Dorothy Davies has accepted my short story Revenge and the Railway Dead for her anthology Ghost Stories Western Style II.
Also, I recently received the proof for Conquest Through Determination. There are some damn good stories in there.
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Dorothy Davies has accepted my short story Revenge and the Railway Dead for her anthology Ghost Stories Western Style II.
Also, I recently received the proof for Conquest Through Determination. There are some damn good stories in there.
I just had my short story Sternum Flint’s Mechanical Heart accepted into the steampunk anthology Conquest Through Determination, edited by Miles Boothe and Deana Roberts.
For just 3000 words, it took me a ridiculously long time to write. Still, I rather like the title.
Also, I’ve been going back and forth on what byline to use – Sonia or Son. I’m thinking it’s going to be Son from now on. Sonia Mitchell is just too much of a mouthful, and it probably won’t hurt to have a mildly androgynous name.
Besides, everyone calls me Son these days. It’s easier to draw out into Soooonnnnnnn….? when they want something.
I forgot to link to this one at the time:
Where Eagles Dare, hosted by FerretBrain. Clint Eastwood kills a shitload of Nazis and Richard Burton grapples with spies on a cablecar.
Weird City 3, an urban fantasy anthology edited by George Wilhite, is currently awaiting editing. I’ll have a 3500 word story in there called The Archester Minotaurs. It’s another vampire one, with some minotaurs thrown in for good measure.
I don’t think there are enough minotaur stories around.
I got the email today to say the Monster Gallery anthology is now available from Static Movement hosted by Pillhill Press. You can also buy from Amazon (UK) and Amazon (US).
I have a piece of flash fiction just shy of 1000 words in there called The Other Circus. It’s about a vampiric circus. Naturally.

I edited (and wrote most of) the Isle of Wight Zoo Guidebook.
It has a lot more tigers than the average book. What more could you want?
Stalag 17 may not have much to say about the Nazis, but it has plenty of insight into human nature.
Reviewed at Ferretbrain.
Matthew Reilly Hits the Exclamation Mark. Bam!
I muse on why I love Matthew Reilly’s trashy thrillers, and why I really shouldn’t. Published at FerretBrain.
A review of the BBC TV series on conservation. Featuring Mark Carwardine and Steven Fry, it retreads the territory of the Douglas Adams/Mark Carwardine trip of the 1980s.
Published by FerretBrain in November 2009.
Two Guns, a Balloon and a Bear
Philip Pullman writes a mini-book about Lee Scoresby using Western tropes. I was always going to like this one.
Published at FerretBrain, October 2009.