March26: Update, news and events
Latest book releases, writing challenges and upcoming events...
Hey everyone,
Greetings at the Spring Equinox. Lots to catch up on so I thought we'd send a full update!
Dark Pagan Mythos: Knot on Tree
The latest Harvey is out now in Kindle, paperback and hardcover, featuring stories from Mary F. Carr, Liam Nicholl, Laura Liptrot, Anna Atkinson-Dunn, Keith Errington and Nimue Brown, John Holmes-Carrington, Kate Baucherel, Steven C. Davis, Mark Hayes, Ben Sawyer, Christine King, Allison Kotzigova, H.C. Ricci, James Waite and M. Stern.
"This collection will satisfy readers who crave mythic and historical fantasy at its darkest: unsettling, immersive, and very much alive."
Harvey Baskets
The current basket that is open for submissions is DARK URBAN FANTASY, deadline midnight 29th May 2026. As usual, we're after witchcraft, folklore, magical realism, supernatural and paranormal... and the darker, the better! Old magic in unexpected places...
After that, the next basket will be POST APOCALYPSE, deadline 28th August 2026. Any timeframe or era, any catastrophe or cataclysmic goings on, we like dark, evocative, thought-provoking, character-driven and quirky.
As always, Harvey stories are 3k-6k words and we offer a £10 payment (rights remain with the author) for any stories accepted for publication.
CGH
The Soup of Causality
Sneak peek at the new cover for the upcoming Harvey SciFi that is due out on April 17th... (links to follow!) We have a wonderful line-up of writers in this collection - full list to be revealed soon.
At Last! Free Harvey Duckman!
And keep an eye out for the upcoming Free Harvey Duckman, featuring all our favourite Harvey stories and writers of all time! This collection includes twenty-eight stories showcasing the best of our four main baskets: Dark Fantasy, Alternate Reality, SciFi and Urban Fantasy. This special edition will be available free to download in all eBook formats, but will also be available to buy in paperback and hardcover too.
Flash!Mob
This month's prompt for the 300-500 word flash fiction challenge is A BRIDGE TOO FAR. We have some fab stories already and there's quite a contest to see who gets in with the first Flash!Mob story of the month. This month the winner is Jo Cross with a story submitted at 22.34 on the 1st!
CGH
Last month's SPILL THE BEANS is available now in Kindle and paperback on Amazon.
The Round Robin!
It took a bit of persuading before I jumped into this but I must admit, it's been such a laugh watching the instalments come in! Thank you to Mr B and Phil S for running with this idea.
We had so many writers sign up for this mad challenge that we had to reduce the timescale to just 48 hours to return an instalment! And every one has been brilliant!
We're up to chapter 29 and the Round Robin, which has been around the UK, across the pond to the US and back, twice, over to Eastern Europe and goodness knows where else, is shaping up to be a wonderful, bonkers, insane tale of sci-fi horror!
Look out for the complete story which will be published in its entirety here as soon as it's finished, and if you'd like to sign up for the next Harvey Duckman Round Robin, watch out for announcements soon!
CGH
Upcoming Events
We have a full calendar of events again! Please pop along for a chat about writing, publishing, Harvey Duckman and the Robinson House Writers and to buy some awesome signed books and stuff. If you'd like to reserve a copy of any of the Harvey paperbacks, please drop me an email in advance.
SciFi Scarbs, 18th-19th April
Some of the Harveys will be at Scarbs this year with some fab scifi, steampunk and urban fantasy novels as well as the new Harvey anthologies.
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Creed Conventions, Middlesbrough, Sports Village, 10th May
Fubar will be at the Sports Village with his full range of cosplay swords, axes, shields and accessories, as well as free eBook downloads. I'll be there too if you want to chat about writing and publishing.
Crossing The Tees, Saturday 27th June
Join me for a full day of writing workshops to cover all you need to know about writing and publishing your novel! We'll be covering plot structure, character development, point of view and tense, and how to publish, distribute and promote your own novel.
Enchanted Fictionery Faire, Sunday 28th June 2026, Stockport
Join Harvey regular Mark Hayes at an esteemed book festival to talk about all stuff literary.
Kapow! Stockton on Tees, Globe Theatre, 4th July
The whole Harvey and Fubar crowd will be at the Globe Theatre in Stockton for a fab family-friendly comic con.
Creed Conventions, Newcastle Comic Con, 26th July
Another chance to catch up with Fubar.
WRITE Festival, The Word, South Shields, 6th September
Join me for writing sessions on How to Build an Online Author Presence and, one of my favourites, Plot Structure for Novels.
Teesside Unleashed, Teesside Uni, 4th October
Join some of the Harveys and Fubar for our local comic con in Freshers' Week.
The Robinson House Writers
The monthly meetings at Stokesley have been fab and are now accompanied by a series of posts here to give you the links to all the stuff we've been discussing. Some recent topics (these are for members but it's just £5/month to join!) include:
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My Stuff
Having just ditched another 30k words... I am back on track and cracking on with the next Thieves' Guild book.
If you haven't read them yet and you like fast-paced sci-fi, the first one is free to read in all eBook formats.
Author Mentoring
I have some availability in the next couple of months for author mentoring sessions. These are £50/session (90 minutes in person in Norton - at La Porto - or on Zoom) if you'd like to have a productive chat about your works in progress, an insight into the publishing process or practical advice on writing (fiction and non-fiction) and publishing.
Please drop me an email if you'd like more info.
Thanks for being part of all this! As always, happy writing!
CGH xx
