My short story, The Bottle Shop, has been picked up by a publisher in Italy: out now in the current edition of RiLL. A question from my Italian translator: "What is a 'Number two back and sides'? Something to do with a pencil?" ... →
[Read the full review here by Richard Nye, The Richmond Magazine. Excerpts below.] Call this a thriller if you really must. Art, like pathogens and contagious creeds, tempts us all to classify, catalogue and explain. But to bill The Pattern Maker – debut novel of Richmond author Nicholas Lim – as pure thriller is like describing the Ode to ... →
International Aeon Award Short Fiction Contest 2013 The Bottle Shop made the final shortlist for the Aeon Award in 2013. In the four previous rounds, 32 stories were selected from which 6 were chosen. The final round judges are Ian Watson, Eileen Gunn, Michael Carroll and Todd J. McCaffrey. Short-listed stories Ever Closer ... →
A few copies of two anthologies from the Richmond Writer's Circle – Circle Lines and Room 14 at 8 o'clock – are now available on Amazon. Circle Lines was edited by Richard Rickford, Room 14 at 8 o'clock by Michael Gordon and Joanna Stephen-Ward. This series won an award for Best Short Story Anthology from The National Association of Writers. ... →
