Kate Jonez is proud to present Odium Media, the publisher’s new imprint dedicated to horror fiction. It’s mission: to publish only the highest quality fiction in the genre. Look for titles released under this imprint beginning Summer 2012.

The goal of Odium Media, an imprint of Omnium Gatherum Media, is to selectively build a title list with some of the most well-known names in the genre, as well as promising up-and-comers. The imprint will release books in trade paperback, ebook and audio book. (Availability varies with title.)

Upcoming titles include (in order of release):

• Deep Dark Woods by Ty Schwamberger, Critically-acclaimed author of For After Midnight, The Fields and DININ’.
• The Wildman by Rick Hautala, recipient of the 2012 HWA Lifetime Achievement Award, international bestselling author, and multiple Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Nightstone, The White Room and Looking Glass.
• Dead Souls by Michael Laimo, Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of Sleepwalker and Return to Darkness. Look for Dead Souls coming to NBC/Chiller October 2012.
• Additional titles will be announced at a later date.

Find out more about this exciting imprint at: Odium Media

JournalStone Publishing has announced their partnership with Cycatrix Press on a new publishing venture, [Nam3less] Magazine, a biannual (twice yearly), perfect-bound, 6”x9” magazine. It will be printed in limited quantities in the Spring and Fall of each year. Along with each print issue there will also be a simultaneous (or nearly so) electronic edition.

The material in [Nam3less] Magazine is wide-ranging. Each issue will vary as to the theme, but all issues will provide fascinating commentary on topical subjects, politics, science, criticism, philosophy, and reviews of current media.

The intended goal of [Nam3less] Magazine is to meld divergent perspectives on a variety of subjects – fiction, music, art, film, social commentary – and simultaneously present them in combination with the best content we can muster from the genres of horror, science fiction, magical realism, slipstream, and dark fantasy.

The magazine was conceived from the outset as a thought-provoking biannual print periodical, as well as a year-round online destination for the intellectually adventurous.

“We strive to achieve this via the alchemy of innovative discourse, high production values, and rigorous editorial standards,” says JournalStone President Christopher C. Payne.

Though the focus will always be on the macabre, weird, uncanny, and esoteric, [Nam3less] Magazine will also be a bastion for underappreciated ideas, unexplored possibilities, uncommon perspectives. That stated [Nam3less] Magazine is open to any and all concepts, reflections, and points of view concerning the Cosmos, our place in it, and insights into the human condition.

It is a state of mind as much as anything, and as such is accepting of anyone that is curious, thought-provoking, and rational.

“We at JournalStone Publishing couldn’t be more pleased to partner with Cycatrix Press on this new adventure,” adds Payne, “and are looking forward to the launch of the first, of what we hope to be many, issue of [Nam3less] Magazine.”

Matt M. McElroy, Publisher of FR Press, has announced that Slices of Fate, the collected works of author Eddy Webb, is now available in eBook and print formatsp.

“Slices of Fate is a collection that spans the depth and breadth of Webb’s work,” said editor Monica Valentinelli. “Arranged chronologically, this is a beautiful representation of the stories and voices Webb has to offer his readers.”

About Eddy Webb: Hired on with CCP/White Wolf in late 2007, Eddy Webb (with a “y,” thank you) is a writer, game designer, transmedia developer, and the voice of the White Wolf Blogcast. His RPG works includes Minds Eye Theatre: The Awakening, New Wave Requiem, ICONS: Jailbreak, Vampire: the Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition and many more. He lives a sitcom life with his wife, his roommate, a supervillain cat, and two pug dogs.

Description: a unique collection featuring the works of Eddy Webb. Stories within range from the author’s nod to literary tales as in his piece “A Sheepish Trip to Yorkshire” to his more speculative work such as “The Battlefield.”

Essays include a series on two of Webb’s oldest loves: wrestling and Sherlock Holmes. Combined with several pieces of microfiction, this debut collection is an in-depth representation of Eddy’s work over the course of several years.

About FR Press: FR Press is the publishing arm of popular horror and dark fantasy webzine FlamesRising.com. FR Press’s recent releases include Haunted: 11 Tales of Ghostly Horror and Conventions for the Aspiring Game Professional.

Both digital and print editions of the collection are available now online at DriveThruFiction.com: Slices of Fate

In these days of falling book sales and record closures of high street book shops one publisher is bucking the trend. Mirador Publishing, an Indie publisher based in the West of England, has just launched three new books under its new Sci-Fi and Fantasy imprint, Netherworld Books.

The first title, A History of The Devil by Adrian Briggs is also a massive gamble for the fledgling publisher. The book asks the reader to take a sympathetic view of history’s greatest bad guy, Satan himself.

Commissioning Editor Claire Ashton said yesterday, “This book is already causing a huge controversy with some elements not seeming to understand it’s just a work of fiction.”

The second title. Lucid by Marion Grace Woolley is no less controversial, dealing as it does with the effects LSD and Shamanistic Magic. It has been described as, “A journey through the chaos of LSD and the magic of dreams into the darkest corners of the human mind.”

The third book Hell’s Secrets by F R Jameson is a more straight forward horror novel in the classic mould. Claire describes it as, “A sort of a cross between Stephen King and Dante.”

Asked why the company was taking such a gamble on these three books as the launch platform for Netherworld Books, Claire replied, “Netherworld was created to give new authors a chance. When the Big Six publishers are cutting back and only investing in established safe authors we felt there was a need to support the first time novelist.”

Netherworld was created on the back of the experiences of one author who was reduced to tears at the treatment she received when she tried to present her manuscript to a big publisher.

Mirador Publishing itself is a huge success story and despite the recession continues to grow year on year.

Mirador’s Marketing Manager David Luddington said, “The world of reading has never been healthier, it’s just the traditional publishing model of Agent, Publisher and High Street Bookshop that’s failing. We exist to support our authors, not the other way round. There are some quite excellent authors out there and they deserve to have their voice heard.”

Netherworld Books is currently seeking new authors and sees itself as the new light in the Sci-Fi and Fantasy publishing world. “We are looking to give a chance to bright new novelists who are getting a rough deal from the traditional publishing world,” said David.

Damnation Books has released the digital edition of Ray Clark’s horror novel, The Priest’s Hole.

Description: If you’re willing to unlock the gates of hell, be prepared.

Four charred bodies in the middle of a field. The evidence suggested a ritual killing.

The body of a young constable with his head smashed to a pulp. He was investigating with his colleagues and he was on the other side of the oak tree from the four charred bodies. No one saw or heard anything!

A registered charity collector, bloodless and deflated, stretched out on the driveway of the house of a famous, well-known, local writer.

With each of the mysterious slayings, there are no clues, no motives, and no witnesses.

The police have no ideas, until their investigation takes them to Mark Farnham’s house, the author, a man who has everything … including more than enough secrets … and one of those is a Ouija-Board. Have the police found the answer to their problem?

Or have they found an even bigger headache?

Check it out on the Kindle: The Priest’s Hole