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The autumn 2017 winter 2018 issue of GlitterShip includes a reprint of my 2003 story “Njàbò”
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The Alien Invasion Short Stories anthology from Flame Tree Publishing’s Gothic Fantasy series is now available; it reprints my 2005 story “Being Here”

This month, I’m one of the Guest of Honour at Deepcon 19 in Fiuggi, Italy. Here’s my schedule:

Friday, 20 April, 16:30
The fantastic of Claude Lalumière, from weird to SF. Moderator Francesco Verso

Saturday, 21 April, 15-17
Master of SF writing workshop

Saturday, 21 April, 17:30
Meeting with the Guests of Honour Richard Larson and Claude Lalumière. Moderator Francesco Verso

Sunday, 22 April, 10-12
Master of SF writing workshop

The Murcia stop of my Nocturnos tour will be held at the cafeteria of the Archivo General de la Región de Murcia, 27 April, 20h

Coming soon at GlitterShip: a podcast of my 2003 story “Njàbò” performed by Leigh Wallace

The Nocturnos tour kicks off in Cartagena,  at the Biblioteca Centro Cultural Ramon Alonso Luzzy, 20h, on Wednesday, 25 April

My fifth book — Altre persone / Other Persons, the 56th volume from Italian publisher Future Fiction — is now available in both paperback and ebook. It’s a bilingual edition collecting three of my stories in both the original English and in Italian translation by Fiorella Moscatello.

• “Maxim Fujiyama and Other Persons” / “Maxim Fujiyama e altre persone”
• “This Is the Ice Age” / “Questa è l’era glaciale”
• “The Ethical Treatment of Meat” / “Il trattamento etico della carne”

Here’s the full cover spread of the forthcoming Nocturos. Historias de sexo y muerte (Dokusou, April 2018), the Spanish translation of my 2013 collection Nocturnes and Other Nocturnes. 

Here’s the cover to my forthcoming bilingual English/Italian collection from Future Fiction, Altre persone / Other Persons 

Here’s the full table of contents for Fire: Demons, Dragons and Djinn, an anthology edited by Rhonda Parrish, to be released this summer by Tyche Books, and containing my new story, “A Girl, Ablaze with Life”

“Magnesium Bright” by Lizbeth Ashton
“Bait” by Krista D. Ball
“Strange Attractor” by Kevin Cockle
“The Midwife and the Phoenix” by J.G. Formato
“The Djinni and the Accountant” by Hal J. Friesen
“Midnight Man versus Frankie Flame” by Chadwick Ginther
“Cold Comfort” by Gabrielle Harbowy
“Aitvaras” by R.W. Hodgson
“The Hatchling” by K.T. Ivanrest
“She Alone” by Blake Jessop
“A Girl, Ablaze with Life” by Claude Lalumière
“Old Flames” by V. F. LeSann
“Light My Fire” by Susan MacGregor
“Double or Nothing” by Mara Malins
“Aladdin’s Laugh” by Damascus Mincemeyer
“Cilantro” by Annie Neugebauer
“Breath of the Caldera” by Wendy Nikel
“Phoenix Rising” by Heather M. O’Connor
“Ring of Fire” by JB Riley
“Permanence” by Dusty Thorne
“The Second Great Fire” by Laura VanArendonk Baugh