For those of you in the e-revolution, you can now read the Dark Pages anthology on your Kindle, iPhone or any other e-reader you choose. Dark Pages is now available on Kindle from Amazon and in any other ebook format from Smashwords.

You can find the Amazon Kindle edition here.

You can find multiple format ebook editions at Smashwords here.

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Our first anthology of dark speculative fiction, Dark Pages, is now available from Amazon. The stories included are:

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

Cover art is by the awesomely talented Australian artist Halinka Orszulok.

You can find Dark Pages now at Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk. Don’t forget you can also order the book directly from us – details on the Contact Page.

Treat yourself to a sumptuous feast of dark fiction today. While you’re at it, treat a few other people too. You won’t regret it.

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Alan Baxter’s noir sci-fi novella, Ghost Of The Black: A ‘Verse Full Of Scum, is now available in the Kindle Store at Amazon.

You can find the Kindle edition here.

You can find the print edition here.

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The first Blade Red Press anthology of dark speculative fiction, Dark Pages Volume 1, is nearly ready for publication. Hopefully the book will be available via Amazon and all good online retailers within a few weeks. The ebook edition should follow soon after.

We already released the awesome Table Of Contents. Now we’re very pleased to release a preview of the cover art. Below is the full wraparound cover of the book. There may be some tiny last minute changes, but what you see here is pretty much the final version.

Blade Red Press is forever indebted to Australian artist Halinka Orszulok (www.halinka.com.au) for allowing us to use one of her darkly superb paintings as the main cover art. Check out the gallery on her website for more incredible paintings.

So, without further ado, here it is – the cover of Dark Pages Volume 1 (click for larger version):

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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.

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Amazon seem to have finally started catching up with their backlog of emails and we’re happy to say that the Kindle editions of RealmShift and MageSign are available again. The price now matches the Smashwords and DriveThru price of US$2.89 each. That’s less than a cup of coffee! It also looks like they’ve kicked in the region coding plan, so if you’re looking from Australia, for example, you won’t see pricing information and there’s a nice green box telling you that you can’t have a copy. Of course, in that case you just go to Smashwords and buy DRM-free Kindle compatible editions from there.

There’s also talk of Amazon rolling the Kindle reader out to other countries very soon, at least including the UK and Australia. Given that there’s no amazon.com.au, it’ll be interesting to see how they handle this situation.

You can find the Amazon Kindle editions of RealmShift here and MageSign here. Tell your friends.

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We are pleased to announce that Blade Red author Alan Baxter has a new project available. Alan serialised a noirish dark future novella on his website over about eight months during 2008. The thriller is still available there. It is also now available as a FREE ebook through Blade Red Press, distributed through Smashwords.com and DriveThruSciFi.com.

Presenting GHOST OF THE BLACK: A ‘Verse Full Of Scum

by Alan Baxter

The book is available in multiple ebook formats, including the Kindle compatible .mobi format.

So head on over to Smashwords.com or DriveThruSciFi.com now and get your free copy of this exciting novella.

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This week is Read An E-Book Week. To celebrate, we’re pleased to annouce the release of Alan Baxter’s novels RealmShift and MageSign in various e-book formats through Smashwords and on the Amazon Kindle.

The Kindle version of MageSign is still waiting for all its details to be updated by Amazon, so bookmark the page of you’d like that edition. The Smashwords versions of both books, in a further Read An E-Book Week promotion, are available half price for this week only. So that’s both novels for the price of one – both are usually US$3.50 each at Smashwords; now you can get them at US$1.75 each until the end of the week.

The Kindle editions are priced at US$3.99, but Amazon usually do an automatic discount on RRP. (RealmShift is available on Kindle for US$3.19, for example, even though its RRP is US$3.99).

Also, don’t forget that both books are available in print from your local Amazon, B&N online, Booktopia and so on, as well as direct from us here at Blade Red Press.

Two great books, so many purchase options. How can you go wrong?

So, get out there and read an e-book.

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We are very pleased to announce that the new edition of Alan Baxter’s novel RealmShift and the new sequel, MageSign, are now both available here in Australia direct from Blade Red Press.

The books are AU$19.95 each and, if you buy both together, they’ll be shipped for free to anywhere in Australia.

For international sales, your local Amazon store is still your best bet and don’t forget the ebook version of RealmShift is available from smashwords.com for US$3.50 as well as from Amazon Kindle.

Please email contact@blade-red.com with your purchase enquiry.

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Blade Red Press is pleased to annouce the official online release of its first two titles – RealmShift and its sequel MageSign by Alan Baxter.

You can learn about both of these great books by clicking the links on the Books Page of this site.

Some of the things that have been said about RealmShift:

“A fast-paced storyline that holds the reader right from the start … nifty devices galore, from RealmShift to the Balance … and a no-nonsense story-telling approach that lets the unfolding action speak for itself.” – Van Ikin, editor “Science Fiction”

“…entertaining and thought-provoking… I enjoyed it immensely…” – Julie Ann Dawson, Bards & Sages

“…a gripping, thought-provoking tale that evokes a strong response within the reader, both on an emotional and an intellectual level…” – David Wood, author of Dourado and Cibola

“the story is fast-paced and engrossing… a book that was thoroughly enjoyable. I look forward to reading the sequel! 4 1/2 Stars (out of 5)” – Linda, www.clubreading.com

And some of the things that have been said about MageSign:

“Don’t let fear of Yath-vados stand between you and a great read!”
Van Ikin – Editor, “Science Fiction”

“a fast paced supernatural adventure that will leave readers rethinking how they view the Cosmos.”
Julie Dawson – Bards & Sages

“…a gritty tale of blood rituals, mystery, and mysticism… grabs hold of the reader and doesn’t let go.”
David Wood, Author of Dourado and Cibola

“difficult to pin to any particular genre … fantastic qualities … horrific at times. “MageSign” is a great addition by Alan Baxter, and I highly recommend it.”
William Estep, clubreading.com

Do yourself a favour and get onto Amazon to get these two titles now. And released just in time for Christmas, they would make a great gift for friends and family too.

Stock is being organised for Australia now and should be available domestically any time if you would prefer not to use Amazon.

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