by Jason Fischer | Mar 1, 2012 | Announcement, Publication
Doctor Felix Koehler oversees the vaccination program in Dadaab, Kenya. When the world’s largest refugee camp is plagued with cholera outbreaks, Koehler discovers a murderous conspiracy. Corrupt CIA agents plan to destabilise the African Union by distributing a live virus to certain ethnic groups.
His amateur investigation is noted by those on the take, and hired guns come for him. Koehler is rescued by Hank Strait, a US Marshal investigating the corrupt company men. With no backup and hundreds of people hunting them, the pair must cross Kenya, and try to bring the truth to the world…but will they save lives, or doom millions?
Anomaly has just gone live over at Barnes and Noble. Consider this bad boy officially launched!
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/anomaly-steven-savile/1109156699?ean=2940013991217&itm=1
and book #1 in the Viral Series “-30-” (by Steven Savile and Keith R DeCandido) has also gone on sale. This can be found at the following link:
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/30-steven-savile/1109156565?ean=2940013990784&itm=2
by Jason Fischer | Jan 20, 2012 | Announcement
Issue #6 of Midnight Echo has just been released into the ether as a digital download, available in various formats. This is the science-fiction/horror special, as edited by David Conyers, David Kernot and myself. Really happy with how our issue turned out, and now you can also experience the space-borne chills on your favourite reading device.
More info here: http://midnightechomagazine.com/products-page/midnight_echo/midnight-echo-issue-6/
(rumour has it that the preceeding issues may also get re-released in a downloadable format? Giddy-up)
Speaking of Midnight Echo, don’t forget about the AHWA Short Story and Flash Fiction contest. The winning stories will end up in a future issue of this magazine, as well as scoring a snazzy plaque and bragging rights.
Contest info is here: http://australianhorror.com/index.php?view=57
by Jason Fischer | Jan 13, 2012 | Announcement, Awards, Pimping
Just a quick signal boost: Each year the Australian Horror Writers’ Association holds a short story and flash fiction contest, and this year I’m one of the judges. It’s a great little contest. Winners receive a cool engraved plaque, paid publication in the association’s magazine Midnight Echo, and bragging rights for a whole year 🙂
Entries are open till May 31st. More details here:
http://australianhorror.com/index.php?view=57
by Jason Fischer | Aug 22, 2011 | Announcement, Publication, Writing
Sometimes, the best anecdotes involve those things that didn’t quite work out. In writing circles, we’ve all got that project that crashed and burned, the one that got away, the thing that for whatever reason lost its mojo, usually after a lot of effort, time, and heartache.
One of my favourite failure anecdotes was to talk about Tusk. This was a novel I wrote in 2004, the product of the Colin Thiele Literature Scholarship that I received from the SA Youth Arts Board. I was fortunate enough to be mentored by local fantasy author Tony Shillitoe, and over the course of 18 months or so I wrote this novel to the best of my abilities.
The tagline for Tusk is this: telepathic elephants enslave mankind. Planet of the Elephants, or as Tony called it “Gladiator in Grey”. So I spent a large chunk of time/money writing this book, sent it to one place, got a rejection, buried it in a drawer and it physically pained me to look at this MS forever afterwards. Again, we’re talking the journeyman stage of my career, where the sting of rejection is a brutal thing.
This was 2005 me. 2011 me is much older, much wiser, and much more ruthless. Especially when it comes to editing. So, after many years of fermenting, Tusk has once more seen the light of day, and has been polished to within an inch of its life. Even better than that, it’s already found a really awesome home.
Which brings me to the next part of this announcement. Black Glass Press have teamed up with the folks at Black House Comics to come up with a new regular anthology comic, called Terra Magazine. There are some brilliant (nay, award-winning) folks from comic circles involved with this project, and there’s a bit of everything in this book. It’s a bit like 2000AD, in that there are ongoing serial stories, you will soon find it on the shelves in your local newsagent, and there’s never a dull moment.
This book has got samurai, detectives, freaks in space, sorcery, yakuza, and cyborg lunatics. Terra Magazine is also the new home for Tusk, which will now be released as a serial story, illustrated prose much like Gaiman’s original stardust. It’s the only non-comic instalment, and will appear in each issue.
There’s some more info about Terra Magazine here:
http://www.terramagazine.com.au/
and a press release here:
http://www.blackglasspress.com/component/content/article/58-terra-magazine.html
by Jason Fischer | May 16, 2011 | Announcement, Pimping, Publication
In today’s exciting news, Ticonderoga Publications have just announced the forthcoming publication of my first short story collection. You cannot wipe the smile from my face! Here’s the official press release:
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Ticonderoga Publications is proud to announce the forthcoming publication of a collection of stories by the writer of the future Jason Fischer.
Adelaide-based Fischer is a Clarion South graduate and recent winner of the Writers of the Future competition.
The collection is titled Everything is a Graveyard, and is scheduled for publication in late 2013.
The exact contents are still to be finalised.
The collection will revolve around Fischer’s critically acclaimed post-apocalyptic and zombie-themed work.
Everything is a Graveyard will also include new stories original to the collection.
“Jason Fischer taps into the darker sides of human nature like few other writers,” Ticonderoga Editor Russell B Farr said.
“His work blends raw emotion with an honest sense of mortality,” Farr added.
The collection is scheduled for publication in October 2013. The collection will be available in limited edition hardcover, ebook and trade editions.
(from http://ticonderogapublications.com/tp/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=156:announcement-debut-collection-by-jason-fischer&catid=94:everything-is-a-graveyard&Itemid=131)
by Jason Fischer | Sep 27, 2010 | Announcement, Pimping, Publication, Writing
(for those of you who haven’t read these yet, the first two instalments of my WOTF retrospective can be found here https://jasonfischer.com.au/?p=136 and here https://jasonfischer.com.au/?p=155)
Immediately after the awards ceremony, we writers and illustrators made our way back into the hotel lobby. Before the ceremony, this had been the venue for our swanky dinner, now we found that we were at the site of our first book signing. The organisers of this event are nothing if not awesome, and it makes my head spin to think how quickly they effected this change!
The lobby of the Roosevelt, shortly after its transformation from a dining hall into a book launch/signing. Big stacks of the anthology can be seen in the middle of the room, and along the outside of the room the illustrators wait next to their framed illustrations. Most of the writers can be seen in the middle of the pic, madly signing away.
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