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This is something that’s been in discussion for a little while now (and no, not that something, it’s another something), but after a fruitful meeting today, and since I’m going back to the day job next week, I feel pretty confident in announcing that new local small press Dark Prints Press will be publishing the first ever collection of my stories, tentatively out around late 2012 or early 2013.  At this stage it’ll be called Living With The Dead, and it’ll be a”best-of” style collection, taken from all the years I’ve been doing this, and with some originals as well for good measure.   It seems fairly appropriate that it’ll be coming out more or less exactly twenty years since my first short story publication, and I’m heartily excited about the prospect.  I’ll be pimping the hell out of it down the track, of course, once the whole project has proceeded a bit further, but for the moment I’m just bouncing at the idea of having a collection out there!

For those who don’t know the work of Craig Bezant and Dark Prints Press yet, might I suggest checking out his quite long-running dark fiction free webzine Eclecticism, and perhaps buying a copy of his first print anthology, a collection of the stories published in the webzine, An Eclectic Slice Of Life?  Craig was also once my mentor in the AHWA mentorship program, and now he’s my editor, which I guess makes him Darth Vader to my Obi Wan!