Off The Record 2 anthology

The brand new anthology edited by Luca Veste and Paul D. Brazill features 47 stories from 47 writers across the world and is a charity release intended to aid children’s literacy. I have a story in there too… owing a huge debt to Biggles.

Off The Record 2 – At The Movies. A Charity Anthology brings together 47 short stories using film titles for inspiration and, like its predecessor (the Spinetingler Award-nominated Off The Record), this is supporting children’s literacy charities in the UK and US.

For my contribution I decided to go for a flippant version of Captain W. E. Johns’ classic Biggles romps – you know, the books about the ace pilot and adventurer written from the 1930s. Huzzah! Tally ho forthwith, etc, etc.

I’m also poking fun at racial stereotypes – the German officer, Wilhelm Klink, is based on Colonel Klink from Hogan’s Heroes and other sham “German” characters I’ve seen on the telly. So it’s an adventure, hopefully amusing, and also a convoluted love story. With a God.

Anyway, the awesome anthology clocks in at 364 pages, available in Kindle form @ Amazon USA and Amazon UK, other digital versions @ Smashwords, and also as a good ol’ paperback here.

Here’s the line-up and the movies used by the other literary cads:

Will Carver – Night of the Day of the Dawn of the Son of the Bride of the Return of the Revenge of the Terror of the Attack of the Evil, Mutant, Hellbound, Flesh-Eating Sub-humanoid Zombified Living Dead – Part 2 – in Shocking 2-D

Stav Sherez – Bringing Up Baby

David Jackson – Time Machine

Helen FitzGerald – The Life of Brian

Steve Mosby – 9 Songs

Claire McGowan – The Postman Always Rings Twice

Adrian McKinty – From Here to Eternity

Maxim Jakubowski – Vertigo

Paul Brazill – Silver Dream Racer

Nick Quantrill – Get Carter

Patti Abbott – Mermaids

Matt Hilton – How The West Was Won

Vincent Holland-Keen – The Umbrellas of Cherbourg