Weirdbook Adrian Cole Special

Adrian Cole is being honoured with a Weirdbook Special devoted to him. In a few months he will also have the third and final collection of his Elak of Atlantis books published by Parallel Universe Publications, Elak, Sea Hawks of Atlantis.

Congratulations on this special edition of Weirdbook, Adrian!

Essayan's Terrible Machineries of War accepted for publication

My ninth story accepted this year for publication is Essayan's Terrible Machineries of War, a sword and sorcery story. This will be published in January next year.

This features in a minor role my recurring character Nadrain the Storyteller.

More details later.

Banner change for Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy Facebook Group

 

Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy Facebook Group

Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy Volume 9 - cover reveal

While submissions for Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy Volume 9 don't open till October 1st (for one calendar month), here is the cover artwork by Jim Pitts.

Thirty Years of Parallel Universe Publications

 

Thirty years ago Parallel Universe Publications was born. Using money from my redundancy at British Aerospace, where I'd worked for twenty years, I planned on bringing out a bi-monthly science fiction/fantasy magazine called Beyond. By now I had already accepted all the stories that would go into the first issue, to be published in 1995, and announced its forthcoming launch at 1994's Fantasycon, where I was to meet for the last time one of our most prominent contributors, Karl Edward Wagner, who died soon after. 

 

Beyond only lasted three issues, and for a few years afterwards Parallel Universe Publications went into abeyance till 2012 when we published the first of many ensuing books. This started with Craig Herbertson's The Heaven Maker & Other Gruesome Tales, and over 50 books have followed it, including our successful anthology series Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy, which will be up to volume 9 in November.