Kickstarter Project - Anthologies of the Damned

I have an interest in this kickstarter project as I have a 8000 word sword and sorcery yarn in Anthology of the Damned - Necromoirrium called The Demon from Another World.

I have been struck by the sheer enthusuasm and energy of those behind this project and wish them well.

Treeshaker Books

 

 

 

 

 

Adrian Cole - Weirdbook, Phantasmagoria magazine and the Elak of Atlantis Trilogy

Not only is the current issue of Weirdbook an Adrian Cole Special, but the next issue of Phantasmagoria magazine will have an article about Adrian Cole's Elak of Atlantis Trilogy by David A. Riley, plus all three collections of Elak books by Adrian will be reviewed. These will appear together with a plethora of illustrations from the books by Jim Pitts.

Childe Rolande by Samantha Lee

One of our most original books: Childe Rolande by veteran horror and fantasy author Samantha Lee.

 

amazon.co.uk

amazon.com

My science fiction tale Floating Free is in the September issue of Schlock! Webzine

My science fiction tale Floating Free is in the September issue of Schlock! Webzine. 

amazon.co.uk

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. 

 

Childe Rolande and Elak, King of Atlantis

 

Published by Futura 1989

It's curious how Fate sometimes works in small ways. There are two books I reviewed some years ago which had been published by other imprints than my own - Futura Books and Pulp Hero Press respectively - which I never thought at the time I would eventually reprint as Parallel Universe Publications books.

The first was Samantha Lee's Childe Rolande, which Futura published in 1989 and which I reviewed on amazon in March 2022, not realising I would be reprinting this later that year. This is a link to my original review on https://www.amazon.com/Childe.../dp/1739832655/ref=sr_1_1....

The other, of course, is Adrian Cole's Elak, King of Atlantis, which I reviewed for Phantasmagoria magazine not long after the book was first brought out by Pulp Hero Press. https://davidandrewriley.blogspot.com/.../my-review-of...

I don't know whether this will ever happen again, but twice, I'm sure, is strange enough.

 

Published by Pulp Hero Press 2020

 

Published by Parallel Universe Publications 2022

Published by Parallel Universe Publications 2024

Published by Futura 1989