Christopher C. Payne's Blog, page 2
November 20, 2013
JournalStone Publishing Announces the Joe Ledger: Special Ops (Limited Edition) will include, Three Guys Walk into a Bar (the novella set to be published in Limbus, Inc. II) as an added bonus!
SAN FRANCISCO, November 20, 2013 – JournalStone Publishing (JSP) President, Christopher C. Payne is pleased to announce the limited edition of Joe Ledger: Special Ops will include a BONUS, the novella, Three Guys Walk into a Bar that is set for publication in the shared world anthology of Limbus, Inc., Book II. The added bonus [...]
October 22, 2013
When Clichés Go Bad
When Clichés Go Bad By: Michael R. Collings Clichés are bad, right? We all know that, don’t we? Well, as it turns out, only some clichés could be considered ‘bad.’ Others in fact serve a useful purpose. Take social clichés, for example. You see someone you know and he greets you with, “Hey, how ya [...]
October 16, 2013
On Words…And the Etymological Fallacy
Words are fascinating critters. They can grow and shrink. Then can revert, invert…sometimes convert. Some shift meanings easily and generate dozens, scores, even hundreds of possibilities; others, more niggardly with semantic change, hold rigidly to meanings a thousand years old. But beyond all, words have history. Etymologists, philologists, and lexicologists spend countless hours scouring ancient [...]
October 9, 2013
Creatures…Great and Small
MEG 4: Hell’s Aquarium Steve Alten Gere Donovan Press, 23 August 2013 eBook Violet Eyes John Everson Samhain Publications, 1 October 2013 Trade paperback, Kindle By Michael R. Collings I was thirteen when I received my first—and most enduring—instruction in the importance of controlling physical scale to create effective horror. On January 27, [...]
September 30, 2013
Seventeenth-Century Ghosts and What We Can Learn From Them
Seventeenth-Century Ghosts and What We Can Learn From Them By Dr. Michael R. Collings One of the most useful results of my graduate and doctoral studies in the poetry of John Milton and its milieu was discovering the extent to which the seventeenth century—with its cataclysmic changes in politics, society, religion, and learning—marks the beginning [...]
September 19, 2013
Why Fuck?
By: Dr. Michael R. Collings After what appears to be an ambiguous title (but technically is not), perhaps a word of explanation of what this essay is about. Here is a word. It has been excoriated publicly and privately for centuries. Until something like a hundred years ago, it could not officially—or legally—appear in print. [...]
September 17, 2013
The N-Words and other Unmentionables
The N-Words and other Unmentionables By Michael R. Collings Future generations (assuming there will be such) may look back on our times and wonder at the power we ascribe to individuals and to words. Whenever there is a social problem, a cultural chasm, the first thing our society turns to—and attempts to change—is often [...]
September 16, 2013
JournalStone Publishing Announces Signing of Author Glen Krisch to a three book apocalyptic series, The Brother’s Keeper Trilogy, with book 1, Arkadium Rising set to be published in December, 2014.
SAN FRANCISCO, September 16, 2013 – JournalStone Publishing (JSP) President, Christopher C. Payne is pleased to announce the signing of a contract with author Glen Krisch, to publish a three book series titled, The Brother’s Keeper. Book, 1, Arkadium Rising, is set to be published in December 2014, Book 2 to follow in 2015, with [...]
September 14, 2013
Editor vs. Reviewer
As a writer, I often don different hats: novelist, short-story writer, poet, critic, reviewer, editor. Occasionally—and frustratingly—the hats collide when one function strays over into another. For example, I am the Senior Publications Editor at JournalStone Publications, which means that when working with a manuscript, I need to be alert to anything that impedes the [...]
September 8, 2013
JournalStone Publishing Announces – Limbus, Inc. will be stocked on the shelves of Barnes & Noble bookstores.
JournalStone Publishing Announces - Limbus, Inc. will be stocked on the shelves of Barnes & Noble bookstores. SAN FRANCISCO, September 8, 2013 – JournalStone Publishing (JSP) President, Christopher C. Payne is pleased to announce that Limbus, Inc., the collaborative anthology featuring five authors (Jonathan Maberry, Benjamin Kane Ethridge, Joseph Nassise, Brett J. Talley and Anne [...]
