“The Limb Knitter” by Steven Francis Murphy
Non-fiction by Lavie Tidhar, Adrienne Jones, and Jason Sizemore.
Justin Stewart brings his unicorn shirt back out of the closet.
And meet our Cool Person of the Month–Dot Porter!
As always, all this stuff is free.
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Annual Apex Halloween Contest Information
Halloween is just around the corner, so you should know what that means–the annual Apex Halloween short fiction contest!
This year’s theme is: ELECTION HORROR
Guidelines:
Your story must incorporate the theme of ELECTION HORROR.
Word count maximum is 1,000.
Your story must have first rights available.
Submit your story to halloween@apexdigest.com.
Submissions are open NOW.
Deadline is 11:59 PM, October 15th, EST.
This year’s celebrity judge is noted SF author Jay Lake!
Winner receives payment of 10 cents per word and publication in Apex Digest Online.
Second place receives payment of 5 cents per word and publication in Apex Digest Online.
Third place receives a free Apex Book Company hardcover.
Fourth place receives a free Apex Book Company trade paperback.
Winning and second place story will be published on November 4th (election day).
Good luck and have fun writing some election horror!
1) Mama’s Boy and Other Dark Tales (Fran Friel)
2) Orgy of Souls (Maurice Broaddus and Wrath James White)
3) Beauty & Dynamite (Alethea Kontis)
This week’s Apex Digest Online content features “American Dead” by Jay Lake.
Also we have articles by Adrienne Jones and Lavie Tidhar, and a short, but useful bit of writers’ resources from the editor-in-chief.
Today is the last day of our Books for $10 sale. That’s big savings, folks!
Ten dollar books:
Unwelcome Bodies
The Next Fix
Mama’s Boy and Other Dark Tales
Beauty & Dynamite
Orgy of Souls
Gratia Placenti
Aegri Somnia
HebrewPunk
New fiction from Campbell Award-winning author Mary Robinette Kowal titled “Scenting the Dark.”
Jason Sizemore interviews Mary Doria Russell, author of Dreamers of the Day, A Thread of Grace, Children of God, and The Sparrow.
Jennifer Pelland writes an essay about being a serial short fiction writer.
And then we have the entertaining trio of Adrienne Jones, Lavie Tidhar, and Justin Stewart providing entertainment.
http://www.apexbookcompany.com/apex-online
BTW, don’t forget to take our poll. We want to know if you prefer Apex Digest Online content all at once (Sunday nights) or spread throughout the week.
The Grim Trixter is back, this time with a limited edition chapbook collection of more than 30 hauntingly evocative poems that explore everything from nursery rhymes to modern serial killers. Schwan’s voice brings beauty to the horrors of the world around her, yet infuses objects of seeming innocence with such a shadowed nature that one cannot help but see that behind her pen is, in the words of her poem “Hands and Dues Paid a Muse,” a mind holding devious things.
Rest, rest in silence
Silence where we love to dissect
What might have been living when ink
Was more important
And it was, Truly, it was.
~from “Worm God,” in Catacombs and Photographs
Each poem tells a story complete in itself, but together the collection forms a collection of photographs that capture the moments of deepest emotion when the world is raw and vulnerable and at its most beautiful to those who know how to see.
Only 100 signed copies will be sold.
Features an introduction by Richard Doetsch, author of The Thieves of Heaven and The Thieves of Faith (Dell Books).
Melissa Gay has turned in some beautiful cover art for Sara M. Harvey’s The Convent of the Pure. This one should be available for order starting in December.
Due to marketing feedback, we’ve redesigned the cover art for I Remember the Future: The Award-Nominated Stories of Michael A. Burstein. We hope you like it just as much as the previous version (and hopefully more!).
This one comes out November 1st. So far, such high-profile authors as Robert Sawyer, Mike Resnick, and Gary K. Wolf have given the book wonderful blurbs.
Remember that you can pre-order the hardcover to have it signed and personalized by Mr. Burstein.
Fran Friel’s well-received collection Mama’s Boy and Other Dark Tales is now available as an eBook at Fictionwise. The book is discounted 15% until July 7th, so this is an excellent opportunity to grab a bit of creepiness on the cheap.
This eclectic essay collection from NYT bestselling author and Apex contributing editor Alethea Kontis features a special introduction from Brian Keene, contributions from David, Tom Piccirilli, and Alethea’s grandmother.
Sex. Violence. Heresy. Redemption. This novella from Wrath James White and Maurice Broaddus has it all and it is now ready to ship.
“Twenty souls for his brother’s life is a price that seductively beautiful Samson is willing to pay. Twenty souls drenched in blood, powdered with cocaine and more than one kind of ecstasy. A fair trade for the life of a brother. A fair trade for the life of a priest. And everyone he meets seems so willing to give theirs away.”
“Broaddus and White are an unlikely pairing of talents that works astonishingly well. Orgy of Souls is a powerful, innovative work of fiction and one I recommend wholeheartedly. A damned fine read!”
–James A. Moore, author of DEEPER and CHERRY HILL
Two years ago, Fran Friel unleashed Frank on the world in her Stoker Award nominated work “Mama’s Boy.” Well, he’s back. Coming to hardcover for the first time is Friel’s devastating and dark novella about one man’s love of his mother.
The collection includes 14 works by the author, including the title piece. The hardcover will be limited to 100 signed copies.
Apex Publications is proud to announce that the second in our series of Limited Edition novellas will be Open Your Eyes by Paul Jessup. Open Your Eyes is slated to come out in early 2009.
The first in the series is Orgy of Souls by Wrath James White and Maurice Broaddus (out June 14th).
Open Your Eyes is a space opera that opens with the insemination of a young woman named Ekhi by a star lover going supernova. A cross between Samuel Delaney and Jeff VanderMeer, this book will be a memorable one, and has the potential to make Paul Jessup a household name for genre fans.
The beautiful cover art is by Daniele Cascone.
