Dark Regions Press book announcement thread

[Despanan]

Originally Posted by DoubleK

I thought King books were basically other authors who had a good book, but they slapped King's name on the book to boost sales.

Not all of them, but yes as far as I know the man does use ghost writers (which would explain the huge variances in quality people have reported from book to book).

[Chris_Morey]

The ghost writers thing is just a rumor. Yes, his books have variance in their quality, but every author has work that isn't as strong as their usual, or much better than their usual, it's really not that far fetched.

And as much as I know how much this will annoy you guys...




Dark Regions Press is happy to announce that the new novel The Creeping Kelp by William Meikle is now available for preorder in both our leather-bound signed by both author and artist Deluxe Thirteen Hardcover with slipcase edition and 100 Signed and Numbered Limited Hardcover edition!

PREORDER SPECIAL: Order the 100 Signed and Numbered Limited Hardcover while its still in the preorder stage and get it at $5 off the cover price!


Click here to read more about or order The Creeping Kelp by William Miekle!


Some seaweed, a jellyfish and some material brought back from the Peabodie expedition to Antarctica. An innoccuous enough blend you might think. But when a storm in the North Atlantic frees a sample that has been dormant inside an old wreck, the new creature finds that it is hungry. Our plastics-oriented society has given it an abundant supply of food... more than enough for it to grow, and build, and spread.

Can anyone escape the terror that is... THE CREEPING KELP?


Praise for William Meikle:

Aims for pure entertainment ... and hits the mark.
- Simon Morden, VECTOR

The author is relentless; just when you catch your breath, something new and exciting happens, sending you spinning into another part of the adventure, and keeping you flipping pages to see what's next.
- David Wilbanks, Horrorworld

... solid prose commands attention right from the start and carries the reader straight through to the climax.
- Garrett Peck for Cemetery Dance #40

...descriptions so vivid you can almost hear the clash of the swords and smell the blood.
- Murder and Mayhem Bookclub

Anyone who's fond of a good story and a good piece of writing will enjoy Meikle's clever conceits, interesting and earthy characters, and well turned prose.
- Dread Central

Meikle is a writer that can grace the page with words of beauty whilst twisting a nightmare into grotesque shapes before your eyes.
- Len Maynard and Mick Sims

William Meikle's short stories and novels are shining examples of what is missing in horror fiction today: atmospheric in style, old-school in character, with an intriguing story to be told. Utmost use is made of the author's native Scotland in many of his tales, and his forays into the Cthulhu Mythos stories are original in concept, building on Lovecraft's works.
- David Wynn, Mythos Books


Click here to read more about or order The Creeping Kelp by William Miekle!


About the author



William Meikle is a Scottish writer with over a dozen novels published in the genre press and over 200 short story credits in thirteen countries. He is the author of the ongoing Midnight Eye series among others, and his work appears in a number of professional anthologies. His ebook THE INVASION has been as high as #2 in the Kindle SF charts. He lives in a remote corner of Newfoundland with icebergs, whales and bald eagles for company. In the winters he gets warm vicariously through the lives of others in cyberspace, so please check him out at http://www.williammeikle.com

Dedication:

To the memory of John Wyndham, H P Lovecraft, H G Wells and all the keepers of the flame who have come after them.

Acknowledgements:

With thanks to Steve Price at Generation Next Publications for all the hard work he puts in that's never seen. But it is appreciated.


Publisher contact

Dark Regions Press
P.O. Box 1264
Colusa, CA, 95932
http://www.DarkRegions.com

Contact us directly with any questions or comments at:
support AT darkregionspress.com

[Despanan]

Originally Posted by Chris_Morey

And as much as I know how much this will annoy you guys...

O.O

...

BUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

okay...okay, I'm good...I...



Snerk!

BUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

OhMyGodOhMyGod ROFL. ROFLMAO! LOL! LOOOL! LULZ! LULZSPLOSION!

Whew...

The Creeping Kelp. The Creeping Kelp.

I LOVE you Chris Morey. DOn't ever change. You are the light of my life. When I saw that cover, I laughed so hard I broke my chair, then fell out.

You complete Me.

The Creeping Kelp. Ah, Me.

One more time:




This will never get old.

hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhheeeeeeeeeeeeee /wheezing laughter

My god. It's written by the man of Gorton's Fishsticks....

http://www.gortons.com/our_products.htm

[Despanan]

...And just when I thought it couldn't get any better. Oh Jesus Name!





Where do you FIND these people Chris Morey? Do you grow them in vats?

You grow them from the ground of course.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dphqx...eature=related

[Despanan]

This explains so much.

[Chris_Morey]

I'm glad you're laughing, I hope you realize that's the INTENDED response? It's a humorous, campy horror novel.

[Chris_Morey]

Originally Posted by Despanan

...And just when I thought it couldn't get any better. Oh Jesus Name!

Where do you FIND these people Chris Morey? Do you grow them in vats?

Actually, William Meikle is a best selling e-book seller. Look him up. You're right though, he is a white man with facial hair, clearly the guy behind fish sticks.

Look, just because you disguised everyone's beloved fishsticks man by shaving his cheeks and putting him in a red coat doesn't mean we can't see through your bullshit.

This does explain a lot. Especially since a lot of your posts read like a nutritional information chart on the side of a fishstick's box.

[Despanan]

Originally Posted by Chris_Morey

I'm glad you're laughing, I hope you realize that's the INTENDED response? It's a humorous, campy horror novel.

I would hope so. I can't see anyone making it through the pitch meeting with a straight-face.

Man, I think I'm just going to start using that image to win arguments, like if I don't feel like responding I'll just be like: LOOK AT THIS. THIS EXISTS.

My opponents will never recover.

The Creeping Kelp.

[Chris_Morey]

That's actually a great idea, will you include the link when you do that as well please?

Originally Posted by Despanan

I would hope so. I can't see anyone making it through the pitch meeting with a straight-face.

Man, I think I'm just going to start using that image to win arguments, like if I don't feel like responding I'll just be like: LOOK AT THIS. THIS EXISTS.

My opponents will never recover.

The Creeping Kelp.

[Chris_Morey]

They read like press releases. You do know what press releases are, right?

Originally Posted by DoubleK

Look, just because you disguised everyone's beloved fishsticks man by shaving his cheeks and putting him in a red coat doesn't mean we can't see through your bullshit.

This does explain a lot. Especially since a lot of your posts read like a nutritional information chart on the side of a fishstick's box.

Originally Posted by dipshit

They read like surgeon general's warnings. You do know what surgeon general warnings are, right?

Ah shit. You're right. My bad.

[Chris_Morey]

How did you discover my real name?

[Grausamkeit]

This thread is making me hungry.

[Chris_Morey]

Do you like fish dicks?

[Chris_Morey]

Hey friends, just wanted to let you know that there's a free chapter from the new novel The Creeping Kelp by William Meikle now available for download in PDF format, here's the link:

FREE CHAPTER DOWNLOAD from The Creeping Kelp

[Chris_Morey]

The positive reviews for Multiplex Fandango by Weston Ochse keep rolling in. Read of a few of them:

Paperback Horror says "What we’re seeing here is quite possibly the most comfortable, relaxed, and expert takeover that the horror genre has ever seen." Read the rest of the review at:
http://www.paperbackhorror.com/2011/...ton-ochse.html

Dread Central says "There is not a single weak story in the sixteen, which makes picking the best of the bunch something of an exercise in futility." Read the rest of the review at:
http://www.dreadcentral.com/reviews/...-fandango-book

Shroud Magazine says "Weston Ochse is the real deal: a military veteran and former intelligence officer whose resume is no doubt peppered with events he can't talk about, who travels to exotic locales on government business to this day and lives with his wife in the American desert Southwest." Read the rest of the review at:
http://shroudmagazinebookreviews.blo...-fandango.html

If you folks know of a review of Multiplex Fandango by Weston Ochse that should be mentioned, let me know!

Finally, to read more about the book itself, visit its product page at:
http://www.darkregions.com/products/...ton-Ochse.html

[Chris_Morey]

Coming this Tuesday, June 14th from Dark Regions Press is a new collection of four Lovecraftian novellas, The Engines of Sacrifice by James Chambers:


Click here to read more about The Engines of Sacrifice by James Chambers!


In hidden places, they sleep and dream, and through their dreams they touch humanity--but their touch brings only the stains of horror, death, and madness...until the day the Old Ones return.

In The Engines of Sacrifice, acclaimed writer James Chambers delivers four nightmare novellas inspired by the Mythos of H. P. Lovecraft.

Investigation 37: In the late years of the Vietnam War, Lavender May runs away from home to search for freedom and peace in New York City, but instead, she finds only a world of magic, witchcraft, and lies.

The Ugly Birds: Only one thing could save Carmine Darabont's comics magazine from going under: publishing the next chapter of the hit series "The Otherworlders." But what dark secret drives its creator--Carmine's ex-fiancé--to refuse to deliver it?

The Hidden Room: At the height of the Cold War, Doctor Calvin Lenox is a member of the Nuclear Emergency Search Team. With his life spiraling into despair, he confronts the mystery of a runaway Soviet defector and the death of three men, only to find himself at the mercy of...the Faceless God.

The Engines of Sacrifice: What is the power of words? Can they control the fabric of reality? In a horrifying new world, underground author Rowley Cray struggles against a totalitarian government gone insane and the possibility that he can control the souls of the dead.


Praise for James Chambers:

"Chambers is adept at striking the perfect balance of darkness and light...." --Dark Wisdom

"...Chambers acknowledges the internal monsters of the psyche. He also adroitly addresses the external evils; those terrors that are kept at bay for the sense of sanity. --Hellnotes

"...for those who like their horror straight up and to the point..."
--Horror Fiction Review

"Chambers has a skill for evoking the emotions that are needed in the horror field." --David Agranoff, Postcards from a Dying World

"Chambers writes stories that are paced fast enough to friction burn a reader's eyeballs." --Horror Reader.com


About the author



James Chambers is the author of the short story collection, Resurrection House, published by Dark Regions Press. His numerous tales of horror, dark fantasy, crime, and science fiction have appeared in more than 30 anthologies and magazines, including: Bad Cop, No Donut; the award-winning Bad-Ass Faeries anthology series; Bare Bone; Cthulhu Sex; Dark Furies; The Dead Walk; the award-winning Defending the Future anthology series; The Domino Lady: Sex as a Weapon; Dragon’s Lure; The Green Hornet Chronicles; Hardboiled Cthulhu; Allen K’s Inhuman; Lin Carter’s Anton Zarnak: Supernatural Sleuth; New Blood; No Longer Dreams; Warfear; and Weird Trails.. He wrote the collection The Midnight Hour: Saint Lawn Hill and Other Tales, illustrated by Jason Whitley. He can be found online at http://www.jameschambersonline.com.


Click here to read more about The Engines of Sacrifice by James Chambers!


Publisher contact

Dark Regions Press
P.O. Box 1264
Colusa, CA, 95932
http://www.DarkRegions.com

Contact us directly with any questions or comments at:
support AT darkregionspress.com

[MissCheyenne]

You CANNOT be serious with that cover. Can you? Tell me no, lie to me Chris Morey, tell me it's just a work in progress. LIE TO ME DAMNIT!!

[Chris_Morey]

Yet you say nothing about the play covers that Despanan has. Interesting, selective criticism.

[Chris_Morey]

The Engines of Sacrifice by James Chambers is now available at DarkRegions.com! Read more about the book at:

http://www.darkregions.com/products/...-Chambers.html

[MissCheyenne]

Originally Posted by Chris_Morey

Yet you say nothing about the play covers that Despanan has. Interesting, selective criticism.

Des isn't trying to sell me his plays. You on the other hand, are trying to sell these works. Seriously, that cover is appauling. Based on that cover, I wouldn't have the slightest bit of interest in picking that book up. It matters Chris Morey, it matters.

EDIT : That cover (and I'm speaking ONLY about that cover) looks like a bad 80's childrens book cover. Is that your audience? Is that who you are trying to sell to?

[Despanan]

Also: It's important to note that Desp's graphics are FREAKING AWESOME.

The engine's of sacrifice cover is giving the "Disappeared" cover a run for it's money.

I mean: OW. Ow. Ow. Ow. It is literally burning my retinas. If I ran into that book irl I think I'd go blind, my eyes would pop out of my head and I'd die.

Congratulations Chris_Morey, you've created a Despanan trap. I hope you're happy.