Kindle Fiction
If you’ve been thinking about selling your fiction (short stories, novellas, novels, serials) on the Kindle, there’s no better time than now. Amazon is selling almost one million Kindles a month now....
View ArticleEclipse Online Schedule
On Monday October 8th Eclipse Online will launch with, “The Contrary Gardener” by Christopher Rowe. Christopher Rowe has published more than twenty short stories, and been a finalist for the Hugo,...
View ArticleEllen Datlow Joins Tor.com’s Editorial Team
Since 2008, Tor.com has been a leading market for science fiction and fantasy short fiction. Several of their stories have been Hugo and Nebula finalists, Charlie Jane Anders’ “Six Months, Three Days”...
View ArticleGhost Week on Tor.com
It’s Ghost Week on Tor.com! All week long they’ll be hanging out with spooks, spectres, slimers, spirits, hauntings, poltergeists, full-torso free-roaming apparitions, and more. They’ll be sharing some...
View ArticleNew Eclipse Online Story Available
With the holiday season getting ready to move into full swing, two exciting new stories make up the third month of Eclipse Online, and the end of the first calendar year (sort of) of bringing you the...
View ArticleHigh stakes if Apple e-books antitrust case goes to trial
Courtesy of Reuters By Andrew Longstreth NEW YORK (Reuters) – As the only remaining defendant in the U.S. government’s e-books antitrust case, Apple Inc appears headed for a high-stakes trial that...
View ArticleNook Losses to Exceed 2012
Courtesy of Publishers Weekly By Jim Milliot | Feb 14, 2013 Barnes & Noble has drawn lots of media attention about a Wall Street Journal story that focused on the company’s plans to close 15 to 20...
View ArticleTOR.com To Publish Original Fiction Every Wednesday in 2013
Short fiction lovers take note! Starting this month, Tor.com will publish original short fiction every Wednesday in 2013! Since their launch in 2008, Tor.com has always been a competitive market for...
View ArticleSingapore based writer unseats Stephen King as #1 Horror author on Amazon
From Press Release on MMD Newswire ” A revolution has been brewing in the publishing industry, driven by the growing popularity of ebooks and Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing program, which lets...
View ArticleAmazon Buys Goodreads
Courtesy of Publishers Weekly By Rachel Deahl and Jim Milliot | Mar 28, 2013 Amazon has acquired Goodreads.com, a Web site featuring user-generated reviews of books. The purchase comes amid mounting...
View ArticleDreadit Horror Seeking Submissions
From the Dreadit website: Dreadit Horror Collection Ebook Amateur horror writers. Dreadit is now accepting submissions for our first Dreadit Horror Collection (title pending, suggestions welcome). If...
View ArticleWattpad.com Offers Free Horror Stories
I just discovered a new website that I believe I’ll be visiting more often. There is only one thing I like more than reading a good horror story, and that’s reading a free good horror story....
View ArticleHorror Tree Accepting Submissions
From the Horror Tree website: Deadline: Open until full Payment: Payment is made up of a share of money after deductions and is outlined in the contract notes. Each author gains one share per story....
View ArticleMilitary Science Fiction Anthology Coming Soon
From the Apex website: Get ready for orbital insertion over target drop zone. War Stories is coming. Since 2001, the role of the military around the world has drastically changed as conflicts have...
View ArticleAsylum Press Transforms Zombie Terrors Into An Animated Comic Series...
From the press release: June 27, 2013 – Los Angeles, CA – Asylum Press and Visionborne have joined forces to produce a slate of animated comics based on popular Asylum Press titles for the Apple iPad...
View ArticleScary Short Stories…Really Short Stories
Reddit recently asked for the best short stories its viewers could come up with in two sentences. Some of them are pretty darn creepy. Without further adieu, here are the top ten so far: 1. I begin...
View ArticleHorrorSociety.com Calling for Short Stories
From the HorrorSociety.com website: Do you write short horror themed stories? For the first time ever, HorrorSociety.com is announcing a call for entries. The best stories will be collected and...
View ArticleNARR8 Announces Addition of New Horror Series Prime Blood to Their Mobile...
From the Press Release: Interactive motion comic app NARR8 is happy to announce the addition of a new horror series entitled Prime Blood to their mobile platform. Prime Blood is a blood-curdling,...
View ArticleApex Publications Lets Readers Decide Which Story is Better, And Will Give A...
Two Stories, One Champ K. Allen Wood has stories in both Appalachian Undead and Mountain Dead. More aptly, it’s two versions of the same story. Both are good, but which one is better, “Long Days to...
View ArticleAmazon Starts Bundling Program, Kindle MatchBook
This seemed like something that may be of general interest to our readers out there. From Publishers Weekly: After years of false starts, bundling e-books with print books may have gotten the spark it...
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