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)
David Gullen: Desert Soul - Analog SF 2024
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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