All New Stuff

by: S.L. Schmitz
Dark Continents Publishing is proud to announce that over the next 4 months, we will be launching the following novels. Here are some sneak peeks of what is coming:

Launching September 28, 2011:

Quiet Houses by Simon Kurt-Unsworth:
a deeply disturbing collection of stories, with one common link: a paranormal investigator who understands the difference between what is seen and unseen. And why are all haunted houses so vacant, so devoid of human understanding?

Campfire Chillers by Dave Jeffery: gather round the fire, if you dare. So many new stories to tell, so little time… Jeffrey has created a whole world of frightening creatures that haunt the wood we camp in and hike in… if you think you’re ready for the next generation of scary campfire stories, then this the book for you!

Let It Bleed by S.L. Schmitz: the soft cover, while not launching at the fabulous FantasyCon in Brighton Beach, will transition to Dark Continents from its current wonderful placement at Dead Tree Comics. Soft cover will be available via the Dark Continents catalog as of September 2011.

Launching Black Friday, November 25, 2001

HELL by John Prescott:
The second novel in his memorizing trilogy about the eternal fight between good evil. But who will win? The continuation of the Revelation Chronicles. Journey with Trez and the rest of the core group of believers as the world goes through drastic changes and as HELL itself brings forth damnation and death to the people of Earth.

Phobophobia:
we don’t have a book cover yet, but that doesn’t mean that this anthology of over 25 writers from around the world doesn’t have bite. Dean M. Drinkel is the editor of this intensely disturbing group of stories of what is fearful and what is feared.

Snareville II by D.M. Younquist:
The sequel to the original breakneck novel; face-paced and merciless. Can humans survive the zombie attack, or will the world surrender itself to the living dead?

Monster’s Ink by Scott Nicholson: the highly anticipated collection of stories from Horror Master Scott Nicholson, including the never-before-published, terrifying, post-apocalyptic zombie tale ‘Darker With the Day.’

In 2012, Dark Continents has over a dozen new novels coming out. Stay tuned as Sylvia Shults, Nerine Dorman, S.L. Schmitz, and many, many more publish their newest offerings. We cannot wait to be a part of your new year and your new reading!

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2011 has been a great year for the Dark Continents Publishing Company!

In April at the World Horror Convention in Austin, Texas Dark Continents was proud to hold the official Launch Party for thirteen debut books! The DCP Vice President Tracie McBride came all the way from Australia to join in on the celebration and help promote her novel, Ghosts Can Bleed. We celebrated by hosting a Bat Cruise Launch Party at sunset on beautiful Lady Bird Lake in downtown Austin. Our guests were treated to a buffet supper and open bar, a special Audio Sample Presentation of our entire line of books read by the talented voice narrator, Wayne June, as well as a fantastic view of the famous Austin Bats as they left their caves for the evening. Three special cruise guests each won a lifetime membership guarantee of one free copy of all future Dark Continents publications, so long as they keep in touch and let us know where to mail the books!

In other exciting news, author Dave Jeffery’s novel Necropolis Rising Kindle version has enjoyed remarkable success in the UK, where it reached #1 in the Amazon Horror chart. Since this time the novel has maintained a top-ten presence in the Amazon Occult chart, where as of this writing it is currently #8.

 

David M. Youngquist, Sylvia Shults, and John Prescott participated in a whirlwind book signing tour in Illinois this June, stopping at three bookstores in two days. Many people turned out for the signings, and many books were sold. But, most exciting of all, Barnes and Noble and Waldens (so sorry to see you go, Walden’s!) have begun displaying our titles as end caps. End caps  are the equivalent of the Holy Grail for authors – having books we have loved and nurtured majestically displayed at the end of a row. Nirvana!

John Prescott’s PRAY novel made it into the top 100 Horror Novels in the Amazon US Kindle ratings in July, and we’re expecting  a bigger reception for the second novel in the series, HELL, set to debut on Black Friday November 25, 2011.

Sylvia Shults continues to do research on her as-yet unnamed novel about the Bartonville, Illinois Asylum for the Incurable Insane, a very haunted and very cool old abandoned place. Sylvia and S.L. Schmitz spent a wonderful afternoon on the grounds of the asylum, taking photographs of the graveyards and the main building in preparation for her research!  

John Irvine and his wife, Maureen Irvine, are in New Zealand enjoying all of that LOTR’s scenery and working on two joint collections called Collected Haibun and Echoes of Exotic Places. Maureen’s novel (set in Greece) is called Bitter Olives, and is slated for DCP’s 2012 new imprint collection. If you can’t wait to sink your teeth into the next Irvine publication, you simply must check out the gourmet short stories, poetry and recipes (yes- recipes!) in Blood Curry, featuring that most unique of ingrediants; fresh animal blood!

Also in July, the newest edition of the DCP Book Catalog became available for distribution. Additional books now added to the collection include S.L. Schmitz’s dark and mysterious Let It Bleed; the upcoming launches for John Prescott’s HELL and Snareville II, the chilling sequel to David M. Younquist’s fast-paced zombie thriller, as well as Phobophobia, an anthology of short stories about the secret world of human fears and phobias edited by Dean M. Drinkel.

Dark Continents Publishing will host an official launch party of several new publications at the British Fantasy Society’s FantasyCon in Brighton on Saturday October 1, 2011 at 8:00pm. Huzzah! Simon Kurt Unsworth will be debuting his highly anticipated Quiet Houses novel, and Dave Jeffery’s haunting new collection of short stories Campfire Chillers. Adrian Chamberlin will be there as well, with his excellent novel The Caretakers, and if all things go as planned DCP’s President David M. Younquist will be journeying from the USA to join in on the fun.

On a more somber note, we were sad to lose Serenity J. Banks from the Core Board of Directors, but welcomed Julia Messina as our new Senior Editor and member of the Senior Board. Serenity will now participate as a Junior Board Member – looking for a good vampire novel? Check out her novel The Left Hand.

Over the next six months, stay tuned for more blog posts as the madcap Dark Continents Authors travel to such places as the FantasyCon in Brighton and Archon 35 in  St. Louis, MO. There will be updates on bookings, podcasts, interviews, author appearances, blogging, and a VERY BIG Press Release announcing some VERY BIG author news…. So stay tuned, “LIKE” us on Facebook, and sign up to receive blog updates!

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