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Posted by Horror Fiction News Network on
November 1, 2007
Issue 3/Fall 2007 of Horror Literature Quarterly is now available. Each issue is free with prior issues available only to registered members of Horror Literature Quarterly.
Registration is free.
Horror Literature Quarterly can be read in two different formats; on the website and via PDF. Horror Literature Quarterly will release the PDF version of each issue first and will place the stories on the website within two days of the PDF being released.
You can click here to download the new issue. (http://horrorlit.horrorfictionnews.com/index.php?option=com_docman task=doc_download gid=3 Itemid=43)
Between now and the final announcement of the Bram Stoker Award nominations, all the stories published at Horror Literature Quarterly will be available to the public without being a registered subscriber. HLQ is very proud of the stories and wants to make sure they are available for your consideration during the recommendation process.
I hope you enjoy this new issue.
Posted by Horror Literature Quarterly on
November 1, 2007
Issue 3/Fall 2007 of Horror Literature Quarterly is now available. Each issue is free with prior issues available only to...
Posted by Horror Fiction News Network on
October 29, 2007
CEMETERY DANCE reports that they will be implementing a new commerce back end to their website in order to streamline processing of orders and enhancing their ability to serve their customers,
One of the big changes we'll be making here at Cemetery Dance very soon is a transition to a new order management system. We've spent the last six months researching our options and preparing for the change, and this system is going to allow us to add capabilities that we've wanted and needed for years. For example, we'll be able to send shipping confirmations, most likely with tracking information, so you can know what's coming your way and when to expect it. There are a lot of other great features that will help us stay better organized behind the scenes, and we think this new system will be a good change for everyone involved. We'll post more details when the system goes live.
IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT THIS WEBSITE: This new order management system requires us to modify some elements of our website, including certain product codes, so if you have links to specific pages saved in your bookmarks or posted on your website, these URLs may be changing. Please double-check your links and email brianfreeman@cemeterydance.com (mailto:brianfreeman@cemeterydance.com) if you have any trouble finding anything on the site, or if you have any trouble placing an order, or if you find any outdated links on our website. Thanks!
As we noted in our last production update, Richard Chizmar is now back in the office full-time after being gone much of the first half of the year due to a family illness. We appreciate everyone being so understanding of the delays this situation has caused, and for your outpouring of support.
They also have updates to several books that are in the pipeline for being published in the coming weeks and months,
We currently have sixteen books at the printer (including House Infernal (http://www.cemeterydance.com/page/CDP/PROD/lee09), Stephen King: A Primary Bibliography (http://www.cemeterydance.com/page/CDP/PROD/brooks01), Thrillers 2 (http://www.cemeterydance.com/page/CDP/PROD/morrish01), Shades (http://www.cemeterydance.com/page/CDP/PROD/cooper02), Stephen King: The Non-Fiction (http://www.cemeterydance.com/page/CDP/PROD/wood02), The Story of Noichi the Blind (http://www.cemeterydance.com/page/CDP/PROD/williams02), The Dark Tower Concordance (http://www.cemeterydance.com/page/CDP/PROD/furth01), Occasional Demons (http://www.cemeterydance.com/page/CDP/PROD/hautala04), Graven Image (http://www.cemeterydance.com/page/CDP/PROD/garton11), Vampyrrhic (http://www.cemeterydance.com/page/CDP/PROD/clark05), Vampyrrhic Rites (http://www.cemeterydance.com/page/CDP/PROD/clark06), and unannounced projects by authors such as Ray Garton, Brian Hodge, Jack Ketchum, and many others!) with nearly another dozen ready to go (many of them surprise, unannounced projects) and even more titles working their way through production. We're in a strong position to catch-up on a lot of the older titles over the next six months.CEMETERY DANCE MAGAZINE has suffered some delays but CEMETERY DANCE has stated that they will be shipping issue 58 in the next month and that issue 59 is in production. Also they have teased a new direction and reinvention of the magazine. More information when it becomes available.
Other production updates include,
King Blood (http://www.cemeterydance.com/page/CDP/PROD/clark04) by Simon Clark is being proofread right now, and Clark has the signature sheets to sign. We've heard there's a bit of a postal strike going on in the UK, but we expect the signature sheets will be safely returned by next month. You can now also see Alan Clark's amazing cover artwork on the product page. After the proofreading is completed, we'll send the book to the printer.
Dark Delicacies (http://www.cemeterydance.com/page/CDP/PROD/howison01) edited by Del Howison and Jeff Gelb is just waiting on the final cover artwork and the signature sheets, which are circulating among the last of the authors.
Century's Best (http://www.cemeterydance.com/page/CDP/PROD/pelan01) proofreading continues, but with over 700,000 words (and 1600 or so pages), it's going to be a while longer until this one is ready for the printer. Many of the stories had to be typeset from original materials so they now have to be cross-checked against those originals. It's a slow process, but it'll be worth the effort. These two volumes are going to each be among the largest books we've ever published.
The big news is that IN LAYMON'S TERMS is close to being finished. It is currently being copyedited and a few other minor details to be ironed out,
In Laymon's Terms (http://www.cemeterydance.com/page/CDP/PROD/laymonk01) is being copyedited, and all we're waiting on is a couple more things from the editors and a few more remembrances, which we're expecting next month. As we mentioned last time, the signature sheets are already circulating among the THREE DOZEN+ contributors, and we hope to announce the table of contents later this year, as soon as the last of the contracts are issued. Gail Cross's title design for gak's cover artwork is now on display on the book's product page on the website.Other updates include news on Shocklines: Fresh Voices In Terror (http://www.cemeterydance.com/page/CDP/PROD/chizmar06), Cemetery Dance: A Fifteen Year Celebration (http://www.cemeterydance.com/page/CDP/PROD/chizmar07), and The Horror Hall of Fame: The Stoker Winners (http://www.cemeterydance.com/page/CDP/PROD/lansdale05) you can find the rest of this substantial production update at the Breaking News page on the CEMETERY DANCE website. (http://www.cemeterydance.com/page/CDP/BreakingNews)
Source: Cemetery Dance (http://www.cemeterydance.com/page/CDP/BreakingNews)
Posted by Horror Fiction News Network on
October 29, 2007
CEMETERY DANCE has announced that they will be publishing a new collection of stories by AL SARRANTONIO. Halloween and Other Seasons (http://www.cemeterydance.com/page/CDP/PROD/sarranto07) you'll find:
— Summer that never ends...
— A sleepover that turns into an unending nightmare...
— A Summer camp that offers a one-way ticket...
— The strangest Halloween ever...
All this and much, much more in Halloween and Other Seasons (http://www.cemeterydance.com/page/CDP/PROD/sarranto07): there's a neighborhood rivalry that grows to monstrous proportions; a hedgerow with an appetite; the ultimate Charles Fort story; and the end of the world — from the beginning.
Halloween and Other Seasons (http://www.cemeterydance.com/page/CDP/PROD/sarranto07) contains 18 gems of weirdness, including Al Sarrantonio's very first published story. Sarrantonio first two Cemetery Dance collections, Toybox (http://www.cemeterydance.com/page/CDP/PROD/sarranto02) and Hornets and Others (http://www.cemeterydance.com/page/CDP/PROD/sarranto04), are out-of-print collector's items so don't be caught short. Join a writer who has been hailed as A writer of great stories (Ray Feist) and A very talented writer (The Washington Post).
Deep in production and being proofread right now, Halloween and Other Seasons (http://www.cemeterydance.com/page/CDP/PROD/sarranto07) will give you a great dose of Halloween later this winter! But like all of our previous Sarrantonio books, this Limited Edition won't last long!
Source: Cemetery Dance (http://www.cemeterydance.com/page/CDP/BreakingNews)
Posted by Horror Fiction News Network on
October 29, 2007
CEMETERY DANCE has announced that MAD DOGS by BRIAN HODGE is in stock and shipping from their offices.
From Brian Hodge, the author of the highly acclaimed Wild Horses, comes his long-awaited second crime novel, which once again finds him careening at whiplash speeds between black humor and the pounding heart of darkness.
About the Book
Actor Jamey Sheppard may not be starving, but he's definitely struggling. His career has been one piddling role after another with names like Radical Dude #3. Still, as he's road-tripping from Los Angeles to Arizona to reunite with his fiancée for their wedding, the future looks brighter than gold.
Until a liquid lunch deputy turns the best day in his life into the worst.
But Jamey's no criminal. He's only played one on TV.
From the moment he's mistaken for Duncan MacGregor, the real-life renegade he's just portrayed in a re-enactment segment on American Fugitives, Jamey's life can never be the same. And so begins his sun-scorched odyssey through overnight media saturation celebrity and the national fascination with outlaws.
In his hideaway, Duncan MacGregor is watching, too. And he just has to meet the guy who relived his own worst moment in front of a nationwide audience.
Within days, in a twist that even American Fugitives couldn't have seen coming, their fates are intertwined, as they ricochet down a road filled with the world's dumbest bounty hunters, Hollywood deal-makers and wannabes, cops on both sides of the law, a metal-plated ex-con with a prehistoric outlook on life, an impromptu right-wing death squad, a merciless Jay Leno, and the most dangerous people of all when it comes to grudges and vengeance:
Family.
Staying on the run could be the best career move Jamey's ever made … if he can just live long enough to sign on the dotted line.
CEMETERY DANCE is issuing this book in two editions (http://www.cemeterydance.com/page/CDP/PROD/hodge01) a Limited Edition of 1000 signed copies ($40) and a Traycased Lettered Edition of 26 signed and lettered copies bound in leather and with a satin ribbon page marker ($175) (javascript:void(0);/*1193753910832*/)
Source: Cemetery Dance (http://www.cemeterydance.com/page/CDP/BreakingNews)
Posted by Horror Fiction News Network on
October 22, 2007
Big news from Bloodletting Books!!!!
We will officially be opening a new bookstore with Shane Staley the publisher of Delirium Books. The site will go live on Halloween and will be the most state of the art online genre bookstore in existence. This new and greatly improved site will be Bloodletting Books new home.
With the expansion of both Bloodletting's bookstore and publishing business it has become necessary to separate Bloodletting Press from Bloodletting's bookstore and this new site will allow us to do just that. We will maintain our current website for promoting Bloodletting Press titles only.
So in short Bloodletting bookstore is just moving its store to the Horror Mall, everything will be the same but you'll see a huge improvement in the site and service. We are going to stock more books than ever before from the finest authors in the genre. There is no need to worry about past orders as all current orders are recorded and secured and will be processed as normal.
What's different about this site from other bookstores? Basically, it's an online mall. There will be different sellers and stores providing different products, but all stores will be under a single checkout process, so customers will be able to shop in one place for all your horror needs.
Bloodletting Books will be the primary bookseller at Horror Mall. All genre titles sold at Bloodletting Books' will now be sold through the bookstore at Horror Mall. Shane and I will be working together to stock the site with nearly every major small press release. Just as with all your past purchases at Bloodletting Books we will continue to provide the warehouse and shipping for all books purchased so you will see no difference in our customer service but a great difference in quality and ease of use with our new website.
Shane and I have been working together on this for quite some time now, as we agreed early on that what the horror genre needed most was a central place to come together to buy books and other products. Delirium Books was branching out into the selling of other publisher's books and instead of competing with each other, Shane and I decided to unite and work together to build a mega-site dedicated to the best this genre has to offer. Horror Mall will focus on cross-promoting horror literature with movies and art, among other things.
Other features of the site will include a message board and blog which will be linked to a newsletter that will go out to everyone who wants to know when new products are added to the mall. The site will also feature a customer points system similar to Delirium's where you earn points for each purchase which can be used as cash towards future orders. Also, as customer service has been a key to both Bloodletting's and Delirium's success, the new site will include a customer support system where customers can submit their questions via a ticket and track its progress online and through e-mail.
There's a lot more to discuss, but for those of you that want to be on the mailing list from the beginning, you can join the newsletter by clicking the link below:
Sign up for the Horror Mall Daily Newsletter (http://eight.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/horror-mall-daily )
Source: Bloodletting Books (http://www.bloodlettingpress.net/board/index.php?topic=534.0)
Posted by Horror Fiction News Network on
October 22, 2007
SCOTT WESTERFELD has added new dates for book store events for New York City and Fairfield, CT
I’m doing yet another New York City event for David Levithan (http://www.davidlevithan.com/) wrangling (i.e., making sure we don’t go over time).
The other authors are:
Alaya Johnson (http://www.alayadawnjohnson.com/), Racing the Dark
Kristen Kemp (http://kristenkemp.com/), Breakfast at Bloomingdale’s
Louise Plummer (http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385730921), Finding Daddy
Abby Sher (http://www.amazon.com/Kissing-Snowflakes-Abby-Sher/dp/0545000106), Kissing Snowflakes
Jake Wizner (http://www.jakewizner.com/), Spanking Shakespeare
Wednesday, November 7
6PM-7:30PM
Tompkins Square Library
331 E. 10th Street (off Ave B)
Perhaps now is the time to remind you of my other two upcoming events:
Fairfield Public Library (http://www.fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/directions.htm)
Thursday, October 25
4PM-6PM
1080 Old Post Road
Fairfield, CT
203-255-7394
Books will be sold there by the local Borders.
Saturday, October 27
3-5PM
Books of Wonder (http://www.booksofwonder.com/)
18 West 18th St.
New York, NY
Source: Scott Westerfeld (http://scottwesterfeld.com/blog/?p=304)
Posted by Horror Fiction News Network on
October 22, 2007
Maurice Broaddus has been named the featured writer on Apex Online (http://www.apexdigest.com/apexonline.shtml). Readers will get not only an interview (http://www.apexdigest.com/Online/interview071001.shtml) with him, but also a free story (http://www.apexdigest.com/Online/fiction071001.shtml). In the Shadows of Meido (http://www.mauricebroaddus.com/2006/01/every-time-i-try-to-get-out) – originally published in IDW Publications comic book line.
Posted by Horror Fiction News Network on
October 18, 2007
In response to inquiries on the release date, the printers should be wrapping up and shipping the books to various warehouses in the next ten shipping days. Due to traffic, we can’t predict the exact speed the shipments will arrive, but we hope it will be as soon as possible! (javascript:void(0);/*1192804951325*/)
