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FCon Publication Update
Posted by Chris on August 4, 2010 at 7:42
Posted in: Book News, Conventions
With a scant month to go, the original big launch at the FantasyCon weekend was to be Gary Greenwood's Kingston to Cable – after some deliberation due in no small part to financial constrants, this will be now pushed forward into October which frees up space and resources to reduce the Triquorum publication pile. Not sure if anyone remembers, but I've decided to turn each individual acceptance into a single chapbook publication, and come September you will be able to check out Simon Bestwick's Angel of the Silences along with The Legend of False Dreaming by Toiya Kristen Finlay.
Apart from those two, I've also brought forward Terry Grimwood's debut novella The Places Between which I've been meaning to publish for ages – not just for the story, but also the superb cover art by Ben Baldwin (click on the thumbnail for the full-size):
Pre-ordering details will be added swiftly.
In addition, the winner of the July free book giveaway is Tara Noble also from across the Pond – she wins a copy of Feral Companions; at the end of this month, one lucky winner will receive a copy of New Writings in the Fantastic.
On a closing note, and something which I briefly touched upon earlier, it must be said this year so far has been tough; always thankful to all the loyal customers who have continued to purchase books. Despite these tough times, I am looking to the future and with a little luck October will see one or two changes – moreso in an effort to offer more for your hard-earned.
If you're reading this, and you have any comments or insights into what you would like to read, then please do get in touch: always welcome feedback, since it does feel at times to be working within a vacuum, with little interaction apart from the occasional Convention.
Anyway, enough of my warbling; keep checking the site, and if you are at FCon then tap me on the shoulder and if I'm close to the bar then I'll buy you a drink (of course, if a hundred of you turn up then I may have to ration it slightly…)
(By the way, been meaning to add this… Pendragon Press does have a group page on Facebook, if you're interested of course!)
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It's dark out there…
Posted by Chris on November 16, 2008 at 7:46
Posted in: Book News, Reviews
Well, it is 6:30 and I've been up for an hour – working nights for a certain large retailer does wreck havoc with your sleeping pattern on your shifts off, but I digress…
This rather spiffing review of We Fade to Grey – which I hasten to add was from a purchased copy – has given me the impetus to offer the following:
Anyone who orders a copy of the hardback from now until last post for Christmas will also receive a free "subscription" to the first three chapbooks within the relaunched Triquorum series next year.
The three in question are, and all published in February:
The Red House by David J Thacker: a 13,500 word dark fantasy on a past childhood between three friends and a secret they share… this is this author's first ever story acceptance (he's since placed a story in the recent SFX magazine competition book), and if I do say so myself he's a talent to watch – very Graham Joyce-like, the fusing of a mainstream story with a fantastical edge.
Allegro by Clifford Royal Johns: an sf tale of 13,700 words where the entire population have a great turn of speed.
"Cross the River" by Jeff Crook: a 16,000 word supernatural tale concerning a group of American Civil War re-enactors.
… back to a digression: Cape Fear – Martin Scorcese's remake of the Mitchum/Peck original – it has been ages since I last watched it but picked up the dvd for a bargain price on Friday and it is just superb: to my shame I've not watched the original, but De Niro would take some beating as Max Cady.
The ironic thing I noticed with Scorcese's version is the fact that it almost looks like it was directed by Hitchcock, compounded by Bernstein's adaptation of Herrmann's original score, yet the original was directed by J Lee Thompson – not Hitchcock.
(Being a bit of a film geek there is another tenuous Hitchcock link – not the Saul Bass credit sequence or Bernard Herrman: the first to guess it by 1st December will also receive any other Pendragon book, if they order the hardback of We Fade to Grey).
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