My author's copies of "Dejanna of the Double Star" just arrived. The book looks outstanding, if I do say so, and I do. I'd read it myself, but hey, I wrote it and I already wrote a story, "Barbara Starr, Space Policewoman," about a writer who reads his own work.
My novel, "Dejanna of the Double Star" is now available in both Kindle and paperback. Just in time for Christmas.
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Dejanna, the great granddaughter of her planet's most beautiful woman and her world's Earth-man Overlord, is stolen by a rejected suitor. Pregnant, she is stranded alone in the wilderness with only her wits to save her from the planet's savage beasts and nomadic warriors. While she seeks safety, her husband searches the dangerous swamps for his wife and unborn child. Their quests put them both on a collision course with the most dangerous and warlike creatures on the planet - the savage Sarapou tribe of Zirkas, a race of gigantic and sentient insectoid beings whose thirst for power and blood is never satisfied. Dejanna must overcome her privileged upbringing and embrace the warrior blood that is her birthright to save herself and her child.
The anthology, "Inferno," published by "The Infernal Clock" and guided by Stephanie Ellis and
, is now available. This collection of stories based on the circles of hell in Dante's Inferno includes my short story about a greedy treasure hunter - "The Cookie Jar," along with seventeen other stories about murder, fraud, theft, and the other sins that give a person a special place in Dante's Hell.
My newest novel is available in paperback today. "Dejanna of the Double Star" was released this morning. The story's genre is what is described as "Sword and Planet."
Gypsum Sound Tales , an Australian publisher of fantasy, horror, science fiction, adventure, and other genres released their newest anthology, "Gypsum Sound Veils." today. This collection of stories about a wedding and what can go right or wrong contains my short story, "Service Interruptus."
FERAL, It Takes a Forest to Raise a Child, has been released by West Mesa Press. The anthology contains stories from fifteen of today's best and hardest working writers.
Rie Sheridan Rose, one of my favorite writers and editors, contributed the wonderfully clever story, ‘Going Native.’ At the risk of giving too much away, she employs a role reversal in her engaging tale. "Who's the human here?
Amazon approved FERAL, It Takes a Forest to Raise a Child ahead of schedule and the book has been published and is available for purchase.
FERAL, the anthology is still scheduled for release in paperback and on Kindle on September 1, 2020. I'll review the proof copy today, assuming it's delivered by 8 PM as scheduled.
FERAL, an anthology of feral children stories is still on schedule for release on September 1, 2020.
FERAL, an anthology of stories about children raised by animals will be released on September 1, 2020. It takes a forest to raise a child.
“FERAL,” an anthology edited by yours truly, will be released in 11 days – September 1, 2020. Fifteen of the best and busiest writers will have stories in the multi-genre book; Science Fiction, fantasy, adventure, horror, humor and historical fiction - all with a touch of the macabre.
Today’s featured contributor to “FERAL”, is Catherine Jordan. Her story features not one, but two feral children. Children of the Elwetritschen” is an imaginative and entertaining retelling of a classic fairy tale.
Catherine is a horror novelist who edits and writes in different genres. She is the Review Coordinator for horrortree.com, and a contributor to “TheBurg Magazine—“Harrisburg’s monthly magazine and news source. Ms. Jordan has been featured in a variety of anthologies and on-line publications. She has also been a judge for the Bram Stoker Award and the ITW Young Adult Award. She facilitates writing courses and critique groups. Catherine lives in Pennsylvania with her husband and five children.
Recently, she wrote the introduction for the Sudbury Press Anthology, “Hellbent.” Her story, “Mean Streak,” is featured in the volume. Her novel, “The Bookseller’s Secret” will be released soon. Follow her on Twitter for updates.
Her books are available at:
www.sunburypress.com , www.amazon.com and www.barnesandnoble.com and through her website, http://www.catherinejordan.com
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I've finished uploading the “Feral” paperback and electronic manuscripts successfully for publication. Now, the cover can be uploaded for the Kindle version and designed and uploaded for the paperback. You can’t layout the cover for the paperback until you know the book dimensions to the thickness of a single page. The 99% finished cover is attached to this post
Every contributor is listed by name on the back cover of the paperback edition.
Today’s featured author / contributor is Rose Strickman, who was kind enough to contribute “The Dolphin Girl,” a story that takes place in the “Drowned World,” a post-apocalyptic world created by Rose and the setting for several of her stories.
Rose Strickman is a fantasy, science fiction and horror writer living in Seattle, Washington. Her work has appeared in anthologies such as Sword and Sorceress 32, Earth: Giants, Golems & Gargoyles and Swashbuckling Cats: Nine Lives on the Seven Seas, as well as online e-zines such as Feed Your Monster and Luna Station Quarterly. Check out her website at https://aqua-wombat-29pf.squarespace.com/ or, for more Drowned World stories, see her Amazon page at amazon.com/author/rosestrickman
Yesterday, I almost finishing touches on the Kindle version of the manuscript for “Feral,” an anthology about feral children featuring 15 of the busiest and finest writers working today.
I say almost because Kindle Publishing insists on restoring deleted comments in two of the stories and including them in the book. I’ve deleted the comments three times and uploaded the book each time, to no avail. Time to call Kindle publishing help. If anyone has encounter this before, please message me.
“Once Free” was written specifically for this collection by David Morris, a writer with five novels to his name. David’s submission isn’t one of the ones that Kindle has decided to put a hex upon.
David Morris grew up in Phoenix, Arizona, from the time he was seven. In 2010, after moving a number of times he finally settled in Palm Springs, California where he finally had the time to write.
His first novel was his own biography. He’ll never publish it, but it helped to give him the skills and the drive to continue. ‘Once Free’, is his first short story. I hope it won’t be his last.
He writes Suspense/Romance and what he likes to call Science Fiction of the Possible. He has five novels available. Jason’s Virus was written a few years ago and it’s especially prophetic in light of the word we live in right now.
Spots Book One: The Youth Tablets
Spots Book Two: The People at the Pond/Second Chance
Spots Book Three: The Finale/The Lost Tablets
Jason’s Virus
The Time Ship
His eBooks and paperbacks on Amazon can be purchased at:
https://www.amazon.com/s…
His eBooks at Barnes and Noble can be purchased at:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/david+lawrence+morris…
Kobo
His eBooks at Kobo can be purchased at:
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/search…
Facebook Link: https://m.facebook.com/david.morris.54390876?ref=bookmark
Every day is one day closer to the release of “Feral,” an anthology of feral children stories scheduled for September 1, 2020. Shebat Legion is one of the excellent writers to have a story in the book. Her beautiful and evocative story is titled “The Song of Abby.” Without too man spoilers, a child is raised by an ancient oak tree. For me it brought to mind visions of druids and dryads.
Shebat Legion is a consummate producer/storyteller who has been printed and reprinted in numerous anthologies, including her collection of short stories called Hubris. Legion is responsible for the creation of Vampire Therapy, which includes a full-length novel, “Jackson and Eva,” as well as an illustrated collection of short stories set in the Vampire Therapy universe called “The Chronicles of The Cats Ass Boutique: Seasons and Reasons.” Legion's most recent production credit is the illustrated anthology of short stories, featuring over sixty authors, “Klarissa Dreams Redux,” the second in the Klarissa Dreams series, with proceeds to breast cancer research and awareness.
Besides both being writers, Shebat Legion and I share another bond. We are both cancer survivors. I'm pretty sure she feels the same way about cancer that I do. Every day I wake up is another day that cancer can kiss my ass.
You can find Shebat on Facebook and Amazon at the following links:
https://www.facebook.com/Author.Shebat.Legion
https://www.amazon.com/author/shebatlegion
The anthology, "Feral," is still on track for publication on September 1, 2020. Tim Pulo, writer, editor, and publisher was kind enough to write a story for the book. "Amongst the Cackle" has a real Frankenstein feel.
Living in the north of Sydney, Australia, Timothy Pulo is an avid writer across many different genres. He enjoys writing short stories, longer works of fiction, and experimenting with comics, finding inspiration in pp-culture and unusual encounters experienced in his daily life. In between juggling the frenetic pace of being married to his beautiful wife and have three young spirited boys, Timothy endeavours to put as many of his atypically wonderful and random ideas onto paper as he can, in the hope of entertainment for readers. Timothy can be found on Twitter at @timothypulo.
Tim created a world of superheroes and supervillians, "Divine Five." Four anthologies have been published in the series so far, and number five isn't far behind. Check them out.
Three weeks until the anthology, "Feral," will be released if all goes well. Today's featured contributor is R. J. Meldrum. Check out his other work, the man can write. His story is "The Curse of Middleton Bishop." You'll love it.
Richard Meldrum specializes in fiction that explores the world through a dark lens. His subject matter ranges from ghosts to serial killers and everything in-between. He has had over one hundred short stories and drabbles published in a variety of anthologies, e-zines and websites. He has had his work published by Midnight Street Press, Culture Cult Press, Horrified Press, Infernal Clock, Trembling with Fear, Black Hare Press, Smoking Pen Press, Darkhouse Books, Breaking Rules Publishing, Tell Tale Press, Kevin J Kennedy and James Ward Kirk Fiction. His short stories have also been published in The Sirens Call e-zine, the Horror Zine and Drabblez magazine. His novella “The Plague” was recently published by Demain Press. He is a contributor to the Pen of the Damned and an Affiliate Member of the Horror Writers Association.
Today's featured author who has a story featured in the upcoming anthology, "Feral," is Stephanie Ellis. Her horror story, "The Moulting," will make you look under the bed and in the closet. I appreciate her work. I think you will too.
Stephanie Ellis writes dark speculative prose and poetry and has been published in a variety of magazines and anthologies. Her latest work includes the novella, Bottled, published by Silver Shamrock, who will also be publishing her novel, The Five Turns of the Wheel in October. She has recently been published in Flame Tree Press’ A Dying Planet anthology with “Milking Time” and is included in Silver Shamrock’s upcoming Midnight in the Pentagram anthology with “Family Reunion.” Her poetry can be sampled in the Horror Writer Association’s Poetry Showcase Volume 6. She has collected a number of her published, and some unpublished, short stories in The Reckoning, her dark verse in Dark is my Playground, and flash in The Dark Bites, all available on amazon. She is co-editor of Trembling With Fear, HorrorTree.com's online magazine. She is an affiliate member of the HWA and can be found at https://stephanieellis.org and on twitter at @el_stevie.
FERAL," an anthology of stories about feral children is scheduled for publication the first of September. 15 of the best writers working today have written a feral child story for this volume. I'm sure most of you will recognize some, if not all, of them.
I'll identify at least contributor each day, in the order that I received their story, until the book is released.
The illustration attached is a early rendition of the cover. The lettering will be changed in color and in size on the final version. All contributors will be listed on the front or rear cover of the book.
The first writer featured is Serena DuBois. Here's her bio:
Serena DuBois has been writing for both pleasure and publication for most of her adult life. She has had poetry published in the University of California at Davis literary magazine Parados and From Anugraha to Amanecer: The SWI 10th Anniversary Anthology and in other two anthologies. She wrote a regular column for the Rainbow Magazine, and has written articles for Explore for the Professional. Her short story “The Visitor” can be found on ERBList’s Pulp Fiction page, http://erblist.com/fanfiction/index.html#shortstories. She is currently working on a series of futuristic novels laid in 2060, well after “the Year of Shaking and Burning” and preparing her cross-genre novel A Thousand Ancestors for publication.
