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Greetings!
February, 2013 was not as eventful as January. No trips or adventures etc. But, it doesn't mean that JournalStone wasn't active. We had another record revenue month, yes, another one, we had an enormous amount of submissions and we are well on our way to publishing 20 plus novels in 2013. Not bad if I do say so myself.
While I personally didn't go anywhere, my parents did come to town. Yes, my mother and my father. Two for one. My mom hung out with my wife and went to the baby shower. My wife is expecting for those of you who don't know. All she wants for presents - you buying JournalStone books. I'm serious! Wait, getting sidetracked. While the women were at the baby shower I took my 68 year old dad, I think he is 68 anyway, to go cart racing. Hahahaha, for the record I kicked his butt, but I felt bad doing it, not! Well, maybe a little. He really did hold his own and was quite impressive.
March will find me heading to New York. Having lunch with Jonathan Maberry and the gang at Publishers Weekly, dinner with Library Journal and meeting a bunch of people that I don't as of yet know. I can't tell you who yet, we have to save something for the upcoming newsletter. This is just the teaser.
We did have a couple of fun books hit in February. Forever Man and Dead Reflections both made their debut. If you haven't read both of them then I question why you are reading this newsletter. Yes, I said it. We need your support with every book. Get out there and grab a copy.
You need to also make sure you are grabbing our limited editions. If we can't convince you to buy a copy then how we can convince the common public. Limbus, Inc. and Gord Rollo and Rena Mason's Double Down I are both fantastic exposure to what JournalStone is evolving towards. These are some great collector's items and I can tell you that both of these books are an awesome kickoff to two amazing series. Just take a look below and see who is signed for Limbus, Inc. II.
If you are more interested in a children's book, then you have to take a look at The Conjuring Glass. My eleven year old daughter loved it. She is smart, articulate, personable, loving, creative and a budding book critic. I promise you that she doesn't give her thumbs up for a book, or anything for that matter, lightly.
She reminds me a little of John Little. Did I really just say that? Talk about a stubborn, hard nosed.... Uh oh, wait a minute. Sharing too much huh. Well, the good news for us is John finally caved in and signed a novel deal with us. I personally think he couldn't have made a better choice. I mean, come on, it is JournalStone
Admittedly I do love JournalStone but I have to also admit that Dark Discoveries ranks up there on an even level. All that Dark Discoveries did in February was lead the way in revenue, see a fantastic horror and rock issue hit the stands and lay out such an amazing lineup for issue #23 that I can't even believe it.
Not even mentioning the contributors that are piling up in the first ever 100 page issue of Dark Discoveries (April 30th issue), how can we go any further without commenting on Robert Morrish and Yvonne Navarro as new columnists. Just when you think that DD couldn't get any better, I mean it is now a full color, perfect bound, magazine with more content per issue than ever before. Can you ask James Beach or Aaron French to give us anything else?
Actually with Aaron you can. We decided he wasn't working hard enough editing DD, so we added on the task of Hellnotes reviews editor as well. I don't want to hear that you are sleeping Aaron, you have more than enough to keep you busy, now get crackin'.
Now go out and order your limited editions of Limbus, Inc. and DoubleDown I, today. And if you live in New York and want to buy me dinner and a drink, I will be in town next week. Look me up, I will be the one on the corner asking Ted why? Why did you order that last Manhattan? I told you I was done three hours ago.
Christopher C. Payne
President
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When thirteen-year-old orphan Penny Sinclair moves to the small town of Dogwood to live with her godmother, she expects her life to become very dull. She doesn't expect to find a strange talking fox roaming the countryside near her new home, a kindred spirit in her new friend Zoe, or the secret grove where they discover the long hidden magic of The Phoenix Girls.
Learning to use magic isn't easy, though; Penny and Zoe get their magic wrong almost as often as they get it right. When something sinister threatens Dogwood, their often accidental magic may be the only thing that can stop it.
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MORE THAN MIDNIGHT
More Than Midnight
Brian James Freeman
Cemetery Dance Publications, 2012, 119pp
Signed, Limited Edition Hardcover $35.00
Review by Wayne C. Rogers
I've known of Brian James Freeman for years, but specifically as the Managing Editor of Cemetery Dance magazine and the owner of Lonely Road Books. In 2010, I picked up a copy of his novella, The Painted Darkness, and thoroughly enjoyed it. I thought it was extremely well crafted with prose that spoke to the darker regions your mind and was written by a man who knows his horror and how to write it.
Mr. Freeman is back with a collection of five short stories in the anthology, More Than Midnight. What each of these stories is designed to do is to provide a snippet of pure entertainment that scares the living daylights out of you. As I mentioned before, Mr. James clearly knows his horror and how to write it. His intentions are therefore achieved with flying colors with the sound of a marching band in the background and flags waving frantically in the air. This is an author who will tease you into entering his house of the macabre, slam the door shut, lock it, and then proceed to horrify you with his vivid imagination. I wonder if he ever wakes up during the night, screaming out from a terrifying nightmare.
To read the rest of the review, click on the title link above.
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Dead Aim
Joe R. Lansdale
Subterranean Press, 2013, 103 pp
Signed, Limited Edition - $45.00
Trade Hardcover - $25.00
Review by Wayne C. Rogers
People who have been reading my reviews for the last thirteen years know by now that I'm a big fan of the East Texas writer, Joe R. Lansdale. I think I've read most of Joe's novels and probably at least two dozen of his short stories. I'm such a huge fan that pretty much all the books I own by him, except for The Bottoms, has been autographed. One thing I can attest to is that I've never read anything by Joe I haven't liked. He's that damn good! As I've said a thousand times before, I still think The Bottoms should have been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. I consider it the best novel I've ever read, and I've read a lot of books over the last fifty years.
Okay. What about the Hap Collins and Leonard Pine series by Joe Lansdale? Is it good? How did I come to start reading the novels in the series?
Let me tell you how that happened.
To read the rest of the review, click on the title link above.
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JS 2013 Publishing Schedule - Subject to additions/changes.
Brian Knight - Phoenix Girls - 3/8/2013 Jaleta Clegg - Poisoned Pawn - 4/19/2013 Jonathan Maberry, Joseph Nassise, Benjamin Kane Ethridge, Brett J. Talley, Anne C. Petty - Limbus, Inc., A Shared World Anthology - 4/26/2013 Benjamin Kane Ethridge - Nightmare Ballad - 5/17/2013 Richard Dansky - Vaporware - 5/24/2013 Gord Rollo and Rena Mason - Double Down I - 6/7/2013 Jeffrey Wilson - Fade to Black - 6/14/2013
Patrick Freivald - Special Dead - 7/12/2013
Douglas Wynne - Steel Breeze - 7/19/2013 Allyson Bird - Bull Running for Girls - 8/9/2013 Kristina Meister - The One We Find - 8/16/2013 Lisa Morton and Eric Guignard - Double Down II - 9/6/2013 Brett J. Talley - That Which Should Not Be II - 9/13/2013 Lisa Morton - Summer's End - 10/4/2013 Joseph Nassise - The Fall of Night - 10/11/2013 Patrick and Phil Freivald - Recovery - 11/15/2013 Harry Shannon - Untitled - 11/22/13 Joe McKinney and Sanford Nowlin - Double Down III - 12/6/2013 Brian Knight - Phoenix Girls II - 2/7/2014 Harry Shannon and Brett J. Talley - Double Down IV - 3/7/14 Kristina Meister - A Handful of Seeds - 3/21/14 |
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Flawed to Hell - Our favorite Deviants, Misfits and Maniacs
I stole the line Flawed to Hell from a reader review of my recent novel, Sex, Death & Honey, where it was used to describe the protagonist, Butch Quick. I love that line because being flawed to Hell is what makes Butch so interesting to me.
Very briefly, Butch Quick is a nearly seven foot tall, three-hundred pound Native American with a life long run of bad luck and a violent and tragic past. These are a few of the things that make him an interesting character to me. He is not average in any way. Well, the whole violent and tragic past is pretty common in fiction ... our leads must have something of note in their pasts that cut them from the herd and make them worth following. These are not the things that make Butch Flawed to Hell though, not the things that fascinate me the most. It is the extent of his personal flaws, deep personal flaws, how truly screwed up he is, that make him a fascinating character, to me anyway.
To read the rest of the article, click on the title link above.
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Celebrated Author Yvonne Navarro To Write New Column Concerning Women In Horror, "Double X Chromosome," For Dark Discoveries Magazine
SAN FRANCISCO, February 20, 2013 - JournalStone Publishing (JSP) President, Christopher C. Payne and Dark DiscoveriesMagazine Managing Editor, James Beach, are pleased to announce that, beginning with Issue #23, Dark Discoveries Magazine will be the new home for celebrated author Yvonne Navarro's new column concerning Women In Horror, titled "Double X Chromosome."
To read the rest of the article, click on the title link above.
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Famed Editor/Author/Reviewer Robert Morrish To Bring His Acclaimed "What The Hell Ever Happened To...?" Column To Dark Discoveries Magazine
SAN FRANCISCO, February 4, 2013 - JournalStone Publishing (JSP) President, Christopher C. Payne and Dark DiscoveriesMagazine Managing Editor, James Beach, are pleased to announce that, beginning with Issue #23, Dark Discoveries Magazine will be the new home for Robert Morrish's acclaimed and long-running column, "What The Hell Ever Happened To...?"
Robert Morrish has always been intrigued by individuals, particularly authors and artists, who achieved a degree of notoriety in their field but later vanished from view. He launched the column "What The Hell Ever Happened To...?" in issue #8 of The Scream Factory (Winter 1991/92) in order to start tracking down some of the horror genre's former luminaries who had since gone underground. A total of nine installments of the column appeared in the pages of The Scream Factory before that magazine ceased publication with issue #19 in 1997.
To read the rest of the article, click on the title link above.
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JournalStone Publishing Announces Publication of Limbus, Inc. II, A New Shared World Anthology edited by Anne C. Petty - Featuring Novellas by Gary A. Braunbeck, Joe R. Lansdale, Jonathan Maberry, Joe McKinney, and Harry Shannon
SAN FRANCISCO, February 12, 2013 - JournalStone Publishing (JSP) President, Christopher C. Payne is pleased to announce that all contracts have now been signed for the publication of Limbus, Inc. II, a shared-world anthology, set for release in May of 2014. Limbus, Inc. II is the sequel to the initial anthology in this series, Limbus, Inc., set for release in April of 2013. Each volume contains five novellas all based within the same shared-world created for the Limbus, Inc. series.
About the Book: Genre: Horror/Dark Fantasy-Limbus is Latin for edge or boundary. Limbus, INC., a shadowy employment agency, operates at the edge of the normal world(s). Its recruitment methods are haphazard to the ordinary eye: a tattered flyer taped to a power pole, a display ad in the Yellow Pages that keeps changing, an Internet popup ad that won't go away. Who, or what, will they recruit next?
To read the rest of the article, click on the title link above.
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JournalStone Publishing Announces Signing of Award Winning Author, John R. Little, for New Novel
SAN FRANCISCO, February 26, 2013 - JournalStone Publishing (JSP) President, Christopher C. Payne is pleased to announce the signing of a contract with award winning author, John R. Little, for the publication of a new suspense/thriller novel, working title, DarkNet, for release next year.
About the novel: DarkNet is a suspense/thriller about an abused woman in Seattle who decides she needs to take extreme action to save herself and her daughter from her violent husband. She finds what she needs in the darkest corners of the Internet, not realizing that those dark corners will soon come to change her life in more ways than she could possibly expect. The book is full of shocking twists that will surprise every reader and make them wonder what could possibly come next.
To read the rest of the article, click on the title link above.
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JournalStone Publishing Announces Author/Editor Aaron French As New Reviews Editor For The Hellnotes Website & Dark Discoveries Magazine
SAN FRANCISCO, March 3, 2013 - JournalStone Publishing (JSP) President, Christopher C. Payne is pleased to announce that up-and-coming author and editor, Aaron French, has been named the new Reviews Editor & Coordinator for both the Hellnotes Website and for Dark Discoveries Magazine, effective immediately. In naming French to the position Payne stated: "Aaron, has displayed exemplary skill and dedication as Assistant Editor for Dark Discoveries, and will bring these same skills, dedication and energy to this new position as well."
To read the rest of the article, click on the title link above.
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JournalStone Publishing (JSP) President, Christopher C. Payne is pleased to announce the commencement of its third annual Horror Writing Contest. The contest is open to all authors.
Submission Requirements: Submissions must be at least 75,000 words or more in length (no exceptions) and must be sent in a Microsoft Word document in Times New Roman 11-point font, single line spacing to joel@journalstone.com. In the subject line you must put 'JournalStone's $2,000 Advance in 2013'. You must include your name, address and e-mall address with the submission. Take credit for your work - please don't force us to investigate who you are or what entry goes with some cryptic e-mail address. If you use a pen name, please also include your actual name as well (it will be kept confidential if you so request it.)
To read the full article, click on the title link above.
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JournalStone Publishing President, Christopher C. Payne and
Dark Discoveries Magazine Managing Editor, James Beach, are pleased to announce that the magazine is again open to short fiction submissions until June 1, 2013. The magazine will be paying Pro Rates of five cents ($0.05) per word for all accepted fiction stories. Full Submission Guidelines can be found at http://darkdiscoveries.com/submission-guidelines/.
To read the full article, click on the title link above.
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Short fiction lovers take note! Starting this month, Tor.com will publish original short fiction every Wednesday in 2013!
Since their launch in 2008, Tor.com has always been a competitive market for original short sci-fi and fantasy fiction. They've been able to work outside of conventional publishing boundaries, create original illustrations for the stories, and have now garnered both Nebula and Hugo Awards! By the end of last year, Tor.com doubled their editorial staff, both in acquiring editors and first readers for their open submissions file. Their fiction team consisting of Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Liz Gorinsky, Ann VanderMeer, Ellen Datlow, Bridget Smith, and Carl Engle-Laird is working harder than ever to bring the best of what's on the cutting edge of new speculative fiction! They've always been proud of our stories and now they're proud to offer new ones once a week! Expect forthcoming new stories from Genevieve Valentine, Harry Turtledove, Cory Doctorow, and many, many more.
Check out every story they've ever told here and come back every Wednesday for a new one!
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JournalStone is proud to be a sponsor of this amazing event hosted by the Horror Writers Association June 13-16, 2013!
The Bram Stoker Awards® Weekend 2013 incorporating the World Horror Convention will take place at the beautiful (and haunted) Hotel Monteleone in New Orleans, located in the historic French Quarter.
To learn more about this exciting weekend, click on the title link above.
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The Housecore Horror Film Festival will be held in Austin, TX on October 25-27, 2013. For more details, click on the title link above. |
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About Us
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.
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