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Honorable Mentions in Ellen Datlow’s Best Horror of the Year

March 15, 2011 4:55 pm

We are very proud to announce another few accolades for Blade Red Press books. Not only is Dark Pages currently nominated for an Australian Shadows Award, but no less than six of the stories in that anthology have scored an Honourable Mention on Ellen Datlow’s Best Horror of the Year list. You can find the full lists here and here.

The stories included are:

Lucien E.G. Spelman – “The Stain of the Psychopomp King”
Naomi Bell – “Dust”
Joel L Murr – “The Franchise”
Aaron Polson – “Cargo”
Derek Rutherford – “Yellow Water Pike”
Robert Neilson – “Nightwork”

Our congratulations go out to all those writers. Thanks for making Dark Pages such an awesome book. If you haven’t got your copy yet, get it here!

Also mentioned on the list is:

Bill Congreve – “The Traps of Tumut”, which originally appeared in Aurealis 43. That story is reprinted in Bill’s collection, Souls Along The Meridian, which is another Blade Red Press book. You can get that one here.

So congratulations to Bill too!

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Read an ebook week

March 6, 2011 6:14 pm

March 6th to 12th is Read An Ebook Week. You may or may not enjoy ebooks already and we’re not here to convert you. But, in celebration of the week, our two anthologies – Souls Along The Meridian by Bill Congreve and Dark Pages 1 edited by Brenton Tomlinson are available for half price. Also, Alan Baxter noir sci-fi novella, Ghost Of The Black, is free for the week.

All you need to do is go to the relevant page and purchase the book and then use the code RAE50 at checkout to apply the discounts. Direct links below. Go get ‘em:

Ghost Of The Black.

Souls Along The Meridian.

Dark Pages 1.

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Dark Pages shortlisted for Australian Shadows Awards

February 24, 2011 4:08 pm

Dark PagesBlade Red Press is insanely proud to announce that our first anthology of dark fiction, Dark Pages, has been nominated for an Australian Shadows Award. These Awards are the premier dark fiction awards in Australia and well respected around the world.

Huge congratulations to our fantastic editor, Brenton Tomlinson, and to all the great authors in this collection. This is your accolade, all of you.

Full details of the Awards shortlists are here.

If you haven’t got your copy of Dark Pages yet, why the hell not? It’s been nominated for an award, after all. Get it here!

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Souls Along The Meridian makes Horrorscope Recommended Reading list

January 2, 2011 6:25 pm

We’d like to congratulate Blade Red Press author Bill congreve on his collection, Souls Along The Meridian making the Horrorscope 2010 Recommended Reading List. A very well deserved accolade in our opinion.

If you haven’t got a copy of this great collection yet, all you need to know is here. Print and ebook versions are available, so whatever your preference, get yourself a copy now.

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Souls Along The Meridian instore signing

November 22, 2010 4:48 pm

Souls Along The Meridian author Bill Congreve will be appearing at Infinitas Bookshop in Parramatta on Saturday, 27th November to sign copies of his book. He’ll also be signing copies of the fifth annual Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, of which he is the editor.

Come along and join in the fun:

Infinitas Bookshop
Shop 22 Civic Arcade, 48-50 George St
Parramatta, Australia

From 11am. Tell your friends!

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Souls Along The Meridian now available as ebook

October 26, 2010 5:18 pm

Bill Congreve’s awesome short story collection, Souls Along The Meridian, is now available as an ebook. You can get the Kindle edition here and a variety of ebook formats from Smashwords here.

All the details and other purchase options for the book can be found here.

Please share this news, tell your friends and family and let’s get Bill’s fantastic work noticed by a wider audience.

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Great Dark Pages review at ASiF

September 25, 2010 10:44 pm

I’m constantly amazed that despite the limited, if any, promise of monetary returns gained by publishing independent books there are still bold, proud individuals out there who feel it’s their destiny to take the plunge. We should be thankful of these individuals, such as those behind Blade Red Press otherwise little gems like Dark Pages would never see the light of day.

Chosen from over 250 submissions, the fourteen stories collected in Dark Pages strike at the heart of the individual’s deepest desires and fears. Editor Brenton Tomlinson chose these stories because of their ability to excite “painful emotions”.

You can read the whole review here.

If you haven’t got your copy yet, why not? It’s awesome. All the details here.

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Souls Along The Meridian by Bill Congreve

August 2, 2010 5:14 pm

Blade Red Press is very pleased to announce our latest publication. We’ve been working with Bill Congreve to produce a collection of his excellent dark fiction and the book is available now.


Souls Along The Meridian by Bill Congreve
Cover artwork is once again provided by the awesomely talented Halinka Orszulok.

Australia’s godfather of horror, Robert Hood, says:

“A long-overdue collection from a writer generally known for publishing the best work of his peers but whose own stories are powerful, insightful and at the top of the game.

Brutally satirical, humanely sorrowful or replete with blood, gristle and darkness, Bill Congreve’s tales explore the depths of the human and inhuman soul and linger in the heart and mind long after reading them.”

Official blurb:

Souls Along The Meridian is the latest collection of short fiction from William J Atheling award-winning Australian dark fiction author Bill Congreve.

Each story bears Congreve’s hallmark style – dark, prosaic and thought-provoking. From contemporary ghost stories to apocalyptic futures, from a deserted amusement park in an isolated town to the claustrophobic depths of the London Underground to the heat-drenched brutality of the Australian outback. These are tales of things we all hope and fear might just exist, somewhere, far from the safety of our lives.

Souls Along The Meridian is a book of dark futures and dreams. As the title story shows us, it is also a book about staying true to oneself in the face of whatever the world might throw at us.

Prepare to be provoked and entertained.

“A damn good writer.” Stephen Dedman

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Buy Dark Pages direct from us for AU$15.00

May 27, 2010 7:58 pm

Dark Pages, the anthology of dark speculative fiction, is now available directly from us here at Blade Red Press. You can pay via PayPal and you can use a credit card if you don’t have a PayPal account. Just click on the Buy Now button on this page and follow the prompts.

The book is only AU$15.00, including postage, anywhere in the world. We can’t say fairer than that!

If you have any problems, please contact us.

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Dark Pages ebook now available

May 25, 2010 5:49 pm

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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