Nobody expects the Ninja Lanternshark!

Meet the Ninja Lanternshark, a species of shark that has only just been discovered. It hides in the ocean's abyssal depths where its black skin keeps it camouflaged - but it also glows in the dark!

The Ninja Lanternshark was discovered by a team at the Pacific Shark Research Center, in Moss Landing, California. Its official Latin name is Etmopterus benchleyi, after Jaws author Peter Benchley. But its common name was coined by the cousins of researcher Vicky Vásquez.

The Ninja Lanternshark is roughly half a metre, or 18 inches, long and it lives at a depth of abround 1,000 metres off the Pacific Coast of Central America. To find out more about this amazing discovery, and compare its strangeness with that of other sharks, click this link.

A possible subject for SHARKPUNK 2, perhaps?

BFS Awards 2015

Congratulations to SHARKPUNK and GAME OVER contributor Laurel Sills who, along with Lucy Smee, won the British Fantasy Award for Best Magazine for Holdfast Magazine at yesterday's BFS Awards 2015.

Next year both SHARKPUNK and GAME OVER will be eligible to be nominated in the Best Anthology category, and all the stories that feature within them will be eligible for the Best Short Story award.

So watch this space...

Sharkpunk contributors make the shortlist for the British Fantasy Awards 2015

I was delighted to discover today how many SHARKPUNK contributors have been nominated in various categories for this year's British Fantasy Awards. Congratulations, Gary McMahon, Ian Whates, Laurel Sills and Den Patrick!

In other news, my own YOU ARE THE HERO - A History of Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks has also made the shortlist for the British Fantasy Awards 2015.

Sharkpunk at the London Film and Comic Con

In the year that Jaws is 40...

... SHARKPUNK will be at the London Film and Comic Con today, along with the likes of Sigourney Weaver and Michael J Fox, as well as Sixth Doctor Colin Baker and Seventh Doctor Sylvester McCoy!

So why not stop by my stand and pick up a copy at a knock-down convention-only price?

Could Megalodon prey on a Blue Whale?

If they had both lived at the same time, obviously.

I'll take that as a 'Yes'.

Sharkpunk at Edge-Lit 4

Just a quick reminder that I shall be at Edge-Lit 4 today (Saturday 11th July 2015, from 10:00am) with copies of SHARKPUNK (not to mention YOU ARE THE HERO) in tow.

Indeed, SHARKPUNK is sponsoring the 5:15pn panel 'Short and Sweet – Writing and Selling Short Stories', featuring Andrew Hook, Kim Lakin-Smith (SHARKPUNK contributor), Alison Littlewood, and Gav Thorpe (GAME OVER contributor), with Adele Wearing chairing.

So if you're in Derby, or at the event already, please pop over and say "Hi!" and you can have one of my Alice's Nightmare in Wonderland flyers to take away with you. (One free with every purchase!)

Sharkpunk Saturday - 40 Years of Fear!

If you're a fans of sharks, Jaws, and SHARKPUNK - and let's face it, if you're here, reading this, then you probably are - you might want to check out the 40 Years of Fear Bicycle® Jaws Playing Card Deck Kickstarter that's running out the moment.

And, if you do, tell them SHARKPUNK sent you. ;-)