Writer and skulk member Kim Bannerman and her husband Shawn Pigott, run Fox&Bee Studios, a small film company on Vancouver Island.
They have kindly allowed us to embed their spooky shorts here on Fox Spirit for your enjoyment in the run up to Halloween.
The amazing Daniele Serra has once again blown us all away with stunning cover design.
This is the forthcoming European Monsters. Don’t forget to check out our Monster giveaway if you want to get your hands on this loveliness.
Writer and skulk member Kim Bannerman and her husband Shawn Pigott, run Fox&Bee Studios, a small film company on Vancouver Island.
They have kindly allowed us to embed their spooky shorts here on Fox Spirit for your enjoyment in the run up to Halloween.
Tweet the link to an amazon review of a Fox Spirit title posted by you anytime in Oct or Nov 2014 using the #eumonsters along with retweeting the link to this giveaway to be added to a draw for the chance to win your choice of YA novel ‘Billy’s Monsters’ and amazing horror anthology ‘European Monsters’ both in paperback.
Breaking that down
To be included you need to retweet this post on twitter, post an amazon review (any country) of a Fox Spirit title and tweet the link using the hashtag #eumonsters
We will check the hashtag at the end of November and add you all to a prize draw where five names will be selected at random. Please make sure you are following us so we can reach you. @foxspiritbooks
There are five paperback copies up for grabs and winners get to choose between Billy’s Monsters and European Monsters
If you also have a blog we will be happy to provide review copies of available titles as ebooks including Drag Noir and Wicked Women as soon as they are available. Please contact adele@foxpsirit.co.uk if you would like a review copy of any of our titles, include a link to your blog and title your email ‘Review Copy’ so I can find it easily.
In the run up to the release of Drag Noir, we’re featuring a few spots to drum up the excitement because, well — we’re so excited! Here’s a story from skulk member Graham Wynd to give you a sense of the flavour of the collection. Consider it a “bonus track” for the anthology.
I desperately turned every door handle along the corridor while swearing a blue streak, trying to figure out where it had all gone wrong. The image of Bomber’s face covered with blood still haunted my vision though I tried to push it aside long enough to think straight.
“We have to seize the means of production,” Bomber had said. I laughed at the memory of his words and gripped the handle of the French horn case even tighter. There had to be a way out of here.
At last a handle moved under my sweaty grip. I pushed through the door. A supply closet: stacks of cocktail napkins, swizzle sticks and whatnot filled the shelves. Dead end, I knew. But maybe I could hide out here while things calmed down.
I threw the case in the corner and shoved a few bigger boxes together to make a leaning tower of booze boxes, then ducked down behind it. I willed my breath to slow down, but the ragged rasp of it continued. The bellows of my lung threatened to give me away if anybody tried the door behind me.
Maybe no one had followed me down the corridor.
Bomber’s gory face swam into view again and I cursed his name. ‘Means of production,’ my aunt Fanny.
Both of them.
“What do you mean, ‘means of production’?” Moaning Murdoch had asked him. He’d had that unfortunate moniker since back in the kiddie days when we were wet enough to let girls drag us to Harry Potter films. No matter that he outgrew the round face, that the big specs were replaced by contacts and Murdoch himself landed a scholarship playing for the Danes as a fullback. He was still Moaning Murdoch.
Bomber smiled in that way he had that suggested he knew the inside track. His smugness had only grown since he switched his major to business. The original plan to be a rapper had been scuppered due to his inherent lack of talent (which we all could have told him before but never mind that, he wasn’t listening).
Continue reading “Drag Noir #FreeRead: Smallbany by Graham Wynd”
October at Fox Spirit is celebrating the Femme Fatale..after a fashion. Our anthologies ‘Wicked Women’ edited by Jenny Barber and Jan Edwards and ‘Drag Noir’ edited by K.A.Laity are coming up. These ladies are armed and dangerous.
From thieves and tyrants to witches and warriors, here are twelve tales of women who gleefully write their own rules, women who’ll bend or break the social norms, who’ll skate along the edge of the law and generally aim to misbehave.
Contents:
Juliet E. McKenna – Win Some, Lose Some
Christine Morgan – The Shabti-Maker
Tom Johnstone – Kravolitz
A. R. Aston – No Place of Honour
Adrian Tchaikovsky – This Blessed Union
Sam Stone – The Book of the Gods
Chloë Yates – How to be the Perfect Housewife
Stephanie Burgis – Red Ribbons
Jonathan Ward – A Change in Leadership
Jaine Fenn – Down at the Lake
Zen Cho – The First Witch of Damansara
Gaie Sebold – A Change of Heart
DRAG NOIR: this is where glamour meets grit, where everyone’s wearing a disguise (whether they know it or not) and knowing the players takes a lot more than simply reading the score cards. Maybe everyone’s got something to hide, but they’ve got something to reveal, too. Scratch the surface and explore what secrets lie beneath — it’s bound to cost someone…a lot.
Contents:
Introduction by Dana Gravesen and Bryan Asbury
The Meaning of Skin – Richard Godwin
Wheel Man – Tess Makovesky
No. 21: Gabriella Merlo – Ben Solomon
Geezer Dyke – Becky Thacker
Lucky in Cards – Jack Bates
Trespassing – Michael S. Chong
Chianti – Selene MacLeod
The Changeling – Tracy Fahey
Straight Baby – Redfern Jon Barrett
Kiki Le Shade – Chloe Yates
Protect Her – Walter Conley
King Bitch – James Bennett
A Bit of a Pickle – Paul D. Brazill
Stainless Steel – Amelia Mangan
The Itch of the Iron, The Pull of the Moon – Carol Borden
Have you ever wondered what it would be like if PK Dick wrote beat poetry? We may be getting close to answering that.
Leicester based poet Hardeep Sangha’s first novella length published work is now available in paperback from Amazon uk and worldwide.
‘Welcome to Shit Towne. Here denizens collide as they are propelled through a maelstrom of lives and time itself, struggling to escape the past and in constant search of an exit from the present. Whilst another within their midst, a man out of time, longs to return to the future. Lungs inhale, bodies contort and spines detach as all feel the unrelenting pull of velocity. ‘
A blend of poetry and prose, sci fi and a drug fueled hazy reality this is an exciting and unique offering in the world of genre fiction, all for the price of a frothy coffee.
We will be having a signing event with a number of authors to launch Velocity at Leicester Central Library on 6th November from 5pm.
Aunty Fox has been busy this weekend updating our book pages for you. Author page updates are also underway, but for a quick check of agreed titles from now till, well quite honestly well into 2016 go here and see what is already available and what is coming up.
I will be updating other parts of the site between now and FantasyCon so check back from time to time and don’t forget to tell us via twitter @foxspiritbooks, our FB page or our contact forms what you would like to see on the site.
Other recent additions to the site include ‘The Approximately True Story of Fox Spirit‘
And ‘Ssh I’m Reading‘ where we flag up other small presses, blogs and podcasts we think are worth your time.
New TitlesÂ
25 Ways to Kill a Werewolf by Jo Thomas, Burning by Joan De La Haye and Breed by K.T.Davies are all now available via amazon as paperbacks and ebooks will be available soon.
Both volumes of The Girl at The End of the World are now available as paperback and ebook.
Look out for updates on King Wolf, Heart of Fire and Only A Dancer all coming soon.
A number of FS authors will be at FantasyCon in York this September.
Aunty Fox will be attending that and doing the following:
A number of the skulk will also be attending the awards ceremony as we have been shortlisted for Best Small Press and Best Anthology.
