New Releases
‘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!
Poetry for People from Other Planets — R’LYEH SUTRA
014 years ago
Martian Migraine Press is pleased to announce that an electronic edition of R’LYEH SUTRA by reclusive West Coast writer and spoken word artist skawt chonzz will soon be available. Originally limited to a run of 50 physical chapbooks from Martian Migraine Press and never to appear in print again, this very collectible collection of weird poetry, strange prose and Austin Spare-like artwork is sure to please those with a taste for the macabré and surreal.
Recalling Spicer and Burroughs, these are poems that explore the shifting, fractal edge of madness, that question the nature of identity, consciousness and language, and do it all with wry humour spliced with a species of alien sexuality. As the title implies, there is an obviously Lovecraftian occult inspiration to the work: in fact, the original, physical run of the book contained, in the form of an insert, a portion of a large hand-written document received in a brutal channeling session from an ultra-terrestrial entity, which chonzz experienced in the spring of 2011. Each copy is therefore utterly unique, a facet of a whole that perhaps should never be viewed in its entirety, and likely never will. This electronic edition seeks to replicate that reading experience with hidden links to previously unreleased segments of that occult document.
To be released (DRM-free and in multiple formats) in May 2012.
