UPCOMING STORIES: “Crimson Streets”

Posted on May 7, 2017

Pleased to announce I will have a short story coming to the “pulp adventure” and “pulp crime” market, Crimson Streets. The story will appear at some point in 2017. It is a pulp adventure story, written in the vein of classic authors such as Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, and Jules Verne. Stay tuned for more information. Crimson Streets – Pulp: it’s More Than Noir is a weekly online publication. Their goal is to bring pulp literature back to the masses, but, in this day and age, in a more web-friendly format. Just click on any banners or links below, and see what Crimson Streets currently has to offer.

Short Story Coming Soon to:

CRIMSON STREETS

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Pulp: It’s More Than Noir

http://www.crimsonstreets.com

New Entries: “Acceptances”

Tales of the Talisman, Issue #8.4… (appearances)

Posted on June 25, 2013

You can find a brand new Steampunk story of mine in the latest issue of Tales of the Talisman. This would be my 5th appearance with David Lee Summer’s long-running genre periodical (formerly Hadrosaur Tales in the 90s). This particular edition, Volume 8, No. 4, is a “themed” issue. It’s all about Steampunk. All about airships, cogs and wheels, receptor rays and bubble guns, star liners and Victorian garb, and more. Table of contents below, along with a link for ordering. It should also be available for Kindle. Get your copy today.

TALES OF THE TALISMAN #8.4

SPECIAL ‘STEAMPUNK’ EDITION

ORDER YOUR COPY NOW:

http://www.talesofthetalisman.com

With steamy good fiction and poetry by: O.M. Grey, Christine Morgan, Tom Lynch, Denise Dumars, James Webster, Jason Andrew, Neil Weston, Douglas Empringham, N. E. Taylor, Simon Perchik, Mike Wilson, Livia Finucci, Clinton A. Harris, Patrick Thomas, David S. Pointer, W.C. Roberts, Gary Every, Lyn McConchie, Neil E. Leckman, David Lee Summers & Karissa Sluss (book reviews), and Lawrence Dagstine.

Previous Issues w. Lawrence Dagstine (click banner):

And so this marks my 4th magazine appearance in a month. I won’t have any more till year’s end, so I hope everybody enjoys their summer, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t drop by. There will be free fiction (see Free Stories), free ebooks (short stories or novelettes), a new section on retro items, and more on the current book projects I’m working on, which will eventually lead us into 2014. You stick around; it’s going to be fun, you hear.

Other New Entries: “Magazines”

Dark Moon Digest #12, July 2013… (appearances)

Posted on June 5, 2013

You can now find the revised version of my vampire story, Geraldine’s Addiction, in the new issue of Dark Moon Book’s Stoker-nominated horror magazine, Dark Moon Digest. No. 12, July 2013. In a future entry I’ll have a short interview about where I got the inspiration for Geraldine’s Addiction. Available on Amazon or where horror magazines are sold.

DARK MOON DIGEST #12

DARK MOON BOOKS HOMEPAGE:

www.darkmoonbooks.com

ORDER FROM AMAZON:

Featuring scary fiction by Lawrence Dagstine, Grant Matthew Frazier, Erin K. Coughlin, Arthur Carey, Kaitlyn Travis, Jason Cramblett, Samantha Combs, Aric Sundquist, Ruth Hopkins, Patrick Tumblety, Carie Juettner, and an exclusive piece by Stoker winning novelist, Joe McKinney.

Other New Entries: “Magazines”

Cemetery Moon, Issue #9 2013… (appearances)

Posted on May 21, 2013

I have a gothic horror story appearing in the 2013 issue, No. 9, of Fortress Publishing’s Cemetery Moon. Nice looking Cthulhu cover art, perfect for this particular edition. I guess it’s themed. Features short fiction by Me, AJ Huffman, Gerald E. Sheagren, Brian Barnett, Larry Hinkle, Dr. Bill deArmond, Allen Koop, Donald C. White, William Andre Sanders, and William Amundsen. If you’d like to order it, just click on the link or pic below. Only available in print; they really should put out a digital version to this.

CEMETERY MOON #9

2013 Issue

Or click here for previous issues:

http://www.fortresspublishinginc.com/index_files/cm.html

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I had remembered appearing in this particular digest a long time ago, but I couldn’t place when. Then I remembered, I was in the premiere issue with authors Kristine Ong Muslim, Kenneth Goldman, and Barry J. House. Now that publishing is collapsing, with mass publications relying heavily on publicity expenditures and print magazines in the final stages of extinction, I’m going to miss these little pulps from yesteryear. One could step back in time and relive the days of when authors like Ray Bradbury, Fritz Lieber, John Campbell and A.E. Van Vogt were just starting out. I must confess, I’m going to miss it; oddly enough, another part of me isn’t.

Other New Entries: “Magazines”

Lawrence Dagstine: “The Death of Magazines…”

Posted on April 30, 2009

…Or, the BEST BLOG EVAH! This made my day. But then I think the “smart” folks out there knew this kind of thing was going to happen ages ago. Next to go is print-on-demand; that’ll take time, and LSI will be like rare relic baseball cards in the age of the MLB steroid scandal — a specialty market. And a collector’s pastime. It’s more like the music industry. Props go out to The Magazine Death Pool. Credit given where credit is deserved. Also, to the following comments below.

STARLOG MAGAZINE – R.I.P.

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The Magazine Death Pool:

www.magazinedeathpool.com

Science Fiction Linkage:

http://www.magazinedeathpool.com/magazine_death_pool/2009/04/starlog-rip-april-2009.html#comments

Paul Riddell wrote: “I agree that the Internet is one of the reasons why “Starlog”, “Cinefantastique”, “Sci-Fi Universe”, and a plethora of other magazines went under, as their core audiences are generally so cheap that they use both sides of the toilet paper. That cheapness, though, is the real reason. Advertisers weren’t interested in buying ad space because the only response would be from “reviewers” who wanted freebies and from pocket psychotics who wanted to bitch about how they weren’t being hired for their obsessive knowledge of “Star Trek” trivia. On the newsstands, the copies would either be read and then discarded or shoplifted. Oh, and just try to get the cheap bastards to buy a subscription, even if the publisher got the subscriber copies out before the newsstand copies appeared, instead of three weeks to a month later. The only thing more pathetic than the science fiction media magazine market is the science fiction short story magazine market, which is why the few literary science fiction magazines left will probably be making the deadpool within the next year. I have money down on “The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction” being the first casualty of the season.”

Shoplifting is a little pushing it. To be honest, with advertising aside, my money was on F&SF until about 2011-2012 tops. I guess time will tell; after all, there are only so many infusions and bailouts. Many old-school writers and editors who work these publishing ends will most likely be shoveling snow to pay their mortgages and make ends meet. The Age of Freelancing is here, people, hold on. We are now our own bosses and our own vacuum cleaner salesmen forever! Obscurity is going to take on a whole new meaning. In ten years time, Borders and Waldenbooks will not exist. Hold on to your royalty checks. Content-wise, things are about to get bumpier!

Edited to Add: Be sure to also check out the Sept. 08, 2008 entry.

Black Ink Horror #5, Sideshow Press… (Reminder Post!)

Posted on March 14, 2009

This is just a reminder to say that, if you didn’t pick up Black Ink Horror #5, well, you should. I received my copies and I must admit, I am very impressed with the quality of the product Sideshow Press puts out and will be going back in the near future. Only 110 exist. You’ll want this ink… Hurry before it sells out. Once again, very impressed with the end product.

LIMITED EDITION – VERY FEW IN NUMBER

With artwork by Tom Moran and Others…

BLACK INK HORROR #5

Black Ink Horror #5

LIMITED EDITION – ORDER NOW

BOUND TO BE A COLLECTIBLE!

ORDER HERE: www.blackinkhorror.com

17 Short Stories and lots of poetry. Hard-spined, and the artwork is dynamite!

M-BRANE Science Fiction, February 2009… (Coming Soon!)

Posted on December 18, 2008

With Arkham Tales, Atomjack, and Necrography just around the corner, I would have to say that this will probably be my last story acceptance for the year 2008. I’ll have about 30 stories coming out over the next 12 months to some very fine and familiar publications. However, there’s a new magazine that will be available in print and PDF format come February. It’s a monthly. The pay isn’t big, but with subscriptions and good authors that could change. A very likable venue, too. Simple looking. It’s called M-BRANE SF. It looks very promising, and Christopher Fletcher is an extremely nice editor. He also does reviews and SF analysis, too.

M-BRANE SCIENCE FICTION

Issue # 1 and #2 Coming Soon!

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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES/SF REVIEWS:

http://mbranesf.blogspot.com/

I don’t know who the first two issues consist of yet, but since I could not find a banner, I thought this public domain pic of a space shuttle entering the atmosphere would be cool. In other news…

FRESH BLOOD, my collection from Sam’s Dot Publishing, has currently surpassed the 60,000+ word mark (making it novel-length). Also, writers have been emailing me in regards to my hiatus rumors. Other than Sam’s Dot… YES, where smaller genre publications are concerned, 350 publishing credits will mark a form of retirement for me, and 2009 will not only be a year off… but a year of book promotions, outlining projects, direction, new ideas, and most important, change…

Happy Holidays everyone.

Other New Entries: “Magazines”

Aoife’s Kiss #30, September 2009… (10th acceptance)

Posted on November 29, 2008

First, I hope everybody had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday. I also hope you braved the Black Friday crowds better than I did. Next, I’ll have a BRAND NEW story coming to the September 2009 issue — I know, a good ways off — of Aoife’s Kiss (Sam’s Dot Publishing). This would be my 10th print acceptance to their magazines; I’ve probably published in the area of thirty with them over the years if you include online. Actually, I’ll have a new story for you in almost every quarterly issue of Aoife’s for some time to come. Including, to my knowledge, the “special” winter issue.

You can view previous issues of Sam’s Dot magazines by clicking below:

http://www.samsdotpublishing.com/purchasecenter/magazines.htm

Next, Tiptree-nominated writer-editor Tyree Campbell and Sam’s Dot will ALSO be releasing my debut collection, which has a couple of blurbs at the moment, and is going by the title FRESH BLOOD. This will be a collection of stories new and old (a lot of new) in the genres of horror and science fiction. This book has taken over a year of edits, building momentum, and to just carefully compile. At the moment, I’m clueless as to how many stories will appear in it – it should be around a minimum of 50,000+ words. But you’ll get a lot of nice variety here, including the kitchen sink.