Den of Eek II - tickets are now on sale

Remember last year when I was one of three winners who got to read their short story out at Den of Geek's, Den of Eek with lots of other better known writers? Well even if you don't ;) last year was Ghost Stories, this year is Urban Legends and those of use who were in it last year were invited to send in a story for this year.

It's a bunch of lovely authors standing up and reading short horror stories (written by them for the event) for the enjoyment of the audience. Of course I jumped at the chance :). It was so much fun last year and looks to be just as great, if not better this year.

When: 18 September, from 7.30pm (doors at 6pm)
Where: The Phoenix, Cavendish Square, London (nearest tube: Oxford Circus)
Price: £5, plus 95p booking charge (not their fault - it's a standard charge by the booking company)

Den of Geek has a post with the full listing of authors and details here:

Tickets are now on sale for Den of Eek 2: Urban Legends!

All proceeds go to Den of Geek's Geeks vs Cancer appeal, so it's in a great cause and last year the stories were brilliant. You can buy last year's offerings in eBook form, proceeds also going to the charity:
Den Of Eek! A Collection Of New Horror Fiction (at Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com)

Also if you're a writer and can make the date, you can submit a story to be considered as well. Here is the post all about how on Den of Geek's site: Den of Eek 2: a call for short story writers. Closing date is 23 Aug 2013, so get your writing hats on.

Den of Eek! eBook in aid of Geeks vs Cancer now available

Last year I was lucky enough to take part in Den of Eek, run by the lovely people at Den of Geek. This was a live evening with twelve authors (3 of us from a competition Den of Geek ran, the others established writers) reading aloud their works of horror written specifically for the event in aid of the Geeks vs Cancer appeal.

All of those stories have now been put into an eBook, which is also being sold for Geeks vs Cancer appeal.

The Den of Eek! ebook is now available to buy

The link above goes to Den of Geek's post all about the book with links where to buy it. This is a great cause and all the stories were fabulous so it's a great book too :).

Authors:
Clayton Littlewood
Leila Johnston
CJ Lines
Sarah Pinborough
Natasha Duncan-Drake (me :))
James Moran
Mary Hamilton
Joff Brown
Neil Jones
James Brogden
Johannes Roberts
Kevin McNally

Den of Eek! was amazing

So yesterday was Den of Eek! and it was so brilliant. I haven't read my own work in front of anyone since school and I was as nervous as hell. Seems people who do it all the time get nervous too though, so we all bonded over wine and how scared we were of the room full of people. Everyone was lovely and it was so well organised.

For those who don't know, Den of Eek! was a horror short story show case organised by Den of Geek, the wonderful and most informative website for all things movie, book, comic and, well everything geeky. The event was in aid of their charity Geeks vs Cancer.

There were nine invited writers and then Den of Geek ran a reader comp for three more spots on the itinerary and I won one of them :). My story is called "Death in the Modern World" and is all done via tweets. It was much fun to read it out even though my mouth felt like the sahara on a bad day because of nerves. All the other stories were superb, everything from disappearing stairs through a phantom limb interpreted as I have never heard it interpreted before, to other technologically based horror, a wicked clock, doppelgänger, a moment with a vcr that should never be repeated and two historical pieces too.

There may be a podcast and an ebook of the whole event, but those were both maybes last I heard, so I will let you all know as soon as I hear.

It may have been a nightmare getting through London traffic (I don't do well on the underground so we had to drive), but it was worth every minute. Love doing it, loved talking to everyone, it was brill.

The organisers:
The lovely @SarahDobbs and @DenofGeek

The invited writers:
@claylittlewood @FinalBullet @cjlines @SarahPinborough @jamesmoran @newsmary @neil_jones @johannesroberts @exkevinmcnally

Us winners:
@JoffB @skippybe and @beren_writes (me)