Shakespeare Vs Cthulhu on Pornokitsch

I thought you might like to know that Shakespeare Vs Cthulhu features on Pornokitsch* today.

 

I wrote a Friday Five piece last year to promote the publication of SHARKPUNK, in which I waxed lyrical about famous sharks on the silver screen, but this time I've imagined my own Shakespeare/Cthulhu mash-ups. It's just a bit of fun, but hopefully it will get more people talking about the book.

 

And just in case you'd forgotten, Shakespeare Vs Cthulhu launches tomorrow, Saturday 13th August, at 1.00pm (GMT),  at the Forbidden Planet Megastore in London.

* If you don't already know, Pornokitsch is a website that champions geek culture. Indeed, their mission statement is "to treat geek culture seriously and examine it thoroughly, for better or for worse." It is completely SFW. 

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Shakespeare Sunday: Shakespeare Vs Cthulhu launches in six days!

All of the backer paperbacks of Shakespeare Vs Cthulhu went out this week to those people who supported the original Kickstarter, and some have already been spotted out in the wild. 

Shakespeare Vs Cat-thulhu, courtesy of Matt Zitron

Photograph courtesy of James Rose

Photograph courtesy of Will Templeton

Photograph courtesy of Andrew Alvis

Don't forget, six days from today, on Saturday 13th August at 1.00pm(GMT), Shakespeare Vs Cthulhu launches at Forbidden Planet in London. You can register your interest in attending now on Facebook and then share that information with your friends.

Register your interest in attending now on Facebook.

Contributors who will be in attendance include Jonathan Oliver, Andrew Lane, Ian Edginton, Adrian Chamberlin, James Lovegrove, Ed Fortune, Malcolm Barter, Tony Hough, Neil Roberts, and yours truly. 

As well as having the chance to meet all these luminaries of the genre world, you will also be able to have your photograph taken with the Bard - a Shakespeare selfie, if you like - and there will be cake. What more do you need to know?

If you're in the general London area next Saturday, maybe I'll see you there.

Just one week to go!

Short Story Saturday: SHARKPUNK and The Best Horror of the Year Volume 8

Ellen Datlow has published her long list of Honourable Mentions for The Best Horror of the Year Volume 8 and I'm delighted to report that no fewer than seven SHARKPUNK stories have made the list.

Although they did not make the final cut for this benchmark anthology, to receive such an Honourable Mention is no small matter. 

So congratulations to Den Patrick, Richard Salter, Steve Savile, Andy and Amy Taylor, Ian Whates, Jenni Hill and Gary McMahon*.

* One of Gary's other stories, however, did make the collection. :-)

Steampunk Thursday: The Wicked Wizard of Oz

This autumn I am going to be running a Kickstarter to fund production of a new gamebook, similar in style to Alice's Nightmare in Wonderland, but this time inspired by the work of L. Frank Baum.

Play as Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, or the Lion, as you undertaken a new adventure set within the mysterious land of Oz.

To make sure that you don't miss out on the Early Bird Backer rewards, please join the new The Wicked Wizard of Oz Facebook group, and start spreading the word.

The Wicked Wizard of Oz Kickstarter will launch on Saturday 1st October 2016.

Happy Anniversary Alice's Nightmare in Wonderland!

Kickstarter kindly emailed me today to let me know that a year ago Alice's Nightmare in Wonderland funded, thanks to you! And what a year it's been!

Working with Kev Crossley for the first time, creating the first in what I hope will become a new series of gamebooks, printer delays, books shipped from Eastern Europe the day before the launch, a unique deck of playing cards created by Saskia Powys, a colouring book that's been phenomenally successful in the United States, and an awards nomination. And then today I was sent these bookmark mock-ups, created by a gamebooks fan!

Alice's Nightmare in Wonderland has received 31 5-star reviews on Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com, but there's always room for more. ;-)

And what was I working on today, a year on from Alice's Nightmare in Wonderland funding? Why, only the second in the series!

The Kickstarter for The Wicked Wizard of Oz will launch on Saturday 1st October 2016 - or should that be Oztober?

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