Magali A. Fréchette writes the darker side of stories. Paranormal, dark fantasy, and mystery/thriller, but always with romance – she’s an extremist and loves both dark and cute things. All her stories are either set in Canada, or in alternate worlds (makes sense since she’s Canadian, right?). She is always writing and enjoys freelancing as a book cover designer. Magali
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This is the book plants don’t want you to read… There’s been a lot of coverage in recent times of the successes and failures of the crowdsourcing model, epitomised by Kickstarter. Well we’ve found one Kickstarter that looks primed to be a success! From the Kickstarter description: Improbable Botany is a brand-new science fiction anthology about alien plant conquests, fantastical ecosystems,
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Gollancz have announced the arrival of Strange Weather, a collection of four “short novels” by the award-winning Joe Hill. This collection of novellas is due for release on the 7th of November, but you can already get your pre-orders in. Joe Hill is best known as the bestselling author of the 2016 release, The Fireman, and has scoped a host
Read moreOrbit Books has released M. R. Carey’s follow-up to his smash hit The Girl With All the Gifts, The Boy on the Bridge. Carey’s post-apocalyptic tale, The Girl With All The Gifts, has already been seen in several versions. Originally the tale appeared back in 2013 as Iphigenia In Aulis, a short story that was nominated for an Edgar award. Carey then adapted
Read moreWe at Zealot Script are now back from our Summer Sabbatical, with lots of news to update you on! Keep an eye out for our updates to start coming thick and fast again. We’ve got news from around the SFF world and a host of new articles in the works, including an exciting new Featured Friday interview, coming this week,
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Orbit books has announced the acquisition of the rights to Josiah Bancroft’s series, The Books of Babel. Bancroft’s first in the series, Senlin Ascends, was self published by the author back in February 2013 and has met with excellent reviews. It tells the story of Thomas Senlin, a mild-mannered headmaster of a small village school, who is drawn to the Tower
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Margaret Atwood, author of such celebrated work as The Handmaid’s Tale and The Blind Assassin, is no stranger to success. Her previous awards include the Booker Prize, the Nebula Award and the Arthur C Clarke award and she has been awarded with no less than 24 honourary degrees, including from the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Harvard. The latest award to come
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Following on from our post just yesterday, announcing The Underground Railroad was in the running for the Booker Prize, Colson Whitehead’s novel has been confirmed as the winner of the 2017 Arthur C Clarke award. Whitehead’s novel has been collecting accolades and awards across the entire scope of literary world, uniting the experts of the literary and science fiction worlds
Read moreHaving already taken home the 2017 Pulitzer prize, the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction (from the US based National Book Foundation) and being one of six nominees for the Arthur C Clarke Award, The Underground Railroad has been taking the literary world by storm. The latest accolade to come the way of this exciting novel is to be included
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In celebration of an emerging new genre we can announce a new award ceremony, the SplatterPunk awards! Certainly not to everyone’s tastes, the genre of SplatterPunk is characterised by extreme violence written in gory, graphic detail. Whereas many horror authors will attest to the power of letting the reader’s imagination run wild, pointing them in the right direction without letting
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