IFWG is delighted to announce the world-wide release of its latest short fiction anthology, Killer Creatures Down Under: Horror Stories with Bite, edited by Deborah Sheldon. The evocative cover art and design is by author/artist/designer, Greg Chapman. Australia: the land where everything wants to kill you. A continent filled with some of the deadliest animals…
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In Memoriam: Louis K Lowy
It is with shock and deep grief that we heard today that Louis K Lowy, one of IFWG’s most prolific and long-standing authors, has unexpectedly passed away just prior to his 71st birthday. He kept his illness mostly secret for about a year, and while it appeared he was beating it, he developed complications and…
Cover Reveal: Killer Creatures Down Under: Horror Stories with Bite
IFWG is very pleased to reveal the cover of our upcoming anthology, Killer Creatures Down Under: Horror Stories with Bite, edited by Deborah Sheldon. We gave the artist/designer, Greg Chapman, an ambitious concept to work with, and he delivered what you see here perfectly! Australia: the land where everything wants to kill you. A continent…
TOC reveal: Killer Creatures Down Under: Horror Stories with Bite
IFWG is very pleased indeed to reveal the Table of Contents of our 2023 horror anthology, Killer Creatures Down Under: Horror Stories with Bite, edited by Deborah Sheldon. Congratulations to the authors who were selected for publication – it was a very competitive open call-out. The authors/short stories that will be included in the anthology…
Video: Official Launch of Barbara Howe’s The Forge
IFWG is pleased to have hosted a livestream event on Facebook of Barbara Howe’s official launch of The Forge, the fifth and last book in her Reforging series. In other words, this wasn’t just a launch – it was also a celebration of a multi-year project to get the series out. Watch the recording and…
Report: Double Launch of Slights (Kaaron Warren) & Silent Sorrow (Russell Kirkpatrick)
A few weekends ago Kaaron Warren and Russell Kirkpatrick teamed up and officially launched their most recent novels to the reading public. Kaaron’s book, Slights, is a refreshed reissue of her very first novel and there has been a demand by new Warren readers to get access to it. Russell’s novel, Silent Sorrow, has been…
In Memoriam: Peter Rondel
It is with great sadness that we have learned today that one of our authors, Peter Rondel, has passed away. It was a shock to us, but doubly so that we didn’t know he passed back in October last year. Peter had a long-standing relationship with IFWG Publishing, certainly back to the first few years…
New Two-Book Deal: The Salt Lines Duology by Nathan Burrage
IFWG is very pleased to announce the acquisition of Sydney-based Nathan Burrage’s two books that comprise The Salt Lines duology. “We were fortunate to sign up Burrage’s short fiction collection a few months ago,” said Gerry Huntman, Managing Director of IFWG, “and we are now doubly-fortunate to pick up his historical fantasy manuscripts. This is…
New Acquisition: Cut To Care: A Collection of Little Hurts by Aaron Dries
IFWG is very pleased to announce the acquisition of publishing rights to Aaron Dries’ short fiction collection, Cut To Care: A Collection of Little Hurts. An agency that sends social workers into the homes of grieving families to impersonate dead loved ones… The kind old woman who saved a teenager’s life but now finds herself…
Book Deal: Fiction Collection by Deborah Sheldon
IFWG Publishing is delighted to announce the acquisition of a collection of short fiction by Deborah Sheldon, titled Liminal Spaces – Horror Stories. “This is a wonderful collection of Sheldon’s short fiction,” said Gerry Huntman, Managing Director of IFWG, “mixing her recent successful stories in journals, along with original material. We have invested in her…
Cover Reveal: Coralesque and Other Tales to Disturb and Distract, by Rebecca Fraser
IFWG is very pleased to reveal the front cover of Rebecca Fraser‘s upcoming collection of dark short fiction and poetry, Coralesque and Other Tales to Disturb and Distract. The cover art and design is by the incomparable Greg Chapman, who has worked with IFWG in past projects (as has Rebecca). A surfer who becomes horrifyingly…
Books Deal with Kaaron Warren & Ellen Datlow
IFWG Publishing is extremely pleased to have acquired the publishing rights for five titles by Kaaron Warren, one of which is a collaboration with multi-award winning editor Ellen Datlow. Three Warren titles are transfers of rights from a previous publisher (Slights, Mistification and Walking the Tree) and two are original works: Morace’s Story (a middlegrade…
New Release: Drive, She Said, and Other Stories by Tracie McBride
It is with pleasure that we can announce the UK and Australian release of Melbourne-based author, Tracie McBride’s collection of short fiction titled ‘Drive, She Said, and Other Stories’. “What attracted IFWG to Tracie’s short fiction,” said Gerry Huntman, Managing Director, “wasn’t just the quality and weirdness/darkness of her narrative. It was the collection itself,…
New Release: Shadows in the Stone by Jack Dann
IFWG is over the moon with the release of Jack Dann’s dark fantasy/alt-history novel, Shadows in the Stone. For those in the know, it could be seen as a sequel to Dann’s award-winning novel, The Memory Cathedral. “This is a work of art,” said Gerry Huntman, Managing Director of IFWG, “and while I seldom edit…
Update: Upcoming Australian Horror Anthology
IFWG is extremely happy to tease you a little more about our earlier announcement, when we revealed that Deborah Sheldon had signed up as editor of a forthcoming anthology. She will have four commissioned short fiction pieces by A-grade Australian authors, with the remainder of the TOC made up from a callout in 2020 to Australian horror…
New Acquisition: Black Moon by Eugen Bacon
IFWG is proud to announce the acquisition of a collection of dark flash fiction by Eugen Bacon, each paired with gorgeous illustrations by Elena Betti, entitled Black Moon. “This is an opportunity we can’t miss,” said Gerry Huntman, Managing Director of IFWG. “This is an amazingly unique project, bridging literary, dark speculative fiction, and powerful…
Week of Awards
IFWG aims to publish, above all other traits, quality books. While we don’t obsessively seek awards and shortlisting in awards, garnering them is a type of validation that we are heading in the right direction. We attended GeyserCon (Rotorua NZ) last week (31 May to 2 June 2019) and just flitted through Continuum 15 (Melbourne,…
Kura Carpenter: Sir Julius Vogel Award
IFWG is very pleased to announce that Kura Carpenter has won the Best New Talent category in the 2019 Sir Julius Vogel Awards, in New Zealand. It is in response to her novel, The Kingfisher’s Debt: The award came with a commentary: The Kingfisher’s Debt is Kura Carpenter’s debut novel and very cleverly set in…
Forthcoming Release: The Blacksmith by Barbara Howe
IFWG is pleased to reveal the cover of Barbara Howe‘s third book in her Young Adult Reforging series, The Blacksmith. It will be released on 1 August in Australia/UK/New Zealand, and 23 September in North America. The ebook in Australia and New Zealand is out now. The wonderful cover art is by Catherine Archer-Wills. How…
News: Finalists in the Sir Julius Vogel Awards
We are ecstatic to have a number of our editors and authors’ works reach finalist status in the New Zealand Sir Julius Vogel Awards – the awards that recognise excellence in speculative fiction and fandom. We have worked hard to support our New Zealand authors, and the following finalists and their categories gives, we think,…
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