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Open Call for Submissions RESONATOR: New Lovecraftian Tales From Beyond
012 years ago
Tillinghast: "My ... god! It's ... a new anthology from Martian Migraine Press!" Dr. McMichaels: "I want to see more. FEEL MORE!"
In his classic story From Beyond, Howard Phillips Lovecraft introduced the Tillinghast Resonator: a monstrous device that stimulates dormant senses in man, opens up unseen worlds to unsuspecting eyes, and calls through terror and ecstasy from a realm far beyond our mundane perceptions. This is an open call for submissions to the third anthology from Martian Migraine Press…
RESONATOR: New Lovecraftian Tales From Beyond
We want to see weird fiction with the Tillinghast Resonator (and machines or processes like it) as inspiration. What creatures, both mindless and sentient, are revealed in its uncanny radiation? What worlds may be opened up to the user with the slightest change in frequency? What profit, what peril, what power and pleasure may be derived from its use? We want to see new and startling applications of Tillinghast Resonator technology, be introduced to bizarre new entities with motives and mentalities that beggar the imagination, and experience psychedelic perceptions in prose. We also wouldn’t mind clever riffs on the campy-cult goodness of Mr Gordon’s film! Mind-blasting horror, black humour, high-frequency kinkiness, and cosmic enlightenment are all part of the game when the Resonator powers up!
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES and PAYMENT INFORMATION
So turn on the juice, throw every switch, brace your pineal gland for some unprecedented growth, and get ready to go BEYOND!
Keeping It R’lyeh, One Month In
012 years ago
by the Face
in New Releases
Migraineers, we released Scott R Jones‘ When The Stars Are Right: Towards An Authentic R’lyehian Spirituality exactly one month ago. Print and electronic editions. Now, the ebook version, well… there’s an unlimited supply of those, obviously. Photons and code, basically. Same stuff of which the Universe is built: common as muck. But the print editions, constructed of precious inks and the rendered flesh of forest titans? Ah, rare materials indeed. The first print run came to 100 books, a number which we were told was pretty reasonable for a micro-press. A number which (IN OUR NAIVETE) we thought we’d have months and months of casual selling to do before we saw the bottom of the boxes they came in…
That's a box of 50, right there. Small, innit?
10 copies to contributors, the good folk who wrote advance reviews and blurbs, and Friends of the Show
11 copies in the pre-sale
25 copies regular orders (to Canada, the US, the UK, various spots in Europe)
37 copies at the three nights of book launches in BC (Victoria, Vancouver, and Salt Spring Island)
2 copies to the National Library of Canada for obligatory cataloging purposes
We had to break into Box #2 after the first launch party. YES.
And since we haven’t mentioned it yet… thanks for Keeping It R’lyeh, Migraineers! We’re very pleased with the reception When The Stars Are Right has received so far. You’re all fhtagn in our books.
More updates to come in the next week: WTSAR review round-up, news on Justine G’s Blackstone series AND the second installment in the Lust Larvae books, and a possible new magazine project that’s going to straighten your curlies if we can get our act together enough to make it happen! Stay tuned…
Smut and Spirituality for Spring!
012 years ago
A double-header Newscluster for you this morning, Migraineers! Some smut and spirituality to start off your Spring!
CONQUEROR WOMB goes FREE on Kindle for a Limited Time…
First off: the Spring has sprung! the grass is riz! And if you’re wondering where the Black Goat of the Woods is, well babies, She is over in the Amazon Kindle store where she’s been since we put her there, gathering followers and great reviews. And in celebration of the Vernal Equinox, she’s making herself all free and easy for your reading pleasure and beyond! That’s right. CONQUEROR WOMB: Lusty Tales of Shub-Niggurath is going on a bit of a gratis orgy. Pick up your Kindle edition of CW (with stories by Wilum Pugmire, Molly Tanzer, Christopher Slatsky, Kenton Hall, Christine Morgan, Jacqueline Sweet, Brian M Sammons, and others) FREE TODAY THROUGH SUNDAY MARCH 23rd.
Oh, and a quick note about the cover to CW… you may recall our censorship troubles with the Big A regarding the awesome cover art by Scottish comics wunderkind Garry Mac (“Too many nursing titties!” they said. “Nine is too many!” they whined.) Well, we’ve managed a work-around on that, too: you get the un-censored cover graphic in the body of the text now. Everybody happy! (We hope.)
And don’t forget to send your Amazon email receipt to bookstore@martianmigrainepress.com to get your Conqueror Womb bonus e-book, DARK/YOUNG, with a story each by editor Justine Geoffrey (BLACKSTONE Erotica) and author Jess Gulbranson (Antipaladin Blues)
WHEN THE STARS ARE RIGHT Official Launch
The pre-order period for getting your early paperback copy of Scott R Jones’ game-changing book, When The Stars Are Right: Towards An Authentic R’lyehian Spirituality, is now over. Which means we’re launching the Damned Thing into the world officially. You can order your physical copy or your EPUB and PDF e-versions HERE, or, if you want to start digesting Jones’ dark wisdom immediately on your Kindle or Kindle-enabled device, you can head on over to the Kindle store HERE to have it delivered via Amazon’s WhisperNet in literally seconds.
We’re hoping you’ll want to talk about When The Stars Are Right once you’ve been infecte–… we mean, once you’ve enjoyed the book, so, a reminder about hashtags for the social media: we’re trying to get #KeepinItRlyeh (or, alternatively, #KeepingItRlyeh with a G in there, for you grammar Nazis), #Cthulhusattva, and #BlackGnosis trending. Use those while gibbering about your reading experience on Facebook or Twitter, or when dropping some review-action on the book, and we’ll notice! We are all about noticing things like that.
