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NEWSCLUSTER: Blackstone Shorts, A Book of R’lyehian Spirituality and A Sorrowful Sparlock
014 years ago
It’s been a little while since our last update. Summer, that desolate season, tends to take it out of us here at MMP HQ and we are only just now getting back into the general swing. Also, we get it into our collective Head that somehow news-y type updates require a certain explosive quality with lots of bright and also shiny. Bundles of informational excitement. And when that combustibility isn’t right there on the surface, we tend not to bother with lighting what fuse there may be.
News is news, though, and as Martian Migraine Press readers, you deserve to hear it, preferably when it happens. And so, here is some. We’re taking to calling these NEWSCLUSTERS now: morsels of chewy stuff, hopefully tasty, possibly explosive. Consume at your own risk.
First off: MMP authors spreading their contagion elsewhere! Our author S R Jones has submitted a story called The Other Side of Zero to the zombies-in-Canada anthology Dead North, coming out from Exile Editions in the fall 2013. And Justine G has a story being considered by Dagan Books for the second edition of their hugely popular weird erotica anthology Cthulhurotica. It’s called In The Stacks and it is pure Justine, just the way we like it. We’re excited for our boy and girl and we’ll announce how they do with these submissions as soon as we hear!
Justine G announces BLACKSTONE Shorts
With our glands still ringing from the free promo back in August for Justine G’s RED MONOLITH FRENZY (Book 1 of her BLACKSTONE Erotica series), we’re happy to announce that sales of both Books 1 and 2 are doing well, and that Book 3, YELLOW SIGN BOUND, should be available by the end of October. We’d love a release for Halloween, natch, but Justine has her speaking tours and other dark what-not keeping her busy, so that’s a tentative release announcement, understand. She’s not the kind of lady we’d feel comfortable rushing. What with the hexing and all…
Good news for BLACKSTONE fans, however! Miss Geoffrey has told us she has a number of short pieces written, featuring characters in the BLACKSTONE universe. Ever wonder what the sorceress Anicka and her cretin brother Kamil get up to in the summoning circle? Curious as to what took place between Professor Gravesend and Cranston in the shadow of the Black Stone? How did the gorgeous ice-queen Yvette fall under the spell of Evangeline Waite?
The devil is in the details, friends, and SUMMONINGS: Blackstone Shorts will provide those in decadent packets of dark eroticism and darker magic. Each short tale (between 3 and 5000 words) will link up with the main BLACKSTONE narrative, filling out the incredible tale of one woman’s insane quest for cosmic power and mind-blowing sex. SUMMONINGS: Anicka and Kamil is first up! Expect that disturbing little gem in the first week of October.
When The Stars Are Right: skawt chonzz and the Rise of R’lyeh
Our author and poet/spoken word artist skawt chonzz has sent us some initial material towards a non-fiction book of what he’s calling “R’lyehian Spirituality”: when you strip away the goofy horror from Lovecraft’s fiction, and then go a step further and excise the half-assed pseudo-magical practices accrued to HPLs Mythos by the post-modern geek consumer, what are you left with? According to chonzz, a remarkable set of antinomian practices and a way of moving through the world that could perhaps be described as a kind of “dark side Zen”. Is Cthulhu an emergent property of human consciousness? What is the Black Gnosis?
When The Stars Are Right: Towards An Authentic R’lyehian Spirituality will be our first release in both ebook and print editions, with a release date and book launch party in Victoria, BC on August 20, 2013. Yes, Lovecraft’s birthday. Of course. We’re fairly excited about it, actually: this is not another faux-Necronomicon. More an examination of Lovecraftian themes and theology, some of which chonzz has touched on in poetic-fashion with his acclaimed chapbook R’LYEH SUTRA. We’re lining up our print connections and speaking with illustrators, even. Updates as they happen.
Sparlock In The Trash Bin, Sadly…
And now a bit of awful news to finish: our plans for an anthology of tales of and about Sparlock the Warrior Wizard have come to naught, and all for lack of interest. Sparlock, for those who don’t know, is the cheap plastic toy that debuted in a hilariously unaware indoctrination video “for kids” put out by the Watchtower Bible & Tract Society this past summer. You can find the video here… we don’t know what we expected really. Perhaps a deluge of submissions from former and ex-Jehovah’s Witness apostate writers spinning hilarious and trenchant takes on Sparlock, Caleb, Caleb’s mom and the infamous ‘Tower? Yes. Yes, that’s exactly what we expected. Also, it’s what we didn’t get. So, sadly, The Chronicles of Sparlock is not a thing that will happen. Submissions are closed.
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KDP Free Promo Weekend RED MONOLITH FRENZY
014 years ago
Well, we’re still not entirely convinced that the whole Amazon KDP free promo weekend deal-i-oh does a title any particular good in the long run, but then again, we haven’t tried it yet with our erotica titles, have we? No. No, we haven’t.
That’s about to change.
Tomorrow, Friday August 10, through to Sunday August 12, we will be raising up for sacrifice to the reading hordes (and yes, to Mammon, if we’re being honest) the first book in Justine G’s horny horror-fest of a series, BLACKSTONE Erotica: RED MONOLITH FRENZY!
We’re kinda excited about it, actually. The recently released second book, GREEN FEVER DREAM, is doing alright, but we figure it can’t hurt to introduce readers to the book that started it all. So, here’s the link > RED MONOLITH FRENZY: Book 1 BLACKSTONE Erotica < and here’s our request of you, the loyal Martian Migraine Press consumer: this weekend, GO and GET IT. And once you’ve downloaded it, tell your friends to do the same. And then read it! Read it and then be a dear, would you? Pop some reviews on to the page once you’re done.
OK, perhaps that’s a lot of steps, but we know you’re up for it. We’d love for RED MONOLITH FRENZY to hit #1 in the Erotica listings! Do it for Justine! Do it for Lovecraft! Do it for high quality, novella-length smut!
Eroticizing the Outer: MMP Interview with Blackstone Author Justine G
014 years ago
Justine G is the second author in our stable of weird writers and the entity responsible for the BLACKSTONE Erotica series, the first book of which, RED MONOLITH FRENZY, came out in April… and we’ve just released he second book in the series, GREEN FEVER DREAM. Explaining what Justine does and how she does it is not an easy task, as she’s been cultivating her mystery since she was wee; all we here at MMP know is that we get a perverse little kick from her amusing yet disturbing tales of strange sexual practices.
We are, as ever, excited to release Book Two and of course, see what arousing abominations she’s created this time around. We managed to actually get her on the phone (a rare occurrence, akin to an eclipse or, dunno, eel migrations? Something like that…) and, after some business-style chat re: formatting for GREEN FEVER DREAM, pressed our advantage with a couple of interview questions…
MMP: Ready for some probing, Justine?
JG: Oh! You know it.
MMP: Let’s start with your definition of BLACKSTONE… erotic romance or erotica?
JG: Oh, erotica. No question. Let’s put it this way: ain’t nobody in my books overcoming adversity and building a stable relationship with a view to happily-ever-after. There’s no romance in my books and no apologies, either.
MMP: Alright then, paranormal erotica or regular flavour?
JG: Paranormal is such a useless term now, y’know? It’s just become this catch-all category for the vamps and werewolves and sexy witches. Excuse me while I stifle a yawn. I prefer the term “weird erotica” for my stuff, which means, basically, harkening back to the old-school weird fiction of yesteryear. My monsters are actually monstrous. Magic that’s not shiny. Sex that’s heavy on the F in “WTF?”
MMP: Yesteryear. There’s a rare word.
JG: Oh my god, man! Some of that old stuff was not safe at all! Racy, disturbing, dark materials with a serious vein of kink running through it all. I mean, nothing as explicit as today, but still… so much of the so-called paranormal fiction and erotica today is completely dull. I’m trying to introduce danger, threat. And fun, of course!
MMP: It’s working. Getting the feedback from some of our advance reviewers for RED MONOLITH FRENZY was enlightening for us. The word transgression came up more than once…
JG: Well, good, because that’s what I’m going for. Transgressive material, boundary-defying sex.
MMP: Certainly a few lines get crossed in Book One! The closing orgy is like nothing we’ve seen before but even so, it’s all humans involved, albeit freakishly mutated ones. You’re going further with Book Two, though?
JG: Oh yes. The problem with writing erotica with and for humans is that the politics are inescapable, really. Every interaction, even the most casual, is loaded with politics. So, with Book Two, I’m moving beyond humans, or human-proxies, which almost happened in Book One, but it wasn’t the right time for it in the arc of the story. For me, sex has always been about eroticizing the Other, and there’s only so far you can take that when the Other looks, speaks, and acts like you do.
MMP: If it’s not too personal to ask, how do you identify sexually?
JG: Not personal at all. Seriously, so-called personalities just get in the way of being an omni-sexual creature. And that’s “me”; I’m all over the map. Probably this has a lot to do with my personal occult practice, but I’ve broken and re-combined my identity so many times by now that the sight of a glass of water can get me warm!
MMP: Half-full? Or half-empty?
JG: (laughs) Oh, about three-quarters full with a little condensation around the lip and a damp coaster underneath and I’m all over that glass! But you get what I mean. I think it’s a completely open and natural way to approach the Universe. I mean, if you’ve incarnated here, then clearly you enjoy a physical, sexualized existence. Binaries are present so that they may be unified; there are no polarities, only symmetries. Everything is sexy from the right angle!
MMP: We have a feeling all your angles are non-Euclidean, but yeah, we get it.
JG: You know how some people are all “I like to make love during storms”? I’m the same way, honestly, but I’d rather be with the storm itself.
MMP: And you say you’re not a romantic?
JG: (laughs) Yeah, I guess that’s kind of Baudelaire of me, isn’t it?
MMP: A little. So what we’re hearing from you here is less about eroticizing the Other than it is the Outer? Is that correct or close, would you say?
JG: Sure. The sexualizing of concepts, it’s just the natural place to end up if you believe that whole ‘the brain is the main sex organ’ deal. If ideas get you horny, my stuff is for you. I’d like to write a scene someday in which I fuck Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem, but I’m not a mathemetician. Still, that would be something else! Probably never, truly finish, though… but the synaesthetic overload!
MMP: (laughs) We’ll try to find you some prize-winning mathlete to work with on that. But that’s another thing about your fiction that we’ve received some queries about: you’re the main character! What are you trying to do there with the first-person perspective? Is it straight-up reporting?
JG: I like my erotica with strong female characters, and I’m the strongest one I know, so, it’s auto-biographical material from another dimension! The Justine from seventeen degrees to the left gets up to some crazy stuff, and I just write about it: I pass the screaming on to you, like a good journalist! Seriously, though, I do believe in that stuff. If I’ve learned anything here, it’s that in an infinite Universe, everything is happening somewhere. There’s no such thing as fiction…
MMP: We love the way you drop terrifying cosmic implications into casual conversation! You don’t really shy away from loading your books with magic, and with your background…
JG: Yeah, it’s fifty shades of legit occult invocation of Eros! (laughs) I mean, I know my readers are smart, so why would I talk down to them? In RED MONOLITH FRENZY there’s some discussion on language-as-reality-modifier, and in GREEN FEVER DREAM, the orgone-radiation theories of Wilhelm Reich are a key part of the plot.
MMP: Not something you’d find in most of the erotica being produced. It’s why we like you here.
JG: Thank you! I mean, it’s not like I go on and on about those things. My books are all about the sex, but y’know, may as well learn a little something as you go. I hope it makes them different enough from the usual fare.
MMP: Speaking of which, would you ever write something like Fifty Shades of Grey? Maybe something with a Lovecraftian flavour?
JG: What, like Fifty Shades of R’lyeh? God, no. I respect Lovecraft too much, the old prude! (laughs) See, that Fifty Shades… it’s just glossed over rape-fantasy which, y’know, others have analyzed elsewhere, so I won’t go on about it. Again, I like the strong female characters, which this James creature is clearly not a fan of. Meh. Leave it for the housewives.
MMP: Something she has in common with Lovecraft. No strong females in his fiction…
JG: Well, exactly. Barely any females at all, and the few he does have are either weak or monstrous. Lovecraft avoided sex like the plague, so of course, it seethes and breeds between every line of his work. There’s folks who, well, I guess you’d call them, what? Lovecraft traditionalists? Get upset about filmmakers like Stuart Gordon or authors who dose their Lovecraftiana with sex and I just don’t get that. It’s there, it’s complicit, embedded in the material, and we’re all big boys and girls and other things, so why not bring it out. Have some fun with it.
MMP: Sure, but does that defeat the purpose?
JG: Not at all! Now, I think we’re in danger in this society, in danger of becoming anhedonic. Of exhausting ourselves of the pleasure principle and more importantly, of those things that trigger wonder in us. Which is what sex should do. It’s wonderful and it’s horrific, also, and this is something we forget. I don’t want us to forget that. It’s transformative. So, use it as such. Use it to transform and as long as you’re transforming, why not become something more than human? Just seems like an obvious thing to me.
MMP: Not giving anything away here, but what’s next for Justine G in GREEN FEVER DREAM and beyond?
JG: She gets out of fucking Czechoslovakia, for starters! Let’s see… London, five-star hotels, new powers, new apprentice, new threats! Plenty of sex and then, as with the first book, a big reveal at the end. She gets some answers, and of course, more questions arise. Then it’s off to Boston for Book Three! And possibly something off-planet for Book Four…
MMP: Yes! As ever, looking forward to it, Justine.
Justine G’s BLACKSTONE Erotica series continues with Book Two GREEN FEVER DREAM, available as a DRM-free Kindle ebook
