Ultimate Adventure Magazine

Since around June2011 a large collection of writers/artists/celebs have been working together on a kind of collaborative weekend project called Ultimate Adventure Magazine. Although I’m on there as “Editor” it really, really has been a mad and brilliant collaboration, with most of the hard work done by all the people involved!! You can check out this FREE magazine at www.uamag.co.uk.  We hope you like it

ULTIMATE ADVENTURE MAGAZINE

BIKING | CLIMBING | HIKING | TRAVEL | CAMPING | ADVENTURE

Issue #1 – Jan/Feb 2012

In this first bumper-packed 190 PAGE 60,000 WORD issue, we have an interview with CLAUDIO VON PLANTA, famous for filming Long Way Round and Long Way Down with EWAN MCGREGOR and CHARLIE BOORMAN, where he talks about his adventures behind the camera in places like Afghanistan and Africa, and tracking down Osama Bin Laden…

We have interviews with best-selling horror novelist  GUY N. SMITH, New Zealand rock-singer and recent Glastonbury performer JORDAN REYNE, ultra-marathon runner ANDREW MURRAY and top SFF artist VINCENT CHONG.

We have features on climbing in Scotland, crossing Australia on a postie’s moped, cycling in the Akamas mountains in Cyprus, making a short horror medical zombie film, and heading to Mexico in search of buried secrets.

All this, along with news, letters, competitions, the ANTI-CLARKSON column, Whackjob Jim Column and The Horror, The Horror Column, reviews of kit, motorbikes, caravans, restaurants, books, video games, albums and sports fuel, short fiction by Garry Charles, a serialised graphic novel by Martyn Pick, your favourite Grumpy Old Man — and Ultimate Kids Adventure, something for the kids (and their parents!) to do at weekends.

Available as:

• a PDF (suitable for PC, MAC, iPAD etc) at www.uamag.co.uk

• a text-only version for your EPUB and Kindle (MOBI) readers at www.uamag.co.uk

• an online readable magazine at ISSUU: www.issuu.com/ultimateadventuremagazine/docs/issue1

• a print version, which can be purchased at www.lulu.com

Alternative digital versions are also available at Amazon, Lulu, iTunes and Barnes & Noble.

All UAMAG digital versions are FREE! We must be mad…

We hope you enjoy!

Please note: NOBODY has been paid for anything in Ultimate Adventure Magazine. Every little bit has been done out of our love of biking, climbing, hiking and travel. So please please please help us by tweeting, facebooking, spreading the word to your friends and on forums – our continued existence will depend on our download figures!!

Short story competition – deadline reminder

Just to remind prospective short story writers out there, the deadline for Jordan Reyne and Anarchy Books short story competition is SUNDAY 14th AUGUST. Full competition details can be found at: http://www.jordanreyne.com/coafn.html.

Cheers!!

Andy.

 

Short Story Competition – with over £100 of prizes!!

Jordan Reyne, New Zealand’s premiere

bloodthirsty Celtic rock and machine sounds
superhero, has teamed up with Anarchy Books to bring you a dazzling

short story writing competition!

Jordan Reyne’s new album, Children of a Factory Nation, is being released September 2011 and
follows a family who lived in Wales in the late 1800s during the Industrial
Revolution. Like many alive in their time, they faced problems relating to
difficult working conditions, poverty, and the tyranny of circumstance. This
album constructs stories from facts known about Johnathan, Mary, their children
Molly & Thomas, and grandchild Wynne.

The competition is to write a short story surrounding any character or
sets of characters from Children of a Factory Nation using Jordan
Reyne’s lyrics or the facts about their real life counterparts
as a starting point. The competition will be judged by Andy Remic, SFF
author and co-owner of Anarchy Books, John Jarrold, esteemed agent with
decades of experience in the publishing industry as both editor and agent, David
Bradley, editor of the fabulous SFX magazine, Lee Harris, editor at
Angry Robot Books, James Lovegrove, SFF New York Times bestselling
author, Gary McMahon, rising star of the Horror Genre (and all-round
nice-guy beer drinker), Jared Shurin of popular online magazine
Pornokitsch, and the incredible Hugo award winner Ellen Datlow, veteran
editor in horror and SFF fields.
First prize is publication in the album’s accompanying magazine and on
the website, £100, a t-shirt, signed copy of the album Children of a Factory Nation, and the first three Anarchy Books
ebook releases, in all digital formats. Three runners up will receive a signed
copy of Jordan Reyne’s new album.

Stories should be no longer than 3000 words, and submitted digitally in a
single file (either .doc, .rtf or .pdf)

Deadline for final entries is Sunday 14th August. The
winner(s) will be announced on Sunday 28th August. Authors must be willing to
give 6 months exclusivity on the story (from the time of publication) if they
win the competition. Happy writing!!

ENTER NOW

ANARCHY BOOKS

ANARCHY BOOKS, part of ANARCHY MEDIA, is a
radical new publishing company. Our focus is on multi-strand publishing
projects, concepts which combine different media to present a wider experience
for the entertainment junkie. Our first project, SERIAL KILLERS INCORPORATED,
is a thriller novel by ANDY REMIC, genre author of SPIRAL, QUAKE, WARHEAD, WAR
MACHINE, BIOHELL, HARDCORE, CLONEWORLD, KELL’S LEGEND, SOUL STEALERS and
VAMPIRE WARLORDS, with the music album provided by TH3 M1SS1NG and short film
created by GRUNGE FILMS. The novel and album were released April 2011. Our
second novel is THE OFFICE OF LOST AND FOUND by Vincent Holland-Keen, a homage
to Douglas Adams, and we have many more upcoming titles by popular authors such
as Eric Brown, James Lovegrove, Jeffrey Thomas, Tony Ballantyne and Neal Asher,
to name but a few.

Run from the UK and publishing worldwide, ANARCHY BOOKS aims to move forward the
ever-expanding publishing boundaries of digital media with energy, originality,
multi-strand projects and anarchy. Like the explosive punk movement of the 70s,
ANARCHY BOOKS is detonating with a view to the future of rapidly accelerating
digital concept media.

Long live ANARCHY in the UK!!

www.anarchy-books.com

ENTER NOW

2 Promo Films on the Horizon…

2 short films due for release in order to promote my books– first is HARDCORE, long overdue (due to my crew/actors all having babies!!) which will be out in the next week, and the SOUL STEALERS film is nearly ready, and should follow a week or two later prior to the release of the novel.

CHEMICAL MAN – short film now live.

And here it is.

Chemical Man Short Film.

OK, so I’ve made a short film called Chemical Man, mainly as a learning process to get me used to hi-def cams and editing software and, er, working with “actors”. By making something like this, you certainly learn a lot during the process and it’s a damn sight harder than you think!! There are many “mistakes” in the film but hey, it was really good fun and I’ll post Chemical Man soon so I can be pelted with rotten tomatoes, heh. As one friend said when they saw this pic, “Is that you, Rem, in the gimp mask?”. Ho ho. So yes, it is indeed I in the gimp mask.

Please note, I want to say a very special thanks to the musicians who graciously and humorously gave permission to use their vibes in this little film. So thanks to Jordan Reyne for her sultry vocals, thanks to TH3 M1SS1NG which I hate to type but love to listen to, and also especially for that haunting piano track written just for this film; and finally, a HUGE THANKS to the wonderful NEW MODEL ARMY for permisison to use Bad Harvest from their latest album, Today Is A Good Day, and who I’ve been listening to for DECADES!! Wow. I’m totally honoured!!