Fiction
SOFT FROM ALL THE BLOOD Contest Winner! It’s the Wendigo…
214 years ago
(The answer. Not the winner. The Wendigo isn’t the winner. That would be weird…)
Congratulations to Riley “Jerreth” Vandall, the winner of our little trivia contest earlier this week! He receives a copy of S R Jones‘ Soft From All The Blood for guessing that the northern creature in question is, in fact, the Wendigo: everyone’s favourite cannibal spirit!
However, Vandall tripped up on the bonus question. Sure, Algernon Blackwood’s The Wendigo is certainly the most well-known, and seemingly, the first of the macabré tales featuring the beast to be published… but it’s not. It’s not the first.
This means the bonus question (and the mystery prize that goes with it) is still up for grabs! So…
Who was the author of the first published tale of the Wendigo?
Hint #1: publication occurred in the 19th century…
Hint #2: eight years after publication, the author became a president of something…
First correct answer in the comments below wins the mystery bonus prize!
‘Soft From All The Blood’ FREE PROMO MAY 3 – 4
014 years ago
Well, S R Jones’ collection of spook stories was enrolled with KDPSelect when we initially published it back in mid-March, and we’ve yet to utilize the ‘5 Free Days’ promotional feature of that program, so (despite some misgivings on our and others part regarding the relative value of a free product ie. “you get what you pay for”), here goes…
SOFT FROM ALL THE BLOOD will be FREE TO DOWNLOAD HERE starting 12:01am on MAY 3 through to 11:59pm MAY 4! And yes, we know about the fuzzy temporal edges on the part of Amazon’s schedule-making robots. There will likely be some wiggle-room on either end. FYI: May 3 is Jones’ birthday, and folks, it’s a big one, with a zero in it… we thought some free promo boost-age for his book would be a nice present, and we’re hoping you can help us out with that.
We’ve let the concerned parties of social media and various news-y websites know. We have engaged in spammy behaviours recently on the twitter, and will likely continue along that path for the next week or so. We want you to know we feel bad about that, and hope you are alright with it; it can be tough starting out and the Martian Migraine Press audience is not yet huge. Your understanding is appreciated.
We have no particular goal for downloads in mind: “100 would be swell!” we think in our naiveté, and then we hear things along the lines of “10,000 is not an unreasonable amount for free download promos!” and our minds boggle. This is so unlike print, which is what we’re used to. Bogglin’ over here.
It’s the future. Best get used to it.
Again.
Martian Migraine Press: the Best Kind of Headache
New Flash Fiction ‘THE ECDYSIASTS’ Now Available
014 years ago
We found a few extra hours the other night (thanks, Chrono-Compressor Technology®™!) and got ahead of ourselves… literally! There we were, rounding one of the corners in the hallways of Martian Migraine Press HQ, like Jason Schwartzman in the opening credits of I Heart Huckabees, so, naturally, we took the opportunity to get S R Jones‘ latest collection of surreal flash fiction, THE ECDYSIASTS, ready to slap up on the Kindle shelves.
If you like your short-short and flash-fiction snappy and witty with a surreal undertone, this one’s for you. It’s a very tasty $1.99 and also free to lend for 14 days after purchase. DRM-free as well. Pop on over to Amazon and make your purchase of THE ECDYSIASTS!
