Have you ever wondered why it's always a RED carpet?

Feb 25, 2025 11:40 pm

-Launched Today-

Today is release day for Demo Reels and Arthouse Madness. It's a collision between poetry and horror film that makes a red carpet the perfect choice.

“Like a seafaring Sigourney Weaver—which is one of a whole book of on-point references in here—Vince Liaguno sails out into the turbid, frothy waters of horror, and what he comes back with are these poems, which we can all feast on.”—Stephen Graham Jones, award-winning author of I Was a Teenage Slasher

-Hollow Tongue a Bram Stoker nominee -

Hollow Tongue by Eden Royce has made the final ballot for the Bram Stoker Awards so is now an official nominee. We're so proud of this line of novellas selected by editor R.J. Joseph and are excited for Royce who appears in two categories since here Middle Grade book The Creepening of Dogwood House also made the final ballot.

-Book Deal: The Uterus is an Impossible Forest-

We recently signed the debut poetry collection by Shannon Marzella titled The Uterus is an Impossible Forest. “I have no doubts that reading Marzella’s poetry will leave you changed and inspired, and I say that with confidence because that’s how I felt and feel when reading her work. She is witch and woman and poet and lore, and I’m so excited for everything she has ahead of her,” says editor Stephanie M. Wytovich. The collection will be released in August 2025.

-Cover Reveal: Pam Kowolski is a Monster!-

We got a chance to show off the amazing cover that Scott Cole created for Pam Kowolski is a Monster! by Sarah Langan and we launched the preorder with a discount. If you order directly from us you'll get $3 off the paperback and $5 off the hardcover.

-Eugen Bacon Receives Otherwise Fellowship-

The Otherwise Fellowship is an award that supports emerging creators in the field of speculative fiction. It is awarded to creators who are exploring and expanding our understanding of gender through their work and focuses on underrepresented voices. Bacon comments, “I am deeply moved to find myself in this stimulating space of engaging with difference—our world as we know it needs it now more than ever. It’s my hope that readers and publishers will consciously choose to be part of rewarding quality in enabling literature that truly makes a worthy contribution in the characters and themes, such as tradition, belonging, gender, climate action, the ‘other’, betwixt, unlimited futures… it spotlights.” Read more about the fellowship here.

-Kate Maruyama Reading -

In-person and online: Saturday March 8th at 2pm! Kate Maruyama will be reading from "Safer" at Beyond Baroque alongside Lisa Cheby, Desiree Zamorano, Noriko Nakada, Romaine Washington and Hazel Kight Witham. This is a FREE event but you need to register to attend.

-Last Chance: StoryBundle-

You have until midnight, February 27th to take advantage of the Horror Short Reads storybundle. It includes the two novellas from Kate Maruyama's Bleak Houses and L. Marie Wood's 12 Hours (all three were released as part of our novella line). It also includes excellent reads from Mythic Delirium, Apex Books, Bleeding Edge, Uncomfortably Dark, Valancourt Books, Interstellar Flight Press, Cemetery Gates Media and Broken Eye Books. You can get 19 ebooks for $20!