David Conyers

11 November 2009: Read and interview with David at Innsmouth Free Press where he talks about his inspiration, Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos, current projects, Harrison Peel and The Spiraling Worm, favorite writers, editing and the Australian speculative fiction community.

18 October 2009: Issue 37 of Ireland's speculative fiction magazine Albedo One has just been released and includes David's interview with leading Australian science fiction author Greg Egan. The issue also features several of David's reviews for Voices edited by Mark S. Deniz and Amanda Pillar and The New Space Opera edited by Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan

3 October 2009: David's award winning shorty story "Homo Canis" receives an Honorable Mentions in Best Horror of the Year Volume One edited by Ellen Datlow.

19 September 2009: "The Octagon" by David Conyers appears in Jupiter issue 26 Isonoe, a science fiction tale about reality game shows.

11 September 2009: David will be attending GenCon Australia as a guest this year, held at the Brisbane Exhibition Centre 18-20 September. David will be speaking at various seminars and presenting a demonstation Call of Cthulhu role-playing game scenario. Full details of his schedule can be found here.

31 August 2009: David sells his second story to Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, a short scienece fiction tale called "Emergency Rebuild" which will appear in Issue 43.

July 31, 2009: Permuted Press release Cthulhu Unbound 2 edited by John Sunseri and Thomas Brannan. This anthology of genre-blending Cthulhu Mythos story stories features a collaboration between David Conyers and Brian M. Sammons, "Stomach Acid". Set in the jungles of South America, this tale features David's recurring character Harrison Peel and is a blend between the spy thriller genre and the Cthulhu Mythos.

July 9, 2009: A new Cthulhu Mythos short story by David Conyers, "The Hag of Zais" will appear in the anthology Ancient Shadows: Dark Tales of Eldritch Fantasy edited by William Jones and published by Elder Signs Press. This anthology will be released in late 2009.

July 1, 2009: Issue 36 of Albedo 1 is now released and features several reviews by David, including Year's Best Australian Science Fiction & Fantasy Vol. 4 edited by Bill Congreve and Michelle Marquardt, Matter by Iain M. Banks, Angel Rising by Dirk Flinthart, and The Second Black Book of Horror edited by Charles Black.

May 24, 2009: The release of Midnight Echo #2 sees the re-release of David's award winning short story "Homo Canis". The second issue of the magazine of the Australian Horror Writers Association is edited by Shane Jiraiya Cummings and Angela Challis, and features a contribution by Felicity Dowker, amongst others.

May 19, 2009: Chaosium release Terrors from Beyond, a role-playing game supplement for the Call of Cthulhu game featuring David's scenario "The Burning Stars". 

May 9, 2009: David receives his fourth Ditmar Award nomination for his science fiction novella "Soft Viscosity" which appeared in the anthology 2012. 

Apirl 14, 2009: David sells a new science fiction short story to Jupiter Magazine, "The Octagon", a space opera tale concerning a reality game show inside an alien artefact the size of a city. "The Octagon" set in the same future series as "Terraformer" and "The Entropy Collapse" will appear in issue 26 out later this year.   

April 6, 2009: "Black Water", David's Aeon Award short-listed novella is in print in Jupiter #24: Locaste. The magazine published in the United Kingdom and edited by Ian Redman has been receiving critical reviews for many years.

April 1, 2009: "The Garden Fortress", a short fantasy story by David appears in Thrilling Tales #4 by Rainfall Books. David's chapbooks Cthulhu Australis Part 1 and Part 2 where previously published by the same publihser in 2007. 

March 30, 2009: In his first appearance in a Year's Best collection, David's "Subtle Invasion" from The Black Book of Horror appears in in Australian Dark Fantasy & Horror 2007 from Brimstone Press. Edited by Angela Challis, the collection contains dark short stories from notable Australian authors Sean Williams, Shane Jiraiya Cummings, Marty Young and Gary Kemble, amongst others. The collection is available in Australia this week.

March 23, 2009: Chaosium announces Cthulhu's Dark Cults, released this July. Journey across the globe to witness the numerous and diverse cults that worship Cthulhu and the Great Old Ones. Lead by powerful sorcerers and fanatical necromancers, their followers are mad and deranged slaves. The ancient and alien gods whom they willingly devote themselves are truly terrifying. These cults control real power, for they are the real secret masters of our world. The anthology is edited by David Conyers with cover art by Steven Gilberts.

March 9, 2009: David's first Call of Cthulhu gaming scenario in two years "The Burning Stars" is released in May this year in the Chaosium collection Terrors from Beyond. Other authors in the collection include Gary Sumpter, Brian M. Sammons, Brian Courtemanche, Glyn White and John A. Almack. Illustrated by David Grilla and David Lee Ingersoll.

January 13, 2009: Monstrous: 20 Tales of Giant Creature Terror, a new anthology edited by Ryan C. Thomas and published by Permuted Press is released in the United States, and features David's second collaboration with US horror writer Brian M. Sammons, "Six-Legged Shadows". Read an extract from the story here.

January 1, 2009: David makes the OzHorrorScope 2008 Dark Short Fiction Recommended Reading List for his science fiction tale "Soft Viscosity" which was published in the anthology 2012. In related news David becomes a judge for the 2009 Australian Horror Writers Assoication's Flash and Short Story Fiction competition which opens today.

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