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Dark Pages Table of Contents announced

admin — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:34:05 +0000

Blade Red Press has been working closely with editor Brenton Tomlinson over the last few months on the Dark Pages anthology. Brenton has done a wonderful job reading over 260 submissions which he narrowed down to a final list of the absolute cream of the crop. We can now annouce that the following fourteen stories will make up the Table of Contents for Dark Pages:

The Stain of the Psychopomp King by Lucien E G Spelman
Heart Of Ice by Martin Livings
Neptune’s Garden by Lisa A Koosis
Dust by Naomi Bell
To Die For by S D Matley
The Franchise by Joe L Murr
Clip Notes by Marty Young
Blood on Green by Victoria Anisman-Reiner
Cargo by Aaron Polson
Nepenthe by Felicity Dowker
Yellow Water Pike by Derek Rutherford
Surveying The Land by B D Wilson
Nightwork by Robert Neilson
Hand And Cradle by Trent Roman

These stories represent an excellent selection of dark speculative fiction, including fantasy, sci-fi, horror and just plain weird. The authors are a truly international bunch. We have representatives from Australia, Canada, UK, Ireland, USA and the Netherlands.

This is going to be an excellent collection, certainly one of the must-have books of this year. We’re now getting into the editing and production phase. We’ll give you a sneak peak at cover art when we can and announce a publication date asap. It will be in the first half of 2010.

Dark Pages Vol 1 submissions now closed

admin — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:23:20 +0000

The submission window for Blade Red’s first anthology of dark speculative fiction short stories is now closed. We’ve had over 250 submissions from all over the world and editor Brenton Tomlinson is working his way though every one of them.

As decisions are made a Table Of Contents will be made public.

Thanks to everyone that submitted, good luck to you all and here’s hoping we can release an excellent anthology.

Editor announced for Dark Pages Volume 1

admin — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:15:33 +0000

It is with great pleasure that we are in a position to announce the editor for the first Blade Red anthology of dark speculative fiction. Blade Red Dark Pages, Volume 1 will be edited by Brenton Tomlinson. We’re very happy to have Brenton on board and very grateful to him for taking on this role.

Brenton lives in Adelaide, South Australia with his wife and two of his three kids. His oldest child allowed reality to hit him hard earlier this year with the arrival of the first grandchild. Hopefully the second is still a few years away.

While living in a quiet suburb and spending many boring hours ensuring remote connection services remain working for a government department is his daily façade, inside his head is a world of darkness and twisted depravity struggling to emerge.

With over a dozen stories of his own published through venues such as 52 Stitches, Yellow Mama and others, and with new work to be seen in Night to Dawn and in the much anticipated APEX Anthology ‘The Blackness Within’, among others, in 2010, Brenton is finding his voice as a writer. He has been reading and passing comment on works of a dark nature in renowned venues such as HorrorScope, Australia’s Dark Fiction Weblog, and Black magazine, and it is behind the scenes where he has discovered a passion of which he was unaware.

Whether reviewing titles or sifting the slush pile for Aurealis, one of Australia’s most respected venues for the publication of short stories, Brenton has found a strange sensation (a mixture of anticipation, joy and frustration) creeping through his body at the possibility of finding the next gem hidden beneath the often blurry words. After a quick mental check-up and a strong dose of antibiotics, the next logical step was to consider editing an anthology of dark fiction – enter us here at Blade Red Press.

Brenton continues to pen dark shorts and flash fiction, but has recently finished drafting something just a little different. To learn more, visit his blog Musings Of An Aussie Writer.

We’re very please to be working with Brenton and we’re confident that he will put together a stunning collection of dark fiction for our first anthology. With over 150 submissions received already, Brenton certainly has his work cut out.

Blade Red Dark Pages Volume 1 – Submissions open

admin — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:15:49 +0000

The first Blade Red Press anthology of dark speculative fiction is now open to submissions. Click on the Submissions tag above to get all the details.

Get writing and good luck!