Dai-Contributor News

All the news about Contributors to Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales
and Daikaiju!2 and 3 that is fit to print
(and which they choose to tell us about).

25 November 2006

Daikaiju! contributor Eric Shapiro -- has just announced the publication of his latest novel. Here's what he had to say about it:

"Upon our last encounter, in the pages of It's Only Temporary, we found a civilization that was collapsing in fast-forward, and there wasn't much we could do about it. But the good thing about writing is, even if you end the world, you can always bring it back again.
 
So I give you Days of Allison.
 
Here we have a world where pornography has come to life, where men buy robotic females for companionship, and where one man's female has a slight malfunction: She Wants To Die.
 
If you thought IOT had some energy going for it, well, DOA is me writing with a pistol to my head. An author flying through a windshield. A pure lava-flow of psychosis. Sure, Alice went down the rabbit hole, but that girl could not have imagined...
 
In other words, I'm not asking you to buy this book. I'm begging you :-)
 
But there's no room for selfishness here. So please, if you're inclined or able, buy some for your friends, your neighbors, your relatives, your kids, the wife, the husband, the postman, the dog. We've got Kealan Patrick Burke doing the introduction, and Ian Jarvis on the cover. So really, there's no need to restrain yourself. Allison certainly does not."

Signed copies are available from Shocklines, but you can also buy from Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

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24 October 2006

"Death is a place where the party's just getting started. That's the way Greensboro horror writer Stephen Mark Rainey sees it anyway...." So begins an interesting article on Daikaiju! contributor Stephen Mark Rainey in his local entertainment paper, YES, WEEKLY. Mark talks about horror, his writing career and, of course, Godzilla and co. Read it here.

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2 June 2006

Daikaiju! 2/3 contributor Michael Boatman has just learnt that Dybbuk Press will publish his horror/dark fantasy collection, God Laughs When You Die. It will be published in late 2006 to early 2007.

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3 May 2006

Daikaiju! and Daikaiju! 2 contributor Terry Dartnall's short story collection, The Ladder at the Bottom of the World, is now available as an ebook from Trantor Publications. See also: www.cit.gu.edu.au/~terryd and click on the picture of the Ladder at the Bottom of the World.

The collection contains 31 of Terry's best stories, with graphics by R&D Studios and an introduction by Robert Hood.

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Daikaiju!2 contributor, Tony Frazier has sold a story to Baen's Universe. The story, titled "Astromonkeys!", features Digger, the main character from "Out of His League", his Daikaiju!2 story.

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Interior artist for Daikaiju! and cover artist for Daikaiju! 2, Todd Tennant, informs me that his Guidolon artwork will be used as part of Frank Wu's dramatic reading of "The Tragical History of Guidolon the Giant Space Chicken" (see previous entry). Todd comments: "I am very excited to see what comes from this, and hope some Hollywood 'suits' will also be there to sign Frank up! This would make a great 'campy' film, don't you think?" Yes, indeed!

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23 November 2005

Daikaiju! contributor Frank Wu will be doing a dramatic reading of his "Tragical History of Guidolon the Giant Space Chicken" screenplay (which appeared in Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales) at Loscon -- a sci-fi convention in Los Angeles at the LAX Marriott, this weekend (25-27 November 2005). The con runs Friday to Sunday, but the reading is Sunday 27 November at 2:30 pm. Frank hopes that any daikaiju fans in the LA area will come to the con and see the reading, "which will have props and everything!"

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22 November 2005

Daikaiju! 2 contributor Richard Becker's short story "The Revolt of the Ultraists!" will be appearing in the upcoming anthology Spicy Slipstream Stories, edited by Nick Mamatas and Jay Lake, Wheatland Press, 2006.

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15 November 2005

Daikaiju! 2 contributor Steven Cavanagh has a short-short piece in the Shadow Box charity horror e-anthology. It can be ordered from the Shadowed Realms website, with proceeds going to Mission Australia.

Steven has also been accepted into the Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild's anthology The Outcast, due to be release Easter 2006.

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24 September 2005

Daikaiju! 2 contributor Richard Becker ("The Return of Cthadron") sent in notice of the following:

  • His short story, "Nameless Things," has been accepted at Thirst For Fire, a literary webzine.
  • His short story, "We Are All Very Lively," has been accepted by editor Cavan Scott for the upcoming Zombie Aid charity anthology (proceeds to benefit the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund).
  • His triptych of haikus, "HPL CAS REH," has been accepted for the upcoming chapbook, Poetic Chaos, edited by Lee Clark Zumpe.

and last but not least:

  • The burlesque troupe he manages, The Bonnie Delight Burlesque Revue, is doing a show on October 15 (check out the flyer).

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29 August 2005

Daikaiju! contributor Andrew Sullivan has just sold a story, 'The Many-body Problem', to editor Damien Broderick at Cosmos magazine. It will hopefully be in the December/January issue.

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24 August 2005

Daikaiju! 2 contributor T.P. Keating hopes that you enjoyed reading his story [once it appears -- ed.], and says thank you to the editors for including it in Daikaiju! 2. Current news and more details about the author's pulp writing can be found at www.tpkeating.com. Or you can provide giant monster feedback via keatingwrites@yahoo.com.

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22 August 2005

A slew of good news from Daikaiju! 2 contributor Shane Jiraiya Cummings:

  • Shane has been asked to join Bram Stoker award-winning US newsletter, Hellnotes, to do a regular column on Australian horror.
  • He has also just launched HorrorScope: The Australian Horror Web Log, which is a source of Australian and international dark fiction views, news, and reviews.
  • Robots and Time, a science fiction anthology he co-edited with Robert N Stephenson, is now available for pre-order through Altair Australia books.

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17 August 2005

Trent Jamieson, Chris McMahon and Jason Nahrung also have stories appearing in The Devil in Brisbane, a Prime Books anthology edited by Zoran Zivkovic, to be launched by Brisbane Lord Mayor Campell Newman at the City's writers' festival on September 29.

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17 August 2005

Paul A. Toth will join Todd Dills and Jeb Gleason-Allured for a reading at Hungry Brain on Thursday, Sept. 15 at 8:00 p.m. Location: 2319 W. Belmont, Chicago. Tel.: (773) 935-2118. Toth's second novel, Fishnet, was released in July. Jonathan Messinger of Time-Out Chicago wrote: "It's astounding how much pathos Toth packs into this strange, short novel. While the reader is busy contemplating the meaning of Mercy's decline and Maurice's imaginings, Toth slips in devastating sentences, the kind you hope to never hear about your own relationship." More information available at Toth's site.

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17 August 2005

Stephen Mark Rainey has sold his novel, Blue Devil Island, to Five Star Books; it will be released in mid- to late 2006. Blue Devil Island is a WWII historical drama, set in the Pacific during the Solomons campaign of 1943. A US Navy fighting squadron, stationed on a remote island known as Conquest, discovers something a bit more unusual than the Japanese. Although it's not Godzilla, something on the island is distinctly larger than life...

Mark and co-editor James Robert Smith have turned in the anthology Evermore to Arkham House; it will most likely appear in early 2006. Evermore features stories that involve Edgar Allan Poe as a central character. Contributors include Kealan Patrick Burke, Fred Chappell, Gary Fry, Ken Goldman, Rick Hautala, Charlee Jacob, Joel Lane, F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre, Tom Monteleone, John Morressy, Tom Piccirilli, Vincent Starrett, Melanie Tem, Steve Rasnic Tem, and Manly Wade Wellman.

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17 August 2005

Eric Shapiro's apocalyptic novel It's Only Temporary got off to a great start in July 2005. Visit www.itsonlytemporary.com to read reviews, interviews, and more ...

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16 August 2005

James Cooper's debut dark fantasy novel, The Midway, will be published in April 2007 under Crowswing Books’ New Wave imprint. The author has delivered the 170,000 word manuscript after working on it for almost five years.

British Fantasy Award nominee Sean Wright holds his hands up in claiming to have discovered this highly talented author, stating: "Sometimes an unknown writer comes along whose work stuns you. James Cooper is an original voice in fantasy/horror, a new author who possesses not only a powerful imagination, but one who can tell a story that really grips the reader socially, morally and politically and refuses to let go. The Midway is an important novel, and James Cooper is an important new voice -- one to be reckoned with."

For more information visit: www.crowswingbooks.co.uk or the author’s own web site at: www.81x.com/jscooper/themidway

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The anthology is to be published by Agog! Press.You can email the editors at <daikaiju@roberthood.net>but read this first!