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Red King Black Rook Pre-Orders Available

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

Red King Black Rook

Once in a while I like to help promote friend’s swag ’cause I like what they do, and if you read my blog chances are you’ll like it too. And this is just that kind of post. In this case it’s for the über talented musician, artist and author Steven Archer whose new chapbook Red King Black Rook is now available for pre-orders through Raw Dog Screaming Press.

Written and illustrated by Steve Red King Black Rook is a Steampunk fable for the modern age. It tells the story of a king’s court and what happens when a crafty avian advisor, the Rook, gains the king’s ear. The chapbook includes more than 30 ink drawings by Steve and is available in three versions, one of which includes a CD from Hopeful Machines, one of Steve’s musical projects.

Turn Your Spam Into Flash-Fiction

Friday, August 1st, 2008

Weird Tales magazine is having a clever contest – Take your email spam and use it to create flash-fiction:

Write a flash-fiction story — under 500 words — based on a spam you’ve received. Send your story, along with the headline that inspired it, to contest@weirdtales.net before 9 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 4. The Weird Tales editorial team will judge them, and three winners will be announced at the Weird Tales reception on Friday, Aug. 8 at the World Science Fiction Convention in Denver!

The first-, second-, and third-place winners will all be published online at WeirdTalesMagazine.com the week of August 11. The first- and second-place winners will also receive three free issues of Weird Tales; and the first-place winner will also receive an autographed copy of Ekaterina Sedia’s incredible new novel The Alchemy of Stone.

We encourage you to spread this announcement far and wide. But note: entries from Nigeria will be examined very closely.

And you thought all those emails telling you how to increase your size would never come in handy.