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!

Alchemy Press roundup!

Lots of fine and funky news from the Alchemy Press side of the Alchemy Writers!

Our Pete has announced upcoming publications for Alchemy Press next year:
We have the addition of the all new Alchemy Novellas range... Alchemy will publish four novellas a year as eBooks, then the novellas will be collected together and published as a print book – so readers have the best of both worlds. Covering fantasy, horror, dark crime and light SF, more information on submission guidelines and so forth can be found here.

There will also be more anthologies -
The Alchemy Press Book of Urban Mythic - edited by Alchemy Writers Jan Edwards and Jenny Barber
The Alchemy Press Book of Pulp Heroes 2 - edited by Alchemy Writer Mike Chinn
The Alchemy Press Book of Astrologica - edited by Allen Ashley
The Alchemy Press Book of the Supernatural - edited by Alchemy Writer Peter Coleborn

Meanwhile, don't forget to check out the recently launched titles:
The Alchemy Press Book of Ancient Wonders - edited by Jan Edwards and Jenny Barber
The Alchemy Press Book of Pulp Heroes - edited by Mike Chinn
Sex, Lies and Family Ties by Sarah J. Graham

Ancient Wonders contents

Alchemy Writers Jan Edwards and Jenny Barber have now announced the final table of contents for the upcoming Alchemy Press Book of Ancient Wonders:

Introduction from Kari Sperring
Adrian Tchaikovsky – Bones
James Brogden – If Street
Shannon Connor Winward - Passage
Pauline E. Dungate – One Man’s Folly
Anne Nicholls - Dragonsbridge
Peter Crowther – Gandalph Cohen and the Land at the End of the Working Day
Misha Herwin – The Satan Stones
Lynn M. Cochrane – Ringfenced
Bryn Fortey – Ithica or Bust
Adrian Cole – The Sound of Distant Gunfire
William Meikle – The Cauldron of Camulos
John Howard – Time and the City
Selina Lock – The Great and Powerful
Aliette de Bodard - Ys


Ancient Wonders will be launched in Brighton at Fantasycon on Saturday 29th September, at 10am.  News on ordering details to follow shortly.

Pulp Heroes

Alchemy Writer Mike Chinn has announced the contents of the upcoming Alchemy Press Book of Pulp Heroes -

Mike Resnick -- Origins
Robert William Iveniuk -- House Name
Anne Nicholls -- Eyes of Day, Eyes of Night
William Meikle -- Ripples in the Ether
Chris Iovenko -- The Perfect Murder
Bracken N MacLeod -- Ivy's Secret Origin
Joshua Wolf -- Crossing the Line
James Hartley -- Jean Marie
Ian Gregory -- Currier Dread and the Hair of Destruction
Amber L Husbands -- The Going Rate
Michael Haynes -- No Way but the Hard Way
Adrian Cole -- The Vogue Prince
Joel Lane -- Upon a Granite Wind
Milo James Fowler -- The Last Laugh
Allen Ashley -- In the Margins
Peter Crowther -- Heroes and Villains
Peter Atkins -- The Return of Boy Justice

Pulp Heroes is due to be launched at Fantasycon on 29th September and full purchasing details will be up on the Alchemy Press website soon!

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.