Alan Baxter Writer
Alan Baxter (born 18 April 1970, Sussex, United Kingdom) is an author of dark fantasy, science fiction and horror. He also runs dark fiction publisher Blade Red Press and is a martial artist and Personal Trainer, running the Illawarra Kung Fu Academy on the south coast of NSW, Australia.Baxter was born in the UK and moved to Australia in the mid-1990s. His first novel, a dark fantasy/horror thriller called RealmShift (The Balance Book 1), was self-published in 2006. Baxter set up independent publisher Blade Red Press in 2008 and re-released RealmShift along with the sequel, MageSign (The Balance Book 2). In 2010 both RealmShift and MageSign were acquired and republished by Gryphonwood Press.He is the author of the dark urban fantasy trilogy, Bound, Obsidian and Abduction (The Alex Caine Series). Bound is due out from HarperVoyager Australia in July 2014. Baxter has more than 50 short stories published in a variety of journals and anthologies in Australia, the US, the UK and France including Fantasy & Science Fiction (forthcoming), Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Daily Science Fiction, Postscripts, Wily Writers and Midnight Echo, among many others, and more than twenty anthologies, including the Year's Best Australian Fantasy & Horror (2010 and 2012). In 2011 Baxter was nominated for a Ditmar Best New Talent Award and his 2013 story, Not The Worst Of Sins, was nominated for Ditmar Award in the Best Short Story category in 2014.Alan also writes narrative arcs and dialogue for video games and freelance work including reviews, feature articles and opinion. He’s a contributing editor and co-founder at Thirteen O’Clock – Australian Dark Fiction News & Reviews, and co-hosts AuthorCast, a genre fiction podcast. He’s a member of the Australian Horror Writers Association, International Thriller Writers, The Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild, and a full Active Member of the Horror Writers’ Association.Alan Baxter is represented by literary agent, Alex Adsett, of Alex Adsett Publishing Services.
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