News

Authors Joel Lane and Allyson Bird have taken time off from their own work to edit the anthology Never Again, due out from Gray Friar Press in September. And it will include my brand-new story ‘Sense.’

Dark Regions Press is to publish the third Raine’s Landing novel, Midnight’s Angels. It will be in print by November at the very latest. More news coming when I have it.

As a contributor to the original Pan Books of Horror, I’m very proud to announce that my work will be appearing in its natural successor too. My chiller ‘The In-Betweeners’ — my fourth story set in the fictional town of Birchiam-on-Sea, incidentally — will appear in the Autumn in The 7th Black Book of Horror from Mortbury Press.

Completing a new novel. Rewriting and more rewriting. Nothing more to report.

This month sees the publication of two new books. The first is my new novella — Yuppieville – which is being launched by Screaming Dreams Publishing at the World Horror Convention, Brighton. The second is an expanded American reprint of my award-nominated collection Going Back, with four additional new stories. That one’s out from Dark Regions Press, my favourite independent publisher in the US. You can find out more about them both by visiting my Home Page.

My story ‘Mr. Smyth’ appears in the new anthology Back from the Dead: The Legacy of the Pan Book of Horror, which is also being launched at World Horror, Brighton. You can find out more about it here.

February is often a quiet month, and this one’s no exception. Just working and waiting for replies from editors.

The new decade gets off to a terrific start with Black Static magazine’s hugely respected book critic, the inestimable Peter Tennant, naming ‘Night of Demons’ as one of the Best Horror and Dark Fantasy novels of 2009. Read what he had to say here.

My new novella ‘Yuppieville’ from Screaming Dreams Publishing is at the printers, as is Dark Regions Press’ expanded reprint of my award-nominated 2007 collection ‘Going Back.’

A presentable draft of the third Raine’s Landing novel — ‘Midnight’s Angels’ — is now complete.

Happy Holidays to all my readers!

Just back from the World Fantasy Convention in San Jose, CA. Did a reading from Night of Demons, signed a load of stuff — not just novels but magazines and anthologies I’ve appeared in — hooked up with some great old friends and made a load of new ones. You can read more about it on my blog.

The fantasy media website Fandomania is currently running an interview conducted between myself and reviewer Kelly Melcher, where we talk about my current novel and my work in general. You can read it here.

And — well — it happens to us all, sooner or later. I am now on Facebook. And I also have a Facebook Page — Tony Richards - Dark Fantasy Writer –with news of new developments.

A review of ‘Night of Demons’ on SF Revu has compared the new book to the works of Laurell K. Hamilton and Charlaine Harris. Not bad!

You can now follow me on Twitter too — TonyRichardsdfw.

An article of mine has just been accepted for the forthcoming non-fiction collection Cinema Futura, edited by Mark Morris and due out next year from PS Publishing.

Night of Demons — the second novel in the Raine’s Landing saga — is now out from Eos/HarperCollins. You can read more about it on my Home Page, or by visiting my blog. It’s available from all good bookstores, on Amazon and such, and from both the Doubleday and Science Fiction Book Clubs. Or you can buy a copy right here.

It had to happen sooner or later … one of my short story collections is being reprinted by another publisher. 2007’s award-nominated Going Back — it originally came out from Elastic Press — is to be re-issued in the States by the excellent Dark Regions Press (see below), the same guys who did such a great job with Shadows and Other Tales. The cover art is already done — more about that later on my Welcome to Raine’s Landing blog, doubtless. And as an added bonus, it is going to be an expanded version of the original, with four new stories added, three of them from Black Static magazine.

The first two reviews of ‘Night of Demons’ — my second Raine’s Landing novel — have appeared on the Internet well in advance of the late October publication of the book. And they’re both excellent. I’ve received permission to reprint them on my Welcome to Raine’s Landing blog, and you can read them here and here.

Just back, by the way, from a literally flying three day visit to New York City to watch my wife’s baby cousin — now in her early forties and a trainee cardiologist — get hitched. But I did get the chance to have lunch with my Eos editor Diana Gill, and got taken around the HarperCollins offices to meet her assistant Will Hinton and the publicist assigned to me, Greg Shutack. A real pleasure, although far too brief.

I don’t just write the Raine’s Landing novels . A cursory glance at the bibliography at the bottom of my Home Page will tell you that I’ve penned an awful lot of shorter fiction in my time. And my American publisher of collections of such work is very fast becoming the superb Dark Regions Press. They’ve already brought out one marvellous looking bumper-sized collection, ‘Shadows and Other Tales,’ with more expected very soon. I’m very proud to be associated with them, and you can find out more about this top-notch independent house right here.