Well, the people have spoken and said they wanted a SupportTheLittleGuy E-zine. So you’ll get one.
Guidelines will be posted on Monday, October 11th. The e-zine will come out six times a year with the first issue this October 31st. Keep your eyes peeled for the GLs.
NAME: Neil Colquhoun
Website: http://neilcolquhoun.com/
Describing himself as a Scottish storyteller, dreamer, night owl, tea drinker, writer of hybrid horror/thriller/sci-fi fiction and Master of the Infected Legion, Neil Colquhoun, strives to build his writing through positive interaction with his readers. His Infected Legion promotion encourages readers of his books, Frank, Jimmy and the Black Wind, and The Long Road to immerse themselves in the worlds he creates by offering different levels of membership and possibly the chance to become a character in one of his future works. His shorter fiction pieces have been published by M-Brane SF, eFiction Magazine, Thaumatrope, and MicroHorror to name a few. You can also sign up to receive free stories from him, in your inbox, each month. He’s also a regular tweeter on Twitter http://twitter.com/necol66 which he updates with news of his writing progress.
Remember to join the campaign to help the small press on Twitter by adding the tag #SupportTheLittleGuy to your tweets!
NAME: Amy Grech
Website: http://www.crimsonscreams.com
Amy Grech has sold over one hundred stories and three poems to various anthologies and magazines including: Apex Digest, Dead Lines, Fear on Demand, Funeral Party 2, Inhuman Magazine, The Book of Dark Wisdom, The Flash Fiction Offensive, The Horror Express, Space & Time, The Brutarian, Zombie CSU, and many others. Her novel, The Art of Deception, is available at http://www.amazon.com.
Damnation Books http://www.damnationbooks.com/ published her second collection, Blanket of White.
Fallen Angel, a novella written with Mike McCarty, has just been released. Download it at Darkside Digital.
She is an Active Member of the Horror Writers Association who lives in Brooklyn. Visit her Web site: http://www.crimsonscreams.com for a good fright. Follow her on Twitter: http://twitter.com/amy_grech.
Remember to join the campaign to help the small press on Twitter by adding the tag #SupportTheLittleGuy to your tweets!
I’m considering adding an e-zine aspect to the SupportTheLittleGuy campaign site. I’m looking for ways to help out and I think a excellent way to do that would be to give a home to the work of writers on the SupportTheLittleGuy Twitter list. Original works, reprints and all genres would be accepted. I’d love to pay, unfortunately all I would be able to give is more exposure for your writing talents along with the promotional aide I already offer through the campaign on Twitter.
I’d also like to pair up with small press publishers in the future who would be willing to sponsor a few SupportTheLittleGuy anthologies, in either print or digital formats. If you’re a publisher and think this might be a venture you would be interested in please contact me either at foxtat2@hotmail.com subject line: STLG Antho or by sending a DM to me on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/BrandonLayng
Now here’s your part: Vote in the poll to let me know if you’re interested in seeing a SupportTheLittleGuy E-zine. If I get a positive response by October 8th, 2010 I will begin soliciting stories for publication on October 31st, 2010.
Speak and be heard! Join the SupportTheLittleGuy campaign today.
NAME: Rich Ristow
Website: http://richristow.wordpress.com/
Rich is very productive writer. After being born in Bittburg, Germany he travelled a lot; all over Europe and Bermuda until he was 18. He eventually ended up at West Virginia University, bounced over to North Carolina for 5 years where he completed his MFA in Poetry at the University of North Carolina and now lives in New Jersey with his wife, Jennifer.
He’s won the Rhysling Award for short poem in 2007 from the Science Fiction Poetry Association and was nominated for a Black Quill Award in 2008, in the small press category. Skullvines Press released his novelette “Into the Cruel Sea” to great reviews.
He’s also recently announced an exclusive e-book titled, “Four Murders”, from KHP/Skullvines and Merchant Keep. You can find out more about what Rich has coming up in the future by reading this blog post: http://richristow.wordpress.com/2010/05/27/things-in-the-future/
To keep himself even more busy, he’s also currently the Poetry Editor for Belfire/Needfire Press ( you can follow them on twitter @belfirepress and @needfire).
Follow Rich Ristow on Twitter: http://twitter.com/richristow
Remember to join the campaign to help the small press on Twitter by adding the tag “#SupportTheLittleGuy” to your tweets!
NAME: Lydia Ondrusek
Website: http://www.lydiaondrusek.com/
Lydia is a US writer who is building an impressive list of publications under her name. Her website says she was once found as Lydia O. on Gather.com and that you can still find some of her work there including a long non-fiction piece she’s proud of titled, “Hysterical”. Her work has been published by www.sniplits.com where fiction is available in a DRM-free MP3 download. Sniplits has purchased her micro-fiction piece “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” and 4 of her 50 word stories put together in a collection called, “Home and Away Stories”; all five are available for the low price of ninety-six cents. Her other short stories and poems have appeared in Yankee Pot Roast, Burst Literary E-zine, Flash Me, Flash Fiction Online, Falling Star Magazine, Every Day Fiction, New Myths, Crash, Five Fishes Journal, Everyday Weirdness, Leaves and Flowers, Apex Magazine, and GUD Magazine. She’s also placed 3rd in the Dallas/Fort Worth Writer’s Workshop Short Story Contest, 1st place in the Texas Nonfiction Writers Bad Writing Contest, and was a finalist in the Writer’s League of Texas Manuscript Contest.
You can find out more about her by visiting her website. Where links are available to her stories. I recommend reading “Gruff” a great read for any fan of cat fiction.
Follow her on Twitter: http://twitter.com/littlefluffycat
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NAME: Graveside Tales Publishing
Website: http://www.gravesidetales.com
Dale L. Murphy began Graveside Tales in March of 2007 with a love of horror and dark fantasy, as well as a desire to bring quality fiction to readers at a competitive price. With over eight books under their belt, Graveside Tales has plans to introduce many more books to the small press over the next couple of years. Inviting controversy and praise with their initial offering Fried! Fast Food, Slow Deaths the first steps into the book publishing began with a bang. Continuing to roll out the big guns by searching for books with dark atmosphere and chilling character-driven plots, books like Hawg by Stephen Shrewsbury, Everdead by Rio Youers, Sideshow PI: The Devil’s Garden by Nathaniel Lambert and Kevin Sweeney among others kept the fictional punches flying.
Fran Friel, Bram Stoker Nominated author of Mama’s Boy and Other Dark Tales said Michael West’s short story collection Skull Full of Kisses from Graveside Tales was, “A dark, diverse and delicious page-turner of a collection not to be missed.”
Graveside Tales is looking to impact the industry in a positive way. Willing to work with established well-known authors and new voices – some yet to be discovered.
The publisher’s forum is built on support, encouragement and friendship. The site’s writer columns are geared toward fun and helping other writers. It’s a company built with a drive to empower and add to the small press community.
If you’re looking for entertaining fiction to slake your reading thirst find it at http://www.gravesidebooks.com
Have a book you think might be at home with Graveside Tales, check the submission guidelines at http://gravesidetales.com/submissions/
Looking to meet new friends and talk writing or horror? Join them at http://www.gravesidetales.com/forum/
Make sure to show your support for this small press publisher on Twitter by following them at http://www.twitter.com/GravesideTales
Remember to join the campaign to help the small press on Twitter by adding the tag “#SupportTheLittleGuy” to your tweets!
