August 2013 -

August 26, 2013April 20, 2016

Weird Noir Carnival at Bouchercon

Fox Spirit is pleased to announce that we have arranged to hold a celebration WEIRD NOIR CARNIVAL at Bouchercon 2013 in Albany. For those unfamiliar with it, Bouchercon is a moveable feast celebrating the very finest in crime and mystery writing. Consider it the Woodstock for writers in the genre. It runs from the 19th to the 22nd of September in Albany, NY. Guests of honour include Sue Grafton, Anne Perry, Tess Gerritsen and many many more big names (and small!).

Friday afternoon at 1:30 PM we will be holding the “WEIRD NOIR CARNIVAL” with readings, promotional items and some giveaways! Join editor K. A. Laity, and authors Jan Kozlowski and Chris L. Irvin (and maybe some surprise guests!) for the fun and get weird, get noir.

Follow Bouchercon on Facebook — and if you haven’t already done so, drop by our Fox Spirit page and give us a like!

Can’t be there in person? Join our live Google Hangout!

August 23, 2013

…Time to take over the world

Exciting times at Fox HQ as we are expanding just an itsy bit.

I’m delighted to announce that in addition to our forthcoming new imprint (still under wraps for now) we have a new team member joining us. Alasdair Stuart is not only one of our authors and the awesome host of Pseudopod and half the hosting team at Escape Pod, but he’s one of the UK’s most awesome genre journalists. With extensive knowledge and boundless enthusiasm Alasdair has for years been on the scene sharing his thoughts on all things genre.

We here at the den have taken advantage of SFX’s (totally unannounced) closing of their blogging section to nab some of Alasdair’s time and get him on staff. He will be doing a monthly column for FS covering interesting doings in the world of genre because we reckon the sort of people who write and read Fox Spirit books are the sort of people who watch and play SF, Fantasy and Horror too.

I will let Al introduce himself and his column in September when it all kicks off.

August 21, 2013

Coming soon…

A quick update from Fox HQ.

Shapeshifters edits are back from authors so I shall be pulling the running order together in the next week or so. Looking forward to this, some really excellent and unusual stories in there.

I will be updating the website with details of our latest signings including Leicester author Hardeep Sangha and everything else we are up to, with the exception of our new non fiction imprint which will be unveiled later this year. It’s a little different for us but exciting none the less.

Submissions for ‘Girl at the End of the World’ close on the 31st August and I will then be making decisions as quickly as possible on which stories will be included. We have had a very high standard of entry and there are lots to choose from. ‘Missing Monarchs’ is now closed and I will announce the next closing date soon but it will be near the end of the year as Monarchs is the last pocket we expect to produce in 2013.

I have at least one remaining author post and some interviews on Joan’s blog to share with you all too. So busy days in the den.

August 9, 2013April 20, 2016

You may be right, I may be crazy

Well if I am quoting Billy Joel on a Friday afternoon and it’s not Piano Man then there is a good chance i’m up to no good.

I’ve been busy lining up new projects and am contemplating other things that have been brought to my attention and when I look at all the thing I need to get done in the next few months I start looking for the men in white coats.

All you need to know right now is we have exciting new things coming up and I will tell you more as soon as I can. As always the approach is ‘give me one good reason why we can’t’ so you can expect that in addition to finally getting Tales of Eve and Fox & Fae out, along with three more fox Pockets there are two or three other projects slated to come out before Christmas.

MOAR COFFEE!