Plagiarism explosion

1 October, 2009 ~ Sean Monaghan ~ 1 Comment

It turns out that an author I’d been following (!) with interest, on a number of flash fiction sites, has been plagiarising work from all sorts of sources. Big ups to Angel Zapata for not only discovering this, but doing a ton of sleuthing to fill out the detail. It looks like most of those stories with the byline Richard Ridyard have been removed from sites over the last 24 hours. Of course, those stories are around anyway, under the byline of their real authors. See Angel’s post here for the gory details and discussion.

Thanks Angel

Submissions published

26 September, 200926 September, 2009 ~ Sean Monaghan ~ Leave a comment

The New Flesh Magazine has published my story “Submissions”. This is another epistolary story along the lines of “Automated Service” in Flashes in the Dark and “Small Classified Ad” in MicroHorror. (Okay, “Automated Service” is a telephone conversation, but it’s still the same kind of thing – no other narrative description besides the communications).

Breathe In – new story coming out soon

22 September, 2009 ~ Sean Monaghan ~ Leave a comment

My 1200 worder “Breathe In” will be published in Flashes in the Dark on October 1st. This is a creepy thriller story. And while it’s set in the US (Williams, Arizona – a very cool little town I visited for the second time earlier this year), it does reference back to New Zealand (as part of a crucial plot element which was fun to include).

Equilibrium, new horror story out …

21 September, 200921 September, 2009 ~ Sean Monaghan ~ Leave a comment

My strange tale Equilibrium has just been published in The Daily Tourniquet. It’s a bit more conceptual, in terms of milieu than most of my stories – a different place, a different world, something vaguer and darker than I would normally write. Have a read here.

urgg

14 September, 2009 ~ Sean Monaghan ~ Leave a comment

Well, still processing this APRA business. It looks like it might be as much as $200 to opt out of my APRA membership – whew! That would make me wonder about whether to continue Venus Vulture at all – perhaps its the universe telling me to concentrate on writing …

New story coming out on September 25th

4 September, 2009 ~ Sean Monaghan ~ Leave a comment

My story “Submissions” is coming out soon in The New Flesh. This follows “While he Lay Crumpled” from a few weeks ago, but is a very different kind of story. New flesh is a very creepy online magazine. Read the latest stories here. As usual, I’ll update when the story comes out.

Resting Bell releases off-line

1 September, 2009 ~ Sean Monaghan ~ Leave a comment

Well, the APRA/GEMA thing didn’t go away or get smooth as I thought it may have. My releases – Signal Artifacts and phantomshadows – are both unavailable until I can sort that out. Kind of no one to blame, just bureaucracy. I’m trying to get more music up and around. Will update soon. Mood – sad.

The New Flesh

24 August, 2009 ~ Sean Monaghan ~ Leave a comment

My story “While he lay crumpled” has just been published by the new online magazine The New Flesh. It’s pretty new, so there are few stories there at the moment, but somehow I’m expecting big things.

Read While he lay crumpled.

Automated Service is out

12 August, 200920 August, 2009 ~ Sean Monaghan ~ Leave a comment

234 or so words – Automated Service – published in Flashes In The Dark for August 11th. Funny? Horrorific? Quirky? Quick read? I thought for a moment adding a bit of a rant here about modern technologies and customer service, but the story kind of says it really.

QuasarDragon

6 August, 2009 ~ Sean Monaghan ~ Leave a comment

Discovered a very cool blog called QuasarDragon with lots of links to free fantasy, science fiction, horror and so on stuff – mostly online fiction. It’s a good way to keep up with goings on in the world of genre fiction on the web. Full Disclosure – some of my stories have been linked to from the site.