Waiting for me on Saturday morning was the latest edition of Nemonymous. Number seven – “scriptus innominatus” – is a very handsome paperback book and I can’t wait to get to read the stories.

As far as I know, I’ve never met Des Lewis but his quirky online presence has always made me smile and I’ve admired Nemonymous both in concept and in execution ever since I first came across it. Des has produced a run of very beautifully produced magazines that look great and contain excellent stories that transcend the publication’s core conceit – that the stories are published “anonymously” with the authors only identified subsequently.

For a history of Nemonymous – and an insight into the truly unique nature of Nemonymous 6 – the planet’s finest collectable – check out the wikipedia page

This sort of brave, idiosyncratic, high quality publishing really does deserve the support of the whole sf community.

So go on, pop over to the Nemonymous website and get a copy.

I know the website looks complicated – actually it looks slightly mad, it’s a myspace page and it’s very confusing – but the quality of the publication bares no relationship to the quality of the website and ordering via PayPal is actually quite straightforward.

I recommend picking up the back editions of Nemonymous.

Des also sells his stuff via Ebay, click here.

Another interesting project that’s just landed on my door is the first Postcard from Hell – actually it was preview – the first issue is due soon. Postcards… is a neat little idea – a series of short-short stories mailed out over thirteen weeks in postcard sized format (actually it’s a double-length piece of paper folded over with the story printed inside with cover art and the “postcard” part on the outside). The little horror story that’s part of the first “issue” is “Dark Wine” by Paul Lewthwaite. It’s a little gothic for my taste and there are a few glitches (I’m pretty sure he meant the “screech of crones” rather than “cronies” for example) but the last paragraph’s a good ‘un. And this sort of thing should be encouraged. It’s clever publishing.