving Prince Romero is about to come out in the next PS Publishing antho - Postscripts #26/27 - Unfit For Eden and he was also interviewed by Stuart Young in Redeye Extra.



Peter edited and published the excellent Peter Atkins collection Rumours of the Marvellous and also had his story Who Wanders in the Mire published in the Christmas edition of Estronomicon. He was interviewed on the Red Moon Chronicle site and edited four fantastic issues of Dark Horizons - the British Fantasy Society's fiction magazine.




Sam saw the publication of the next volume in her Vampire Gene series - Hateful Heart by Murky Depths and her collection Zombies in New York and Other Bloody Jottings was published by Telos Publishing. She also had her short stories Walking the Dead published in the BFS Journal/Spring 2011 and The Toymaker's House in Full Fathom Forty:40th Anniversary of the BFS.

She edited talespinning by David J. Howe for Telos Publishing, conducted an extensive signing tour, won the BFS Best Novel and Short Story awards and guest blogged on Steve Lockley's Confessions of a Technophobe blog with The Changing Face of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Series.

Here's hoping next year will be even more successful!

Jan and Peter's Estro Xmas

Special Christmas congratulations to Alchemy members Jan Edwards and Peter Coleborn who both have stories in the special Xmas edition of Estronomicon - available to download free here!

Containing:

The Night Before Christmas - Neil Williamson
Two Years to the Day - Neil Davies
The Advent Calendar's Last Window - Bob Lock
Five-Thirty, Christmas Morning - John Forth
The Thirteenth Day - Jan Edwards
Christmas Present - Marion Pitman
Ho, Ho - Ian Hunter
Driving Home for Christmas - Mark Howard Jones
Proof - James Bennett
Jarly and the Saga of the Snowball - Stuart Young
Christmas with Julia - Stewart Horn
Who Wanders in the Mire - Peter Coleborn
Bitten by the Birds of Paradise - Matt Finucane
Schrodinger's Gifts - Neil Williamson

Jan and Sam Hammered Out

Alchemy Members Jan Edwards and Sam Stone both have fiction due out in the Hammer Out Book of Ghosts in January 2012.

Published by Fantom Films, all money raised from the anthology will go to the charity Hammer Out which helps fund research, raise awareness and provide support for people suffering from brain tumours.

The hardback edition can be had for £10.99 here.

Contents:
Foreword by Tracey Childs
Immortal Monster by Sam Stone
The Widow and the Deserter by Alex Barrett
Sleeping Lions by Niall Boyce
Orbyting by Jan Edwards
The Noise from the Flat Upstairs by S.E. Branson
Tower Song by Richard Howard
Deadline by Paul W.T. Ballard
The Attic Nursery by Raven Dane
Chillers and Breathers by Sam Stone
We Attract that which we Fear the Most by Louise Jameson
Last Rites by Simon Guerrier

Jan's Valkenswaard is out!

Excellent news: Unspoken Water #2 is now out and available for sale here.
Buy it for Jan's story Valkenswaard and you get a host of bonus other stories too! :-) Including:

Little Dead Girl by C. M. Saunders
A Breath of Air by Rebekah Brown
Crossing by Karen Ellery
Heartless by Thomas Williams
Sea Monkeys by Steve Lockley
The Crossroads by Stephen Palmer
Valkenswaard by Jan Edwards
The Magic Circle by Sarah Doyle

Available from http://www.ian-hunter.co.uk/buy-online and includes free "freebies" while stocks last.

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