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NEWS: Two publishing pieces

Posted by The Powers That Be, Monday, 25 October 2004 at 1:19 am, EDT

1. My short story “Mother’s Boy” will be appearing in a future issue of The Horror Express, Marc Shemman’s superb horror fiction magazine. A thick chunk of high gloss quality it has already featured the work of such luminaries as Graham Masterton, Simon Clark and Shaun Hutson as well as some of the best writing from new authors.

   Chuffed is not the word.

   I am also planning on illustrating it!

   Publishing date details as and when I get them.

2. An online serial called The Organization (yes, yes, I know I’ve used the American spelling) is due to start in a couple of weeks at www.keepitcoming.net Keep it Coming is an exciting venture by Kelli Ballard in California, a website filled with serial stories in various genres. Readers subscribe to any given series and receive two episodes a week via e-mail. Steve Newman, a good friend and theatre director, has been releasing a serial about Ernest Hemingway over there for knocking on six months and has been badgering me to come up with a series since about day one.

So I have and thankfully Kelli likes it, contracts have been signed, a month’s worth of episodes delivered and it should début any day (I’ll post a link at the top of this page the moment it does).

Here’s the pitch:

No, no, no… You’re quite wrong. Every thought or preconceived notion you have regarding authority, control, and the very framework of history. All of those movers, all of those shakers, did nothing.

That is the first great secret.

The world outside your window, so safe and secure, so perpetual, all of that hangs by a thread.

That is the second great secret.

The Organization.

That is the third great secret.

Both a fantastical conspiracy history and an action adventure The Organization is an ongoing serial about a secret society of temporal agents who have controlled our world for centuries. With the ability to write history and, if necessary, mould the fabric of reality itself, they have kept us on their chosen path.

Now, however, the ultimate disaster is upon us. The planet reached the point of physical collapse five years ago and has been maintained unnaturally by The Organization since then. Their hold, however, is slipping…

We follow Organization operatives Rathbone and Keller as they attempt to regain control. Trapped and under siege from forces that would see us all dead, they must keep the most important person in the world alive so that she can fulfil the plans The Organization have for her.

She however is an English teacher who counts reading romance novels and collecting china figurines of rabbits as a full and exciting life.

Unsurprisingly, therefore, she’s having none of it.

As well as the ‘main arc’ of the story, The Organization features stand-alone adventures featuring Organization operatives throughout history, many of whom are well known to us… Well, we thought they were…

There is nowhere The Organization cannot go and no type of story it cannot tell. From science fiction to horror, comedy to thriller the only limit is several millennia of history.

ooh…

I’m over the moon about this having watched Keep it Coming go from strength to strength over the last twelve months. It’s an exciting format and great to be involved.

Subscriptions start at $3.33 per month (via PayPal) but I’m looking into various ‘bulk deals’ and offers.

A dedicated space here on the site will be given over to The Organization that will grow as the series continues.

Categories: Published Work, The Organization, writing

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