"Russell ... mixes menace, mystery and romance in a plot that keeps the reader teasingly off-balance and guessing how matters will resolve themselves until the tale’s final twist ending." - Publishers Weekly

"Russell is a master of subtlety, enfolding the reader in a smart net of elegant prose and ambiguous facts. A mainstream piece or a gothic novella..? It's up to you to decide." - Mario Guslandi at The Zone

"...it is something seriously decadent and Dorian Gray and Stephen Poliakoff and pre-Raphaelite ... with Elizabeth-Bowen-esque nihilism of a fractured soul. The Tabula Rasa of love ... and a rite of torture that unfolds so slowly in such a quick book, one is driven along by it. This whole force of onward fiction has a very clever ending. I believed every word." - Des Lewis, Weirdmonger
"...a book of dark mysteries and subtle psychology." Highlander's Book Reviews

My novella, Bloody Baudelaire, is to be published on 1st June by the Ex Occidente Press. A sewn hardcover book of 75pps and limited to 400 copies, the book is $30 inc. p&p to Europe and USA, $35 to the rest of the world.
 

blurb:  

Bloody Baudelaire

When young Lucian Miller visits the house of a friend it is everything he had long fantasized about; decay and grandeur, lofty rooms, dark red shadows and dust. The evening, however, is a disaster, and Lucian finds himself apparently alone with the sophisticated but troubled Miranda Honeyman. They shut all of the doors in an attempt to keep their problems out, but it soon becomes apparent that someone else may have access to the house. On the threshold of adulthood, in a heightening atmosphere of sexual uncertainty and violence, Lucian tries to make sense of what is happening around him. Bloody Baudelaire handles its themes deftly, with a rare insight into human character in extremis. An absolutely stunning new novella from an upcoming master of the fantastic!
 

You can order the book by paypal by going to the Ex Occidente webpage at: http://www.exocccidente.com/baudelaire.html

Alternatively

In the UK please contact Andy Richards at Cold Tonnage Books: andy@coldtonnage.com

In the US please contact Mark Ziesing, Booksellers:  ziesingbooks@frontiernet.net

"It Is There" is played at 18 minutes and 20 seconds into the show.

Putting the Pieces in Place now has a publication date of 15th January 2009.

It can be ordered direct from the publisher in Bucharest by emailing exoccidente@gmail.com.

In the UK it can be ordered from Andy Richards at Cold Tonnage Books andy@coldtonnage.com

In the US from Realms of Fantasy ofilip@nstar.net and Ziesing Books at ziesingbooks@frontiernet.net

It has been a good year so far for my short fiction, with stories published in The Black Veil and The Werewolf Pack and another just published in Postscripts 16. But to make the year complete the Ex Occidente Press in Bucharest are just about to publish my first collection Putting the Pieces in Place.

Oh, and there's a poem in the Staple 69..

Now, back to the music...