tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-146226902012-04-26T09:28:41.172+01:00British Fantasy Award-winnning Author. "Stuart Young not only writes stories, he gives them life." -- TIM LEBBONStuart Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06349998328428656218noreply@blogger.comBlogger230125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14622690.post-32042686393713747352012-04-26T09:27:00.001+01:002012-04-26T09:28:41.180+01:00

Just been informed that the first person to buy a copy of the British Fantasy Award-winning The Mask Behind the Face wins a free poster of the cover signed by me, cover artist Ben Baldwin and Pendragon Press head honcho Chris Teague.

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My debut collection, Spare Parts, is being reissued by Stumar Press as an ebook. Six tales of love and death coming in 2012.http://stumarpress.webs.com/spareparts.htm

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Just heard that my story, Houses in Motion, will be included in the Darker Minds anthology from Dark Minds Press.

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The Monster Book for Girls is now available for use in one of those newfangled Kindle contraptions.

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The Monster Book of Girls includes my story Breaking the Spell. Which, in a shocking move for this particular anthology, features monsters. And girls.

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The Hound of the Baskervilles is probably the most filmed Sherlock Holmes story ever which means the plot is pretty well known so I assume that's why Mark Gatiss decided to ditch most of the plot in his adaptation for Sherlock.Instead of a family curse and an escaped convict we got conspiracy theories and a hidden army base developing secret weapons. Not nearly as satisfying in my opinion.

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The new episode of Sherlock -- 'A Scandal in Belgravia' -- was quite good fun. Yes, Sherlock will no doubt get up the noses of purists but when it comes to Holmes I'm a strange mixture of connoisseur and philistine. On the one hand I love the original Conan Doyle stories, think the Jeremy Brett TV series is the gold standard by which all other screen versions should be judged and will quite

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My story, Jarly and the Saga of the Snowball, is in the Estronomicon Christmas SpecialAn epic tale of magic, dragons, ancient myths and dancing pigs. What more could you ask for in a story? Well, okay, seeing as Jarly started off as a comic strip character I suppose you could ask for pictures but this is prose so tough, you're going to have to put up with reading all the words. Even the long ones

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My short story, What You Get Is No Tomorrow, is in Kzine #1.

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Another review of the Alt-dead anthology.Anthony Watson describes it as "a strong collection and one that I'd recommend." More importantly he says my story -- which is obviously the only story anyone cares about -- is "an excellent piece of writing that brilliantly captures the frustrations of those having to deal with mental illness. It's a story about loss and grief for sure, but it's also

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Matthew Fryer has some kind words for my story, A Killing on the Market, from the Where the Heart Is anthology saying that it "delivers plenty of seamlessly real dialogue, but don’t be lured by the reassuring humour and warmth, because you’re in for a real horror finale."

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I'm a bit late with this news but my story, All These Friends and Lovers, appears in the Estronomicon Halloween Special.

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Mike Chinn gives Alt-Dead a nice review, doling out praise to all the stories. "Not a bad one amongst them – though I found Bacon's, McMahon's and Young’s the most affecting."

Stuart Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06349998328428656218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14622690.post-30667548698653031982011-06-26T16:21:00.000+01:002011-06-26T16:23:09.695+01:00

Today I'm rambling on about something or other in a guest blog over at Steve Lockley's website.

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I've got an interview and story in the latest issue of Midnight Street The magazine is free but if you go to the homepage there is an option to make donations if you happen to have some spare money lying around.

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This time last week I was at the World Horror Convention in Austin, Texas. After fifteen hours travelling there and another fifteen hours to get back plus several late night parties the convention is a bit of a blur but I think at least some of the following things did actually happen and weren't just fatigue-induced hallucinations.* Went sightseeing with Chris Teague. Chris suggested popping

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Three of my stories have been longlisted for the British Fantasy Awards in the Best Short Fiction category. Only 20 million other people were longlisted so I think I'm in with a chance.One of the stories, Silent Night, is available to read here.Go here to see the voting form.And for the bribes I'm offering people to vote for me go to www.gulliblefans.com

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I'm in an eBook anthology reprinting stories from the '90s magazine Kimota. Tons of other authors in there as well, including top SF, Fantasy and Horror novelists such as Mark Chadbourn, Neal Asher, Mark Morris, Stephen Gallagher and Stephen Laws. So you don't just have to put up with my rubbishy stories.

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I'm in the Alt-Dead anthology due out this Autumn. As you can see from the cover illustration the theme is horror stories about feet. So you get a story about a murderer who kills people with the overpowering stench of foot odour emanating from his hosiery in 'Sock It To Me.' Then there's the tale of a lady who accidentally sprinkles her toes with voodoo dust instead of talcum powder, turning her

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Only just realised that my story Silent Night appeared in the Estronomicon Christmas special. My stories are so popular that even I don't keep track of when they come out.

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Merry Christmas from Jarly and Grarg, the comic strip characters created by Dave Bezzina and yours truly. My poem's rubbish but Dave's picture makes up for it:The world shrugs on a frosty coat of snow,And a cold wind whispered and cried,It’s not just nippy, it’s thirty below.Fortunately it’s warm inside.Despite the late hour Jarly chooses to study;The room’s cosy snugness makes it less of a

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My story, Ten Lords-a-Leaping, appears in the TWELVE DAYS audio anthology from Dark Fiction Magazine.

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Character sketch by Dave Bezzina for a comic strip we're working on.

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Tangent Online has just described my contribution to the Catastrophia anthology as "An out-there story with a completely unexpected ending."I think that means they liked it.

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Interesting piece on HP Lovecraft over at Matt Cardin's Teeming Brain focusing on HP's fantastical imagination rather than his reputation as a master of horror. Now I'm not overly familiar with Lovecraft's work and do tend to think of him as a cosmic horror tentacle-monsters purveying misery guts. So I was quite surprised when I read one of his Dunsany-inspired pieces earlier this year -- I

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