David Conyers
Science Fiction Author
2008
December 10, 2008: David joins the online world of bloggers, with his new online journal davidconyers.blogspot.com. This blog will now feed into his Amazon.com Online Journal.
December 1, 2008: "The Lord of the Law", David's horror short story that received a commendation in this year's Australian Horror Writers Association's Short Story Competition will be printed in The Fourth Black Book of Horror, from UK publisher Mortbury Press, and edited by Charles Black. David will also be appearing in a new Rainfall Books chapbook, Thrilling Tales #4.
November 21, 2008: Three of David's reviews appear in Issue 35 of Albedo One, out later this year. The reviews are Australian Dark Fantasy & Horror 2007 edited by Angela Challis, Artifacts by William Jones and Galactic North by Alastair Reynolds.
October 30, 2008: David's short story "Subtle Invsion" appears in this year's Halloween Gast Fest presented by the Writing Show. Introduced by Stephen Studach, the reading of the story is followed by an interview with David by the host Paula Berinstein. Further information and a Podcast of the show can be found here.
October 30, 2008: David's Aeon Award nominated short story "Black Water" will see print in British science fiction magazine Jupiter #24.
October 6, 2008: The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2008 edited by Kelly Link, Gavin Grant and Ellen Datlow gives three honourable mentions to David Conyers for his short stories "From the Sick Tree" in Cthulhu Australis Part 1, and "Weapon Grade" and "The Spiraling Wom" in The Spiraling Worm. Daltow said of The Spiraling Worm that it is "a good collection of mostly new Lovecraftian adventures featuring secret service ops from the U.S., the U.K., and Australia. The original novella is impressive." "From the Sick Trees" and "Weapon Grade" also make the Recommended Reading List in Year's Best Australian Science Fiction & Fantasy - Fourth Annual Volume edited by Bill Congreve and Michelle Marquardt.
September 24, 2008: David appears in Studies in Australian Weird Fiction 2 in the symposium "Cthulhu Cultus Australis: The Australian Perspective on H. P. Lovecraft" discussed by Leigh Blackmore, David Conyers and Chuck McKenzie. The journal is edited by Benjamin Szumskyj and it can be purchased at Equilibrium Books.
September 17, 2008: Appearing in his first 'best of' collection, David's dark science fiction tale "Subtle Invasion" will appear in Australian Dark Fantasy & Horror Vol 3 edited by Angela Challis. Published by Brimstone Press in December, David shares space with notable Australian speculative fiction authors including Sean Williams and Garth Nix.
September 1, 2008: David takes up the role of Board Member with the SA Writers' Centre where he has been a member for three years, presented writing workshops, and has been the editor of their member magazine Southern Write. David offers his skills in corporate marketing and his knowledge of the speculative fiction genre to the Board.
August 1, 2008: David receives a commendation in the 2008 Australian Horror Writers Associations Short Fiction Award for his story "The Lord of the Law".
July 17, 2008: David is running a workshop on science fiction and fantasy world building at the SA Wrtiers Centre on August 30. Details can be found here.
June 28, 2008: Two of David's dark fiction short stories will appear in two new releases. The first is "Cactus" scheduled for the first issue of the Australian Horror Writers Association's magazine Midnight Echo. The second is a reprint of "Subtle Invasion" in the first volume of Best New Tales of the Apocalypse released by Permuted Press.
May 30, 2008: David's short story "Homo Canis" will appear in 2008 Award Winning Australian Writing published by Melbourne Books, a collection of short stories and bush poetry. Each work has been selected from writing that has won an Australian writing competition over the last year. The story won the Australian Horror Writers Association's 2007 Flash Fiction Award and will also appear in the final issue of Shadowed Realms, published by Brimstone Press.
May 26, 2008: Following on from last year's Halloween Ghast Fest, David Conyers returns again to The Writing Shows' popular podcasting website. David's will read his Australian Shadow's nominated short story "Subtle Invasion" and will be interviewed by the Show's host Paula Berinstein. This year's theme is ghosts, monsters and the supernatural, and is supported by the Australian Horror Writers Association. "Subtle Invasion" first appeared in the anthology The Black Book of Horror, edited by Charles Black.
May 22, 2008: David’s space opera short story “Terraformer” will appear in Issue 37 of Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, edited by Tehani Wessely.
May 1, 2008: The Spiraling Worm is reviewed on YouTube.com by Game Geek Kurt Wiegel. Watch the review here.
April 23, 2008: David Conyers will appear in his first Morrigan Books anthology Scenes from the Second Story, and in another first, will write the opening story “Dream Machine”. This dark speculative fiction anthology pays homage to the album of the same name released by The God Machine in 1993, and will come in two editions, one featuring Australian authors and one featuring authors from other countries. Both anthologies will be edited by Mark Deniz.
March 4, 2008: With the announcement of the Australian Shadows Award for 2008, David is short listed for his short story “Subtle Invasion” which appeared in the anthology The Black Book of Horror edited by Charles Black. David’s co-authored novel with
David Conyers brings us one of the few stories in the collection not set in Australia. Here, he takes a very dark, very gritty, very gruesome look at the final days of nonrenewable resources. We don't really think we'll all play nice and just use up what we have and let other countries use up their own resources, do we? When the writing's on the wall, the greedy and powerful will get underhanded. Conyers brings us a futuristic twist on the quick and the dead in "Soft Viscosity" and its true depth of horror will creep up on you with its own soft viscosity. February 25, 2008: For the second consecutive year David Conyers is nominated for Best New Talent in the Ditmar Awards, the Australian speculative fiction achievement awards.
February 28, 2008: Read an extract from David's tale "Soft Viscosity" appearing in the Twelfth Planet Press anthology 2012. This is what the editor Alisa Krasnostein said about the story:
February 24, 2008: The latest issue of Albedo One, Ireland's magazine of science fiction, fantasy and horror publishes two of David's reviews, the first of Brimstone Press' Australian Dark Fantasy & Horror 2006, and Sean William's Geodescia Accent and Geodescia Decent.
February 18, 2008: "Redemption Slot Machine", a short science fiction story by David Conyers is published on Antipodean SF . Read it here.
February 12, 2008: Twelfth Planet Press' first anthology 2012 featuring David's science fiction short story "Soft Viscosity" is now available for pre-order here. The anthology will be officially released at Swancon 2008 on Marth 20 to 24 in Perth, Western Australia.
Feburary 7, 2008: David Conyers and Brian M. Sammons team up for a second time with their science fiction tale of giant creatures, "Six-Legged Shadows". This story will appear in Monstrous published by Permuted Press later this year.
January 26, 2008: The Spiraling Worm wins an Honourable Mention in Australia's 2008 Aurealis Awards. The Judges' Report had this to say about the book:
Its use of action and speculative fiction tropes to develop complex and original themes within the Lovecraftian Mythos was hard to ignore ... over the course of The Spiraling Worm the characters develop as multi-layered and convincing ... an entertaining mix of action and horror.
2007
12 October 2007: David’s first edited anthology will be published by Chaosium Inc. in 2008. Cthulhu’s Dark Cults is a collection of ten Cthulhu Mythos tales set in the 1920s and 1930s featuring characters, monsters and locations from the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game. Authors include
September 19, 2007: "Impossible Object" one of the stories in The Spiraling Worm, the Jack Dixon/Harrison Peel novel of spies versus the Cthulhu Mythos, is now available as a free download from the Chaosium website here. This download also includes the introduction to the book, penned by C.J. Henderson.
September 19, 2007: David's Harrison Peel tale "Stomach Acid" written in collaboration with Brian M. Sammons, will appear in the upcoming Cthulhu Unbound 2 anthology, edited by John Sunseri and published by Permuted Press. This story originally appeared in Lovecraft's Disciples #5 and features Peel's adaventures in the jungles of South America at war with Lovecraft's Fungi from Yuoggoth.
September 9, 2007: David's novella "Aftermath" which first appeared in Agog! Ripping Reads makes The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, Third Annual Volume recommended reading list.
August 26, 2007: In their first dual interview John Sunseri and David Conyers talk indepth to Shane Jiraiya Cummings at OzHorrorScope about The Spiraling Worm, other writing projects in the works, and how they came to be writers in the first place. Read John's interview here and David's interview here.
August 16, 2007: In an interview with Alisa Krasnostein, conducted as part of the 2007 Snapshot of Australian Speculative Fiction and published on the ASif! website, David Conyers talks about his influences for his science fiction, upcoming projects and which fictional character would he 'get it on with' if given the chance.
August 9, 2007: With his first award, David wins the Australian Horror Writers Association's 2007 Flash Fiction Award for his story Homo Canis. The story will be published later this year in the final issue of Shadowed Realms, published by Brimstone Press.
August 5, 2007: "Aftermath", David's distopian future Africa novella which first appeared in Agog! Ripping Reads and was nominated for Aurealis and Ditmar awards, is now available to read online at Apex Digest. Read the story here.
July 12, 2007: "Subtle Invasion", David's dark science fiction tale is now available to read in the anthology The Black Book of Horror, edited by Charles Black and published by Mortbury Press. An British publication, David is the only contributor not from the United Kingdom.
July 9, 2007: David is interviewed by the ABC News where he talks about his novel The Spiraling Worm, about writing Cthulhu Mythos fiction and collaborating with United States author John Sunseri.
July 5, 2007: David is running a workshop on Dark Speculative Fiction, where participants will learn how to write dark tales that unsettle readers, from science fiction and fantasy through to horror. He will share his tips on which markets in Australia and overseas solicit dark speculative fiction. He will also speak about how to approach these publishers and editors and how to entice them with your ideas. The workshop is for people already writing in this genre, and for those who would like to try their hand at dark speculative fiction. It will be held on Saturday July 14th from 1.30 to 4.30pm, at the SA Writers' Centre, Level 2, 187 Rundle St, Adelaide.
June 6, 2007: The Spiraling Worm by David Conyers and John Sunseri, tales of humanity's struggle against the forces of the Cthulhu Mythos, is available for purchase from Chaosium as a hardcover with a foil-stamped spine.
May 22,2007: David is interviewed on Lovecraftian gaming website, Yog-Sothoth.com, where he talks about his history with the Call of Cthulhu game, his influences, and his latest books Secrets of Kenya and The Spiraling Worm.
May 7, 2007: The second Cthulhu Australis chapbook featuring David's Australian Mythos stories "A Shared Romance", "Vanishing Curves" and "The Swelling" has been announced by the publisher Rainfall Books and will be in print later this year. The cover illustration by Bret Jordan is adapted from the first story "A Shared Romance".
May 4, 2007: David has created a support page for his Secrets of Kenya supplement. The page at http://www.freewebs.com/secretsofkenya/ is an online resource for the recently released classic-era Call of Cthulhu supplement for British East Africa.
April 30, 2007: The newest Harrison Peel tale, Reversed Terror is now available in the latest issue of Horror Carousel edited by David Hopewell. Other authors appearing in this issue include Cody Goodfellow, Tim Curran, Shane Jiraiya Cummings and Ron Shiflet.
April 25, 2007: The Spiraling Worm, David’s first novel co-authored with
April 3, 2007: In this year’s Ditmar Awards nominations, David has been short-listed in two categories, Best Novella for “Aftermath” which appeared in Agog! Ripping Reads, and Best New Talent. This is David’s second nomination for “Aftermath” which was nominated for an Aurealis Award earlier this year. The presentation of the Ditmar Awards 2007, for work published in the previous calendar year (2006), will be held Saturday June 9, at Convergence 2, the 46th National Science Fiction Convention.
April 1, 2007: David is interviewed in Southern Write, the Newsletter of the SA Writers' Centre Inc. where he talks about influences, writing tips and what started him off as a writer. Read the interview online here.
March 27, 2007: Chaosium announces the planned release of Mansions of Madness, second edition, a classic-era Call of Cthulhu supplement containing six classic explorations of the unknown, deserted, and insane. As the name suggests, Mansions of Madness, 2nd edition is an updated re-issue of Chaosium's 1990 publication of the same name. Updates comprise of a newly included scenario, "The Old Damned House" by Penelope Love and Liam Routt, (originally a Cthulhu Conglomerate scenario) and illustrations by David Lee Ingersoll who did the Secrets of Kenya cover. This new edition was co-edited by David Conyers with Lynn Willis.
March 3, 2007: David's first ever published short story, a Cthulhu Mythos tale set in the Belgian Congo entitled "Screaming Crawler" will appear in a revised format in Ron Shiflet's premier issue of In Lovecraft's Shadow, from Tenoka Press. The foe from this story appears in David's Call of Cthulhu gaming book, Secrets of Kenya.
March 1, 2007: In a follow-up to their successful CD-ROM E-Anthology Shadow Box, Brimstone Press annouces its sequel Black Box, containing dark, disturbing and deranged stories under 120 words. Five of David's tales forming his "Hell's Ambassador" arc include "Not Dead", "Higher Than This", "Artificial Demand", "Souls for Guns" and "Fat People" will appear in this collection, which is edited by Shane Jiraiya Cummings and scheduled for publication in January 2008.
March 1, 2007: Atlantean Press in the United Kingdom has just published the anthology The King in Yellow, which features David's Hastur and Australian Cthulhu Mythos tale "The Swelling". Appearing in this collection is fellow Cthulhu Mythos author John Goodrich whose stories also shared space with David's stories in Arkham Tales and Cthulhu Express.
February 9, 2007: Take a look at the inside of Secrets of Kenya with this downloadable pdf detailing pages, handouts and maps from the Chaosium website.
February 2, 2007: Secrets of Kenya, David's African role-playing game supplement for the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game goes to print, and will be available in stores in early March. A detailed description of the book is found on the Secrets of Kenya website.
January 16, 2007: "Aftermath", David's Aurealis Award nominated story has just made the ASif! Recommended Reading list for 2006, a list drawn from all speculative fiction published by Australians in the previous year.
January 11, 2007: After three years as Associate Editor of Book of Dark Wisdom, due to personal committments, David steps down from this role . However, he will remain with the magazine in various roles as required, most prominantly as a Staff Reviewer. David's fiction appeared in Book of Dark Wisdom in Issue 3 and 5, with "Vanishing Curves" and "Solvent Hunger" respectively, as a contributor to their "Film Vault" feature aritcle, and his reviews have appeared in almost every issue.
2006
December 17, 2006: David Conyers first chapbook Cthulhu Australis Part 1 will be released by Rainfall Books in early 2007 with a cover by Steve Gilberts. The collection contains two of David's early Cthulhu Mythos tales "Five Sisters" and "Solvent Hunger" as well as the previously unpublished "From the Sick Trees". All three tales are set in contemporary Australia. Cthulhu Australis Part 2 will be available later in the new year. December 5, 2006: In 2007 the science fiction dark tale "The Subtle Invasion" by David will appear in The Black Book of Horror edited by Charles Black. October 14, 2006: David Conyers' science fiction short story Black Water has been shortlisted for the September 2006 Aeon Award presented by Albedo One, Ireland's Magazine of science fiction, fantasy and horror. September 15, 2006: Appearing in Issue 11 of Cthuloide Welten is David Conyers' first translation into a foreign language, in this instance German. The article concerns archaeology in the 1920s for the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game, and is entitled Der Archäologe: Archäologie in den 1920ern. The original English language article appeared in the first issue of Worlds of Cthulhu. August 10, 2006: David begins an online journal on Amazon.com, on his new author site, which includes links to the anthologies in which his short stories have appeared. July 25, 2006: Reviews from David Conyers will now appear as a semi-regular basis on Shane Jiraiya Cummings' web blog HorrorScope, the first of which is a review of the British series Ultraviolet on DVD. June 23, 2006: David's first publsihed story, "Screaming Crawler" will be reprinted in a revised and expanded format in Ron Shiflet's premier issue of In Lovecraft's Shadow. May 25, 2006: "Sweet as Decay", a collaboration with David Witteveen will appear in Macabre: The New Era in Australian Horror. This tale mixes dark horror with the political thriller genre, and is set in a troubled West Africa nation. The collection published by Brimstone Press in 2007 is a collection of classic stories from Australia's masters of horror such as Sean Williams and Richard Harland, alongside the best of the new era of Australian dark fiction writers. Edited by Angela Challis and Marty Young Macabre is endorsed by the Australian Horror Writers Association. March 7, 2006: Chaosium announces Secrets of Kenya, A 1920s Call of Cthulhu Sourcebook by David Conyers. Secrets of Kenya details the cultures, geography, and history of Kenya through the 1930s; provides an African bestiary; details several secret societies; and includes four adventures to jump start gaming explorations of Kenya and the surrounding African wilds. Also featured is a new Cthulhu Mythos story by David Conyers, "As Above, So Below". See the news article on the Chaosium website. February 10, 2006: The first Call of Cthulhu fiction anthology Arkham Tales, stories of the legend-haunted city, will feature David's story "Regrowth". See the news article on the Chaosium website. January 25, 2006: The release of Chaosium's monograph Hawkmoon includes material written by David Conyers. January 24, 2006: A new Australian Cthulhu Mythos tale by David, "Five Sisters" has been published online at the Temple of Dagon.
December 20, 2006: "Aftermath", David's first published story in Australia, has been nominated for an Aurealis Award for the Years Best Science Fiction Short Story 2006 category. "Aftermath" appeared in Agog! Ripping Reads edited by Cat Sparks.
November 3, 2006: Reprinted from The Whisperer is David's Call of Cthulhu scenario The Return of Doctor Moreau, with new art and maps, and a cover from Steve Gilberts. This product is available from Lovecraftian and all proceeds go to maintaining the Yog-Sothoth.com website for all fans of the Call of Cthulhu game. 
July 28, 2006: In David's first collaboration with horror writer Brian M. Sammons, a new Harrison Peel tale "Stomach Acid" set in the Amazon jungle, will appear in Lovecraft's Disciples Issue 5, published by Rainfall Books. 
April 30, 2006: "Aftermath" by David Conyers, a science fiction novella set in a futuristic Africa, will appear in Agog! Ripping Reads. Edited by Cat Sparks, this new anthology of quality speculative fiction will be launched at Conflux, Canberra, in June 2006. The collection will be distributed in the United States through Prime Books and be available in Australia through selected specialist booksellers.
February 8, 2006: Chaosium's long anticipated Secrets of San Francisco released this Autumn will feature material by David Conyers, including his scenario "Beyond the Edges", a hardboiled tale in the City by the Bay. Written by Cody Goodfellow, Secrets of San Francisco is a sourcebook for the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game and features contributions by Brian M. Sammons and Badger McInnes. See the news article on the Chaosium website.
2005
December 6, 2005: Three new gaming articles will appear in the fourth issue of The Black Seal, due out in 2007. Two of these articles feature the British Library for use in modern Call of Cthulhu gaming, and follow-up his earlier articles in the third issue which covered the British Museum.
November 22, 2005: A new anthology by Elder Signs Press entitled Hardboiled Cthulhu features a story by David Conyers, "Outside, Looking In". The collection contains hard hitting, hard edged, hardboiled stories that take Lovecraftian Mythos to places where only the toughest private investigators, gangsters, and creatures dwell. Here the big sleep ends and the nightmares begin!
October 24, 2005: David's "The Faceless Watchers" will appear in the tenth issue of Lovecraft's Weird Mysteries which comes out towards the end of the year.
October 14, 2005: "Three Shots" a corporate fable appears in the issue 4 of Horror Carousel.
October 10, 2005: "A Shared Romance", David's Australian Yig tale which first appeared in Dreaming in R'lyeh Issue 2 will now appear in the anthology Cthulhu Express, scheduled for release in 2006. The story is one of David's Australian Cthulhu Mythos tales. Update: This title is no longer in print.
October 5, 2005: Atlantean Press in the United Kingdom will pubish David's tale "The Swelling" in their King in Yellow anthology, a collection of tales based on the works of Robert W. Chambers. Scheduled for release in late 2006. The story is one of David's Australian Cthulhu Mythos tales.
September 9, 2005: David's artwork appears again in Worlds of Cthulhu, in Issue 3 published from Pegasus Press and released later this year.
September 4, 2005: Another tale in David's ongoing Harrison Peel series, "Reversed Terror" will appear in Horror Carousel Issue 5, due out in early 2007.
August 30, 2005: David's commentry of The Devil's Backbone appears in the regular column "Film Vault" in Issue 7 of Book of Dark Wisdom. Appearing in the same issue is his competition article "Horror in Africa: Spot the Difference".
July 7, 2005: Horrors Beyond which features David's story "False Containment" is recommended for the Bram Stoker Award for 2005 'Best Anthology of the Year'.
May 22, 2005: A new story featuring Major Harrison Peel has been published online at The Temple of Dagon. This tale is a taste of what will appear in the upcoming Vietnam War Special of The Black Seal.
May 15, 2005: Originally appearing in Book of Dark Wisdom Issue 3, "Vanishing Curves" is re-released, this time online at The Temple of Dagon.
March 24, 2005: More of David's artwork will appear in Chaosium's upcoming release H.P. Lovecraft's Miskatonic University. See the news article on Chaosium's website.
March 22, 2005: David's artwork appears in the second issue of Worlds of Cthulhu, from Pegasus Press, due for release in April.
March 12, 2005: David's first anthology sale, "False Containment" will appear in the Elder Sign Press collection Horrors Beyond, edited by William Jones. "False Containment" is the second tale to feature his ongoing character Major Harrison Peel, who first appeared in "Impossible Object". View the news article on Elder Sign Press' website.
March 10, 2005: Several of David's monsters adapted from literature and the Call of Cthulhu role-playing appear in the new monster book Malleus Monstrorum. See the news article on the Chaosium website.
March 10, 2005: With the re-release of Keith Herber's Call of Cthulhu campaign book Spawn of Azathoth, David has contributed additional text expanding the original campaign and providing over 25 new maps and illustrations. See the news article on the Chaosium website.
March 10, 2005: David's artwork will appear in Chaosium's upcoming Call of Cthulhu release Secrets of New York, written by William Jones. See the news article on the Chaosium website.
January 17, 2005: David's story "Impossible Object" appears in Issue 3 of Dreaming in R'lyeh, this is the first of many tales to feature his ongoing character, Major Harrison Peel, Australian military officer and Cthulhu Mythos investigator. David's illustrations also appears in this issue.
January 2, 2005: David's story "Solvent Hunger" appears in Issue 5 of Book of Dark Wisdom, part of his series of connected Australian Cthulhu Mythos tales. See the news article on the Book of Dark Wisdom website.
2004
October 11, 2004: David has completed writing a scenario "Darkest Calling" and artwork for The Stars Are Right!, a collection of nine scenarios for Cthulhu Now. See Chaosium's news article on their website.
September 21, 2004: David joins the team at Book of Dark Wisdom as Associate Editor from Issue 4 onwards.
August 9, 2004: David's artwork appears in Mysteries of Morocco, a Chaosium monograph written by William Jones and published by Chaosium Inc.
August 1, 2004: David's article, The Archaeologist: Digging Up Past Wonders in the 1920s and 1930s appears in the first issue of Worlds of Cthulhu, by Pegasus Press.
June 1, 2004: Several of David's articles and illustrations appear in the third issue of The Black Seal, including his Call of Cthulhu scenario set in modern day Congo "The Spiralling".
May 7, 2004: David's story "Vanishing Curves" appears in Issue 3 of Book of Dark Wisdom, part of his series of connected Australian Cthulhu Mythos tales. See the news article on the Book of Dark Wisdom website.
