Aliya Whiteley

[aliya whiteley]

Hello my little pootlets. I'm going to bombard you with links.

Here's my website: <"http://www.aliyawhiteley.com/">
Here's my blog: <"http://veggiebox.blogspot.com/">

I share that blog with the lovely and talented Neil Ayres, with whom I wrote the novella 'Overturned', which appeared in the Elastic Press anthology, Subtle Edens.

I won the best Drabblecast story of the year for Jelly Park - if you like whimsy and aural weirdness, I recommend it. They did a great job of turning it into sound.<"http://www.archive.org/details/Drabblecast43NormShermanAliyaWhitelyJellyPark">

Other fantasy stories of mine available to read online include:

Witchcraft in the Harem in Sein und Werden <"http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/eight/page22.html">
The Future Fire holds a few of my stories. <"http://futurefire.net/2009.17/fiction/wingspan.html">
3AM published this one without realising it was fantasy: <"http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/flushed/">
And Word Riot did the same with this one: <"http://www.wordriot.org/template_2.php?ID=1502">

Heh.

Macmillan have published a couple of my comic crime novels, and I'm now meant to be working on something more literary, but weird stuff keeps happening in all my books. The editors chop out the worst excesses so I don't scare the non-fantasy punters off.

Oh yeah, coming up is a fantasy novellette called The Marrow House with Triquorum, and an article about why I love John Carpenter's Halloween so much in Dark Scribe Press' Butcher Knives and Body Counts.

I'm still not quite sure what kind of writer I am. Can I call myself a fantasy writer? Heck to it, why not?

[allybird]

Hi Aliya! Welcome to the site...will you pass the info on to Neil? 

[aliya whiteley]

Will do - have posted about it on the blog as well.

[allybird]

Great - Aliya..it is becoming a very good resource for all.

[Tim Stretton]

Glad to see you among the fantasists, Aliya!

[aliya whiteley]

Indeedly, Tim.

[Steve Redwood]

You can't escape Neil by hiding out here, you know!

[aliya whiteley]

*skulks in corner*

Actually, Steve, you just reminded me to post here about my Dune-related ravings over on Norm Geras' blog:

http://normblog.typepad.com/normblog/2010/03/writers-choice-251-aliya-whiteley.html

[aliya whiteley]

This week I was over at Vulpes Libris, rattling on about bookcases:

http://vulpeslibris.wordpress.com/2010/04/01/thursday-soapbox-by-aliya-whiteley-heads-up-spines-out/

[Selina]

This week I was over at Vulpes Libris, rattling on about bookcases:

http://vulpeslibris.wordpress.com/2010/04/01/thursday-soapbox-by-aliya-whiteley-heads-up-spines-out/

Enjoyed the post. Always fun to hear about others bookshelves and habits. Now musing on what we display or don't...

[aliya whiteley]

Thanks Selina - I'm sure there must be some psychological meaning to it all...

[aliya whiteley]

I can be found over at Beat magazine with an article about my deep love for my Playstation 3:

http://www.beatmagazine.co.uk/way-of-the-exploding-woman

[aliya whiteley]

Aloha! A few links:

I've been blogging about comic novels over on Fiction Uncovered: http://www.fictionuncovered.co.uk/2010/11/a-question-of-font-finkler-gets-serious/

Here's my article about why Santa lives in Garden Centres: http://www.beatmagazine.co.uk/how-garden-centres-became-the-new-north-pole

And my last novel, Light Reading, is now available for the Kindle if you're electronically minded: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Light-Reading/dp/B004E9T0LI/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&m=A3TVV12T0I6NSM&qid=1255617710&sr=8-1

[aliya whiteley]

Hello again. Talking about zombie lit over on the blog today: http://veggiebox.blogspot.com/2011/03/ymca-is-for-yet-more-corpses-animated.html

Thought it might be up your alley.

[aliya whiteley]

Hello again,

Some new bits up now with my article about John Carpenter's synthesizer in Butcher Knives and Body Counts, an anthology of all things slasher:

http://www.amazon.com/Butcher-Knives-Body-Counts-Formula/dp/0981863221

And also my novel, Three Things About Me, is now also available as an ebook:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Three-Things-MacMillan-Writing-ebook/dp/B005WTORPS/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1320411588&sr=8-2

Plus The Drabblecast made a grand job of my story about decapitated babies in the vegetable patch:

http://www.drabblecast.org/2011/06/27/drabblecast-209-babyhead-by-aliya-whiteley-drabble-pork-wood-by-danger-slater/

I love The Drabblecast.