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April 18, 2013
JOURNALSTONE PUBLISHING AND AUTHOR JEFFREY WILSON ANNOUNCE THEIR CONTEST FOR TICKETS TO THE INAUGURAL FANFEST EVENT AT INTERNATIONAL THRILLER WRITER’S THRILLERFEST IN NEW YORK.
JournalStone’s Jeffrey Wilson, author of THE DONORS , THE TRAITEUR’S RING, and the soon to be released supernatural thriller, FADE TO BLACK, will be one of 22 International Thriller Writers (ITW) authors who will host fans at the Inaugural “Fanfest” event, a new addition to ITW’s annual Thrillerfest held each July in New York City. [...]
April 10, 2013
An Interview with Michael R. Collings about Stephen King–Questions by Erin Frey
One of the great pleasures of being a professor is that occasionally students email me for information. Sometimes they are in college, even once in a while in graduate school, but for me the most gratifying requests come from high-school students, often juniors confronting their first formal research project. I received one such request the [...]
March 3, 2013
JournalStone Publishing Announces Naming Author/Editor Aaron French As New Reviews Editor For The Hellnotes Website & Dark Discoveries Magazine
SAN FRANCISCO, March 3, 2013 – JournalStone Publishing (JSP) President, Christopher C. Payne is pleased to announce that up-and-coming author and editor, Aaron French, has been named the new Reviews Editor & Coordinator for both the Hellnotes Website and for Dark Discoveries Magazine, effective immediately. In naming French to the position Payne stated: “Aaron, has [...]
February 28, 2013
JournalStone Publishing Announces Signing of Award Winning Author, John R. Little, for New Novel
For immediate release: JournalStone Publishing Announces Signing of Award Winning Author, John R. Little, for New Novel SAN FRANCISCO, February 26, 2013 – JournalStone Publishing (JSP) President, Christopher C. Payne is pleased to announce the signing of a contract with award winning author, John R. Little, for the publication of a new suspense/thriller novel, working [...]
February 20, 2013
JournalStone Publishing & Dark Discoveries Magazine Announce That Celebrated Author Yvonne Navarro To Write New Column Concerning Women In Horror, “Double X Chromosome,” For Dark Discoveries Magazine
SAN FRANCISCO, February 20, 2013 – JournalStone Publishing (JSP) President, Christopher C. Payne and Dark Discoveries Magazine Managing Editor, James Beach, are pleased to announce that, beginning with Issue #23, Dark Discoveries Magazine will be the new home for celebrated author Yvonne Navarro’s new column concerning Women In Horror, titled “Double X Chromosome.” Yvonne’s first [...]
February 14, 2013
Limbus, Inc – Book Review
Limbus, Inc. JournalStone Publications, 2013 Reviewed by Michael R. Collings Toward the end of Limbus, Inc., Brett Tally’s “Epilogue” describes a manuscript the character has read as “tales of sacrifices, of ancient gods, of unimaginable futures and beings that span time and space.” The stories are, of course, the five novellas of Limbus, Inc., [...]
February 12, 2013
JournalStone Publishing Announces Upcoming Publication of Limbus, Inc. II, A New Shared World Anthology edited by Anne C. Petty – Featuring Novellas by Gary A. Braunbeck, Joe R. Lansdale, Jonathan Maberry, Joe McKinney, and Harry Shannon
SAN FRANCISCO, February 12, 2013 – JournalStone Publishing (JSP) President, Christopher C. Payne is pleased to announce that all contracts have now been signed for the publication of Limbus, Inc. II, a shared-world anthology, set for release in May of 2014. Limbus, Inc. II is the sequel to the initial anthology in this series, Limbus, [...]
February 4, 2013
JournalStone Publishing & Dark Discoveries Magazine Announce Famed Editor/Author/Reviewer Robert Morrish To Bring His Acclaimed “What The Hell Ever Happened To…?” Column To Dark Discoveries Magazine
SAN FRANCISCO, February 4, 2013 – JournalStone Publishing (JSP) President, Christopher C. Payne and Dark Discoveries Magazine Managing Editor, James Beach, are pleased to announce that, beginning with Issue #23, Dark Discoveries Magazine will be the new home for Robert Morrish’s acclaimed and long-running column, “What The Hell Ever Happened To…?” Robert Morrish has always [...]
January 23, 2013
JournalStone Publishing & Dark Discoveries Magazine Announce Free Distribution Of Special Collector’s Edition of Issue #23 At The Bram Stoker Awards® Weekend 2013 Incorporating The World Horror Convention
SAN FRANCISCO, January 23, 2013 –JournalStone Publishing (JSP) President, Christopher C. Payne and Dark Discoveries Magazine Managing Editor, James Beach, are pleased to announce that a Special Limited Collector’s Edition of Dark Discoveries Magazine, Issue #23, containing a ten-page central insert devoted to both the past history of both the World Horror Convention (WHC) and the [...]
December 26, 2012
Only….
Words can be frustrating. Some are funny. A few are even whimsical. Here is a bit of my favorite whimsy: In general, English depends on word-order for meaning…and in general, most words will fill only a limited number of positions. If you take the following everyday-type sentence—“The carnivorous rats surrounded the blood-red barn”—and shift the [...]
