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Winterwood

Grass King's Concubine

Sisterhood of the Blue Storm by Tom Arden

Silverwolf - Jacey Bedford

Snake Agent by Liz Williams

Forests of Eden by Elizabeth Counihan

Principles of Angels by Jaine Fenn

Crossways by Jacey Bedford

Flight of the Ravens by Chris Butler

Empire of Dust by Jacey Bedford

Woodenface by Gus Grenfell

eft to his own Devuices by Mary Gentle

Ben Jeapes: His Majesty's Starship

Feather and bone

Consorts of Heaven

Mythago Wood

Reliquary Ring

girlfrom 1000fathoms

Threading the Labyrinth

Comet Weather

Amber Crown

Success Stories

Here are some of the stories and novels that have passed through Milford that have since been published. We know there are far more than this, but we can only list the ones we've been told about. Apologies to anyone left out — please email jacey(at)jaceybedford.co.uk and we'll add your story to the list.

  • David Allan: Quaestor (novel) - Elsewhen Press 2019
  • David Allan: Thiever, Elsewhen Press
  • Chris Amies: In Death's Dream Kingdom - Threads, 1992
  • Jim Anderson: A Last Day - Andromeda Spaceways Magazine 66, 2017
  • Tiffani Angus: The Final Voyage of the World's Oldest Time Traveler - Athena's Daughter's Vol 2, 2015
  • Tiffani Angus: On Tradescant Road - BFS Horizons #4, 2017
  • Tiffani Angus: Midwives (presented at Milford as La Madremonte) - Mother's Revenge: a Dark and Bizarre Anthology of Global Proportions, 2017
  • Tiffani Angus: Mama Leaf - Unsung Stories
  • Tiffani Angus: Threading the Labyrinth (novel) 2020
  • Tom Arden: Sisterhood of the Blue Storm (novel) - Orokon, 2000
  • Scott Baker: Alimentary Tract - Universe 1
  • Cherith Baldry: The Lion's Mouth - Odyssey #7
  • Cherith Baldry: Fallen Light Renew - 3SF 3
  • Cherith Baldry: The Reliquary Ring - Odyssey 2
  • Cherith Baldry: Lion's Mouth, Fallen Light Renew & Reliquary Ring, incorporated in, The Reliquary Ring (novel).
  • Cherith Baldry: The Cardinal's Cats - Realms of Fantasy, Dec 2004
  • Cherith Baldry: A Spear through the Heart - Intergalactic Medicine Show, 6
  • Cherith Baldry: The Green Rose - Dreaming of Djinn
  • Cherith Baldry: The Truth Speaker - Quercus
  • Cherith Baldry: The Venetian Cat: Kisses by Clockwork (Anthology), 2014
  • Chris Beckett: The Warrior Half-and-Half - Interzone #102
  • Jacey Bedford: Floodlust - River (antho) Dark Quest Books, 2011
  • Jacey Bedford: Djinn Bottle - Buzzymag.com, 2012
  • Jacey Bedford: Root and Branch - Albedo One, 2014
  • Jacey Bedford: Kindling the Flame - Her Dark Voice, Anthology, 2014
  • Jacey Bedford: Empire of Dust (novel), DAW, 2014
  • Jacey Bedford: Mort's Laws - Nature's Futures, 2015
  • Jacey Bedford: Pitch - Ten: Thou Shalt Not, Anthology, November 2015
  • Jacey Bedford: Crossways (novel) DAW, 2015
  • Jacey Bedford: Winterwood (novel), DAW - February 2016
  • Jacey Bedford: A Taste of Oranges, Perihelion 2015
  • Jacey Bedford: The Last Wild Place, Bloodmind, 2015
  • Jacey Bedford: Nimbus (novel) DAW, 2017
  • Jacey Bedford: Silverwolf (novel) DAW, 2017
  • Jacey Bedford: Make Me Immortal With a Kiss - Second Round, ZNB Antho
  • Jacey Bedford: A Murder of Crows - Wyldblood Magazine, 2021
  • Jacey Bedford: The Amber Crown (novel) DAW 2022
  • Mark Bilsborough: Hunter - Ray Gun Revival 2012
  • Mark Bilsborough: For Hannah - Phantaxis, 2017
  • Molly Brown: The Vengeance of Grandmother Wu - Interzone #61
  • John Brunner: The Suicide of Man - Asimov's 1978
  • Chris Butler: The Turn - Asimov's, Oct/Nov 2007
  • Chris Butler: The Festival of Tethselem - Interzone #224
  • Chris Butler: Have Guitar, Will Travel - The Immersion Book of SF (Immersion Press, 2010)
  • Chris Butler: Tell Me Everything - Interzone #233
  • Chris Butler: The Flight of the Ravens, Immersion Press, 2012 * BSFA awards shorlist
  • Chris Butler: The Animator - Interzone 2013. + Best British Fantasy 2014, Salt Publishing
  • Dave Clements: In the Long Run - Conflicts, Newcon Press, 2010
  • Dave Clements: Long Way Gone, Analog, 2014
  • Matt Colborn: Labyrinth of the Sun, BFS Short Story Competition - third place.
  • Matt Colborn: The Shelfstackers of Eternity, in BFS Horizons, 2019
  • Deirdre Counihan; The Panther (novel) - Immanion Press UK, 2006
  • Deirdre Counihan: Set In Stone - in The Mammoth Book of Egyptian Whodunnits, 2002 & Euromedia, 2004
  • Elizabeth Counihan: Fairest Isle - Interzone #128
  • Elizabeth Counihan: East of the Sun, West of the Moon - Realms of Fantasy, October 2002
  • Elizabeth Counihan: Forests of Eden - PS Publishing, 2012
  • Richard Cowper (John Murry): The Twilight of Briareus, Gollancz 1974
  • Richard Cowper (John Murry): The Custodians (novel, Gollancz 1976
  • Richard Cowper (John Murry): The Hertford Manuscript - 1976
  • Richard Cowper (John Murry): Drink Me, Francesca - in Web of the Magi, Gollancz 1980
  • Richard Cowper (John Murry): A Message to the King of Brobdingnag - F&SF May 1984
  • Colin P. Davies: Tall Tales on the Iron Horse - Spectrum SF #8, April 2002
  • Colin P. Davies: Perhaps a Goddess - Paradox #3, Autumn 2003
  • Colin P. Davies: The Defenders - Asimov's Oct/Nov 2004; Year's Best SF, 2004
  • Samuel Delany: Triton (Trouble on Triton) (Novel) Nebula / Tiptree nominated.
  • Pauline E Dungate: Demon Hunter in Swords Against the Millnnium, 2000
  • Malcolm Edwards: After-images - Interzone #4 BSFA Award Best Short Fiction 1983
  • Sara K Ellis: The Ratio of Silence - Space and Time, Autumn 2020
  • Sara K Ellis: Don't Hold Your Breath - Mag.of Fantasy & Science Fiction. 2023
  • Kelley Eskridge: Alien Jane - Century magazine #1 (subsequently filmed for the Sci-Fi Channel as part of the "Welcome to Paradox" series)
  • Stuart Falconer: The Game They Played - Interzone #159
  • Jaine Fenn: Death on Elsewhere Street - Shadows of Saturn, April 2005
  • Jaine Fenn: Principles of Angels (novel) - Gollancz 2008
  • Jaine Fenn: Consorts of Heaven (Novel) - Gollancz 2009
  • Jaine Fenn: Liberty Bird in 'Now We are Ten,' Newcon Press, 2016
  • Trip Gailey: A Market of Dreams and Destiny (Novel) Nominee: Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
  • David S. Garnett: Warlord of Earth - F&SF July 1978
  • David S. Garnett: Moonlighter - in Other Edens, Unwin, 1987
  • David S. Garnett: Still Life - F&SF 1986 (Hugo nominated)
  • David S. Garnett: Saving the Universe - Interzone #3, 1982
  • David S. Garnett: The Only One - Interzone #22, 1987
  • David S. Garnett: Now Read On - Interzone#39, 1990
  • Peter T. Garratt: The Hooded Man - Interzone #104
  • Peter T. Garratt: The Inauguration - Interzone #115
  • Peter T. Garratt: Long but Without Glory - Odyssey #4
  • Mary Gentle: A Sun in the Attic - Scholars & Soldiers
  • Mary Gentle: What God Abandoned - The Weerde, 1992
  • Mary Gentle: Left To His Own Devices (novel)
  • Neile Graham: Ars Poetica - Odyssey #7
  • John Grant: The World (novel)
  • John Grant: Tails - Crimewave 7, 2003,and The Best British Mysteries 2005
  • Nicola Griffith: Touching Fire - Interzone #70
  • David Gullen: Winter Heliotrope, Moon Shots collection at Spacewitch, 2014
  • David Gullen: Down and Out Under the Tannhauser gate - Parsec 2021
  • David Gullen: The Girl From a Thousand Fathoms (Novel)
  • Mbozi Haimbe: Shelter - 1st runner up in 2019/20 Short Story Day Africa Prize
  • Merrie Haskell: Sun's East, Moon's West, Electric Velocipede,2009, PodCastle in 2010 (audio); Lightspeed 2015
  • Robert Holdstock: Mythago Wood [novella version] - F&SF September 1981
  • Robert Holdstock: Thorn - F&SF October 1986
  • Robert Holdstock: The Time Beyond Age, 1976
  • Robert Holdstock: Earth And Stone - 1980
  • Terry Jackman: Ashammet (Novel) Dragonwell, 2015
  • Ben Jeapes: Go With the Flow - Interzone #142
  • Ben Jeapes: Pages out of Order - F&SF September 1997
  • Ben Jeapes: Spoilsport - Substance Winter 1994
  • Ben Jeapes: Trial by Alien - Odyssey #3
  • Ben Jeapes: His Majesty's Starship (novel)
  • Ben Jeapes: The Xenocide Mission (novel)
  • Garry Kilworth: The Vivarium - Interzone #15
  • Paul Kincaid: Where he Went - Digital Dreams
  • Paul Kincaid: The Song of Women - in Arrows of Eros
  • R M Lamming: The Ink Imp - F&SF May 1980
  • Andy Lane: Original Sin (novel)
  • David Langford: Serpent Eggs - Irrational Numbers (Necronomicon Press, 1994); revised in The Third Alternative 1997; reprinted in The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, 1998
  • David Langford: The Final Days - Destinies Magazine, 1981, reprinted in The Time Traveller's Almanac), 2013
  • David Langford: In a Land of Sand and Ruin and Gold - Other Edens (antho) 1987
  • David Langford: The Motivation - Arrows of Eros, 1989; Year's Best Horror Stories XVIII, 1990
  • Ian Lee: The End of the World is Nice - Interzone #102
  • Julianne Lee: Knight's Blood (novel) - Ace 2007
  • Mike Lewis: Cooper's Creek - The Mammoth Book of Road Stories (antho), November 2002
  • Mike Lewis: First Through the Post - On Spec Winter 2003
  • Mike Lewis: The Case of the Overdressed Man - Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Mag. #27
  • Heather Lindsley: The Diplomat's Holiday - Unidentified Funny Objects 2 (antho), 2013.
  • Heather Lindsley: Werewolf Loves Mermaid - Lightspeed Magazine Sept 2015
  • George Locke: Those Crazy Ideas
  • Duncan Lunan:The Day and the Hour’, Celtic Warrior, 1976;   revised version “There Will Be War, Vol.5: Warrior” (Tor, 1986);  trans. Grzegorz Abgarowicz as ‘Dzień i godzina’, ‘Fenix Vol. 6 No. 2, Poland, 1995,i;   in “With Time Comes Concord and other stories”, (Brain in a Jar, 2012), republished in “The Elements of Time”  (Shoreline of Infinity, 2016)
  • Duncan Lunan: The Square Fella - "Starfield"  Orkney Press, 1989:  Shoreline of Infinity, 2018,   “The Other Side of the Interface” (Other Side Books, 2021).
  • Anne McCaffrey: The Bones Do Lie, (In The Girl Who Heard Dragons) Tor 1994
  • Anne McCaffrey: Lady in Waiting, (In The Girl Who Heard Dragons) Tor 1994
  • George R R Martin: The Monkey Treatment - F&SF, Locus award
  • Guy T Martland: Words of War - Fiction Vortex,
  • David Marusek: The Wedding Album - Asimov's June
  • Nancy Jane Moore: The Weave (Novel) Aqueduct Press
  • John Moran: Next Time Scales - Escape Pod
  • John Moran: The Sandbirds of Mirelle - Apex,
  • Dan Morgan: Young Tom (1976)
  • Susan Oke: Finders Keepers - The Martian Wave
  • Susan Oke: Second Hand Skin - The Chamber Magazine
  • Suyi Davies Okungbowa: David Mogo: Godhunter - Rebellion, Spring 2019 Best Novel 2020 African Speculative Fiction Society (ASFS)
  • Andy Oldfield: Tooth Fairies On-line - Neo-opsis #4
  • Andy Oldfield: My Translucent Hands - F/SF #1
  • Christopher Priest, The Cremation - Andromeda 3
  • Christopher Priest: An Infinite Summer - Andromeda 1
  • Christopher Priest: The Inverted World (novel)
  • Christopher Priest, The Watched - Magazine of F&SF
  • Christopher Priest: A Dream of Wessex - Faber
  • Rosanne Rabinowitz: The Colour of Water - Midnight Street Spring 2005
  • Rosanne Rabinowitz: Harmony in My Head - NewCon Press anthology "Conflicts".
  • Rosanne Rabinowitz: Helen's Story (novella) - PS Publishing (Spring 2013) Shortlist - Shirley Jackson Award
  • Rosanne Rabinowitz: Return of the Pikart Posse - Midnight Street Spring 2005
  • David Redd: Morning - Magazine of F&SF
  • David Redd: Eternity-Magic - Spectrum SF #6
  • David Redd: The Dinosaurs of London - Fantasy Annual 5
  • David Redd: Moon-Pearls - Fantasy Annual 5
  • Alastair Reynolds: Galactic North, Interzone #145; Year's Best SF (17th edition), Space Soldiers (eds. Dann & Dozois), and Hayakawa's SF Magazine; nominated: Seiun award
  • Alistair Rennie, Bleak Warrior Meets the Sons of Brawl - Weird Tales #351
  • Alistair Rennie, A Doom of My Own - Electric Velocipede #15
  • Al Robertson, De Profundis, Black Static 11 (longlisted - BFA Best Novella 2010!)
  • Al Robertson, Of Dawn, Interzone 2011
  • Al Robertson, Crashing Heaven (novel), Gollancz, 2015
  • Josephine Saxton : Woe, Blight, and in Heaven, Laughs, Pulsar 1, ed. George Hay (Penguin, 1978)
  • Gus Smith: Feather and Bone (novel) - Big Engine
  • Gus Smith: Shopping for Eternity - Decalogue 4
  • Gus Smith: (as Gus Grenfell): The Worsted Suit - Cicada Magazine Nov/Dec 2000
  • Kari Sperring: The Grass King's Concubine (novel) DAW 2012
  • Kari Sperring: Some Silver Wheel - Alphabet of Embers
  • Vaughan Stanger: Family Tree - Helix #7
  • Vaughan Stanger: Star in a Glass - Music for Another World (Mutation Press, 2010)
  • Vaughan Stanger: Stars in Her Eyes - Postscripts #17
  • Vaughan Stanger: First and Third - Postscripts 26/27: Unfit for Eden (PS Publishing)
  • Vaughan Stanger: Insider Art - Abyss and Apex Magazine (Presented at Milford as Extrusion.)
  • Vaughan Stanger: Growing Up - Roads Less Travelled Magazine 2024
  • Alex Stewart: Forgotten Milestones in Computing No. 7: The Quenderghast Bullian Algebraic Calculator - Digital Dreams, 1990
  • Philip A Suggars: The Lighthouse at the End of the World (novel) Titan Books
  • Sue Thomason: MS found in a Kangian Wintercamp - in The World and the Stars (Antho) Ed Chris Butler, 2015.
  • Mark Tompkins: The Last Days of Magic (novel) - Viking/Penguin Random House (2016)
  • Karen Traviss: Suitable for the Orient - Asimov's Feb 2003
  • Karen Traviss: Does He Take Blood? - Realms Of Fantasy, August 2003
  • Karen Traviss: Evidence - in View of a Remote Country (collection) 2014
  • Lisa Tuttle: No Regrets - F&SF May 1985
  • Sandra Unerman: The Forfeit - Breaking the Rules (antho), Boo Books, 2014
  • Deborah Walker: The Bio-documentarian of the British Library - Cosmos Online
  • Jeffery M. Wallmann: Chasing Shadows - Stellar#3 1977
  • Karen Williams: Songs of Innocence - Tales of the House Band II (antho)
  • Liz Williams: The Snake Agent (novel)
  • Liz Williams: Banner of Souls (novel)
  • Liz Williams: Precious Dragon (novel)
  • Liz Williams: Winterstrike (novel)
  • Liz Williams: Morningstar (novel)
  • Liz Williams: Worldsoul (novel)
  • Liz Williams: Empire of Bones (novel)
  • Liz Williams: The Poison Master (novel)
  • Liz Williams: Nine Layers of Sky (novel)
  • Liz Williams: Zavtra aptBaZ - Scheherazade
  • Liz Williams: The Ontologist - Arthur C Clarke fundraising antho
  • Liz Williams: Butterfly Winter (novel) Newcon Press.
  • Liz Williams: Comet Weather (Novel) Newcon Press
  • Liz Williams: Cuckoo to Jack Wolf's journal, Homecoming 2023

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