WHAT STARTS WITH A CRISP CLEAN PROLOGUE…

HIBERNACULUM starts out like most books, neat, clean, crisp white pages, chapters, titles, headers, all nice and normal.

And it ends like this:

It ends on notebook paper, torn from a spiral notebook, and hidden.

The book is fiction, and there is all story there, and you get to know and love the characters very well and much. But Anthony digs in. And so, why would the world come to have places where people could go to hibernate? Why would we need human hibernation? The answers range, and include vanity, conservation, rest, but also poverty, desperation, and ending up on notebook paper. Which humans get which kind of hibernation?

And that’s always the question in life, which humans get which kind of life, right?

The novel starts like a day at the spa, or MOMA, and ends on, well, not even on notebook paper, but I’m not giving it completely away. It sparks thought; it glows, and it swims in my mind, and I come back to it again, and again, and-

This damn book, this HIBERNACULUM.

And it’s here, and HERE, if you want it.

And find the humble Mr. Doyle here.

FOR THE MAVERICK READERS:

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Pre-orders are only for the folks who like to be early adopters.
Are you the one who recommends things to your friends? Then pre-orders may be for you!

With Devil’s Party Press, you can be assured that all books are well-written and will be well-reviewed, but what if you were the one to preview and recommend to your friends?

What if you’re the one with the perfect literary gift every time?

And what if you score a signed copy or a pre-order promo?

Check out our pre-orders!

Short horror stories by David Fulcher, one of the most beloved horror authors of the East Coast!

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Echoes from the Hocker House, short stories from the wilds of coal country by Virginia Watts, a National Book Award nominee!

TODAY ONLY!! ELLIS ELLIOTT LIVE @ STONE SOUP 7pm Eastern

Ellis will be reading from her newly released collection from Old Scratch Press: BREAK IN THE FIELD.

BREAK IN THE FIELD is still available at special pre-order sale price, with a custom-made and signed bookmark created by Ellis!

To find out more about tonight’s reading and Stone Soup, follow their FACEBOOK PAGE:

Or connect to their blog!

Don’t miss the reading of the book so good it is a contender for the National Book Award!

And get your pre-order pricing and bookmark here:

DID YOU GET TO SEE GABBY LIVE YESTERDAY? THEN DRUM FOR THE DEAD TODAY:

Looking for a terrifying horror read to get you through the weekend?

Check out the DRUMMING FOR THE DEAD series by Gabby Gilliam!

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You can get both books in the series right now for less than the price of a Starbucks, or a McDonald’s anything, and have great horror for your whole weekend. It’s too freaking hot to go out anyway. Stay inside and read something scary!

Leave Gabby a review, and I’ll send you a PDF of the Gravelight book of your choice!

A hot weekend full of zombies. In the words of Walter Sobchak, “If you will it, it is no dream.”

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And make sure to follow Gabby for more books!

INSTANT NOODLES UPDATE

DID YOU KNOW….

Instant Noodles has its own website now? https://instantnoodleslitmag.com

DID YOU KNOW…

Old Scratch Press is curating the December issue?

“Please take note, we’re shortening our word count. Can you take the challenge and keep it brief by making every word count? For our Winter issue we’re asking our writers to limit their poetry submissions to 2 poems (up to a combined total of 500 words). Prose writers, we’ll be only publishing work that is 500 words or less. (If you need to finish a sentence, we’ll cut you a little slack).  Guest Editors for the Winter issue include: GABBY GILLIAM: Poetry, R.DAVID FULCHER: Fiction, ALAN BERN and DIANNE PEARCE: Art, and NADJA MARIL: Memoir/Creative Nonfiction.”

WHO ARE OLD SCRATCH PRESS?

In January I emailed a bunch of poets who had allowed me to publish their poetry, and asked them if they would be interesting in forming a poetry collective, a thing where we could work together to promote and sell poetry, so that DPP could afford to publish poetry. MOST poetry chapbooks are published either by contests, or universities with large budgets, so that it doesn’t matter if the book sells or not. DPP can’t survive unless we sell books, so we had to find a different way to crack the nut.

I asked a lot of people who had writing I loved if they’d like to do something like that, and some of them decided to give it a try!

WHY did I choose them, instead of just putting out a call? Dave and I are a family (with our daughter), and so we tend to run DPP like a family business, and we like to offer any opportunities we have to people we already work with first, before we go find new people. That doesn’t mean we don’t want to find new people; it just means that once we publish you we try to promote you as much as possible. We would not have anything to publish without our authors, and we appreciate them.

If you’re interested in the folks who decided to roll the dice with us, visit their “about us” page.

You’ll find they’re great people, and great authors.

HAVE YOU READ WALDENLAND?

Copy of the page showing the start of Ben Talbot's short story. The image shows the first paragraph of Ben's story, and the Instant Noodles' header.

“I had the balls to ask my father what happened to my mother.”

What a way to start a story!

Ben Talbot is not new to writing, but he is new to sharing his writing. I think you’ll really enjoy Ben’s style of writing, and I am betting we’re going to see a lot more of his writing.

Take a read of Waldenland and let us know what you think.

ARE YOU AN AUTHOR? GOT A RECOMMENDATION FOR US?

Screenshot of the cover of Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury..Shows a small boy against a yellow background.

Ray Bradbury was a talented author, and, in many ways, my introduction into a genre called sci fi. In the 1970s sci fi felt like a new thing, but I think it has always been with humans, even from the time when stories were scratched into cave walls.

DANDELION WINE was one of my favorites. I remember how much I wanted to try to make wine from dandelions, which I had a long-standing love for, and still do. I remember how hot it was in this book, and in the 1970s, people with blue-collar parents, like me, didn’t have air conditioning. We had one huge window unit in the dining room of our twin brick house in Ridley Park, and my brother and I used to rush to sit directly in front of it, even though it meant being smushed up against the wall, and, really, too cold, as the air came out with frosty blasts, but in the summer heat in a tiny twin brick house, on a tiny nowhere street, icy was better than hot.

In DANDELION WINE it is the summer the main character, a young pre-teen fellow named Douglas, comes to realize that he is mortal, and that the time will come when summer won’t mean long days with nothing to do. It’s a book that is bittersweet, as Douglas learns that a time of year, a glorious season like summer, can be both lovely and sad, and real danger can be hiding around the corner, and that life is truly unpredictable, but also always ends the same way.

This would be on my summer sci fi reading list. What’s on yours?

Are you an author?

Would you like to do a guest post to tell us what’s on your summer reading list?

Pick a book and wax rhapsodic in 500 words or less, and, if selected, we’ll publish your piece, with links to your website, and your book(s). Let’s promote other indie authors and great books together!

Send your piece to: publisher@devilspartypress.com