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Premonitions magazine-anthology now has its own page on the FaceBook site...
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Premonitions-magazine/30784834751.
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Black Static

Issue #7 of this horror fiction magazine from T3A Press has my Blood Spectrum column sprawled across eight pages... and includes reviews of Who Saw Her Die?, Wizard Of Gore (remake), Lost Boys 2: The Tribe, Shutter (another remake), B.T.K., Otis, Chemical Wedding, Day Of The Dead (yet another remake!), Dante 01, Dead Space: Downfall, Vexille, The Happening, Tin Man, P2, The Flock, The Vanguard, The Outpost, Solstice, and Eraserhead plus the collected short films of director David Lynch.

Premonitions

Delayed for years (actually four years... argh!), a new issue of Premonitions is finally with the printer, and due for publication in nifty paperback, next month!

Here's the press release:

Premonitions: Causes For Alarm
Magazine-anthology of science fiction, horror stories, and genre poetry

Now in A5 paperback format, with nearly 57,000 words of 1st class writing!

Fiction by Matt Bright, Andrew Darlington, Waldo Gemio, Peter Hagelslag, David Howard, Patrick Hudson, William Jackson, Sue Lange, David McGillveray, Matthew Pendleton, Steven Pirie, Cyril Simsa, Jim Steel, Julie Travis, and Fred Walker.

Poems from: Cardinal Cox, J.C. Hartley, John Hayes, Steve Sneyd, and J.P.V. Stewart.

Cover artists: Chris Moore, and Caroline O’Neal.

UK only: £5.95
Prices for overseas orders will be announced, shortly

Order direct from the Pigasus Press website at
www.pigasuspress.co.uk

Southbound

Made very good time on road journey back home, from England yesterday... leaving Nottingham just after 8 am, to catch the 1 pm ferry over to Wight-land. I crash-slept through teatime and evening, but was awake - or something quite like that - by 11 pm, for checking email and sorting weekend's postal deliveries.

Fantasycon was great fun! Its lively tone and friendly mood, for various panel events and nightly sessions in the main bar, were so consistently enjoyable I find it very difficult to pick out a highlight. Doubt that I will be going to F'con again (unless it moves venue to London or south coast..?), but I would strongly recommend that everyone with any level or degree of interest in fantasy, horror, and even science fiction, genres attends one of these weekend events.

Now considering the Redemption 2009 multimedia con (Coventry, in February), and the World Horror con (Brighton, in March 2010) looks to be a dead cert for me.

Sunday

Running on 4 hours sleep, I lurched along to breakfast, and then wrote a blog post to report on yesterday. The main hall's morning panel on 'When Does Fantasy Become Horror' had Chaz Brenchley, Tim Lebbon, and James Barclay, moderated by Steve Lockley, during which Ramsey Campbell contributed much to the debate, though – as expected - no conclusions were reached, leading to only tentative agreements to disagree. (I met Stephen Volk after this!) Due to various distractions, I missed half the Gallery suite panel about 'Opportunities In The Small Press', with Christopher Teague, Ian Whates, and David J. Howe - moderated by Andrew Hook, each editor giving a good account of their respective ventures' publishing aims and practices, and offering sound advice to hopeful new writers and authors.

After lunch, I neglected programme item 'How To Run A Literary Event' for advice panel 'How To Publicise Yourself' with Darren Turpin, Lee Harris, and Sam Stone, moderated by Allen Ashley, whose scepticism about online social networks provided both contrast and balance to panellists' varied expertise and experience. I really had no time for refreshments provided at 3 pm event 'Monster Small Press Launch' (but I did order another book), as my planned trip into Sutton, to visit local relatives, was bought forward from teatime.