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Hello, 2013
Updates for the new year, which I hope finds you well and optimistic.
'Carnage: After the End Vol.2' is out and about, a collection of post-apocalyptic stories from 10 authors including my contribution 'Hoolies.'
A new horror story, 'Telescopic,' will be appearing in the collection 'D.O.A. II' from the brilliant people at Blood Bound Books who I have been lucky enough to work with before.
As always there are new, bigger, better stories out in the ether looking for a home and the word count on my hopeful first collection is around the 50K mark, it has the working title of 'Gulls and Ravens' and is predominantly unpublished pieces with a few previously seen favourites in the mix as well.
July 13th
A post-apocalyptic story about tribal conflict with a very English twist called 'Hoolies' will be appearing in the Siren's Call anthology 'Carnage: After the End' later this year. Clue is in the title! Cover, links and more info coming very soon.
A post-apocalyptic story about tribal conflict with a very English twist called 'Hoolies' will be appearing in the Siren's Call anthology 'Carnage: After the End' later this year. Clue is in the title! Cover, links and more info coming very soon.
May 25th
Fantastic news this week! My story 'An Unfortunate Incident at the Slaughterhouse' which was originally published by Comet Press in their 'Sick Things' collection has been picked to appear alongside some very big names in Paula Guran's 'Extreme Zombies' published by Prime Books. The full TOC ! George R.R. Martin, David Moody, Nancy A. Collins, Brian Keene and many more outrageously good writers are in this one, what an honour! Release date is August, I believe. Can't wait!
March 3rd
A short story called 'Five Words' will be appearing at the lovely Fiction365 pretty soon. Take a look around on your lunch-break, they consistently publish some very good fiction.
Lots of stories out in the ether, seems like response times from places are pretty slow right now. It's usually worth the wait though when the good news comes in. Working on several new things too; I should do a story called 'Why are all the fonts on my shitty web page different?'
November 30th
November 16th
A guest blog is up at the website of writer Nora Peevy where I share some of the more interesting writing markets and online magazines out there right now. Thanks to Nora for asking me to do this!
A guest blog is up at the website of writer Nora Peevy where I share some of the more interesting writing markets and online magazines out there right now. Thanks to Nora for asking me to do this!
November 14th
Now live at Tales of Old and just in time for Native American Heritage Month in the US is my short story 'The Little Brother of War.' Read by the wonderful Shawn Robertson, this tale tells of a monumental day in the history of the Choctaw Nation as they decide whether to fight alongside the British or the Americans in the Revolutionary War.
October 4th
Currently on deck, a right mixed bag o' stuff -
Coming soon to the online audio magazine of historical stories Tales of Old is the short story 'The Little Brother of War' which is set at the beginning of the American Revolution.
Later this year a snippet titled 'I Wish I had a Dwarven Shield' will be displayed to the innocent public via the genius medium of The Safety Pin Review
There's also a guest blog in the works talking about the more unusual and unique writing markets that are out there, some brand new stories out in submission land including a new personal favourite, and perhaps even more...
July 1st
Lots of ongoing projects right now, plus time to sub some 'reprintables' - real news soon!
December 25th
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
Last update of the year....
Two shorts just went live on Amazon for Kindle - the fantasy-adventure Viking tale Red Ice and the paranormal-detective yarn The Watcher on the Walls
Less than a dollar each as well! Throw 'em on your gift cards!
December 20th
The first issue of online literary magazine Fix It Broken is now live - 10 wonderful pieces of fiction! I am honoured to have my own story 'The Comfort of Dead Whales' as the lead and it has also won the first Fashionable Fiction contest (something that will happen with each issue of Fix It Broken) and a t-shirt inspired by the story has been created!!! There is also an interview with me conducted by the fabulous Mr. Greg Dybec - check it!
Lots of ongoing projects right now, plus time to sub some 'reprintables' - real news soon!
December 25th
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
Last update of the year....
Two shorts just went live on Amazon for Kindle - the fantasy-adventure Viking tale Red Ice and the paranormal-detective yarn The Watcher on the Walls
Less than a dollar each as well! Throw 'em on your gift cards!
December 20th
The first issue of online literary magazine Fix It Broken is now live - 10 wonderful pieces of fiction! I am honoured to have my own story 'The Comfort of Dead Whales' as the lead and it has also won the first Fashionable Fiction contest (something that will happen with each issue of Fix It Broken) and a t-shirt inspired by the story has been created!!! There is also an interview with me conducted by the fabulous Mr. Greg Dybec - check it!
BIO
Harper Hull was born and raised in northern England. He fell in love with literature at an early age through some progressive school teachers and a Sci-Fi loving Dad. The family home was filled with the books of Asimov, Moorcock, Bradbury, Farmer, etc as well as big, thick hardcover encyclopedias on ghosts, mythical creatures and the unexplained mysteries of the world. This wonderful imagination filled library set the foundations for the future.
Growing up in the gritty English north-west, a region famous at the time for bad weather and magnificent culture, grounded the teenage Harper in an understanding of realism and minimalism. It was a region of dour, angry young kids in long coats trying to create something out of nothing. Joy Division, L.S. Lowry, Shelagh Delaney, this was their country.
Bleak glory. A forlorn hope. A glint through the rain clouds.
After a half-decade of city-hopping across England in a southern direction, the last stop was London. The highs and the lows, the magnificent and the dreadful, the most beautiful and the interminably ugly. It was a new outlook for a completely Northern mind and stirred the pot some more. Emigration followed, for the love of the trail, with stops both short and long in Texas and Seattle.
Flash forward - Harper now lives in South Carolina, USA with his amazing Dixie-Rocknrolla wife of 10 years in a 19th century farmhouse. The American South is its own country and he has seen and learned things here he never would have anticipated. With a huge attic all to himself and a sturdy desk, Harper finally decided to write somewhat seriously and let loose all the stories in his head.
As well as submitting tales to a plethora of upstanding publishing houses for various anthologies and magazines, Harper is working on a SF collection entitled Risk Colony and a themed/linked collection of Southern Gothic Horror stories called A Hanging Rock Fall. If you ever read anything he has written, he hopes you enjoy it.
Ninja Contact: harperhull at gmail dot com
Progress Blog: This Is Hanging Rock
Harper Hull was born and raised in northern England. He fell in love with literature at an early age through some progressive school teachers and a Sci-Fi loving Dad. The family home was filled with the books of Asimov, Moorcock, Bradbury, Farmer, etc as well as big, thick hardcover encyclopedias on ghosts, mythical creatures and the unexplained mysteries of the world. This wonderful imagination filled library set the foundations for the future.
Growing up in the gritty English north-west, a region famous at the time for bad weather and magnificent culture, grounded the teenage Harper in an understanding of realism and minimalism. It was a region of dour, angry young kids in long coats trying to create something out of nothing. Joy Division, L.S. Lowry, Shelagh Delaney, this was their country.
Bleak glory. A forlorn hope. A glint through the rain clouds.
After a half-decade of city-hopping across England in a southern direction, the last stop was London. The highs and the lows, the magnificent and the dreadful, the most beautiful and the interminably ugly. It was a new outlook for a completely Northern mind and stirred the pot some more. Emigration followed, for the love of the trail, with stops both short and long in Texas and Seattle.
Flash forward - Harper now lives in South Carolina, USA with his amazing Dixie-Rocknrolla wife of 10 years in a 19th century farmhouse. The American South is its own country and he has seen and learned things here he never would have anticipated. With a huge attic all to himself and a sturdy desk, Harper finally decided to write somewhat seriously and let loose all the stories in his head.
As well as submitting tales to a plethora of upstanding publishing houses for various anthologies and magazines, Harper is working on a SF collection entitled Risk Colony and a themed/linked collection of Southern Gothic Horror stories called A Hanging Rock Fall. If you ever read anything he has written, he hopes you enjoy it.
Ninja Contact: harperhull at gmail dot com
Progress Blog: This Is Hanging Rock
