When Lilith Pierce's younger sister commits suicide, Lilith consoles herself with cleaning up Eva's final mess. But when she returns to the coroner's office to collect the body, she finds that the last few days were all a bizarre waking dream that never actually happened.

Aided by the detective who witnesses her brush with the paranormal, she tears apart her sister's shadowy new life. Yet after reading hundreds of Eva's detailed journals Lilith still has no explanation and no suicide note. Her search becomes a maddening obsession uncovering tantalizing questions but no answers...until she meets a stranger at her sister's funeral.

High School Sucks.  It's worse when you're dead.

Ohneka Falls is a small, Western New York town where everyone knows everyone and nothing of note happens. Ani Romero is a sixteen-year-old girl who wants to play sports, hang out, and kiss Mike, her middle-school crush. A childhood carrier of the zombie virus, she died at fourteen but didn't become a mindless, brain-eating monster. Her controlling mother forces her to join the emo crowd to hide her condition behind a wall of black clothes and makeup, and her friends abandon her.

Billy Moon would have given his life for rock 'n' roll stardom, but the Devil doesn't come that cheap.

Goth rock idol Billy Moon has it all: money, fame, and a different girl in every city. But he also has a secret, one that goes all the way back to the night he almost took his own life. The night Trevor Rail, a shadowy record producer with a flair for the dark and esoteric, agreed to make him a star. . . for a price.

An online dictionary provides three definitions of hallmark:

1. ( Brit ) an official series of marks, instituted by statute in 1300, and subsequently modified, stamped by the Guild of Goldsmiths at one of its assay offices on gold, silver, or platinum (since 1975) articles to guarantee purity, date of manufacture, etc.;
2. a mark or sign of authenticity or excellence; and
3. an outstanding or distinguishing feature

In using the word as part of the title for three interconnected essays on the fundamentals of horror, to a certain degree, I had all three in mind.

There are no 'good' words. There are only words used precisely and accurately in appropriate contexts.

And there are no "bad" words. There are only words used imprecisely and inaccurately in inappropriate contexts.

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A plague of the undead has virtually wiped out civilization as we once knew it. Desperate to reunite with his brother stationed in the confines of a US military base, a teen Xander faces adversity head on with many faces along the way. Against all odds will our hero conquer and prevail against the relentless infected? Or will he ultimately submit to his demise in Rise of the Horde?

Novice author Devan Sagliani breathes new life into a tired over indulgent genre. His concept of appealing to a mass audience is firmly grasped and unrelenting. 

JournalStone is a small press publishing company, focusing on horror, fantasy and science fiction in both the adult and young adult markets.

We are members of & actively support:

HWA - Horror Writers Association
WNBA - Women's Nat'l Book Assn.

IBPA - Independent Book Publishing Assn.

SAN FRANCISCO, September 8, 2012 -JournalStone Publishing President, Christopher C. Payne is pleased to announce that JournalStone Publishing has just executed a wide-ranging distribution deal for all its titles with Library Ideas, LLC.

Library Ideas, LLC is a global media company focused on libraries, based in Fairfax, Virginia, USA. The company offers The Freegal Music Service, The Freading eBook Service and Rocket Languages as part of its developing product suite.

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SAN FRANCISCO, August 29, 2012 -JournalStone PublishingPresident, Christopher C. Payne, is pleased to announce the imminent release of the debut issue (Volume 1, Number 1) of the new biannual (Spring/Summer and Fall/Winter) digest, Nameless. This perfect-bound journal (more of a book, really), is printed in full color, and filled with over 150 pages of fascinating and original fiction, art, interviews, reviews, and nonfiction.

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Courtesy of The New York Times...

Libraries and librarians are a regular occurrence in popular culture. From the occasional commercial to television and film, libraries pop up pretty frequently in any format you can imagine. Comics are dedicated to them, superheroes are evolved from them, songs are sung in them, and hellmouths are located underneath them. Libraries are a ubiquitous part of our culture, but are we listening to our audience? We need to look at how the public and culture at large are portraying libraries, listen to how they really perceive the library, and latch on to those ideas to further our place in society.

As libraries struggle to keep up with the competition both philosophically and financially-and we all know who the competition is-we need to look at ways to stay relevant, and not just offer great service and resources, because clearly that's no longer enough. The librarian stereotype is pervasive in popular culture, but we need to look not at the librarian, but the library. We tend to focus on the figure representing the entity and not the entity in itself, when the entity is what actually drives the librarian.

This Halloween, horror fans will know exactly where to go to connect with their favorite horror writers and discover new ones. The Horror Writers Association is gearing up to present the Second Annual Halloween Haunts blog event. In celebration of Halloween and horror writing, the HWA will post at least one new blog entry by a horror writer every day from October 1 to October 31 - and many posts will feature giveaways, such as books and e-books.

HWA members will be blogging about their favorite parts of Halloween, their treasured (or terrifying!) Halloween experiences, what life is like as a horror writer, or even their experience as a member of the HWA. Winners of the HWA's 2012 Bram Stoker Awards® will be featured in spotlight interviews.

Who the heck is Edward M. Erdelac?

I get that a lot.

Who I am and what I do are pretty much indivisible, so by the end of this, you'll at least be able to answer that should you ever find yourself wondering (or being asked).

I've been paying the odd bill writing for the last four years, but I was gearing up to write probably for most of my life prior.

The first stumbling block I ever came across in getting the words out was the typewriter. You know that clueless office gal in Grease who is shown in one shot yanking all the ink ribbons out of the typewriter with this perplexed look on her face? Yeah that was me. I actually did that. Later, in attempting to punch out a story on the thing, I butted heads with the original backspace key, a bottle of Bic white-out. I hated the stink of the stuff and what it did to the page.