My Writing Year in Pictures
Filed under General • 31-12-2008 •
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- April – The Friday Flash Fictioneers publish first anthology, with an introduction from yours truly.
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- The Friday Fictioneers at the Flash Fiction Workshop at Eastercon, April 2008
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- June – Ack-Ack Macaque wins the Interzone readers’ poll for best short story of 2007.
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- My first collection of short stories is released in August 2008
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- Aug – The Last Reef is launched at the Citte of York pub in Holborn at the beginning of August
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- Sept – My short story Sunsets and Hamburgers appears in the last issue of the Portuguese magazine Phantastes
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- Oct – Interzone 218 carries an interview with Gareth L Powell and a review of his collection, The Last Reef
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- Dec – My story A Necklace of Ivy appears in this sampler from Elastic Press, given away to members of the BSFA with Vector magazine
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- Dec – My short story The Last Reef is released as a free podcast by TTA Press
In addition, I:
- Had a story reprinted in Concept SciFi
- Was interviewed by Concept SciFi
- Sold a third story to Interzone (Memory Dust, coming Jan 2009)
- Sold a story to the Future Bristol anthology edited by Colin Harvey (What Would Nicolas Cage Have Done? coming April 2009)
- Co-wrote a short story with Aliette de Bodard (The Church of Accelerated Redemption, finishing touches currently being applied)
- Co-wrote a short story with Rob Starr (The Winding Curve, which appeared in Rob’s collection Sophistry by Degrees, Jan 2008)
- Was interviewed by SF Crowsnest
- Garnered excellent reviews for The Last Reef & Other Stories from The Fix, SF Crowsnest, Morpheus Tales, Interzone, etc
- Wrote another short story, Laptop Jack, that’s ready to go out to market…
