Dark Continents Publishing is not your average publisher, though it’s indicative of a growing trend to self publish fuelled by the rise and rise of ebooks and easy to use internet publishing sites like Smashwords. As a result the normal channels of publishing have been thrown wide open. The ‘gate keepers’ – that is, mainstream publishing [...]
coeur de lion is proud to announce the official line up for our forthcoming science fiction anthology Anywhere But Earth. Coming in late 2011, 29 original stories of humanity’s adventures out there, anywhere but Earth.
Margo Lanagan ‘Yon Horned Moon’
Richard Harland ‘An Exhibition of the Plague’
Sean McMullen ‘Spacebook’
Lee Battersby ‘At The End There Was a Man’
Jason Nahrung [...]
Here at coeur de lion, we have a very soft spot for Mr Paul Haines. It may be because his blistering novella ‘Wives’ in our novellanthology X6 garnered an Aurealis Award for best Horror Short Fiction, and a Vogel Award for best novella. It may be because his equally dark novella ‘The Devil in Mr Pussy’ [...]