The Fix Online has posted a review of The Horror Library Vol II, in which my story THE TRAUMA STATEMENT was featured. Just click on this link.
Archive for April, 2008
Table of Contents for CONE ZERO announced
Posted in Uncategorized on April 23, 2008 by Steve BaconThe link below is a post on Wikipedia about Nemonymous, with a list of all the previous books, the story titles and the author’s bylines. It mentions Cone Zero, obviously without the authors attached.
You can see more here. As you can see, there are many great writers mentioned. I’m honoured to be contributing to the series.
CONE ZERO
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Add new tag, BUY on April 18, 2008 by Steve BaconI’m delighted to announce that I’ve sold a story to a forthcoming anthology called Nemonymous 8 (subtitled CONE ZERO). Due to contractual obligations I can’t for the moment reveal the name or length of the story – as I’ll come to in a minute – but I’m especially pleased as the book will be edited by the legendary DF Lewis, a favourite writer of mine for many years.
The Nemonymous books are unique in the publishing field because they don’t have the story name and the author by-line attached at the time of publication. The book simply lists the titles of the tales and a random order of authors and the reader is left to his own devices to decide which writer created which story. The first five editions of the anthology had the authors names ONLY revealed in the successive anthology.
This prevents any bias towards ‘name’ writers, and should mean the stories stand by merit. The tales (of which there will be 14 in CONE ZERO) will be correctly assigned to the respective author in approx 8 months time, and in the proposed Nemonymous 9. One other point to mention is that the only constraint in the guidelines was a preference for the story to be called CONE ZERO, but all other content to be the writer’s own.
Now that’s a loose theme, one that should guarantee a variety of stories. I’m very excited to be contributing to this.
You can find out more by going to www.nemonymous.com/
REVIEW : Die For Me – Karen Rose
Posted in Uncategorized with tags review on April 18, 2008 by Steve Bacon
Just finished this doorstop of a novel. It’s a little daunting, weighing in at almost 600 pages, and the question is ‘is it worth investing my time in such a long book?’I wish someone had told me that back in February when I started reading it, because the honest answer is ‘no, not really’. The premise of the novel is quite straightforward – a serial killer is murdering people for the purpose of filming their deaths and incorporating the imagery into a new computer game that he’s creating. A local cop is assigned to the case, and he becomes romantically linked with a young expert on history who is asked to advise. Needless to say, things go bad, and I don’t think I’m giving too much away to say that this is standard thriller stuff – the literary equivalent of a Roland Emmerich film. It is, to its credit, incredibly readable; although some of the dialogue is appalling. It’s a thriller novel for people who don’t read many thriller novels. *****
Entering the 21st Century (Finally)
Posted in Uncategorized on April 15, 2008 by Steve BaconWell I’ve finally given in, and decided to join the rest of the world by starting a blog. It’s really just a way of combining a website, with a list of things I like to read and write, coupled with random bits of trivia which penetrate my brain from time to time.
I’ll do my best to update it when the muse strikes.
Don’t hold your breath.
