The Penny Dreadful book company. Pulp is back!

[Jaqhama]

Ghostwriter publications in the UK has started producing a series of penny dreadful chapbooks with cool covers and stories.
Many pulp tales to choose from.
All by new and modern authors.

http://thepennydreadfulcompany.com/

Enjoy: Jaq.

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[David J. West]

I neglected to ask you at the Conan forum-are you going to submit to this?


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[Jaqhama]

Zarahemlan Scout said...
I neglected to ask you at the Conan forum-are you going to submit to this?

Hi Scout

I've actually got a short story in their Creature Feature anthology and I wrote a 42,000 word novella for them a few months ago. The novella will appear (so they tell me) in 2010 in paperback form alongside another novella I have yet to submit.

I've been offered carte blanche to submit anything I want to them, as the editor likes my weird/adventure based tales.
And I fully intend to so in the near future.

It's all about finding the time...

I'm currently doing a crime noir thriller for a UK publishing house and that is taking up all my writing efforts at the moment.
I'm halfway through the novel, which isn't bad considering I only started it two weeks ago.

My own thoughts on ordering some of the chapbooks would be to order enough so that the postage is not more than the cost of the books to start with, as international postage can be quite expensive.

Thanks for you interest in my writing, mate.

Cheers: Jaq.

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[David J. West]

Cool.


So on the strength of your anthology submission they wanted to take a longer work?


I'm just asking because all I saw was submissions under 8k. 42k is almost a perfect pulp format. Can't wait to see if RBE starts doing this next year too.





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[Jaqhama]

Actually I wrote a 7000 word short for them and they liked the story so much they asked if I could punch it out to 45 K, which I did.

Then they asked if I had anything else and I sent a horror short, which straight away went into the Creature Feature anthology.
Then they asked if I had another novella we could make a two in one book out of...and yes I do.
Then they invited me to submit stories for their chapbooks.
The editor does like Conan type tales, so you should certainly get an acceptance if it's dark and eerie.

I'm hoping to get a preview copy of Berserker any day now to review.

They do like their writers to supply chapbook stories as they can use these to help steer readers in the direction of the author's longer novels.

Cheers: Jaq.

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[David J. West]

That sounds awesome.


I will definetly want to read Berserker. Keep us posted.


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[darkbow]

Wow! Thanks Jaq. This sounds simply wonderful.

The Kobalos Trilogy
City of Rogues, available for the Kindle and at Smashwords
Road to Wrath, available for the Kindle and at Smashwords
Dark King of the North, available for the Kindle and at Smashwords

Non-fiction
An Amateur Beer Snob's Guide to Beer, for the Kindle and at Smashwords


Short stories
"Forlorn" at Deadman's Tome, "Beneath a Persian Sun" upcoming in Carnivah House's "Infinity Swords" anthology, "Zombie Tears" at Dark Fire, "Devil and Devil Damned" at Flashes in the Dark, "The Death of Lester Williams" in the anthology Deadlines, "Deep in the Land of the Ice and Snow" in "The Return of the Sword" anthology, "The Way the Sunlight Lies Upon Her Hair" at Every Day Fiction

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[erazmus]

Very, very cool, thanks for the info and congrats.
Mike

Michael D. Turner
'Psyched Up' in _Turn the other Chick_-ed. E. Friesner-Baen books
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'Dutchman Rescue'in Continuum SF #6
www.continuumsciencefiction.com/orders.htm

'An Incident at Black Tongue Tavern' in _Bash Down the Door and Slice Open the Badguy_ from Fantasist Enterprises:

www.fantasistent.com/books/anthologies/BASH.php
'Pink Plastic Flamingos''What Smitty Saw' 'Elvis's Space Alien Lovechild' 'Two Ravens''Rejection' (forthcoming) in Big Pulp
www.bigpulp.com/index.html
'Stains''Two ravens''Job Security' 'Yeti Yet' 'Characters in Flight'(forthcoming)in Tales of the Talisman 3-1 www.zianet.com/hadrosaur/index.html
'Morning Coffee''Happy Landings''Teller of Tales''Silver Shells''I'm tired of Bombs, and my dog is dead' 'One Dark Night'in Every Day Fiction
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'The Jewel Below' 'Mo the Mountain' in Flashing Swords
flashingswords.sfreader.com
Read 'Silver Shells' In The Best of Every Day Fiction
www.everydayfiction.com/features/the-best-of-every-day-fiction-2008/

[SJHigbee]

Congratulations, Jaq! This sounds like SUCH an opportunity for you...

www.sjhigbee.com

[Jaqhama]

No reason some of you guys and gals can't supply stories for the chapbook series.

I'd suggest not innundating them with S&S but do some eerie thrillers, horror, spooky stuff etc.

Cheers: Jaq.

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[David J. West]

I am submitting a short eerie piece for Clockwork Phoenix-but if they dont accept it-Penny Dreadful will be the first place I send it.


And in any case I am sure I can come up with something different for them. I think I might like the idea of chap-books.


When a man dies it should be for something . . . not of something
http://www.david-j-west.blogspot.com

[Jaqhama]

Guys

Hold everything.

Some of the authors at GWP have voiced concerns to me in regards to their publishing deals.

It could be nothing, it could be something, myself I'm going to wait and see what happens from now until Xmas.

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