Writersphere – 11
And here it is, the Friday before Halloween…ooo…spooky! Someone really shouldn’t have left the candy out. All those suckers (lemon flavored suckers are my favorites!!!), so little time.
I’m really rather buzzed on caffeine and sugar right now, so if you want me to make sense, please leave a message and I’ll get back to you as soon as possible.
BEEP!
There are only two more days to take advantage of my over-caffeination and sugar-high. If you want to catch our Spooktacular Special Sale, you’re going to have to hop on over to Belfire now and get it while the getting is good.
Since it’s just you and me here, under the street light at the end of Church Street… (hehehe see what I did there?) I’ll give you a heads up. Buy any Belfire or Needfire title between now – right now – and January 30th, and you’ll be eligible to win a brand new Kindle!
I’m really trusting you here. It’s kind of a big secret. So…shhhh…
In other Belfire and Needfire news, R. Scott McCoy’s The White Faced Bear will release on Sunday, and that means only two more days to pre-order at the special price of $9.99!
Three more titles will be up for pre-order in the coming weeks – and we’ve also got a major website re-vamp in the works, too. Things are gonna be fresh for the Christmas season!
I’ve pulled Death in Common (Needfire Poetry, August 2010) from the ‘shelves’ in order to fix a few things that slipped past us all. It should be back and ready to go within the next week or two. Meanwhile, the ebooks are in processing and will soon be available through Smashwords and Kindle. I’ll post the announcement in the next issue of Writersphere.
Belfire Press – http://www.belfirepress.com
Needfire Poetry – http://www.belfirepress.com/poetry/
The New Bedlam Project –
http://www.newbedlam.com
We’re on Facebook: Belfire Press Fan Page
and Twitter: Belfire – Needfire – New Bedlam
A word from founder Brandon Layng:
#SupportTheLittleGuy is a Twitter based campaign aimed at putting the spotlight on small press publishers and writers. To give them more exposure by using one of the most influential and far-reaching social media tools available today. It does this in multiple ways. By adding the hash tag #SupportTheLittleGuy to tweets much the same as #FF or #WW you’re showcasing that the people listed in the tweet are a part of the small press and you support them by following their tweets and reading their work. You’re also exposing more readers to new talents they may not have known otherwise. Adding the hash tag to tweets announcing upcoming books, magazine, and short stories allows you to gain more exposure since the network of #SupportTheLittleGuy campaign members will retweet them to their own followers. In addition the campaign has two other tools at its disposal for promoting the small press: our website and our e-zine.
You can find profiles for small press authors and publishers on
http://www.supportthelittleguy.wordpress.com and updates on the e-zine, which will be published 6 times a year. The e-zine includes 3-6 stories an issue, some are reprints while others are new works, occasionally by unpublished authors. You’ll also find reviews of short fiction available free on small press websites. The first issue launches on October 31st, 2010.
It’s a completely not-for-profit venture, making no money and asking for no money. All we need is your support. The #SupportTheLittleGuy banner (designed by the talented Jodi Lee) says it all: Without you the small press will vanish.
UNBOUND & OTHER TALES is an excursion into the most bizarre corners of author David Dunwoody’s imagination. The titular novel and eight short stories that follow present strange horrors from every walk of life – and beyond.
Insects imprinted with human rage, gleeful heralds of the apocalypse, ghosts who take the living for joyrides, and a fictional villain come to life wait within.
Here are 9 tales of the weird and the obscene…of things that should not be, and things that shall. From the depths of the mind to the corridors of Purgatory to the streets of small-town USA, the warped nightmares of these pages know no limits. They know no end. They are UNBOUND.
Ergofiction is proud to announce its first-ever anthology, showcasing the work of several independent, experimental webfiction authors.
The storytelling genius in this collection is most evidenced by its memorable characters: a young woman haunted by her ex-boyfriend’s sweater, time travelers with a suspicious interest in babies, a gender-changing alien desperate to heal a loved one…
Featuring: Zoe E. Whitten, G.L. Drummond, MeiLin Miranda, MCM, Lyn Thorne-Alder & Chris Childs, Isa K., M. Jones, Erica Bercegeay & Charissa Cotrill, T.L. Whiteman, M.C.A. Hogarth, Nancy Brauer, and A.M. Harte, with an introduction by Jan Oda.
To pick up your free copy of the anthology, or for more information on where to buy this collection to support online fiction, visit Ergofiction: http://www.ergofiction.com/ebooks/
“Two men have the carcass.” These words, heard over a crackling telephone line, change writer Karen Lewis’s life for the worse.
Months earlier, her brother went missing in the small rural town of Fallen Trees, Washington. And now she finds out he willed his half of a bizarre bed and breakfast to her.
“Two men have the carcass.”
Is this ominous phrase enough to draw her into the mystery of Fallen Trees? Is the answer to her brother’s disappearance located there? Or is it just a trap, something designed to draw her into a nightmare world and break her sanity? What horror awaits Karen in the House of Fallen Trees?
Necrotic Tissue #12 is here! Get your copy while it’s still hot…then again, from the looks of the cover, it’ll be hot for a LONG time…
Are you ready to hold New Bedlam in your hand? Think you can have a piece of it in your home without inviting some of the evil in, too? If you can, if you want to try – even if you’re really too scared to give it a go – get on the subscription list for The New Bedlam Project, in print!
Let us know to add you to the list: admin ‘at’ newbedlam.com.
No further information is required at this time. We will notify potential subscribers with more information as it becomes available.
20Spec is an anthology of Roaring 20′s speculative fiction. Fantasy, Horror, Bizarro, Science Fiction, we welcome all genres as long as there is a speculative element and a clear 1920′s setting.
Wordcount is 1500-5000 words, deadline December 20, to be published through Absolute XPress, an imprint of Hades Publications. Guidelines can be found here: http://dragoninkhouse.com/submissions/
Fiction: We consider original, unpublished stories within the confines of dark fantasy and horror—mystery, suspense, supernatural, morbid humor, fantasy, etc. Stories must have a clear horror element. We’re looking for short stories up to 5,000 words (firm).
(See website for more details and payment info…)
And that wraps it up for this week. I’ll see you back here in about two weeks… and if you want to promote something, let me know jodi ‘at’ jodilee.ca!
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The 20Spec anthology intrigues me. I’ve worked quite a bit in that period, one of my favorites. Thatnks for the heads up!