Twisted Tales #2

Friday 26th November was our second Twisted Tales event. Obviously we knew that we had a hard act to follow with the great show and attendance of the last event. However, we were not to be disappointed. We had great attendance which is a brilliant result given that the first one had the advantage of being associated with Halloween. As for the performance, we can't praise our three authors (Simon Kurt Unsworth, Paul Finch, and Graham Joyce) enough - they provided the varied, entertaining and spirited readings we want to show off at Twisted Tales and were a joy to have in Liverpool. Initial feedback from the audience was also overwhelmingly positive and TTA Press seemed to get a good night of it too with a reasonable number of magazine sales and subscriptions taken out.

Overall it went really well and we'd  love to get your feedback on the night. Below are some of the photos taken:

Simon Kurt Unsworth reading his pirate horror tale "An Afternoon with Danny"

Simon Kurt Unsworth

Paul Finch reading "Elderly Lady, Lives Alone"

Paul Finch who got the best post story "Ooooo" from the audience

Graham Joyce at work

Graham Joyce

Graham Joyce reading a very moving section of new novel The Silent Land

New Promo Art For Twisted Tales #2

Those industrious fellows at TTA Press have put together a new poster/flyer to publicise the second Twisted Tales which is after all a Black Static showcase. If you're not familiar with Black Static we'll be doing in infomercial in a future post but for now just know that it's an awesome horror magazine which publishes short fiction and all of our Twisted Tales #2 authors have appeared in it (or in its precursor: The Third Alternative). All three authors will be reading short fiction and have agreed to a question and answer session, as well as signing books. Now, without further preamble, enjoy the flyer:

Feel free to copy the poster and repost it wherever you  like. Hell, you can even print it off and hand it out to all your friends. If reposting online just be sure to credit both Twisted Tales and TTA Press. Thanks all, hope to see you there!

Raffle Prizes

It's not enough that we're giving you an amazing evening of short horror fiction, every person who buys a ticket (for a mere £2) also gets a chance to win one of four amazing prizes.

The Silent Land

We'll draw the winners on the night and you could be the proud winner of either a year's subscription to Black Static, a copy of Graham Joyce's new hardback The Silent Land (which I'm sure he'll sign for you), a copy of The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, or the current issue of Black Static.

Hell, its worth buying a ticket just for the chance of winning such great prizes. Let alone what promised to be superb fiction from Simon Kurt Unsworth, Paul Finch and Graham Joyce.

When you factor in that if you buy a book on the night your ticket gives you a £2 discount (and so is essentially free!) you really would have to be mad not to think this sounds like a bargain!

Call 0151 7099820 or pop into the shop to get a ticket. What are you waiting for?

Twisted Tales #2
Friday 26th November 2010

6pm - 8pm

Waterstone's Liverpool One

12 College Lane, L1 3DL

Tickets £2 - On Sale Now!

Twisted Tales #2 Coming Soon

On the 26th November we are proud to be able to bring you the follow up to the recent smash hit Twisted Tales event.

Twisted Tales #2 will take place at the same venue, Waterstone's Liverpool One, at the same time, 6pm, and it will bring you the same high quality short fiction from published authors. We're co-hosting this event with TTA Press's Black Static, which celebrated editor Ellen Datlow describes as 'the most consistently excellent horror magazine published'. All of the authors have appeared in either Black Static or its precursor The Third Alternative. This time we'll be hearing stories from Paul Finch, Simon Kurt Unsworth, and Graham Joyce.

Paul's latest novel Stronghold has recently attracted a movie option, and his festive horror novella, Sparrowhawk, will be published by Pendragon Press in time for Christmas. Paul has a short story in Zombie Apocalypse, recently praised in The Financial Times. To date, he's had ten books and nearly 300 stories and novellas published on both sides of the Atlantic, and has won International Horror Guild and British Fantasy Awards.

  

Simon is a World Fantasy Award-Nominated author who has a collection of stories, "Lost Places", in print with Ash Tree Press, a second collection is on its way from PS Publishing. He has also been widely anthologised in publications such as The Mammoth Book of the Best of Best New Horror, Lovecraft Unbound, and Gaslight Grotesque: Nightmare Tales of Sherlock Holmes.

 

Graham is the Multi-Award-Winning author of The Tooth Fairy, Memoirs of a Master Forger (under the pseudonym William Heaney), The Devil's Ladder, Smoking Poppy, and upcoming The Silent Land, He's also working as part of the writing team for the eagerly awaited horror video game sequel Doom 4.

Friday 26th November 2010

6pm - 8pm

Waterstone's Liverpool One

12 College Lane, L1 3DL

Tickets £2 - On Sale Now

(£2 redeemable against any horror book bought on the night, 
plus it enters you into a draw to win one of four amazing prizes)

To book tickets call 0151 709 9820