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Welcome to JournalStone's June 2011 newsletter! What a month May was. I have no idea where to even start with all of the news we have coming out.
How about we begin with JOURNAL-STORE.COM. Yes, we are launching an electronic bookstore, and it is now up and running. If you want to venture over there, go to www.journal-store.com. Don't forget the dash, or you will end up in the wrong spot. Why are we opening an electronic book store? What makes our store different from any other?
At www.journal-store.com we will not only accept any author's book, but we will also accept other publisher's books and...wait for it...we will format the book for you in the five most popular electronic formats available. It is as easy as sending us your Word file and your book will be placed for sale on our site. You can read our terms of service which is being updated now by clicking the link on the front page of www.journal-store.com. Basically we ask for non-exclusive publishing rights to list your book, and that's it.
As if launching our new store wasn't enough, JournalStone signed two new authors into the family this month. We want to welcome Anne Petty and Jeffrey Wilson.
Anne Petty is a well established author having several previously published pieces of work, and we are insanely pleased to have her as one of our own. Her book Shaman's Blood will fit in well with our bent towards the horror genre. It will be three or four months before this one comes out, but I promise you it is worth the wait.
Jeffrey Wilson also signed a contract with JournalStone in May and yes, he is interested in freaking you out as well. His horror novel, The Traiteur's Ring is already in editing, and we hope to have it hit the stands in August. Don't let his nice guy image fool you, though. He is prior military and delivers some high impact disturbance in his new release.
June is setting up to be a nice month for JournalStone. Imperial Hostage is being released on June 3, 2011, and Ghosts of Coronado Bay is coming out June 10, 2011. Both are some fun YA reads. Check out the free give-a-ways on GoodReads and LibraryThing.com. If you are interested in an electronic copy of one of the novels and are willing to do a review send an e-mail to amy@journalstone.com, and we will make sure you get your electronic book.
First come first serve, so get your request in quickly before we have to cut off the freebies. You must also be registered for our newsletter for one month prior to receiving any free distributions. No exceptions.
Thanks everyone and happy reading.
Christopher C. Payne
President
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Well, the contest submission deadline has passed us by, but the contest is far from being over. With more than 60 submissions, we have been keeping the judges busy reading some really great horror novels.
We eliminated a few right up front that didn't meet the guidelines, but afterwards we were left with some really fantastic entries.
As with all contests we have a handful that are accumulating at the top, but I want to thank everyone who sent us their work. Just because it might not be right for us, doesn't mean you won't find a fit somewhere else. We very much appreciate every single person who sent us their work.
Our deadline for announcing the top ten is July 1, 2011, but my guess is we will have narrowed it down prior to that date. Keep an eye out on our Website for the contenders, we could post it any day!
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About Us
JournalStone is a full service, small press publishing company, focusing on young adult and adult
horror, fantasy and science fiction.
Our goal is to provide novels of the highest quality. We view every person who picks up a book as our customer and someone to whom we owe a service. Thanks to you, and please keep reading. JournalStone |
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Reviewer's Corner!
Let's drop a plug for our reviewers who are all doing an awesome job! If you want your book reviewed please send a note to amy@journalstone.com.
Smack your hands together for Cassie McCown, Colleen Wanglund, Elizabeth Reuter, Lura, Natasha Anne, James Steele and Cambria Hebert.
Thanks to all of you for your contributions. I love hearing what you are reading and finding out about some of those not so publicized books. |
The Authors Speak is an author interview program. We seek to profile authors, spotlight books, and support literacy as a whole. We ask the questions others don't, bring you the authors others don't, and recommend the books that nobody ... does.
Annastaysia Savage will be live and in person on Authors Speak June 18, 2011 at 9:00 AM Pacific Coast time. Tune in and hear the wonderful young author as she discusses her novel, Any Witch Way.
If you missed the live interview with Christopher C. Payne, check out the tape on archives.
Support the Authors Speak and tune in as he continues to unearth the small press novels we all find so entertaining. |
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HWA Stoker weekend is finally upon us. Come on out and meet J.G. Faherty and Jeffrey Wilson, two of JournalStone's newly signed authors.
We would love to meet you and we might even be talked into buying you a drink.
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Aspiring art photographer Leon (Bradley Cooper) shows his portfolio to gallery owner Susan Hoff (Brooke Shields), only for her to tell him his photos are no good. They're too restrained. Hoping to catch something more intense, Leon goes down into the subway and spies a mugging. Success: he gets some brilliant shots and scares off the attackers, saving the victim's life.
Except the next day, she's reported missing.
Leon last saw her boarding a midnight train and begins riding it himself. The things he sees there grow steadily nastier, and his obsession with capturing every bit of filth on film soon drives him deep into secrets he'll soon wish he didn't know.
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Vampire Academy
Lissa Dragomir is a Moroi princess: a mortal vampire with a rare gift for harnessing the Earth's magic. She must be protected at all times from Strigoi; the fiercest vampires-the ones who never die. The powerful blend of human and vampire blood that flows through Rose Hathaway, Lissa's best friend, makes her a Dhampir. Rose is dedicated to a dangerous life of protecting Lissa from the Strigoi, who are hell-bent on making Lissa one of them.
After two years of freedom, Rose and Lissa are caught and dragged back to St. Vladimir's Academy, a school for vampire royalty and their guardians-to-be, hidden in the deep forests of Montana. But inside the iron gates, life is even more fraught with danger...and the Strigoi are always close by.
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Feed
FEED opens in 2034, twenty years after the zombie apocalypse. The world has gone on. Most places are so dangerous that average people are afraid to step outside their homes, and journalists now need to have firearm licenses and hazard training. Online blogs have become more relevant than the "real" news, which lost all credibility by badly documenting the zombie outbreak, resulting in many preventable deaths.
Enter Georgia ("George") and Shaun Mason, sibling bloggers determined to bring the truth to America. When they become the first bloggers invited to cover a presidential campaign, they think they're on their way to professional status.
Unfortunately, someone doesn't want them reporting, someone who will kill anyone to get the Masons off the campaign trail. George and Shawn are determined to see their job through to the end, but as friends die, zombie attacks increase, and politics grow murkier and nastier, they realize they're not just covering a presidential campaign. They're on the trail of the biggest government secret of all: who created the zombies?
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Unearthly
In the beginning there's a boy standing in the trees....
Clara Gardner is part human, part angel and that means she is on Earth for a reason...a purpose. It is this purpose that leads her to a new town with new faces and new friends. But there is also someone who she has seen but never met. The boy in her visions. The boy she thinks has something to do with her purpose.
It turns out that discovering what her visions mean and what role this boy plays in her life is a lot harder than she hoped it would be. To make matters more difficult she meets Tucker, a boy who she knows can only distract her from her purpose, but who is a distraction that she really likes.
Will Clara be able to follow the rules that apply to an angel blood or will her heart lead her astray?
I LOVED this book. I give it 5 stars.
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