Alchemy in October

For all those Alchemy Writers who have managed to recover from Fantasycon (and those few who haven't!), don't forget that Saturday 9th October sees the next meeting of our merry crew.

Story challenge for the month is a Halloween/Samhain/similar festival of your choice story of around 3000 words.

See you there!

Jan gets Ethereal

Our Jan does it again!

Jan's story Winter Eve has been accepted for Ethereal Tales #9 - the Halloween special issue which will be published 30th October.

Big cheers for the fabulous Jan!

Jan's April Love (and other stories)

Jan's story April Love will be available online for download from 3rd september with a superb illustration by Dutch artist Shannon van Muijden. Find it in Dark Valentine Magazine here.

Other fiction from Jan coming up in September/October:

Appearing in Twisted Tongue #17 is a flash fiction piece called Eve Watch.

And Jan's short story May Day Comes Askew will be appearing in Tales of the Greenmantle #2.

Jenny interviews Aliette de Bodard

Awesome fantasy writer Aliette de Bodard was interviewed recently by Alchemy member Jenny Barber. The interview will be appearing in Dark Horizons #57 in September and an extract can be found on the BFS website here!

Not only that, but two lucky winners can get their hands on a copy of de Bodard's debut novel Servant of the Underworld by entering the competition at the end of the interview! How can you miss that?

Jan goes Greenmantle!

More awesome publishing news! Alchemy Writer Jan Edwards is having her story Mayday published in Greenmantle Magazine in September, with a follow up story commissioned for the next issue!

Very cool!

Chills & Winter Chills

For a decade, Peter Coleborn edited and co-edited (with Simon MacCulloch) ten issues of Winter Chills/Chills for the British Fantasy Society -- the magazine dropped the "winter" with issue 5. A history of this magazine is currently appearing on the Alchemy Press blog.

Jan's Good Neighbour

And for those of you on Authonomy, for a cracking piece of fantasy fiction, check out Alchemy member Jan Edwards and her excellent novel Good Neighbour

So what's it all about?

Ally Morgan is 17 and she has lived with her American mother in Texas for most of her life. Ally’s mother is killed in a hit and run accident. Then her missing father is found dead. Ally learns that her father was one of the Fey Folk, but believes herself to be human. When she arrives at Tegleigh Manor, in Sussex, there are several attempts to kill or kidnap her, and she soon begins to learn just what she must and can do to survive. Taking her father’s body through a portal in the nearby Hill she enters a new world of intrigue and power plays. The Fey Queen does not believe Ally is who she is said to be. Meanwhile, the Pwca (trickster) is hiding out in the family cellar claiming he owed her father his life. With two young Fey friends, Sian and Turi, Ally sets out to discover who killed her parents and is now attempting to steal her birthright. This is the first book in a proposed YA series about Ally and her Clan.

That link again ... read me!