Welcome to New Bedlam

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:32:13 GMT

It is with great pleasure we announce the opening of a new and relatively unique speculative fiction webzine - The New Bedlam Project.

Some years ago, a small flicker of light lit the window of an abandoned home in the small town of New Bedlam. A solitary figure waited by the candle, while three fellow survivors took their seats around a battered oak table. When they were all as comfortable as they could be, considering the circumstances under which they met, she began to speak.

That meeting began a chain of events that has led us back to New Bedlam, back to the insanity and the insomnia. In early 2006, Louise Bohmer and I discussed what goes on in the depths of a writer's mind when they are afflicted - perhaps blessed - with insomnia. Within days I had outlined a proposal for an anthology set in the nearly-fictional town of New Bedlam, and by the end of the year the wheels had been set in motion.

While the time that passed has brought some changes to the bigger picture, the idea of developing the town itself stuck with me. I wrote the beginnings of two novels set in and around New Bedlam. I've become close personal friends with the madness that lies within those darkened corners and hidden shadows. As I like to tell my children - I've stepped through my grandmother's mirror once again.

Why don't you follow along, and see where the darkness takes us?

Please visit the website for updates on the Courting Morpheus series of anthologies.

Introducing: The Courting Morpheus Authors

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:46:22 GMT

Introducing, The Courting Morpheus Authors

In no particular order, and no title spoilers:

M.R. Sellars
Jeff Parish
Brandon Layng
Louise Bohmer
Camille Alexa
Bruce Barber
J. Daniel Seffens
Donna M. Shelton
Nancy Kolodziej
Kevin J. Hurtack
David de Beer
Ann Tupek
Geoffrey Girard

Congratulations, folks - I look forward to months of whip…er…working with you!

Courting Morpheus - the tales of authors and their muses suffering the evil that is New Bedlam…or is it they themselves that have unleashed the evil on the town? Sleep is as elusive as the answers they seek…and the end word just won’t come.

Courting Morpheus - Coming soon?

‘They couldn’t keep them confined.
Now they’re out of their minds.
The dark ones have woken.
No words can be spoken.
Before the last is bitten.
The end word must be written.’

Please also note that there is now a Courting Morpheus Myspace - updates will be posted there on a more regular basis as I'm tired of fighting with the software/program/whatever here at LJ.