Elak, King of Atlantis

Volume 2 of Adrian Cole's Elak of Atlantis trilogy is already primed for publication a month or so after Elak, Warrior of Atlantis has been released.

Here is a glimpse of the front cover for Elak, King of Atlantis. Originally published in 2020 by Pulp Hero Press, this will include additional artwork by Jim Pitts, plus a new Introduction.

Elak, Sea Hawks of Atlantis will conclude the trilogy. More about that later. 

Advert for Elak, Warrior of Atlantis

 Ready for when Adrian Cole's Elak, Warrior of Atlantis is published we already have the first of our ads designed for it in colour and monochrome. 

Elak, Warrior of Atlantis by Adrian Cole

 

It's with great pleasure that I can announce the imminent publication of book one in the Elak of Atlantis trilogy by Adrian Cole: Elak, Warrior of Atlantis, artwork by Jim Pitts, whose work appears throughout the book.

Elak, Warrior of Atlantis will be published as a paperback and kindle eBook later this month.

 

This is a list of the book's contents:

INTRODUCTION by David C Smith 

FOREWORD: THE RISE OF THE DRAGON THRONE by Adrian Cole

A SONG OF PICTISH KINGS    

DEMONS OF THE DEEP    

ON DEATH SEED ISLAND          

TOWER IN THE CRIMSON MIST             

A DREAM OF LOST VALUSIA     

SAILING ON THE THIEVES’ TIDE             

 THE SINGERS IN THE STONES

Cover art completed for Elak, Warrior of Atlantis

We now have the cover art for Adrian Cole's Elak, Warrior of Atlantis, the first book of the trilogy we're publishing this year.

We'll be revealing it and the cover soon.

 

This is a list of the book's contents:

INTRODUCTION by David C Smith 

FOREWORD: THE RISE OF THE DRAGON THRONE by Adrian Cole

A SONG OF PICTISH KINGS    

DEMONS OF THE DEEP    

ON DEATH SEED ISLAND          

TOWER IN THE CRIMSON MIST             

A DREAM OF LOST VALUSIA     

SAILING ON THE THIEVES’ TIDE             

 THE SINGERS IN THE STONES

Best opening month so far for a new PUP publication

 

May was the best opening month for a new Parallel Universe Publications book ever. Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy Volume 8 exceeded our previous best by quite a margin.

Hopefully it will continue to sell well in coming months, especially after having already received two excellent reviews on amazon and Goodreads in its first few weeks. 

 

 

Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy Volume 8 is now available as a paperback and kindle eBook

Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy Volume 8 is now available as a paperback and kindle eBook.

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The stories and authors included are: 

TO WAKE THE HUNTER by Tais Teng & Jaap Boekestein

MOONFINGER AND GIFT by Andrew Darlington

THE QUALITY OF MERCY by Geoff Hart

EMPLOYMENT FOR MAGICAL PEOPLE by Monica Goertzen Hertlein

THE HERO’S PATH by Jeffery A. Sergent

LITTLE LIVES ROUNDED BY SLEEP  by Matt McHugh

WARDARK AND THE PIRATE KING by Craig Herbertson

FOR THE HEART OF A SPEARSLAYER by R. K. Olson

THE STONE HEADS by Scott McCloskey

THE TROUPE by Andrew Graham

LAIR OF THE MUTANT KING by Adrian Cole

Waiting by Kate Farrell to be performed as a play at the Edinburgh Fringe

Actress and writer Kate Farrell has adapted one of her own stories, Waiting, into a play which she will be performing at the Edinburgh Fringe this year.

Kate's story is included in her PUP collection And Nobody Lived happily Ever After, which is available as a paperback and kindle eBook. Prior to this it was also included in our anthology Kitchen Sink Gothic.

 

For more information, including booking information if you are lucky enough to be attending the Fringe this year, click on this link: Waiting - The Fringe

 

From Reggie Oliver 's introduction to And Nobody Lived Happily Ever After:
"What distinguishes Kate Farrell’s work is the extraordinary accuracy and vividness with which she sets up her situations. She has an eye for detail and an outstanding ear for the way people think and speak. It is far from fanciful to see this at least partly as the product of her experience as an actress. In the theatre, a natural faculty for observing one’s fellow human beings is trained and honed. Listen to the narrator of “Waiting”. If you don’t know someone like that personally, you will have certainly heard her talking just behind you on a bus at some time. The intonation, the accent, the understanding, and the lack of it, are all so true to life. But the people Farrell evokes are not all from one social stratum, or one nation. Here is an ancient and corrupt Irish Priest (“The Way the Truth and the Life”), here is the wife of a notorious Argentinean dictator (“Las Cosas Que Hacemos por el Amor”), or the two Spanish schoolchildren in “The Efficient Use of Reason”, and they are all done with the same conviction, the same ruthless accuracy. Farrell’s eye is not heartless, but it is unclouded by any kind of sentimental affectation; her horrors emerge from what we sometimes call the commonplace. Very occasionally she touches on the supernatural, but when she does she does it superbly as in one of my favourites among her stories “A Murder of Crows” which shows that she can do an uncanny rural atmosphere with grim poetry as well as anyone. It is the gift of every worthwhile writer in this genre to make us realise that just beneath the surface of the banal and ordinary, there yawn great abysses of wonder and terror. I don’t know quite why this realisation, in the hands of a writer like Farrell, should be so thrilling, enjoyable even, but it is. There is not a dull page, not a dull sentence in And Nobody Lived Happily Ever After." 

 

Contents are:
Introduction by Reggie Oliver
Mea Culpa
Helping Mummy
A Murder of Crows
No Junk Mail
All in a Row
Dad Dancing
The Way and the Truth and the Life
My Name is Mary Sutherland
The Efficient Use of Reason
How I Got Here
His Family
The Sands are Magic
Once Upon a Time
A. Reeves Tale
Las Cosas Que Hacemos por El Amor
Peacock Blue Dress
Alma Mater
Waiting

Mea Culpa was first published in The Eighth Black Book of Horror, 2011
His Family was first published in The Ninth Black Book of Horror, 2012
Dad Dancing was first published in The Tenth Black Book of Horror, 2013
Helping Mummy was first published in The Screaming Book of Horror, 2012
The Sands are magic was first published in Terror Tales of the Seaside, 2013
Waiting was first published in Kitchen Sink Gothic, 2015
Alma Mater was first published in The Eleventh Black Book of Horror, 2015

You can order this book direct from us on this link, post free. 

 

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Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy Volume 8 almost ready for publication

Things are on schedule for Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy Volume 8 to be released as a paperback and kindle eBook by the 1st of May.

DMR Books website shares review of Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy Volume 7

Our friends at DMR Books have just shared on their website an excellent review of Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy Volume 7 by Richard Fisher, opening with:

"David A. Riley's anthology series certainly has some longevity. With seven volumes to date it has eclipsed several seminal anthology series of the past. As I understand it volume eight will be published later this year with submissions reopening late this year or early next year for volume nine."

In actual fact submissions will open for volume nine on the 1st October for the full calendar month, with publication in November. And volume eight will be published on the 1st May. 

To read the full review click on this link: DMR Books

 

Excellent, in-depth review of Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy Volume 1

There is an excellent, in-depth review of Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy Volume 1 on James Reasoner's Rough Edge blogsite. To read it in full just click on this link. 

"Overall, I found this volume to be really good, and if you’re a sword and sorcery fan, I think there’s a good chance you’d enjoy it quite a bit, too. I’m definitely planning to read others in the series. This one is available in paperback and e-book editions on Amazon."