As we move further into 2023, we realized it was time to redo the Hawkshaw Press site (home of our crime fiction novels and collections). The site has gotten a fresh makeover, and we’ll be updating Gravelight and Out of This World soon as well.
Meanwhile, please drop by Hawkshaw Press and meander a while, Flatfoot.
Welcome to HARDBOILED AND LOADED WITH SIN, the new anthology series by Hawkshaw Press. First issue drops SUMMER 2023.
Here’s the deets:
Fiction only.
Short stories 1500-7,500 words. If yours is longer send us a query @ publisher at Devil’s Party Press dot com.
12 pt New Times Roman, double-spaced.
Authors over 40 only.
Submit everything through our Duosuma page as a Word or Pages file.
FEE: 10 bucks
PAYMENT: All authors selected for publication receive a one-time royalty of 25 bucks, a copy of the anthology, and our semi-undying love.
Have you signed up for the DPP newsletter?
Subscribers got early access to the current (12/25/22) issue of Instant Noodles (that’s right, they got the password to get to read it before the general public!).
And this month, we have a freebie that we hope authors can use to help them meet their goals.
Submissions are open. Click the image above, or go to the DPP SUBMISSIONS page.
We make a pretty nice-looking book….
Featuring a unique collection of authors, Solstice: A Winter Anthology is a compelling read from cover to cover.
Anthony Doyle has a novel, Hibernaculum, coming out in the spring of 2023 from Out of This World Press. Anthony is a very strong and talented author and off-beat in just the way I like off-beat. He has a story in the current Instant Noodles, poetry in the current Solstice, and a story in last summer’s Instant Noodles as well.
Hibernaculum is a story about man’s quest to improve life through periodic periods of hibernation, like bears. What could be an easier way to lower your own carbon footprint? Just take a long and very restful nap. You’ll slim down too!
Check out Solstice
or “The Stoic”
or “Sam Bakki,”
and get ready for Hibernaculum, all written by Anthony Doyle, an Irish guy living in Brazil.
Have you signed up for the DPP newsletter?
Subscribers got early access to the current (12/25/22) issue of Instant Noodles (that’s right, they got the password to get to read it before the general public!).
And this month, we have a freebie that we hope authors can use to help them meet their goals.
COMING IN 2023 from GRAVELIGHT PRESS
COMING TO GRAVELIGHT PRESS IN 2023: a compendium of terror by master horror author R. David Fulcher. Look for The Pumpkin King and Other Tales of Terror to sneak up behind you when you’re walking home in the dark just about when the moon gets bright enough for harvest time. What kind of harvest happens in the dark? Check Gravelight Press for updates on your future sleepless nights courtesy of Mr. Fulcher, and stay tuned for the cover reveal, and to find out how you can get something special from the author.
Are you scared yet?
It’s in the new issue of Instant Noodles.
This week, the funeral pyre is lit, closing one door while opening another. Check out New Santa on Kindle Vella
I don’t know what I was thinking, back when I decided that Dave and I were going to become publishers. Well, actually, I was thinking that Dave has already successfully done so for his graphic novels, so how hard could it be?
It turns out it is a lot of work, sweat-equity, money out of pockets, but even more than that, it is a lot of emotional labor, because Dave and I really want our authors to have a good experience, and for them to be successful, and sometimes we just can’t dance fast enough to get everything done as quickly as we’d like to do it. If we publish you, we may never meet you in person, but we try to act as if what we are publishing for you was written by us, and to treat you and the work as we would like ourselves and our work to be treated. I hope we succeed at that more often than we fail. We made one decision, about two years ago, not to publish anything we weren’t jazzed about, even if we thought it could be a successful book, and we’ve stuck to that, so if we’re publishing your work, you know we really like it and believe in it. We just don’t always have time to tell you how much.
So, as we wind down this year, we want you to know that we’re here, today, working for at least one of our clients or authors, and doing our very best.
And we want to say thank you for those of you who have trusted us with your writing, and for those of you who have hired us to edit or coach you. All of it helps us keep this little indie press going. And working with you, with authors, is a true pleasure for us, and we are grateful to you.
And we hope all authors will join us in being grateful to anyone who reads the stories, poems, novels we publish. Without our readers, we have nothing. So, if you have read something we have published, if you have come here and read Instant Noodles, you have given an author hope, and a reason to keep writing. Thank you so very much!
May you have a wonderful 2023 filled with good things to read, and dreams that come true.
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