Anthologies
BAD AUSTEN: THE WORST STORIES JANE NEVER WROTE
Contributor
(Includes my short story, “The Horrors of Expectation”)
(Softcover, Adams Media, 224 pages, November 15, 2011)
It is a truth universally acknowledged that an author as popular as Jane Austen should be imitated, expanded upon, and parodied—until now…. This collection presents the best of the worst entries for the first paragraph of Austen’s unwritten classics. From “Star Wars” meets Elizabeth Bennett to “Northanger Abbey” translated into a setting for cats and dogs, here are the stories Jane Austen would never have written.
Available for pre-order at Amazon.
THE TRADITIONAL WEST: A WESTERN FICTIONEERS ANTHOLOGY
Contributor
(Includes my story, “Catch as Catch Can: A Maple Jack Tale”)
(Softcover and ebook versions, Western Fictioneers, 270 pages, July 2011)
From the dusty plains of Texas to the sweeping vistas of Montana and beyond, the classic American Western returns in this collection of 24 brand-new stories by some of the top Western writers in the world today, including Robert J. Randisi, Dusty Richards, James Reasoner, Larry D. Sweazy, L.J. Washburn, Jackson Lowry, Larry Jay Martin, Kerry Newcomb, and Matthew P. Mayo (and many others!). This anthology is the biggest original Western anthology ever published!
Available now in Kindle and Nook formats, and soon as a paperback.
HOW THE WEST WAS WEIRD, VOL. II
Contributor
(Includes my short story, “The Witch Hole”)
(Softcover & ebook, PulpWork Press, 366 pages, July, 2011)
This beefy volume is crammed tight with 20 tales of cattlemen and cannibals, aliens and barkeeps, robots and soiled doves, and just about everything you can think of that blends Westerns with horror, sci-fi, and fantasy.
Available in softcover and Kindle versions.
MONDO SASQUATCH
Contributor
(Includes my short story, “Roadside Attraction”)
(Softcover and ebook versions, Summer 2011)
Under the “Bookgasm Presents” banner, Mondo Sasquatch is exactly what its title promises: A Bigfoot anthology with 15 offerings that will leave you frightened, bewildered, excited, aroused, and nervous. Coming soon….
CHRISTMAS CAMPFIRE COMPANION
Short Stories from Today’s Top Western Writers
Contributor
(Includes my short story, “Maple Jack and the Christmas Kid”)
(Softcover and Kindle versions, Fall 2011)
Port Yonder Books presents the forthcoming anthology, Christmas Campfire Companion: Short Stories from Today’s Top Western Writers. It includes my story, “Maple Jack and the Christmas Kid.”
Available Fall, 2011, in softcover and Kindle versions.
NEEDLE
A Magazine of Noir
Contributor
(Includes my short story, “Get Teague!”)
(Softcover, Needle Magazine, 202 pages,
Issue #3/Winter 2010)
Needle: A Magazine of Noir, is a tri-annual publication featuring tales of murder and mayhem. New fiction by Graham Powell, Matthew C. Funk, Sophie Littlefield, Graham Bowlin, Michael Gonzales, Kieran Shea, Richard Godwin, Anthony Neil Smith, Matthew P. Mayo, Matthew McBride, Libby Cudmore, and Ray Banks.
Available now: Lulu
STEAMPUNK’D
Contributor
(Includes my short story, “Scourge of the Spoils”)
Edited by Jean Rabe and Martin H. Greenberg
(Softcover, DAW Books, 320 pages, November 2, 2010)
Steampunk can be defined as a subgenre of science fiction typically set in an anachronistic Victorian or quasi-Victorian setting, where steam power is prevalent. Consider the slogan: “What the past would look like if the future had come along earlier.”
The stories in this all-original anthology explore alternate timelines and have been set all over the world, running the gamut from science fiction to mystery to horror to a melding of these genres.
Available now: Amazon | Barnes & Noble |Borders | Powell’s
TIMESHARES
Contributor
(Includes my short story, “Been a Long Time”)
(Softcover, DAW Books, 320 pages, March 2, 2010)
16 Original stories about the chance to take the vacation you’ve always dreamed of—at your own peril—in any era you’d like to visit.
Take a vacation through time with the help of a Time Travel Agency offering excursions into the past and future. Readers will find themselves in exotic, adventurous locales-and in all manner of trouble and mysteries. And figures from the past will be able to squeak by the other way.
Available now: Amazon | Barnes & Noble |Borders | Powell’s | DAW Books
A FISTFUL OF LEGENDS:
21 All-New Blazing Tales of the Old West
Contributor
(Includes my Spur Award-nominated short story, “Half a Pig”)
(Softcover, Express Westerns, January 2010)
Discover what it’s like to ride with damaged men and sinister night stalkers, tragic doves, plucky homemakers and gun-toting belles. Experience for yourself the harsh reality of birth and death, love and hate, revenge, retribution and robbery. You’ll find it all here, penned by a whole posse-full of Western writers old and new.
So what are you waiting for? Saddle up for action and adventure . . . and grab yourself A Fistful of Legends!
OUT OF THE GUTTER
The modern journal of pulp fiction and degenerate literature
Contributor
(Includes my short story, “Kin”)
(Softcover, Out of the Gutter, Issue #5)
Pulp fiction from too many to list, plus the inside scoop on the Aryan Circle, an advice column from your favorite punk rock ex-con and the usual profusion of fun facts, demented humor and other extras!
“From Matthew P. Mayo comes ‘Kin,’ where a guy attempting to retrieve a football under his porch is instead greeted by the fangs of a poisonous snake. His attempts to drive to the hospital for help as the toxins swim through his bloodstream achieve rollicking, bizarrely comic heights.” —Bookgasm
WHERE LEGENDS RIDE:
New Tales of the Old West
Editor & Contributor
(Includes my short story, “Snows of Montana”)
(Softcover, Express Westerns, 2007)
Saddle up and enjoy these 14 new tales of hot lead, cold hearts, and more leather-slapping action, adventure, and edge-of-the-seat danger than you could ever hope to find on either side of the Mississippi.
The writers within range from seasoned Western scribes to those new to the field, but all are united by their love of the legends of the Wild West. Most write for the Black Horse Westerns series published by Robert Hale, Ltd., one of the few publishers worldwide to produce a regular supply of new Western fiction.
From high-noon showdowns and shade-tree lynchings to raging prairie fires and scrub-country manhunts, Express Westerns’ first collection, Where Legends Ride, will grab you by the vest front and won’t let go until you’ve surrendered to the posse. So sink spur and hang on . . . it’s time to go where legends ride!
