"The Fox Maiden", which was first published in On Spec (Summer 2011), is to appear in Paula Guran's Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror: 2012 (Prime Books). It will contain work by Joan Aiken, Stephen King, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Tim Powers, Kelley Armstrong, Charles de Lint and many more. A full list is here.

I'm still pinching myself.

  “I heard he’s the son of a Transylvanian prince. An Alsatian Jew. A snake charmer, a ventriloquist and a philosopher. Isn’t it rather ambitious for a man to be all those things at once?”

  "The Virgin's Tears" is available in the Fall 2011 edition of On Spec.

   It's an an account of Comte de Saint-Germain, who rose to prominence in high society during the 1700s. He claimed that he was an alchemist, physician, a spy and that he was immortal.

"The Show", which was originally published in Box of Delights (edited by John Kenny) is to appear in Ellen Datlow's The Best Horror of the Year Volume 4. This is to include work by Stephen King, Peter Straub, Leah Bobet and Margo Lanagan, among others.

A full list of authors can be found at here.

Thanks to both Ellen and John. I am really chuffed.

My story, "The Fox Maiden", appears in the Summer 2011 edition of On Spec. Thanks to Cat McDonald, copy editor, for her excellent comments.

Transtories, which contains my story "The Carbon Cyborg", and Box of Delights which contains "The Show" are now available in print and as a pdf at www.albedo1.com/aeonpress.html

Thanks to Aeon Press for giving me an opportunity to read from "The Show" alongside some of the other authors at the launch at BristolCon. It was great to meet Bob Neilson, Peter Loftus, Dev Agarwal, Sharon Kae Reamer, Rob Rowntree and Tomas L Martin. 

Two new anthologies will be launched by Aeon Press at BristolCon on 22nd October.

"Box of Delights" (Ed. John Kenny) contains my story, "The Show" and "Transtories" (Ed. Colin Harvey) contains "The Carbon Cyborg".

Colin Harvey's sudden death in August has shocked and saddened many people. We'd only exchanged emails but he was very generous to novices like myself and you only have to look on forums to see how well loved he was within the writing community. My condolensces to his family and friends.

Thanks to Bob Neilson who has stepped in to see "Transtories" through to fruition.

I was delighted to hear that "The Nature of Bees", which appeared in Issue 38 of Albedo One, is on Locus magazine's 2010 Recommended Reading List and Ellen Datlow's Honorable Mentions List for Best Horror of the Year, 2010.