Marie O'Regan

OCTOBER

Marie's story 'Listen' is due to be reprinted in Unconventional Fantasy, a Celebration of 40 Years of the World Fantasy Convention, available to all attendees at this year's World Fantasy Convention in Washington, USA.

Marie's review of No One Gets Out Alive by Adam Nevill can now be seen online at Sci Fi Bulletin. To read the review, just click here.

Finally, Marie is very happy to say that she is now represented by Mr. Jamie Cowen of the Ampersand Agency, and is very much looking forward to working as part of the Ampersand team.

AUGUST

Marie guested at Edge-Lit last month, speaking on both the editor and ghost stories panels. Below you’ll find photos from the latter, including Marie with editor Johnny Mains and addressing the audience, plus a picture of Guest of Honour Half a King author Joe Abercrombie hosting the raffle. 

 

 

 

 

JULY

Photo courtesy of Peter Coleborn

 

Marie had a great time at the Gemmell Awards last month – above you can see a photo of her with Best New Horror editor Stephen Jones and Blood & Feathers author Lou Morgan. Below you’ll also find a photo of Marie and Paul from the event, which was held at the Magic Circle in London, and a photo of the awards ceremony itself.

Photo courtesy of Peter Coleborn

 

Marie’s activities for the forthcoming Edge-Lit 3 event this Saturday in Derby (below) have now been announced.

She will be on the 11am panel ‘In the Old Spirit – Ghost Stories Today’ and the ‘What Editors Want’ panel at 5pm, as well as doing a signing at 12:15. For the full line-up of the day you can download the PDF here and to book your place just visit the Quad site here.

 

JUNE

Marie will be at the prestigious David Gemmell Legend Awards later this month on June 13th, held once again at the Magic Circle headquarters in London. For a run-down of the nominees this year, visit the site here.

A couple of new reviews have cropped up for Best British Horror, the first by Beauty in Ruins who say of Marie’s contribution ‘“Someone To Watch Over You” was an old fashioned sort of ghost story, creepy and unsettling, with Marie O'Regan mixing a little sorrow in with her horror.’ To read the full review, click here. And you can read the full general review of the anthology on Dark Wolf’s Fantasy Reviews by clicking here.

MAY

Marie has just reviewed the supernatural thriller The Voices by F.R. Tallis (above) for Sci-Fi Bulletin, so to read that just click here.

And here is what Amazing Stories had to say in their review of Noir – edited by Ian Whates and published by NewCon Press – about Marie’s story in the anthology (see last month for details): ‘Another predator is at the heart of Marie O’Regan’s “Inspiration Point”, but just what is going on when Marnie wakes to find herself prisoner in a dark basement? A complex psychopathic drama plays out in a story which is rather more intricate than the “torture porn” set-up might lead one to expect.’

To read the full review, just click here.

 

APRIL

Marie’s story ‘Someone to Watch Over You’ has just been published in The Best British Horror 2014 (above) edited by Johnny Mains and published by Salt. Also inside are stories by some of the best writers in the genre, including Ramsey Campbell, Robert Shearman, Tanith Lee, Michael Marshall Smith, Muriel Gray, Adam Nevill, Stephen Volk and Mark Morris.

Another one of Marie’s stories, ‘Inspiration Point’ appears in the NewCon crime anthology Noir (above) alongside writers such as Adam Roberts, Simon Kurt Unsworth and Paul. The book is out now and you can buy your copy in hardback or paperback here but you can also purchase it as part of a very special limited edition ‘Black Box’, which comes with that other NewCon anthology La Femme plus lots of extras (below). To buy that, just click here.

 

 

Lastly, Marie is one of the Guests at this year’s Edge-Lit (above) at the Quad in Derby, on Saturday 19th July. Sponsored by the likes of Gollancz and Harper Voyager, the Guests of honour this year are SF author Charles Stross and fantasy author Joe Abercrombie, while other guests include Jane Fenn, Conrad Williams Simon Clark and Johnny Mains. To see the full line-up and book your place visit the site here.

 

JANUARY

A very Happy New Year! And it starts with some major news from Marie, whose story ‘Someone to Watch Over You’ has been selected by editor Johnny Mains to be reprinted in The Best British Horror 2014. She features in this gorgeous-looking tome (above) alongside some of the greats of the horror genre, including Ramsey Campbell, Michael Marshall Smith, Adam Nevill, Mark Morris, Tanith Lee, Muriel Gray, Stephen Volk and Robert Shearman. Published by Salt, you can find a full list of all the contributors and their stories below:

CONTENTS:

WHEN CHARLIE SLEEPS – Laura Mauro

EXPLODING RAPHAELESQUE HEADS – Ian Hunter

THE BLOODY TOWER – Anna Taborska

BEHIND THE DOORS – Ramsey Campbell

THE GARSCUBE CREATIVE WRITING GROUP – Muriel Gray

SECONDARY HOST – John Llewellyn Probert

THE GUINEA PIG GIRL – Thana Niveau

BIOFEEDBACK – Gary Fry

TOUCH ME WITH YOUR COLD, HARD FINGERS – Elizabeth Scott

AUTHOR OF THE DEATH - Michael Marshall Smith

DOLL RE ME – Tanith Lee

ARSELICKER – Stephen Volk

NAMESAKE – V.H. Leslie

DOLL HANDS – Adam Nevill

DAD DANCING – Kate Farrell

LAUDATE DOMINUM (FOR MANY VOICES) – D.P. Watt

SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER YOU – Marie O'Regan

COME INTO MY PARLOUR – Reginald Oliver

THE RED DOOR – Mark Morris

THE MAGICIAN KELSO DENNET – Stephen Volk

THAT TINY FLUTTER OF THE HEART I USED TO CALL LOVE – Robert Shearman