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As announced earlier Crimewave 9 is on sale at Fictionwise.

Crimewave 9 at Fictionwise is a ‘MultiFormat’ ebook which means it is not encrypted and you can download in all sorts of formats for a range of handheld devices and computers.

Fictionwise are keen to support every major eBook device, and this week they have announced that all MultiFormat eBooks at Fictionwise are now available for the Amazon Kindle and the Sony Reader. This is even true for MultiFormat eBooks customers have purchased previously.

For Sony Reader just select “Sony Reader (LRF)” and for Kindle select “Kindle (AZW)” from Fictionwise‚Äôs MultiFormat download menu.

Kindle customers can now register their Kindle email address at Fictionwise and upload ‚Äòwirelessly‚Äô with a single click from their bookshelf! (Amazon’s 10-cent wireless charges apply.) For complete details on how to set this up, click here.

At present this e edition is not available direct from the T3A site.

If you order one let us know what you think.

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The Case Notes section of Black Static #2 will contain a review of the short story collection Little Moscow (Tindal Street Press pb, 272pp, ¬£7.99) and an interview of sorts with author Mick Scully (a regular contributor to Crimewave). To whet your appetite for that, here’s Mick reading from one of his stories:-

Pete reviews many more books, and interviews authors, in Black Static. Subscribe now!

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Crimewave 9 is now on sale at Fictionwise. 

Go to www.fictionwise.com, where, at the moment, it says “New MultiFormat Publishers! Fictionwise welcomes TTA Press”¬†near the top. Follow the link and you’ll see Crimewave. You can see the ebook description page at http://www.fictionwise.com/eBooks/eBook51106.htm.

Crimewave is a ‘MultiFormat’ ebook which means it is unencrypted and available in a variety of formats for handheld devices and computers. See Fictionwise FAQ Fictionwise have formats for various ebook readers, PDAs, mobile phones and laptops and I think purchasing any one format gives you access to all. If I’m wrong about that I sure our electronic editions editor, Pete Bullock, will correct me.

At present the e edition is not available direct from the TTA or T3A site.

If you order one let us know what you think.

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Latest acceptance for Crimewave:

Appearances by Murray Shelmerdine

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Back issues of Crtimewave are very rare!

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Latest story accepted for Crimewave:

Black Lagoon by Alex Irvine

Crimewave 10 is shaping up very nicely! Also confirmed:

Last Man by Mick Scully

Btw, Mick’s collection of interlinked stories Little Moscow was launched on the 12th June by Tindal Street Press

People in Hell Want Ice and Water by Nicholas Stephen Procter

Your Place Is In The Shadows by Charlie Williams

Unlucky by Lisa Morton

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Latest story accepted for Crimewave:

Unlucky by Lisa Morton

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The publisher is named after the magazine it founded in 1994, The Third Alternative, which is renowned for its slipstream/horror fiction and introduction (or early publication) of writers such as Nicholas Royle, Justina Robson, Chris Kenworthy, Rosanne Rabinowitz, Joel Lane, Conrad Williams, Alexander Glass, Lynda Rucker, Karen Fishler, Joe Hill, Tamar Yellin, Mike O’Driscoll, Andrew Hook, Jamie Barras, Simon Avery, Martin Simpson, Jason Gould, Jessica Reisman, Brian Howell, Tim Lees, Brian Ruckley, Paul Meloy, Sten Westgard, Nina Allan, Andrew Humphrey, Neal Asher and a great many others. The magazine has also published the likes of Christopher Priest, Steve Rasnic Tem, James Lovegrove, Peter Crowther, Paul Di Filippo, Don Webb, Tim Lebbon, Mark Morris, Tom Piccirilli, Michael Marshall Smith, Ian Watson, Tony Ballantyne, M. John Harrison, Muriel Gray, Graham Joyce, Simon Ings, Jay Lake, Christopher Fowler, Brian Hodge, Brian Aldiss, Eric Brown, Alan Wall, James Sallis, Susan Fry, Melanie Fazi, Vandana Singh, Scott Nicholson, Elizabeth Bear and many others. The magazine is twice winner of the British Fantasy Award, and winner of the International Horror Guild Award. The first best-of-TTA anthology, Last Rites and Resurrections, also won a British Fantasy Award (and is long out of print).

In 1999 Mat Coward suggested that we filled a gap in the market by publishing a magazine for crime and mystery short stories. So Crimewave was born. Mat agreed to edit the first couple of issues, then co-edit with Andy Cox the next couple before stepping down (and becoming a contributor, since he’s one of the finest short-story writers around and writes the definitive CW story). Taking a unique approach to the genre Crimewave continues to publish the kind of fiction you just don’t find anywhere else, picking up nothing but rave reviews, some of its stories winning prestigious awards such as the CWA Dagger and many of them earning reprints in Year’s Best anthologies of various genres. Crimewave has published stories by Ian Rankin, Molly Brown, Tom Piccirilli, Michael Z. Lewin, Martin Edwards, Mike O’Driscoll, Steve Rasnic Tem, Antony Mann, Shelley Costa, Michel Faber, Christopher Fowler, Sean Doolittle, Ceri Jordan, Marion Arnott, Chaz Brenchley, Brian Hodge, Susan Sonde, Scott Nicholson, Susan Fry, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Stephen Volk, Joel Lane, Michelle Scalise, Joe Hill, Muriel Gray, James Sallis, John Grant, John Shirley, Gary W. Shockley, Mick Scully and many others.

In 2005 we took over from David Pringle as publisher of Interzone, which is now celebrating its 25th year, and which since 1982 has launched the careers of a great many SF and Fantasy writers. Interzone is often shortlisted for many awards, and has won the Hugo and British Fantasy Awards. The magazine is currently published every other month, in colour, and continues to publish some of the world’s finest writers and most talented newcomers. Amongst those to have graced its pages: Brian Aldiss, Sarah Ash, Michael Moorcock, Bruce Sterling, William Gibson, M. John Harrison, Stephen Baxter, Iain M Banks, J.G. Ballard, Kim Newman, Alastair Reynolds, Harlan Ellison, Greg Egan, Gwyneth Jones, Jonathan Lethem, Geoff Ryman, Rachel Pollack, Charles Stross, Jon Courtenay Grimwood, John Brunner, Paul McAuley, Ian R. MacLeod, Christopher Priest…

With the arrival of Interzone it was no longer necessary to publish anything remotely SF or Fantasy in The Third Alternative, so we took the opportunity to focus on TTA’s darker side and give the magazine a new title: Black Static, which will (re)launch in September 2007.

So far we’ve only published a few books. Apart from Last Rites and Resurrections, there’s Allen Ashley’s debut novel The Planet Suite; Ray Nayler’s dark and brooding homage to the private eye novel American Graveyards; and Mat Coward’s hilarious writers’ guide Success…And How To Avoid It. We hope to publish a lot more books in the future, and more often. At the time of writing, three new titles are in the works: Paul Meloy’s story collection Islington Crocodiles; Andrew Humphrey’s mystery novel Alison; and a second and final Best-of-TTA anthology, Dancing About Architecture, which like its predecessor takes its title from a Martin Simpson story.

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