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<\/a><\/p>\nAnd here is what you need to do:<\/p>\n
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- STEP ONE:<\/span><\/strong> Write large, complex drafts of novels which no one but you will ever understand. Don\u2019t even send most of them anywhere.<\/li>\n
- STEP TWO:<\/strong><\/span> If anyone does show interest, plead having to earn a living as an excuse not to do anything further about it. Lose most of the manuscripts.<\/li>\n
- STEP THREE:<\/span><\/strong> Realise that you\u2019re fifty eight years old, falling apart, and that the first two steps didn\u2019t really help.<\/li>\n
- STEP FOUR:<\/span><\/strong> Write short stories, novelettes and novellas instead.<\/li>\n
- STEP FIVE:<\/span><\/strong> Decide in advance that exposure doesn\u2019t pay for dog food, so hurl the stories at paying markets instead, and wait. Rinse and repeat.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
There you go. If you doubt the value of this approach, then you only have to look at our splendid testimonials:<\/p>\n
\u201cThanks to your guide, I\u2019m anxious, overworked, and afraid to answer the telephone. Well done, greydogtales!\u201d J Linwood Grant<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n
\u201cMy partner throws plates at me when I fail to cover the gas and electricity bills \u2013 but now I can afford a second-hand protective helmet,\u201d John L Grant<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe I should have finished those novels after all. Bugger!\u201d JLG<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n
But those are just the usual whingers. What they won\u2019t tell you, because they\u2019re shy, unassuming authors, is that they have been published, have produced a tolerable body of work by sticking to our advice, and have more in the pipeline. What do they expect \u2013 a living wage?<\/p>\n
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<\/a>the author contemplates his vast wealth<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n Because nobody ever believes us, here\u2019s a presentation which shows graphically what YOU can achieve with only a couple of years of mind-numbing hard work. It would have been in PowerPoint, but that\u2019s too expensive, so we did a list instead.<\/p>\n
A VAGUE BIBLIOGRAPHY<\/h3>\n
Due to the complex, quantum-encoded nature of Mr Linwood Grant\u2019s record-keeping, this list is not complete, but it is at least in roughly the right order. <\/span><\/p>\n
The Last Edwardian Cycle – Late Victorian to the 1940s<\/u><\/span><\/h2>\n
Tales of murder, madness and often the supernatural, inhabiting the same timeline in one way or another, and occasionally interconnecting. Includes non-occult stories of Sherlock Holmes and Mr Edwin Dry, as well as out-and-out weird tales of psychics, horrors and Mamma Lucy, the 1920s hoodoo-woman.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
- A Study in Grey <\/b>(novella), <\/b>18thWall Productions 2016<\/span><\/li>\n
- The Meeting<\/b>, in Carnacki: The Lost Cases<\/i>, Ulthar Press 2016<\/span><\/li>\n
- The Dark Trade<\/b>, in Carnacki: The Lost Cases<\/i>, Ulthar Press 2016<\/span><\/li>\n
- Grey Dog<\/b>, in Carnacki: The Lost Cases<\/i>, Ulthar Press 2016<\/span><\/li>\n
- The Jessamine Garden<\/b>, in Beneath the Surface<\/i>, Parsec Ink 2016<\/span><\/li>\n
- The Dragoman’s Son<\/b>, in Holmes away from Home<\/i>, Belanger 2016<\/span><\/li>\n
- The Jessamine Touch<\/b>, in His Seed<\/i>, Lethe Press 2017<\/span><\/li>\n
- A Persistence of Geraniums<\/b>, in collection of the same name, Electric Pentacle 2017<\/span><\/li>\n
- His Heart Shall Speak No More<\/b>, in Geraniums<\/i>, Electric Pentacle 2017<\/span><\/li>\n
- A Word with Mr Dry,<\/b> in Geraniums<\/i>, Electric Pentacle 2017<\/span><\/li>\n
- The Workman & His Hire,<\/b> in Geraniums<\/i>, Electric Pentacle 2017<\/span><\/li>\n
- The Intrusion<\/b>, in Geraniums<\/i>, Electric Pentacle 2017<\/span><\/li>\n
- A Loss of Angels<\/b>, in Geraniums<\/i>, Electric Pentacle 2017<\/span><\/li>\n
- On Ullins Bank<\/b>, in Fearful Fathoms<\/i>, Scarlet Galleon 2017<\/span><\/li>\n
- Hoodoo-man<\/b>, in Speakeasies & Spiritualists<\/i>, 18thWall 2017<\/span><\/li>\n
- The Witch of Pender<\/b>, in Weirdbook: Witches<\/i>, Weird Book 2017<\/span><\/li>\n
- Affair of the Red Opium<\/b>, in Holmes in the<\/i> Realms of H G Wells<\/i>, Belanger 2017<\/span><\/li>\n
- The Second Life of Jabez Salt<\/b>, in Eliminate the Impossible, <\/i>MX Publishing 2017<\/span><\/li>\n
- Where All is <\/b>Night<\/b>, and Starless<\/b>, in Chthonic<\/i>, Martian Migraine 2018<\/span><\/li>\n
- Mr Aloysius Clay,<\/b> in March Hare-Raisers<\/i>, 2018<\/span><\/li>\n
- The Musgrave Burden, <\/b>coming in Holmes: Canonical Sequels<\/i>, Belanger 2018<\/span><\/li>\n
- Death Among the Marigolds, <\/b>coming in Silver Screen <\/i>Sleuths<\/i>, 18thWall 2018<\/span><\/li>\n
- The Assassin\u2019s Coin<\/b> (novel), coming from IDF Publishing 2018<\/span><\/li>\n
- Songs of the Burning Men,<\/b> coming from 18thWall 2018<\/span><\/li>\n
- Whiskey, Beans & Dust<\/b>, tba<\/i>, 2018<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Strange Tales from the 1970s to the Future<\/u><\/span><\/h3>\n
Everything from contemporary dark weird and Lovecraftian fiction to tongue in cheek folk horror such as St Botolph-in-the-Wolds.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
- Hungery<\/b>, in Giants & Ogres<\/i>, Cbaybooks 2016<\/span><\/li>\n
- Messages<\/b>, in Cthulhusattva<\/i>, Martian Migraine Press 2016<\/span><\/li>\n
- Stranger Passing Through<\/b>, in Blood, <\/i>Sweat<\/i> & Fear<\/i>s<\/i>, Nosetouch Press 2016<\/span><\/li>\n
- Something Annoying <\/b>This Way Comes, <\/b>on greydogtales.com<\/i> 2016<\/span><\/li>\n
- The <\/b>St Valentine’s Day Mascarpone, <\/b>on greydogtales.com<\/i> 2016 <\/span><\/li>\n
- The Horse Road<\/b>, in Lackington’s Magazine<\/i>, 2016<\/span><\/li>\n
- Preacher<\/b>, in Ravenwood Magazine<\/i>, Electric Pentacle Press 2016<\/span><\/li>\n
- A Midwinter Night’s Carol <\/b>on greydogtales.com<\/i> 2016<\/span><\/li>\n
- The Age of Reason<\/b>, in The Stars at My Door<\/i>, April Moon Books 2017<\/span><\/li>\n
- With the Dark & Storm<\/b>, in Equal Opportunities Madness<\/i>, Otter Libris 2017<\/span><\/li>\n
- Cinnamon and Magic<\/b>, in The <\/i>Monster <\/i>in <\/i>Your<\/i> Closet,<\/i> Cbaybooks 2017<\/span><\/li>\n
- Cinderella and the Seven Penguins,<\/b> on greydogtales.com<\/i> 2017<\/span><\/li>\n
- Horseplay, <\/b>on greydogtales.com<\/i> 2018<\/span><\/li>\n
- On Abydos, Dreaming<\/b>, coming in Survivors<\/i>, Lethe Press 2018<\/span><\/li>\n
- Hour of the Pale Dog<\/b>, coming in Skelos Magazine<\/i> 2018<\/span><\/li>\n
- Those Who Stay, <\/b>coming <\/b>in Voices <\/i>in <\/i>the Darkness,<\/i> Ulthar Press 2018<\/span><\/li>\n
- Sanctuary,<\/b> coming in Weirdbook 2018<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\nFinally<\/span>, as a taster, <\/span>here\u2019<\/span>s an extract from the start of \u2018Where All is Night, and Starless\u2019, published this year by Martian Migraine Press in their anthology Chthonic<\/em>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
WHERE ALL IS NIGHT, AND STARLESS<\/h1>\n
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<\/a>Illo \u00a9 Fufu Fruenwahl\/Martian Migraine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
March, 1919, Inner Hebrides<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n
The agent tells me that the house is built on solid bedrock. It has three rooms, with bare stone walls forming a kitchen, a bedroom and a parlour. A failed farmhouse for a failed farm. The last owner died in the war, childless, and his wife soon after, in 1918. The agent has no record of how or why. He has a florid, anxious face \u2013 a Lowland Scot, desperate to please and yet ill-informed about the Western Isles. I have neighbours on the other side of the island, a handful of crofters, but he knows little about them. A boat brings supplies once a week.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n
\u201cNae so fine a place for a lassie.\u201d He shakes his head, a sudden burst of conscience, perhaps. \u201cAnd if your faither takes bad…\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n
- Messages<\/b>, in Cthulhusattva<\/i>, Martian Migraine Press 2016<\/span><\/li>\n
- The Meeting<\/b>, in Carnacki: The Lost Cases<\/i>, Ulthar Press 2016<\/span><\/li>\n
- STEP TWO:<\/strong><\/span> If anyone does show interest, plead having to earn a living as an excuse not to do anything further about it. Lose most of the manuscripts.<\/li>\n