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Theaker’s Quarterly Newsletter #3

Hi <<First Name>> <<Last Name>>

Hello. We’ve been quite busy since the last newsletter: we have three new books out! And they are all free to download, and as cheap as we can possibly make them to buy in paperback. We can’t help spoiling you.

Regards,
Stephen


SUBMISSIONS HAVE RE-OPENED

We are now open to submissions again. We’ll be accepting submissions for TQF60 up until May 31, but we may close early if the issue fills up. Guidelines here.


THE ADVENTURES OF RODERICK LANGHAM

A new collection of short stories by TQF favourite Rafe McGregor! Roderick Langham is a retired soldier, disgraced police inspector, and reluctant occult detective. He inhabits the world of Sherlock Holmes, investigates cases with John Watson and Sebastian Moran, and is able to perceive the reality concealed by the illusion of everyday appearances. These nine stories follow Langham from his first encounter with the inexplicable in the Himalayan hills to his investigation of the wreck of the Demeter and his growing realisation that the dales, moors, and wolds which surround his Yorkshire refuge are home to an evil far older than the honeycomb of medieval monasteries and Roman ruins suggests. The brilliant cover is by Dave Elsey. More info and download links here.


ISSUE 59

Theaker’s Quarterly Fiction #59 came out in March. This issue, one of our best ever (aren’t they all?), contains seven short stories, all of them amazing: “The Devil’s Hollow” by Rafe McGregor, “Give You a Game?” by Michael Wyndham Thomas, “The Baby Downstairs” by Jessy Randall, “The Constant Providers” by Charles Wilkinson, “Man + Van” by David Penn, “The Night They Sacked New Rome” by Elaine Graham-Leigh and “Anathema: The Underside” by Chris Roper. The issue also features an essay on fake internet reviews, a selection of the fake reviews we wrote to raise money for Comic Relief on Red Nose Day, and ninety pages of non-fake reviews. The cover is by Howard Watts. More info and download links here.

D.F. Lewis has already read TQF59 and has written about it here.


ISSUE 58: UNSPLATTERPUNK!

Theaker’s Quarterly Fiction #58: Unsplatterpunk! came out in February. Guest-edited by Douglas J. Ogurek, this was a special issue, an anthology featuring five founding tales of unsplatterpunk, a brand new genre! Douglas describes it as “extreme horror stories [that] offer a positive message, whether blatant or subtle, within their otherwise vile contents”. The cover is by Howard Watts. More info and download links here.


RED NOSE REVIEWS

Considering how late I left any promotion of it, our Red Nose Reviews fundraising effort went pretty well, raising £120. It’s ironic that a project that grew out of desperate authors paying for fake reviews gave me a little taste of how they feel when trying to persuade people to hand over their cash!


TQF AWARDS RESULTS

Thanks to everyone who took part in the inaugural Theaker’s Quarterly Awards and congratulations to the winners! Here are the results.

  • Audio: The Brenda and Effie Mysteries: Spicy Tea and Sympathy, by Paul Magrs (Bafflegab Productions)
  • Books: Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe, by Thomas Ligotti (Penguin Classics)
  • Comics: The Glorkian Warrior and the Mustache of Destiny, by James Kochalka (First Second)
  • Films: Captain America: Civil War, by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely (Marvel Entertainment et al.)
  • Games: Trials Fusion Awesome Max Edition, by RedLynx (Ubisoft)
  • Music: It Follows: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, by Disasterpeace (Milan Records)
  • Television: Doctor Who, Season 9, by Steven Moffat and friends (BBC)
  • Issue of TQF: Theaker’s Quarterly Fiction #56, edited by Stephen Theaker and John Greenwood
  • TQF cover art: Theaker’s Quarterly Fiction #56, art by Howard Watts
  • Fiction from TQF: The Policeman and the Silence, by Patrick Whittaker

More details here.


CONTRIBUTOR NEWS

Jacob Edwards was involved in the publication of Sirens by Simon Messingham. See http://www.derelictspaceship.com for more information.

Stephen Theaker reviewed John Scalzi’s The Collapsing Empire in Interzone #269. New subscribers can get that issue free by using "IZ269 FREE" as their Shopper Reference during checkout.

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