Fringeworks: Situations Vacant

The people behind relatively new independent publisher and UK-based consultancy Fringeworks want you - yes, you! - to fill vital roles within their growing empire.

So if you've ever wanted to edit an anthology, design a RPG, write a gamebook, or edit an e-zine (or you've done any of the above before), then you should check out the Fringeworks website here.

Oh, and tell them Jon sent you. ;-)

Steampunk Thursday: The Curse of the Baskervilles

Well the cat, as they say, is well and truly out of the bag now. Or should that be the dog is out of the bag?

In case you haven't got a clue what I'm talking about, here's the press release from Fringeworks:

Sherlock Holmes, the pipe-smoking, cocaine-taking detective whose adventures were faithfully recounted by his loyal companion Dr Watson, is undergoing something of a make-over. Just as the BBC reinvented him for a modern television audience, now Fringeworks will be reinventing him as a steampunk hero, bringing him to life in the first of an ongoing series of novels revisiting the original canon of Sherlock Holmes. Known as The Moriarty Paradigm, the series will be set in an alternate British Empire created by the genius of James Moriarty, time traveller.

The most famous of all Sherlock Holmes novels, The Hound of the Baskervilles, will be re-imagined as The Curse of the Baskervilles by Jonathan Green, the King of British Steampulp and creator of Abaddon’s Pax Britannia series and Her Majesty knows how many gamebooks. It will be published later in 2013.

You can read a brief interview with me on the Fringeworks blog.

Short Story Saturday: Ain't No Sanity Clause

Theresa Derwin's first anthology as editor, Ain't No Sanity Clause, was published by Fringeworks in time for Christmas last year, and has already received some rave reviews on Amazon.

Here's what one of them had to say about my contribution Claws:

"It is of no surprise to any science fiction fan that Jonathan Green has done what he does best; create a magnificently entertaining and elusive piece of holiday hori-fiction. The touches of old language in his dialogue make for such wizardly entertainment and the new twist on an old fairy tale works throughout the whole piece with delightful suspense. Another target hit by Jonathan Green."

You can buy yourself a copy of Ain't No Sanity Clause here.

And don't forget, my first collection of horror fiction Dark Heart is available now as well.

Ain't No Sainty Clause published today!

Fringeworks' first collection of Christmas stories, Ain't No Sanity Clause, edited by Theresa Derwin, is published today.

It contains stories combining psychopaths and other lunatics with a Christmas theme, and I'm in it. My story is called - appropriately enough - Claws.

You can find out more about this festive anthology here.

Short Story Saturday: Ain't No Sanity Clause

It's Saturday again (already!) which means it's time for some more short story news...

I shall be appearing in new publisher Fringeworks' first collection of Christmas stories, Ain't No Sanity Clause, edited by Theresa Derwin. The brief for story pitches was to combine psychopaths and other lunatics with a Christmas theme. So that's what I did.

The book's out on 10 December and my story is called - appropriately enough - Claws.

Here's the cover by artist Harry Raymond.

Of course I've tackled psychos and Christmas together before in 2009's Pax Britannia novella Christmas Past, which is still available to download for free here.

And in other short story news, in case you didn't know about it already, by first horror-themed short story collection is available now in eBook form*.

Dark Heart collects six of my horror-themed short stories under one cover**, including The Doll's House that first appeared in Solaris Books' House of Fear anthology, and is something of an eBook experiment in self-publishing.

Simply click on the appropriate cover below to download your copy today.

* The print edition is on its way too.

** All be it a cover formed from zeros and ones inside the eReader of your choice.