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Nov 30 2019

November News: Submissions are closed! Thank you!

NEWS

Submission Calls

Submissions for ‘Japanese Fantasy Drabbles’ are officially closed. I want to say a big thank you to all the contributing authors for submitting such a fantastic selection of drabbles. Otsukaresama desu!

I’ll probably write a post in December about the submission call, for those who are curious about the data and behind-the-scenes work involved in this project.

AS for new anthology calls, I’ll try to make a decision about that before the end of December too. I can say that the next anthology will be for short stories and offer a token payment as we have done in the past. Then perhaps we’ll do another drabble anthology after that…

For the poets, we’re always open for Asian Speculative poems. I’m really hoping to see some submissions from Asian writers for next year–please add us to your submissions list for 2020!

Details on our Instincts poetry series are here

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Site Updates

This past week, I made some changes to this site and some of our social media accounts. There’s a new profile logo, and I’ve changed the site name to Insignia Stories where possible. This is because the new drabble anthology will be the first in its own series, Insignia Drabbles Vol.1, Vol.2, etc. So the main site name will be Insignia Stories, and The Insignia Series will continue to be the series name for the anthologies we’ve done. Hopefully that’s clear!

Here on the site, I re-organized the menus and made a few drop-down listings which should make things easier to find. I’ll be putting up a new ABOUT page and one for the drabble anthology very soon, so that will have all the contributors name on it as well.

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Story Recommendation

I read a quite disturbing (in an awesome way) horror story recently, featuring a Japanese woman as the main character. It was written by Insignia: Southeast Asian Fantasy contributor, Eliza Chan and is published online at Three Crows Magazine.

I highly recommend it!

Link: ‘Knowing Your Type’ by Eliza Chan

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Have a great weekend everyone, and Happy Thanksgiving to our North American writers and readers 🙂

~Kelly Matsuura~

 

 

Aug 14 2019

Author Spotlight: RAY DALEY

 

Welcome all, to a new blog series: ‘Author Spotlight’  will feature short interviews with our wonderful Insignia Series contributors.

We are all passionate, cross-genre writers who love Asia and Asian cultures. Get to know us a little better through our Answers to 25 Questions challenge!

First Up….

Ray Daley was born in Coventry & still lives there. He served 6 years in the RAF as a clerk & spent most of his time in a Hobbit hole in High Wycombe. He is a published poet & has been writing stories since he was 10. His current dream is to eventually finish the Hitch Hikers fanfic novel he’s been writing since 1986.

https://raymondwriteswrongs.wordpress.com/

@ RayDaleyWriter

TWENTY FIVE QUESTIONS:

  1. Author Name/s: Ray Daley
  2. Years active as a writer: Ever? 40. Selling stuff? 5.
  3. What genre/s you write: SF, Horror & Fantasy. Literally anything if the mood takes me.
  4. Favorite genre to write: SF.
  5. Favorite length of story to write: Short. I’m lazy.
  6. Your nationality: British. Half Welsh, half English.
  7. Country you live in: The United Kingdom
  8. Number of Asian countries visited: None at all.
  9. Favorite Asian country (visited): N/A
  10. Favorite place in Asia (visited): N/A
  11. Place (city or country) you most want to visit in Asia: I’d love to go to Japan.
  12. Favorite Asian cuisine: I couldn’t pick just one.
  13. Favorite Asian dish: Thai Green Curry.
  14. Favorite Asian movie (any genre): Battle Royale. It’s awesome!
  15. Favorite Asian book (any genre): The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin.
  16. Favorite Asian celebrity: Ming-Na Wen.
  17. Best thing about being a writer: I get to sleep when I want.
  18. Worst thing about being a writer: Not enough money!
  19. Day writer or night writer: Mostly night. I blame the RAF, I used to work in a bunker.
  20. Drink and snack of choice (while writing): Any cold drink. Ginger biscuits.
  21. Number of short stories/poems submitted each month (av): Maybe 10-20? It varies a lot, depending on what’s open.
  22. I dream to be published with/in (publisher/publication): F&SF or Clarkesworld.
  23. Most active on (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram): Twitter.
  24. Self-published, traditionally published, or both: Traditionally.
  25. Currently working on: Not dying of heatstroke. Oh, you meant writing? A story inspired by a terrible Paul Newman movie.

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Ray Daley’s Stories in The Insignia Series Anthologies:

‘Uncle Ping’s Farewell’ (Insignia: Asian Science Fiction, July 2018)

‘How Have the Mighty Fallen?’ (Insignia: Asian Flash Fiction & Poetry, July 2019)

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The Parting

NEW STORY OUT AUG 14!

Read Ray’s latest dark fantasy publication,

‘The Parting’, over at

electricathenaeum.com

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Thanks for joining us!

We’ll have more author interviews coming soon 🙂