ANY TIME YOU HAVE A NEW JOHN R. LITTLE TITLE IT'S EXCITING, BUT WE ARE PARTICULARLY EXCITED ABOUT THIS ONE! A NOVELLA NOT UNLIKE THE AWARD WINNING MIRANDA WITH ALL THE THOUGHT PROVOKING CHARACTERS AND SITUATIONS YOU'VE COME TO EXPECT FROM THIS GREAT WRITER!
 
In 1984, Henry Davidson took the holiday of a lifetime, spending his summer in Aswan, Egypt.

The trip changed his life in many ways, but when he swallowed a secret powder handed down from generation to generation, the biggest change was yet to come.
         
Now Henry could remember his future as well as his past.  And he could live his life out of sequence, choosing the age he wanted to live, from when he was a small child to when he turned 52.  Beyond that is a hazy Gray Zone where he has no memories.
         
What happens when Henry is finally able to break through and live in the Gray Zone is horrifying and deadly, and Henry has to face the consequences of the decisions he has made through his life.
 
From the Bram Stoker award winning author of Miranda comes this new novella of love and terror and the mysteries of time.
 
 
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Irish writer, Derek Gunn's latest thriller,The Estuary, has been released by Permuted Press.
 
According to the author, The Estuary is a fast-paced, horror adventure tale, about a desperate plan formulated in the darkest years of an evil empire, which now threatens to engulf the residents of a small community in Southern Ireland. “I’m delighted that The Estuary is now available from Permuted Press, who are making tremendous strides forward in publishing horror/post-apocalyptic genre fiction” says Derek.
 
Permuted Press are a US based publisher of apocalyptic horror including bestselling and cult-classic titles from Bram Stoker Award winner Dr. Kim Paffenroth, David Wong, J.L. Bourne, Z.A. Recht and many more.

Derek Gunn is the author of the post-apocalyptic horror saga, Vampire Apocalypse, a series of novels released through US publisher, Black Death Books.
 
An earlier work of Derek's has been optioned for film by producer/screenwriter Richard Finney. Finney and screenwriter, Franklin Guerrero Jr., recently penned a script based on the book. Their adaptation led to a recent partnership on the project with producer, Robert Lawrence (Die Hard: With a Vengence, Clueless, The Last Castle). Currently the project is being represented by the Creative Artists Agency (CAA) who is packaging the project for the studios.
 
THE ESTUARY is available (or can be ordered from) most booksellers.

Permuted Press can be contacted at contact@permutedpress.com,  www.permutedpress.com
 
Derek Gunn can be contacted at derekg@iol.ie, www.derekgunn.com

KATRINA AND THE FRENCHMAN: A JOURNAL FROM THE STREET is now available!

On August 27, 2005, a Carnival cruise ship docked at the harbor of New Orleans. Amongst the arrivals were Canadian writer Marcy Italiano and her husband, G, wrapping a wild 10-year anniversary celebration in a city they dearly loved. But this was less than 48 hours before the levees crumbled, and the nightmare began.

Katrina and The Frenchman is a haunting, harrowing first-person account of the Hurricane Katrina disaster, seen from the perspective of two tourists trapped in a city gripped by terror, and coming apart at the seams. Repeatedly finding light in the darkness, and then watching the darkness swallow it whole. Finally forced to escape on their own, when the system broke down completely.

Mostly, though, this is a story about beautiful people, and what they become as their hope runs out.

“I love this book. It’s a riveting story, intimately told with skill, deep humility, startling honesty, and the kind of stark photographic recall most people only achieve when they find themselves suddenly slapped within an inch of their lives by death. Which is, of course, precisely what happened; and that profound revelation is delivered intact throughout the course of this beautiful, powerful work.”
-- John Skipp, bestselling author of Jake’s Wake and The Light At The End

Marcy Italiano is sharing their story so that donations from sales of Katrina And The Frenchman: A Journal From The Street can be made to Common Ground Relief, and to help the people of New Orleans.

Find out why the story was written, listen to the song and video, and buy the book for a good cause at: http://www.marcyitaliano.com

http://www.apexbookcompany.com/news/2009/06/june-30th-five-very-important-things/

For many businesses, this is the last day of the 2009 fiscal year. Not for Apex, we go Jan. 1 - Dec. 31st.

But that’s not why today is so important.

Five things of major relevance occurs today:

   1. Last day of the Apex Author Lottery. If you plan to play, better make it today. Ticket purchases have been low, so your odds of winning something are pretty good at this point.

   2. Today is the last day to pre-order Prime by Nate Kenyon. The price of book goes up to $13.95. We’ll have all pre-orders signed by Nate.

   3. Today is the last day for novel submissions.

   4. Tonight Orgy of Souls co-author Maurice Broaddus will be appearing on the blog talk radio showThe Funky Werepig at 9 p.m.

   5. Tonight Orgy of Souls co-author Wrath James White will be chatting at 8:30 p.m. over at the Horror-Mall.

So take a break from the heat. Send that novel off. Buy some tickets to the lottery. Visit Wrath at his chat and listen to Maurice pontificate on the radio.

Leisure Books, the company "leading the way in publishing paperback horror,"* is partnering with Rue Morgue magazine in association with horror fiction web site ChiZine, to present "Fresh Blood," a new writing contest specifically for unpublished horror authors. The winner will receive a contract for publication in Leisure's 2011 lineup, as well as a contract from ChiZine Publications for a limited-edition hardcover release, also in 2011.

Leisure is looking for finished horror novel manuscripts, either supernatural or non-supernatural, of 80,000 - 90,000 words. A panel of experts, including Leisure Executive Editor Don D'Auria and editors at ChiZine, will judge entries. The finalists will be announced in November 2009.

From December 2009 through July 2010, monthly competitions in categories such as "Best Summary," "Best First Line," "Best Title," and "Most Frightening Scene" will run on ChiZine.com. Readers will have the opportunity to vote for their favorites, and after each deadline, entries with the fewest votes will be eliminated.

The winner will be announced in August 2010 at Rue Morgue's Festival of Fear in Toronto, Canada, as well as on the Leisure and ChiZine web sites.

Entries should be sent to Submissions@dorchesterpub.com by September 30, 2009. "Fresh Blood" must appear in the subject line of the email.

For full entry details, visit www.dorchesterpub.com or http://chizine.com. Leisure Books is an imprint of Dorchester Publishing and publishes two horror titles every month by authors such as Richard Laymon, Jack Ketchum, Brian Keene, and Sarah Pinborough.

*CNN.com

http://www.dorchesterpub.com/Dorch/SpecialFeatures.cfm?ID=2681

At Nashville's Hypericon 5 last night, Robert McCammon was awarded the DeepSouthCon Phoenix Award.

It's a lifetime achievement award given to a science fiction or fantasy professional with connections to the South. Unfortunately, Mr. McCammon was unable to attend the awards ceremony. I was honored to accept it on his behalf.
 

A list of past winners of the Phoenix Award can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Award_(science_fiction)

http://www.robertmccammon.com/

http://www.matthewcorbettsworld.com/

Darkhouse Publishing.s Premiere Release

Midnight Walk: Fourteen Original Tales of Terror and Suspense

Edited by Bram Stoker Award winner Lisa Morton, Midnight  Walk, the premiere anthology from Darkhouse Publishing, has combined the talents of authors emerging from a variety of professional backgrounds, resulting in an even greater mélange of stories that intrigue, engage, and ultimately satisfy.

Venture into the past or future, or stay in the not-so-comfortable present, with such stories as .The Measure of a Man,. .The Svancara Supper Society,. and .Inside Out.. If it.s a change of scenery you’re looking for, .Monsoon Devil. and .Diana and the Goong-Si. will take you places you’ve never imagined. If watching legends come to life is more to your liking, .The Bear Who Swallowed the Sky. and .The Guixi Sisters. will oblige. And, for the otherworldly, the in between, .Eddie G. at the Gates of Hell. and .Late Check-In. will take you there, but not necessarily bring you home.

Between the covers of Midnight  Walk await a bounty of stories such as these and more from contributors that include Del Howison (Stoker Award winner), Armand Constantine (nominee for the Game Developers Choice Award for Best Writing), Joey O.Bryan (screenwriter of the Hong Kong action thriller Fulltime Killer), makeup effects artist Mike McCarty, journalist and stage actor Kelly Dunn, prize-winning filmmaker and author John Palisano, as well as cult horror movie actor (Army of Darkness) and voice artist Richard Grove.

Come walk with us. Midnight Walk launch party is open to the public and will follow the Stoker Award Weekend:

Sunday, June 14, 2009, at 2:00 p.m.

Dark Delicacies Bookstore

www.darkdel.com

4213 W. Burbank Boulevard

Burbank, California 91505

1-888-DARKDEL, 1-818-556-6660 (local)

darkdel@darkdel.com

Midnight Walk:  Fourteen Original Tales of Terror and Suspense

ISBN: 978-0-578-02162-1

Perfectbound Trade Paperback

258 pages

$15.95

Hope to hear from you soon (before the end of July!).

Cheers and happy nightmares,

The WildClaw Mailing Daemon
 

Hi, everyone.
 
I posted the June WHAT'S NEW at http://www.davidmorrell.net. 

Among other things, I talk about the 25th anniversary re-release of THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE ROSE.

Happy reading.

David
 

New Short Story

The July 2009 issue of Esquire magazine (on newsstands in June) will feature a new short story titled "Morality". 

Chad, an aspiring writer who is teaching school until he lands a publishing contract, and his wife, Nora, who is working as a home nurse for a retired minister, are like most people these days struggling financially.  Nora is approached by her employer with a proposition that could make their dream of a home in Vermont a reality.  But will it be worth the moral consequences?
 

November Book Tour
 

Scribner has decided upon the cities that will be included for the book tour in November to promote Under the Dome.  The final details with dates and locations should be announced in the next couple of months.  The cities on the tour are:

• New York
• Washington, D.C. or Baltimore
• Atlanta
• Sarasota
• Minneapolis
• Toronto
• New England city (to be determined)

At Apex, we love dark SF/horror writers so much that we snap up their souls as often as we can. But just because we own their black little hearts doesn’t mean we won’t share the darkness with you. From now through June 30th, we’re holding the Apex Author Lottery. Forget gambling your paycheck away on scratch tickets with $2 prizes. We’ve got books, and lots of ‘em. Signed books, limited editions, some with pleas for help tucked inside, scrawled by authors who think they can escape into an unwitting reader’s mind. Read them at your own risk.

Own a little piece of a writer’s soul. Check out the prize packages and enter the lottery featuring your favorite author, editor, or minion of doom. Oops, sorry, we ate the minions of doom. But we have authors and editors and prizes galore. Are you a Mama’s Boy? You know you want a stack from Stoker-nominated writer Fran Friel, including a signed copy of Mama’s Boy and Other Dark Tales. Or perhaps you’ve been stalking Matt Wallace. Get your signed copy of The Next Fix plus Murky Depths back issues and some personalized verbal abuse from the man behind them all. And speaking of abuse, if you’re an aspiring writer you can enter the Jason Sizemore lottery and wind up with a brutal but insightful critique of one of your short stories, plus a stack of magazines and a signed copy of Webs of Discord.

The Apex Author Lottery is part of an effort to raise awareness of the great variety of talent available in small press science fiction and horror.

Visit http://gentlyused.myshopify.com and be tempted!

CONTACT: Greg Lamberson - glamberson@verizon.net

Playboy model and actress Angelina Leigh has joined the cast of SLIME CITY MASSACRE, which already includes Debbie Rochon, Lee Perkins, Brooke Lewis, horror author Kealan Patrick Burke and filmmaker Roy Frumkes.

The film starts shooting next month.

"Fans tend to rememeber Eva Lee, who played the prostitute in the original SLIME CITY," says screenwriter and director Greg Lamberson.

"The delivery of her character's line, 'You crazy bastard!' after having her face slashed with a straight edge razor is probably the most memorable one in the film, but for all the wrong reasons. For SLIME CITY MASSACRE I want to correct mistakes made on the first film, so I created the small role of a prostitute, Honey, trying to survive the film's post apocalyptic environment. Angelina moved back to my area, outside Buffalo, and started working in indie films like Jay Mager's crime drama BORN TO DIE, and I heard from Jay and my local SFX supervisor, Rod Durick, that she was talented and easy to work with, very down to earth. I started expanding her role, and now she'll have one of the most memorable death scenes in the film."

Leigh has also appeared in the recent productions HOUSE OF HORRORS: THE MOVIE, THE GREAT AMERICAN SERIAL KILLER, CLERIC and THE ROTKAPPCHEN: THE BLOOD OF RED RIDING HOOD, and has lead roles in the upcoming THE CABIN and ANOMALY. Her main scenes in SLIME CITY MASSACRE will be with Perkins and Rochon, and she'll be working alongside another Buffalo actress, Jennifer Bihl, who stars in the film.

"Angelina's worked on a lot of films in a short period of time,"

continues Lamberson. "I predict she's going to be very popular with scream queen fans."

You can visit Leigh at her My Space page:   http://www.myspace.com/clubangelinaleigh

Because some of you live in the Metro Vancouver area, but don't necessarily check the Atomic Fez web-site (and those of your who don't live in the Metro Vancouver Area might drop everything and rush here for the event), here's a duplication of the event announcement over there.

• What: Launching an Independent Publishing House: Fab or Folly?
• Who: The Shebeen Club and Atomic Fez Publishing
• When: Monday, June 15^TH, 6:00–9:00 pm
• Where: The Shebeen, behind the Irish Heather, 212 Carrall Street in Gastown
• Details: $15 cash only, includes dinner and one drink (pint). No minors, please.
• Blather: follows

MEET THE NAÏVE PROPRIETOR

The proprietor of Atomic Fez Publishing will engage the public in an all singing, all dancing event at The Shebeen Whisky House behind the Irish Heather Gastro-Pub in Vancouver's Gastown district.

Ian Alexander Martin is expected to discuss his reasoning behind beginning a Small Press Publishing house in these days of financial turmoil which have seen several international houses drastically scale back their structures, frequently closing sub-imprints and selling off their intellectual assets like so much scrap iron. Likewise, when even local publisher Raincoast Books scales downsize their operation following the completion of the 'Harry Potter...' series, is there any point in trying to enter the market?

Additional topics will include:

Come and hear a 20-minute talk about what Mr. Martin's approaches are, and what he thinks the state of publishing is today. A question and answer session with follow the presentation after a short break.

Wildwood back in stock

 Wildwood by John Farris is back in stock. For those of you who had copies on order, they will ship out to you on Monday.

http://www.centipedepress.com/wildwood.html

If you've been thinking about Wildwood, it is one of John Farris's best novels. It comes here with an introduction by Stephen Gallagher and a bonus short story by Farris, and is also signed by Farris. The Carlos Schwabe cover has been is simply stunning.

Thank you all for your support!

Best Regards,

Jerad

Jerad Walters
Centipede Press
2565 Teller Court
Lakewood, Colorado 80214

phone: 303/231-9720
jerad@centipedepress.com
 

Taste of Tenderloin by Gene O'Neill available for pre-order

Anticipated release date of August 1, 2009

Eight stories of dark science fiction and fantasy weave a path through the underbelly of San Francisco’s most notorious district in Taste of Tenderloin by Gene O’Neill. Best known for his strong sense of place and uniquely vibrant characters, O’Neill brings the gritty underside of the city to life with eight interwoven stories of broken lives, missed dreams, and all that can go wrong with both reality and fantasy among the down and out. The city itself opens wide to swallow all comers with the temptation of its secrets and sins, while O’Neill brings dignity and humanity to a set of characters often overlooked in both society and fiction.

Table of Contents
“Lost Patrol”
“Magic Words”
“Tombstones in His Eyes”
“Bushido”
“Balance”
“The Apotheosis of Nathan McKee”
“Bruised Soul”
“5150”

Special introduction by Gavin O’Neill
Cover art by Steven Gilberts

Remember, pre-ordering from us no longer requires payment upfront. You reserve your copy and pay on the book's release date. Just select payment option 'Pre-order' on checkout.

Pre-order Taste of Tenderloin by Gene O'Neill

One-on-One Coaching for the Serious Writer

With

Tom Monteleone

One-on-One Coaching for the Serious Writer—Created by Tom Monteleone—is based on his best-selling book The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Writing a Novel and his acclaimed Borderlands Press Writers Boot Camp.