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Greetings!
If it's June, then it must be time for the World Horror Convention/Bram Stoker Awards® Weekend hosted by the Horror Writers Association. JournalStone will be well represented at this annual gathering of horror publishers and writers. Our very own president, Chris Payne, will be there along with several members of the JournalStone staff and a few of the writers who have allowed us to publish their work. Stay tuned and we will give you a full report of everything that happens in our next newsletter.
Speaking of Chris, I hope you'll join all of us at JournalStone in welcoming a new baby boy into the JournalStone family. Mom and baby are doing well, and dad is exceptionally tired trying to manage his publishing empire in between feedings.
This month, we are pleased to publish the first of our Double Down series of books. In this series, we are pairing a well known author with an up and coming talent to present to our readers two stories for the price of one. Our Double Down debut this month features Only the Thunder Knows by Gord Rollo and East End Girls by Rena Mason. I think you'll be very pleased.
This month also brings us the opportunity to present Jeffrey Wilson's newest book, Fade to Black. You may meet many people over the course of your lifetime, but I would venture to say that you'll never meet anyone as interesting as Jeffrey Wilson. He's been a firefighter, an EMT, a pilot, an actor, and a surgeon taking care of Navy SEALS in a combat zone. Fortunately for us, he has used all of his past experiences to craft a tale that you won't be able to put down. Trust me, you want to read his new book.
As we look out into the future, we can't help but be excited at what we see. The authors who entrust us with their work continue to come up with amazing stories. Dark Discoveries Magazine keeps getting better and better with every edition, and the Hellnotes website brings our readers the day-to-day news on all things horror related. As always, though, we wouldn't be growing without your support. We certainly appreciate it, and hope that you will continue to visit our online bookstore to buy the most entertaining books on the market.
Have a great day!
Russ Thompson
Public Relations/Marketing
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The Demon's Wife: A Novel of the Supernatural and Attempted Redemption
The Demon's Wife: A Novel of the Supernatural and Attempted Redemption
by Rick Hautala
JournalStone, September, 2013
Trade paperback/ARC
Reviewed by Michael R. Collings
In many ways, Rick Hautala's posthumous novel, scheduled for release in several months, is a fairly traditional contemporary love story. A woman meets a devastatingly attractive man in a bar, where they share a few moments. Later, as she leaves the bar, the man rescues her from a potentially lethal situation, suggesting that he has an equal interest in her. As the story progresses, they date, learn more about each other, fall in love, decide to live together, get engaged, meet her parents, set a date, get married...and so forth.
Of course, with the title The Demon's Wife, and a page count exceeding 300, there is no secret that the seemingly-normal love story will not progress quite as smoothly as one might hope.
To read the rest of the review, click on the title link above.
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Bleeding the Vein
Bleeding the Vein
By T. G. Arsenault
Gallows Press
ISBN: 978-0615687049
October 2012, Paperback $14.99
Review by Kat Yares
It's a rare horror book these days that I would award the maximum amount of stars to, but T. G. Arsenault's Bleeding the Vein is one of them. Somewhere between a kickback to old atmospheric horror and more modern extremes - this story has it all.
The story starts with Eddie, a young Navy man and his first sexual encounter with the beautiful and seductive Jasmine while on shore leave in the Philippines. Intoxicated by her beauty and the sex she offers, young Eddie will do anything she asks. Until he realizes what an evil monster she is. Thinking he is ridding the world of her evil, he kills the lovely Jasmine, but continues his career in the Navy, only to be haunted day and night by the crimes against humanity he has committed in the name of passion.
To read the rest of the review, click on the title link above.
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My love of Horror
Write what you know and love, or so the saying goes. Who you are is a big part of what you write and maybe more importantly, how you write. I am blessed to have lived an almost bizarrely diverse life and the wealth of experiences I have had definitely contributes to my ability to write about a variety of things. But for me the more valuable benefit is the ability to write about a variety of people. I feel that believable characters are the key element to a great story.
Over my life I have worked in a variety of fields and been a part of a variety of cultures. I've saved lives as a firefighter/paramedic and struggled to make ends meet, working odd jobs to supplement the low pay. I've been part of the theater community as an actor and worked in 18th century plays in Colonial Williamsburg. I've been a pilot-- starting out with such low pay that I lived for a time in an old hangar, paying the owner by trading time as part of his hot air balloon crew for rent, but later flying jets around the country. As a surgeon, especially a trauma surgeon, I have dealt with life and death in a visceral way and struggled not to become numb to the suffering around me. As a Naval Officer I've travelled the world, been to sea on an aircraft carrier, broken the sound barrier in an FA-18D fighter jet, and fast roped out of combat helicopters. In war I have seen the very best of ordinary people doing extraordinary things and seen true evil in the world. I have had the honor of serving beside the finest war fighters and best human beings on the planet as part of the Naval Special Warfare community, deploying with the SEALs to both wonderful and terrible places. I have seen horrifying things that despite my best efforts, I will never be able to unsee. All of this makes me the person and the writer that I am.
To read the rest of the article, click on the title link above.
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Double Down
William (Billy) Burke and William Hare were two real-life, beer-swilling, fist-fighting lowlifes who managed to stumble their way into infamy in Edinburgh, Scotland in the late 1820s. Step by step, they graduated from the unemployment line to petty thievery, to grave robbing, and then on to cold bloody murder - ultimately becoming Britain's first documented serial killers.
What history doesn't know about, or consider is the possibility that Burke and Hare may not have been acting on their own; and the blame for those heinous crimes might not entirely be theirs. Two mysterious strangers have arrived in the city - an old sculptor and a stunningly beautiful actress - both of which use their money and influence to manipulate the young Irishmen into searching for an ancient artifact rumored to have the awesome power of Heaven and Hell combined.
Seized by the vicious killings of Jack the Ripper, Victorian London's, East End is on the brink of ruin. Elizabeth Covington, desperate and failing to follow in her beloved father's footsteps, risks practicing medicine in the dangerous and neglected Whitechapel District to improve her studies. News of a second brutal murder spreads. Elizabeth crosses paths with a man she believes is the villain, triggering a personal downward spiral taking her to a depth of evil she never knew existed. Only she knows the truth that drives the madness of a murderer.
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Jack is a young man caught between two terrifying worlds. In one, he is Marine Sergeant Casey Stillmam, locked in combat in the streets of Fallujah, Iraq. He is lying next to his dead and dying friends, bleeding in the street - until he wakes up at home, in bed with his wife.
In this other world, Jack is a high school science teacher, husband, and devoted father to his little girl. But the nightmares of war continue to haunt him, and to Jack/Casey they feel in many ways more real than his life at home with his family.
When news of killed Marines in Fallujah surfaces, Jack realizes he knows far more about these men then he should. But when the dead Marines begin visiting him while he is awake, he realizes he is in serious trouble.
Faced with the possibility of losing his mind or, far worse, the nightmares being real, Jack knows he must somehow find a way to bridge the two realities and fight his way back from the nightmares to save his wife and little girl.
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JournalStone Publishing Announces a Two for One Deal You May Not Want to Miss.
Here are the details:
If you by a copy of Patrick Freivald's Twice Shy in either paperback or e-book, you'll also get a same format Advance Review Copy of his new book, Special Dead, for free.
Likewise, if you buy a paperback or e-book copy of Douglas Wynn's The Devil of Echo Lake, you'll get a same format Advance Review Copy of his newest release, Steel Breeze.
How can you go wrong? There are just a few conditions. First, this offer is only good on purchases made in the month of June. The second is that you have to make the purchase from the JournalStone online bookstore. The final condition is that this offer is only good while supplies last.
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JournalStone Publishing Announces Three New Rick Hautala Projects Including Hautala's Final Two Completed Novels And An All-Star Hautala Benefit Tribute Anthology
With the tragic, sudden, and unexpected death of internationally best-selling author and Horror Writers Association (HWA) Bram Stoker Award Recipient for Lifetime Achievement for 2011, Rick Hautala, on March 21, 2013, JournalStone Publishing (JSP) President, Christopher C. Payne has released the following statement:
We join the entire literary community and Rick Hautala's multitude of fans and admirers in mourning the sudden, untimely passing of a true literary giant-someone whose thirty-plus-year body of work has left an indelible mark and whose unique, individual voice has even influenced the shape and texture of how stories are written.
With a mixture of sadness and shock at his untimely passing we are honored to announce that, with the full support of the Hautala Estate, we will be releasing a special tribute anthology titled: Mister October: An Anthology In Memory Of Rick Hautala. The anthology is being edited by one of Rick's best friends, the celebrated author, comic book writer and editor, Christopher Golden, who has previously edited such anthologies as The New Dead and The Monster's Corner, among others.
To read the rest of the article, click on the title link above.
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JournalStone Publishing Announces Signing of Bestselling Author, Jonathan Maberry, to Contract for First Ever Joe Ledger Collection
SAN FRANCISCO, May 22, 2013 - JournalStone Publishing (JSP) President, Christopher C. Payne is pleased to announce the signing of New York Times bestselling and multiple Bram Stoker Award® winning author, Jonathan Maberry, for the publication of the first-ever collection of short fiction involving the author's famous character, Joe Ledger-the protagonist of a series of popular military/Horror/Speculative Fiction thrillers. The collection-to be titled: Joe Ledger: Special Ops-will contain reprints of existing Joe Ledger short stories and novelettes, totaling over fifty thousand words, along with between fifteen and twenty-five thousand words of all new content, containing new fiction and bonus materials including character Bios, 'Behind the Scenes at the DMS,' and other goodies. The anticipated release date for the collection is April of 2014.
To read the rest of the article, click on the title link above.
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JS 2013 Publishing Schedule - Subject to additions/changes.
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
Kristina Meister -
The One We Feed - 8/16/2013
Lisa Morton and Eric Guignard - Double Down II - Smog and Baggage of Eternal Night 9/6/2013 Rick Hautala - The Devil's Wife - 9/13/2013
Lisa Morton -
Summer's End - 10/4/2013
Christopher Golden - Mr. October - 11/8/2013 Patrick and Phil Freivald - Recovery - 11/15/2013
Joe McKinney and Sanford Allen -
Double Down III - 12/6/2013
Allyson Bird - Bull Running for Girls - 12/13/2013 Lisa Morton - Netherworld Book I - 1/10/2014 Jaleta Clegg - The Kumadai Run - 1/17/2014
Brian Knight -
Phoenix Girls II - 2/7/2014
Harry Shannon and Brett J. Talley - Double Down IV - 2/14/2014 Gene O'Neill and Chris Marrs - Double Down V - 3/14/2014 Brett J. Talley - That Which Should Not Be II - 3/21/2014
Benjamin Kane Etheridge -
Divine Scream - 4/11/2014
Jonathan Maberry - Joe Ledger: Special Ops - 4/18/2014 Rick Hautala - Mockingbird Bay - 5/9/2014
Jonathan Little and Mark Allen Gunnells -
Double Down VI - 6/6/2014
Douglas Wynne - Untitled - 6/13/2014 Weston Ochse - Halfway House - 7/4/2014 Anne C. Petty (editor) - Limbus II - 7/11/2014 |
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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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