Posts tagged fiction
‘Soft From All The Blood’ FREE PROMO MAY 3 – 4
013 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.
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New Flash Fiction ‘THE ECDYSIASTS’ Now Available
013 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!
“Origami Insect” Horror Fiction — Another 5 Star Review!
013 years ago
Jordan Stratford (of recent Wollstonecraft/Kickstarter fame and the Archduke of Canadian Steampunk, no less!) had the following to say about SOFT FROM ALL THE BLOOD by MMP author S R Jones…
If you’ve ever found an origami insect on the sidewalk, you’ll understand this collection right away. Because you’ll already have thought to yourself “That’s odd. What an unusual thing to come across. This is an intricate bit of craftsmanship here, and yet, why an insect? Not a swan or a box or a kite or a paper plane, but something vaguely menacing, expressed in paper, placed oddly, encountered at random. I shall leave this brief encounter more than slightly unsettled.”
I mention this because Jones has given us an origami insect in these amusing/disturbing little encounters with his short fiction, which will leave you slightly unsettled. He skillfully places you inside the brains of those who are likely more unsettled than yourself, and possibly (hopefully) even more disturbed than the author.
Some horror is meant to scare you, some to gross you out, yet Jones’ horror is meant to engage you, upset you, unsettle you. Cage-rattling horror fiction. His origami insect crawls under your skin, and lays eggs.
Read this collection at your peril.
And then he goes and gives SOFT FROM ALL THE BLOOD a 5 star review! Our experience of Dukes (arch or otherwise) is minimal, but, if they’re all this gracious and complimentary, well, we could get used to having more of them around. We also hear the Duchess is pretty amazing.
If you haven’t yet heard about the staggering crowd-sourcing success of the Wollstonecraft Project, go check it out at the link above! It’s also been featured on io9, Boing Boing, and most recently WIRED. That’s some kinda geek-trifecta right there. Stratford is one to watch!
And to get Jones’ origami eggs under your skin (a pleasurable sensation!) purchase SOFT FROM ALL THE BLOOD for your Kindle here! AmazonPrime members can download it for free!
