Neil Davies's Blog - Posts Tagged "publishing"
The Risen Dead - reblogged from http://www.nwdavies.co.uk (July)
Tidying up The Risen Dead, a novella, the first in a series called The Givers Of Life. At the moment, with the sad demise of Screaming Dreams (who it was placed with), I have no publisher and am having difficulty finding one willing to take on a series of zombie-based novellas. Therefore (and with my children’s permission… read old blogs to find the relevance of that!) I may consider self publishing it.
No absolute final decision yet, and I am still looking at publishers (anyone know any zombie and series friendly ones out there?).
I thought I’d take this unexpected and unfortunate opportunity to go over the novella one final time… it was originally finished over a year ago, and I haven’t read it since then. Fresh eyes will always find things to change.
The novella does stand on its own, but I really wanted to go further into its world, which is why I plan to do a series. And there are some questions deliberately left unanswered, or at least vague. Lots more to write on this.
And if you don’t like zombies? Give it a try anyway, when it comes out from whatever source. I hope I’m bringing a slightly different slant on the genre, rather than retreading the same old themes, but ultimately you, the reader, will decide that.
No absolute final decision yet, and I am still looking at publishers (anyone know any zombie and series friendly ones out there?).
I thought I’d take this unexpected and unfortunate opportunity to go over the novella one final time… it was originally finished over a year ago, and I haven’t read it since then. Fresh eyes will always find things to change.
The novella does stand on its own, but I really wanted to go further into its world, which is why I plan to do a series. And there are some questions deliberately left unanswered, or at least vague. Lots more to write on this.
And if you don’t like zombies? Give it a try anyway, when it comes out from whatever source. I hope I’m bringing a slightly different slant on the genre, rather than retreading the same old themes, but ultimately you, the reader, will decide that.
Coming Soon...
So, to keep things up to date, a couple of things coming up over the next two months, and a third with no set date yet.
Emily In The Wall (short story) is scheduled for release on June 9th from The Society Of Misfit Stories
The Lightship (short story) is included in The Best Of British Science Fiction 2016 anthology from NewCon Press, due to be launched on July 8th.
And last, but by no means least,
Eyes Of The Raven (novel) is to be published by World Castle Publishing (date unknown).
I hope you'll come along for the ride. Thank you for reading.
Emily In The Wall (short story) is scheduled for release on June 9th from The Society Of Misfit Stories
The Lightship (short story) is included in The Best Of British Science Fiction 2016 anthology from NewCon Press, due to be launched on July 8th.
And last, but by no means least,
Eyes Of The Raven (novel) is to be published by World Castle Publishing (date unknown).
I hope you'll come along for the ride. Thank you for reading.
