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11/04/2024

Where it all started 😅📚

09/27/2024

OUT TODAY: https://journalstone.com/bookstore/bitter-breed/

“Bitter Breed showcases Dino Parenti’s unique talent of writing smart horror with nuanced characters. He unearths the secrets of this cinematic story with amazing skill.” —Mercedes M. Yardley, two-time Bram Stoker Award winner of Little Dead Red and “Fracture.”

An elderly couple who’ve fled tragedy in the city for solitude in the Canadian Rockies…

Two violent ex-cons on a mission to bust out one of their crew from a prison bus…

Three scientists fleeing a clandestine military laboratory where dozens of their monstrous, aggressive creations have escaped…

These lives are about to collide in a remote mountain diner in Last Chance, Yukon.

Trapped inside the Last Chance Grill and cut off by a looming snowstorm, seven strangers find themselves surrounded by deadly, radically enhanced humanoid creatures designed to thrive in extreme climates, and who have tracked down their creators. Chief of these is the stoic but anguished Dr. Amos Huber, hired by a government splinter group to employ his genius in militarized experiments involving climate change. Crushed by the death of his only child, Amos struggles to reconcile his secretive past while also trying to band together the disparate, clashing group of scientists, diners, and determined ex-cons holding everyone hostage. If they can survive the night when the creatures are their strongest, most cunning, and hungriest, they might be able to summon help and prevent their excursion into more populated areas.

BITTER BREED is not just a last-stand eco-horror survival thriller, but also an examination of regret, grief, and future anxieties.

(Cover art by Don Noble)

08/30/2024

*screams*

Chad Stahelski, director of the John Wick franchise, has acquired the rights toJonathan Maberry’s Joe Ledger book series to develop for television.

08/01/2024

February 2025!

07/17/2024

07/17/2024

Congratulations to Corey Farrenkopf (LIVING IN CEMETERIES, JournalStone, 2024), John Linwood Grant (WHERE ALL IS NIGHT, AND STARLESS, Trepidatio, 2021) and Scott R. Jones (SHOUT KILL REVEL REPEAT, Trepidatio, 2019) for making the list!

Links in comments!

From Where We Are, Nicole Zelniker, Vine Leaves Press, 2024 Failure to Comply, Cavar, featherproof books, 2024 An Unkindness of Ghosts, Rivers Solomon, Akashic Books, 2017 How I Killed The Universa…

07/01/2024

We’re having some issues with getting the ebooks on Amazon and Google Play, but they’re available from the source!

BLACK SEAS OF INFINITY: THE R’LYEH CYCLE BOOK TWO They called it the Event. The Event changed everything. The earthquakes came first, including the Big One, shattering the Pacific Rim and plunging the world into chaos. Then the seas came, the skies opened, and the never-ending rain began. But as b...

06/28/2024

OUT TODAY:

They called it the Event.

The Event changed everything. The earthquakes came first, including the Big One, shattering the Pacific Rim and plunging the world into chaos. Then the seas came, the skies opened, and the never-ending rain began. But as bad as that was, there is something worse.

The Rising has begun.

Providence is flooded. An agoraphobic artist watches from his window as the sea takes the streets. But the ocean has brought more than storms, as the presence of something alien prods and grasps his mind. Can he find the courage to flee, or will his mind and body be taken by the storm and the creatures within?

Even as the skies open and the streets fill, an international art thief takes one last job to steal from the legendary Miskatonic Library. His mission is the Incendium Malificarum, powerful enough to end the world, or to save it. But is he simply a pawn of powers greater than he knows?

A young mother, separated by flood waters from her family, grieves and dreams as the world and the people around her begin to change, to become something else. But what dreams may come when the world has already ended?

But how did this begin? A disgraced college professor makes a Faustian bargain and discovers a conspiracy older than man, and a Key to unlock the fate of the entire human race. Can he save himself, can he save anyone, or is this predestined since the Great Flood?

And in the Pacific, *He* is rising.

In Black Seas of Infinity: The R’lyeh Cycle Book Two, authors Curtis M. Lawson, Brett J. Talley, Gemma Files, and William Holloway have created a timely and uniquely modern reimagining of the Cthulhu Mythos.

Cover art by Mikio Murakami.

Direct link: https://journalstone.com/bookstore/black-seas-of-infinity-the-rlyeh-cycle-book-2/

Companion volume: https://journalstone.com/bookstore/the-abyssal-plain-the-rlyeh-cycle/

06/26/2024

They called it the Event.

The Event changed everything. The earthquakes came first, including the Big One, shattering the Pacific Rim and plunging the world into chaos. Then the seas came, the skies opened, and the never-ending rain began. But as bad as that was, there is something worse.

The Rising has begun.

Providence is flooded. An agoraphobic artist watches from his window as the sea takes the streets. But the ocean has brought more than storms, as the presence of something alien prods and grasps his mind. Can he find the courage to flee, or will his mind and body be taken by the storm and the creatures within?

Even as the skies open and the streets fill, an international art thief takes one last job to steal from the legendary Miskatonic Library. His mission is the Incendium Malificarum, powerful enough to end the world, or to save it. But is he simply a pawn of powers greater than he knows?

A young mother, separated by flood waters from her family, grieves and dreams as the world and the people around her begin to change, to become something else. But what dreams may come when the world has already ended?

But how did this begin? A disgraced college professor makes a Faustian bargain and discovers a conspiracy older than man, and a Key to unlock the fate of the entire human race. Can he save himself, can he save anyone, or is this predestined since the Great Flood?

And in the Pacific, He is rising.

In Black Seas of Infinity: The R’lyeh Cycle Book Two, authors Curtis M. Lawson, Brett J. Talley, Gemma Files, and William Holloway have created a timely and uniquely modern reimagining of the Cthulhu Mythos.

https://journalstone.com/bookstore/black-seas-of-infinity-the-rlyeh-cycle-book-2/

Cover art by Mikio Murakami.

06/24/2024

This week only!

Please read the following guidelines carefully: Submissions are open from November 15th to December 15th, 2022. Submissions outside this window will be deleted unread. We want horror in all its forms—from literary to weird, Gothic to psychological, and (almost) everything in between. We’re looki...

05/04/2024

JournalStone/Trepidatio submission window for 2024: June 24-28. Writing up guidelines to publish about Monday.

I know this is a really short window, but I have a very sick mom and I’m trying (hoping) to keep the slush manageable.

Ability to follow instructions is a plus.

I’m still serious about manuscripts in third person present. Looking to acquire between 6-12 books, altogether.

Collections up to 90k, novellas 20-40k, novels 50-100k (those limits are because of printing costs).

04/26/2024

LIVING IN CEMETERIES has moved almost 400 copies this week. Let’s bump that up!

https://journalstone.com/bookstore/living-in-cemeteries/