Sunday 11th May, 2014

Let’s start with something I forgot to mention last week. Esfinges [External Link] – an online support community for women in Historical European Martial Arts (HEMA), of which I am a member, and for which I organise some Twitter Talks – is one of the sponsors of this year’s Iron Gate Exhibition. Following the link will take you to some details but for the basics:

Iron Gate Exhibition (IGX) 2014;
26th – 28th September, 2014;
Danvers Indoor Sports, Danvers, Massachusetts, USA

In a change of subject, I’ve added another story background post about Hunting Unicorns, which is still available on the Future Fire website [External Link]. This joins the current group of posts for Three Little Pigs and Gone Fishing (the latter of which is in Amok from Solarwyrm Press [External Link], see the Ink Plan bookshelf to the right), Two Hearts, Two Minds (no longer available online) and Good Form (also available on the Future Fure website and in their Outlaw Bodies anthology, also on the Ink Plan bookshelf). I have another background post due out this week.

Also this week, there’s going to be an announcement. Please keep an eye out for it!

Three Little Pigs & Gone Fishing: Story Background

This is a little background on the thinking behind Three Little Pigs (published back in April 2010) and Gone Fishing (published tomorrow, 30th April 2014). More precisely, I’m going to have a bit of a look at the world building as specific to these two stories.

Publishing Details

Three Little Pigs was published by Crossed Genres [External Link] in issue 17 of their original run. This issue is no longer available.

Gone Fishing … Continue reading

Sunday 30th March, 2014

So I’ve sorted out a bookshelf to sit to the right of the screen to give you links to the books that count towards The Ink Plan. The Ink Plan itself is officially launched on Monday – with thanks to Bart Lieb and Kay T Holt of Crossed Genres [External Link], Adele Wearing of Fox Spirit Books [External Link], Alex Davis (editor of No Monsters Allowed and Strange Fortunes), Djibril al-Ayad of The Future Fire [External Link], and Dominica Malcolm of Solarwyrm Press [External Link] for the numbers.

ASIDE: For those of you that aren’t aware, all numbers will be estimates – but hopefully very close to the actual sales. Given that issues are handed out for review and under offers, etc, it can be very hard to keep track of actual numbers of book sales.

The front page has already changed to take account of the new category and, with luck, the links will all work when everything goes live tomorrow afternoon.

Other than that, nothing much to report. See you next week!