As well as stories by Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Kim Lakin-Smith and Jennifer Williams, the new issue of Dark Fiction Magazine contains an audio file of me reading my short story What Would Nicolas Cage Have Done? This was recorded by Del in a side room at the recent BristolCon conference, hence the distant crowd noise.

Dark Fiction Magazine is a new audio magazine offering four short stories each month.

From the press releases:

A cross between an audio book, an anthology and a podcast, Dark Fiction Magazine is designed to take the enjoyment of short genre fiction in a new and exciting direction. Dark Fiction Magazine publishes at least four short stories a month: a mix of award-winning shorts and brand new stories from both established genre authors and emerging writers. Each episode will have a monthly theme and feature complementary tales from the three main genres – science fiction, fantasy and horror… Lined up for future episodes are Pat Cadigan, Cory Doctorow, Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Ramsey Campbell, Rob Shearman, Kim Lakin-Smith, Ian Whates, Lauren Beukes, Mark Morris, Adam Nevill, Gareth L Powell, Jeremy C Shipp, Adam Christopher, and Jennifer Williams, among others.

On Thursday, I joined the presenters of the WordPunk podcast to discuss the challenges of writing near-future speculative fiction, such as the danger that world events will render your story obsolete before it even gets into print.

The episode is now available to download and listen to on the WordPunk website.

http://www.wordpunk.co.uk/?p=679

The latest podcast from TTA Press features a recording of my Interzone poll-winning story Ack-Ack Macaque, read by the author.

The recording is accompanied on the website by the artwork which accompanied its original appearance in Interzone in 2007.

Listen to it here: Transmission 19

This is the first time I’ve released a recording of myself reading a full-length piece, so please feel free to leave feedback in the comments below.

Click below to hear my short story The Last Reef as it appeared in Transmissions from Beyond, the podcast from TTA Press.

You can now listen to a free audio version of my short story The Last Reef on the Transmissions From Beyond website, read by Bob Eccles and illustrated by Vincent Chong. All you need to do is follow this link and press the “play” button:

http://transmissionsfrombeyond.com/2008/12/transmission13/

My short story The Last Reef will be the thirteenth story featured in the TTA Press podcast “Transmissions from Beyond“, available to download free from 22nd December.

I thought I’d try my hand at podcasting. This is my first attempt. It’s a bit rough (as I’m still learning how to use Audacity) but think of it as an experiment, and let me know what you think:

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I’ve been experimenting with recording my fiction. Here are two works-in-progress for you:

• http://www.archive.org/details/ThaiCurry
• http://www.archive.org/details/GodsGift

TTA Press have just announced their new podcast site, Transmissons From Beyond. Every other Monday, they’ll broadcast a new story taken from one of their magazines – Crimewave, Black Static or Interzone.

I have already been working with Pete Bullock to produce audio versions of my two Interzone stories – “The Last Reef” and “Ack-Ack Macaque” – and they will both make an appearance on the site in due course.