I am delighted (delighted? oh yes!) to announce that my novella Wives has tied to win the Best Horror Short Story awards. And even better, I tied with myself to win, as Slice Of Life - A Spot Of Liver also collected the trophy. I was literally speechless (more on this in another post).

Happy I am. I was really really wanting Wives to win and would ( Read more... )

Some nice words from Rjuirk Davidson, award-winning author and an associate editor at Overland:

There I was, trawling my way through George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones. I'd got through 200 pages, so I had a good ... 600 or so to go. It was hard labour. Breaking rocks. Sure the plotting is good. Sure the characters are ok. Sure it rattles along ( Read more... )

Author Alan Baxter (MageSign, RealmShift) reviews Slice Of Life.

The short of it:

Paul’s stories are visceral, horrible, bile coated things swollen with fear and paranoia. They’re also darkly funny and uncomfortably honest. If you think he’s going to take you somewhere pretty nasty, he probably is.
The long of it can be found here.

And lovely to see ( Read more... )

From Andrew McKeirnan (ashr501 ), designer extraordinaire:

The new website for The Mayne Press, publisher of Paul Haines' Slice of Life collection is now online at http://www.themaynepress.com/Read more... )

Sinister Reads are promoting the Aussie authors who have managed to get a number of recommendations for Bram Stoker nominations. (Is this number numbered in the several, dozens, hundreds, I wonder?)

Anyway, I've been lucky enough to score a spot so far: look here

(My beast of a mug is down the page after the beauties...)

More great reviews for Slice Of Life:

Slice of Life is not for those who like pretty stories of love and derring-do. Look elsewhere for that. What it does contain is original storytelling with a strong and compelling voice that you sometimes may not want to listen to and yet you’re powerless to resist. You have been warned.
Aurealis (Full Review ( Read more... )

The list of finalists for the 2009 Aurealis Awards has been announced.

I'm pleased to announce that I've been nominated for:

Best Collection:
Slice Of Life (The Mayne Press, 2009)

Best Horror Short Story:
Wives (X6, Coeur De Lion, 2009)
Slice Of Life - A Spot Of Liver (Slice Of Life, The Mayne Press, 2009)

Best Anthology:Keith Stevenson (editor ( Read more... )

A great review for Slice Of Life over at Scary Minds:

"Slice of Life contains seventeen original stories by Paul Haines that travel the dark back roads of horror. We're not talking mainstream horror here, we're talking confrontational in your face stories from the perspective of every day people. If you don't trust that weird old dude over your ( Read more... )

 The Mayne Press is now online.

You can buy copies of my marvellous, wonderful, twisted and disturbing collection Slice of Life from them, as well as from my website.


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Slice Of Life gets a great review over at Specusphere. Here is but a snippet:

Haines’ work is not for the faint hearted. Aficionados of all things quirky, intelligent, and dark will devour Slice of Life. It is horror, it is action, it is social commentary, it is savage fantasy and unrelenting realism, is it a psychological journey into a warped and ( Read more... )