Showing posts with label Black Beacon Books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Black Beacon Books. Show all posts

Monday, 11 July 2022

A Homage to Hitchcock

It's summer, school's out, the sky is blue, the flowers are in bloom, and I'm working as a tour guide in the salt marshes again. But if you think that means I've put mystery and suspense on the back burner, think again! I'm busy putting "A Hint of Hitchcock" together. The next anthology from Black Beacon Books will be our most suspenseful yet and a release date...well, release week, in fact, has been set for later this year. Can you guess when? Of course, you can. Our chilling tales will be out in the lead-up to Halloween. It's coming together one step and a time, and tonight's task is to write a foreword paying homage to Alfred Hitchcock, the master of suspense. 







Thursday, 25 August 2016

The Tunnel Runner Has Escaped

Dear Reader, I'd like to invite you to the online launch of "The Tunnel Runner", a tale of urban adventure, social discontent, and psychological suspense that will drag you down to the sewers before returning you to the surface again... if you're lucky. There are competitions galore, as well as sneak peeks, and details on the places and music that inspired the tunnel world.

The Tunnel Runner Facebook Launch


There is one paperback giveaway and several ebook giveaways, so enter all of them to boost your chances!

PAPERBACK GIVEAWAY ON GOODREADS


Goodreads Book Giveaway

The Tunnel Runner by Cameron Trost

The Tunnel Runner

by Cameron Trost

Giveaway ends September 22, 2016.
See the giveaway details at Goodreads.
Enter Giveaway

EBOOK GIVEAWAY #1 

You could win an ebook copy of the novel right here on my blog! Just follow these steps:
a) Add your email address to receive updates by email (on the right-hand side near the top)
b) Follow this blog ((on the right-hand side near the bottom)
A lucky winner will be randomly selected before the release of the ebook, which is on the 22nd of September. Good luck!

EBOOK GIVEAWAY #2
For your chance to win an ebook copy of The Tunnel Runner, simply buy and review any of my ebooks on Smashwords and add me as a "favorite":
https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/CameronTrost
A lucky winner will be randomly selected before the release of the ebook, which is on the 22nd of September.


EBOOK GIVEAWAY #3
Win an ebook copy of The Tunnel Runner by purchasing my short story collection, Hoffman's Creeper and Other Disturbing Tales, and leaving a rating and review on Amazon before the 22nd of September.
https://www.amazon.com/Hoffmans-Creeper-Other-Disturbing-Tales-ebook/dp/B00BZSCOM8/

EBOOK GIVEAWAY #4
You could win an ebook copy of The Tunnel Runner simply by "liking" my Facebook page. If the page reaches 1000 followers by the 22nd of September, one lucky fan will be randomly selected.
https://www.facebook.com/CameronTrostAuthor/


If you'd rather just buy a copy of The Tunnel Runner, click here to order your copy today.





Wednesday, 23 December 2015

2015: The Year of Darkness and Lighthouses

The year is drawing to a close, and I'm certainly looking forward to a holiday from the day job as an English teacher. Perhaps, just perhaps, I'll even have an hour or two to get some writing done before the clocks herald the midnight hour on the 31st of December. Please join me as I look back on what I accomplished in 2015.

Australian Horror Writers' Association

This year, as vice-president of the AHWA, I wanted to carry out a project that would become part of the association's history. That vague idea soon grew clearer and I decided it was time for the AHWA to publish its first anthology of horror stories written by members. With an enthusiastic nod from my fellow committee members, In Sunshine Bright and Darkness Deep: An Anthology of Australian Horror was published in the lead-up to Halloween. It is now available for purchase in print or as an ebook.

I was also pleased, as the AHWA's competitions coordinator, to have organised the Flash Fiction and Short Story Competition, which was won by J. Ashley-Smith (short story) and Zoe Downing (flash fiction). Their winning entries will be published in the next issue of Midnight Echo, the magazine of the AHWA. The guidelines for the 2016 competition are available now and entries can be submitted as of the 1st of January.


Black Beacon Books

In 2013, I founded Black Beacon Books, one of just a handful of Australian small press publishers dedicated to horror, suspense, and mystery short fiction and novellas, and the only one currently active in Brisbane. This year, we published our second anthology, Lighthouses: An Anthology of Dark Tales, which features tales set in and around lighthouses by authors from around the world - but predominantly Australian. It was no mean feat publishing two anthologies in one year and making sure that both were of the highest quality in terms of content and design... but it happened!

Writing

Needless to say, with so much editing and marketing taking up what little free time I had, this year wasn't my most productive when it came to penning my own tales. All the same, I did manage to work on several short stories this year, and two of them have found homes. They are both strange and disturbing, and that's all I'll say...


The Crows of Eildon Hill

Milk





Next Year

Can this momentum be kept up? Well, probably not, to be frank. That said, one of my resolutions is to find more time to work on my own writing, and I'm intent on making the AHWA Flash Fiction and Short Story Competition even more successful than it was this year. What about another anthology? Well, you've probably worked out that I'm hooked, so yeah, you can expect submissions guidelines to be announced early next year for the next Black Beacon Books anthology. After all, there is a wealth Australian writing talent out there but a lack of psychological horror and suspense markets these days.

So, stay tuned for 2016! 

Wednesday, 25 June 2014

Subtropical Suspense

July is set to be a special month for me. I'll be making my debut as an anthology editor!

"Subtropical Suspense" will feature sixteen gripping tales of mystery and suspense set in Brisbane!
It will be launched at Black Cat Books (179 Latrobe Tce, Paddington, Brisbane) at 2pm on Saturday the 19th of July. There will be readings and signings, a raffle, a detective costume competition, and complimentary drinks.

Here is the impressive table of contents and the cover design by Greg Chapman:

A Lasting Impression    FN Karmatz
Penelope Potter    Frank Ince
The Deluge    Gerry Huntman
Magnetic North    FN Karmatz
Scarlett Fever    Alice Godwin
Downpour    Sophie Yorkston
Missing    Kerry Lown Whalen
The Woman from the West    David Dolan
Living Statue    Barry Rosenberg
Incident in Wilston    Phil Brown
Like Me, The River    Duncan Richardson
Campus of Fear    Frank Ince
Cold Comfort    Sam Muller
The Final Cut    Linda Brucesmith
Blood on the Ice    Helen Stubbs
The Death, Rise and Deliverance of Greer Cabot    Kirk Marshall