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Birds of Passage: An interview with Joe Giordano
Joe Giordano is the author of the recently released Birds of Passage, an Italian immigrant coming of age story set at the turn of twentieth-century New York, when the streets were paved with violence...
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An open letter to Jeffery Deaver by Payton Robbins
Dear Jeffery Deaver, I’ve noticed since I started to study English more that I can hear a southern voice now. I call him the Southern Man. English has an accent I think; it’s as though I’ve discovered...
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Buttontapper Press, our sister site, is now open for submissions to their new Damned Dames imprint. If you’d like to submit a manuscript, here are the relevant submission guidelines: Damned Dames will...
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The House at Homecoming Cove: An excerpt + #giveaway
Seeking out solitude in which to work, New York City music composer Melissa Carter rents a century-old farmhouse on the Virginia Eastern Shore. There, she meets a loner with rugged good looks and...
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To Part is To Die a Little: An interview with Claudia Serea by Susan Tepper
Claudia Serea is a Romanian-born poet who immigrated to the U.S. in 1995. Her poems and translations have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies from the U.S., U.K., and Australia, such as...
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Nailbiters: An interview with M.K. Williams
M.K. Williams is an Indiana-born, Philadelphia-raised, Florida transplant working and living beneath the sunny, and often rainy, skies of Tampa. Williams is also the author of Nailbiters, a...
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INK: An interview with Glenn Benest
Along with Dale Pitman, Glenn Benest is the author of INK, a horror/paranormal romance story about a graphic novelist whose creations come to life. In addition to writing novels, Glenn has been a...
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Revenge for Hire: An interview with Natalie S. Ellis
North West Side Chicago. A man’s phone rings at 3am, and it’s every father’s worst nightmare – his little girl is in danger. Fort Wayne, Indiana. Belinda ‘Billie’ Chapman is working the overnight shift...
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REVIEW: The Santa Claus Man by Alex Palmer
Before the charismatic John Duval Gluck, Jr. came along, letters from New York City children to Santa Claus were destroyed, unopened, by the U.S. Post Office. Gluck saw an opportunity, and created the...
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Obsidian Worlds: An excerpt + #giveaway from Jason Werbeloff
Jason Werbeloff’s short stories have been downloaded over 20,000 times. Obsidian Worlds brings together his 11 best-selling sci-fi shorts into a mind-bending philosophical anthology. In Your Averaged...
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The Miracle of Small Things: An interview with Guilie Castillo Oriard
Guilie Castillo Oriard is a Mexican export who transferred to Curaçao “for six months” – and, twelve years later, has yet to find a reason to leave. Her work has been published online and in print...
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Horns: A book to movie review by Emma Whitehall
“Are you horny?” This is the first line in the film adaptation of Joe Hill’s novel Horns – a story of grief, obsession, faith, death, and overwhelming love – of Ig Perrish, “cursed” with a pair of...
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Beautiful Trees: An interview with Nik Perring
Nik Perring is a short story and flash fiction writer, and author from the UK. He’s an editor, teacher of writing, mentor, sometimes poet, and children’s author too. He’s also the author of Beautiful...
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Ladle to the Grave: An excerpt + #giveaway from Connie Archer
By the Spoonful is Snowflake, Vermont’s most popular soup shop, but owner Lucky Jamieson doesn’t have any time to enjoy her success—she’s too busy trying to keep a lid on false accusations against her...
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Imperia: An excerpt + #giveaway from Jason Hatcher
Imperia is a tale of revenge. It is a resurrection of Asian myth. It is fantasy’s untold story. Thirty years is a long time to hold a grudge. The Red Empress has endured every single day of the past...
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Hedon: An excerpt + #giveaway from Jason Werbeloff
What if happiness were compulsory? What if your thoughts were not your own? Plunge into Hedon for soul-twisting SciFi. In 2051, the Bhutanese Empire rules postapocalyptic Shangri with ironfisted...
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Naked Choke: An excerpt + #giveaway from Vanessa Dare
Trapped at the bar during her best friend’s engagement party, Emory finds herself with Mr. Dud and his obnoxious pickup lines. That is, until sexy Grayson Green steps in to rescue her. She’s been out...
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Apprehensions and Diffusions by Peter Baltensperger
A rift in the continuum was leaking tears, being cried on one side, pooling on the other, an ethereal osmosis. Sylvain Forester scooped the tears up with his hands and distilled them into pure...
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Sleepers Awake: An interview with Tree Riesener
Tree Riesener is the author of Sleepers Awake, winner of Sowilo Press’s Eludia Award. Her writing has been favorably compared to the works of both Flannery O’Connor and James Thurber. She also has two...
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Let’s Talk: Cupcakes by Susan Tepper
My husband seems to enjoy watching the Cupcake Wars on TV. He also enjoys all the “games,” which I tend not to enjoy. He is a man of varied interests, though; regarding the kitchen, he often asks where...
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