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Post by williemeikle on Jun 8, 2010 13:15:46 GMT
A new collection "Whispers from the Darkside" is coming soon in paperback and ebook formats from Ghostwriter Publications. This contains the best of my recent work, and features my Carnacki: Ghostfinder stories, a new long Midnight Eye tale, two new cryptozoological stories, 3 new ghost stories, and 3 reprints from limited edition Penny Dreadful chapbooks. The table of contents is as follows: WHISPERS FROM THE DARKSIDE __________________________ The Blooded Iklwa - A Carnacki story A Haunting in a Small Town - New ghost story Abominable - New Cryptozoological story Rhythm and Booze - New long Midnight Eye story After the Fall - New dark fantasy story The Haunting of Esther Cox - New ghost story The Larkhill Barrow - A Carnacki story Fear Liath Mor - New Cryptozoological story Truth Decay - Ghost story Samurai - Ghost story Snow Fare - New ghost story The Sisters of Mercy - A Carnacki story News on pricing and availability will follow soon, but I'm really looking forward to this, as I think it contains a lot of the best stuff I've ever done.
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Post by williemeikle on Jun 10, 2010 12:53:10 GMT
I've added a FB "like" button to www.williammeikle.com/ - I'd appreciate any "likes" you'd care to throw my way
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Post by Dreadlocksmile on Jun 12, 2010 8:59:46 GMT
News on pricing and availability will follow soon, but I'm really looking forward to this, as I think it contains a lot of the best stuff I've ever done. Cool...well GWP still owe me a tenner or so for the 'Night of the Crabs' audiobook I ordered over a year ago (it never arrived). Fingers crossed I can use that payment as a credit note of sorts to nab some Meikle magic...
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Post by williemeikle on Jun 12, 2010 12:02:34 GMT
News on pricing and availability will follow soon, but I'm really looking forward to this, as I think it contains a lot of the best stuff I've ever done. Cool...well GWP still owe me a tenner or so for the 'Night of the Crabs' audiobook I ordered over a year ago (it never arrived). Fingers crossed I can use that payment as a credit note of sorts to nab some Meikle magic... As far as I know the audiobook is still in the pipeline... the guy who was doing it got a long, well paying, gig that kept him away from GWP work for a while. I'm also waiting for the Island Life audio book to be done... I've heard sample chapters and it's been well done
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Post by Dreadlocksmile on Jun 12, 2010 18:03:08 GMT
As far as I know the audiobook is still in the pipeline... the guy who was doing it got a long, well paying, gig that kept him away from GWP work for a while. I'm also waiting for the Island Life audio book to be done... I've heard sample chapters and it's been well done Oh right! I presumed that it was all called off because it had completely gone from the GWP site after the site had a complete facelift. I guess I'll hang on a while longer yet then... Is a bit bad considering I paid back in June 2009 for it. GWP should really have refunded the money after it took so long. Ho hum....well, I don't want to start anyone off on another GWP rant.
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Post by williemeikle on Jun 12, 2010 18:21:06 GMT
As far as I know the audiobook is still in the pipeline... the guy who was doing it got a long, well paying, gig that kept him away from GWP work for a while. I'm also waiting for the Island Life audio book to be done... I've heard sample chapters and it's been well done Oh right! I presumed that it was all called off because it had completely gone from the GWP site after the site had a complete facelift. I guess I'll hang on a while longer yet then... Is a bit bad considering I paid back in June 2009 for it. GWP should really have refunded the money after it took so long. Ho hum....well, I don't want to start anyone off on another GWP rant. At least GWP are still here for you to hassle... I've lost a fair bit of money over the years ordering from small presses who go bust or do a runner never to be seen again
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Post by williemeikle on Jun 14, 2010 21:24:26 GMT
Out today
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Post by williemeikle on Jun 19, 2010 14:53:24 GMT
Just had news from Des Lewis that he's moved up the release date of Null Immortalis. The antho should be out in a week or so, and the good news is my story is up first, alongside work by the likes of Joel Lane, Mark Valentine, Steve Rasnic Tem and Reggie Oliver.
Des' email got me thinking about anthologies again. I've been in a few over the years, and have several other appearances forthcoming, in Phoenix Imprint's "Watch" and Mythos Books' "Cthulhu 2012". I also have submissions out at half a dozen more.
For many years I didn't even bother submitting to them. For some reason they didn't appear on my radar in the early days, and then I was focussed on novels for most of the 2000's. It's only in the past few years I've come to realise that I really enjoy seeing my name in books alongside people I have read and admired.
I can pick one of these books off the bookshelf at home, and see my name beside the likes of Alan Dean Foster, Ken McLeod, John Shirley, Mark Morris, Charlie Stross, Stephen Volk, Hal Duncan et al and it gives me a validation that I don't get too often -- a sense that I am a -real- writer as opposed to someone just bullshitting his way through.
It's a feeling I don't get often and, for today at least, it's enough to send me back to that blank page one more time.
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Post by bec on Jun 19, 2010 16:01:15 GMT
You're doing well, Willie. Well done! I must check out some of your stories.
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Post by williemeikle on Jun 20, 2010 21:02:17 GMT
There comes a point with anthology submissions where the deadline set for submissions comes and passes. That's when I start to get twitchy, knowing that the final hurdle is just ahead. I have two stories in that state, and a third joining them on Monday.
All three are to publications I really want to be in, and I don't know when the decisions will be made. I can do nothing about it but sit and wait.
I try writing, and that works, for a time.
But I keep coming back, like picking at a scab, to the fact that my submission hasn't been rejected, but hasn't been accepted.
I wait, in limbo, quivering in anticipation like a big quivering thing that's just been poked with a stick
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Post by williemeikle on Jun 22, 2010 14:49:30 GMT
Just cracked Escapepod, THE top Sci-Fi Podcast market, with my story "Variations on a Theme."
Pro rate as well.
I'm a very happy bunny
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Post by shaun on Jun 22, 2010 15:50:11 GMT
Just cracked Escapepod, THE top Sci-Fi Podcast market, with my story "Variations on a Theme." Pro rate as well. I'm a very happy bunny Congratulations, Willie.
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Post by bec on Jun 22, 2010 18:39:25 GMT
Well done!
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Post by ian on Jun 22, 2010 20:38:22 GMT
Well done sir!
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Post by williemeikle on Jun 22, 2010 22:04:46 GMT
Thanks folks. It's a market I've been trying to get into for a while.
It also means that "Variations on a theme" counts for two pro sales, one to Wrongworld in their DVD anthology "Teachers" and one to Escapepod in audio. Now I need to get it into print for the trilogy :-)
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