Scott R. Jones's Blog, page 11
December 10, 2012
“Stephanie’s First Date”: A Conversation with the Authors of ‘Seawater and Stars’
The collective editorial entity of Martian Migraine Press known as “The Face” (on Mars, natch!) sat down for a virtual chat with authors S R Jones and Justine G, the morally bankrupt creatures responsible for Seawater & Stars: The Last Novel of Gideon Stargrave, to talk about comics, Grant Morrison, metafictional conceits, and the titillating challenges inherent with mashing up two-stage expansion steam engines and Victorian smut…
The Face Hoo boy. The geekiness is just coming off the screen h...
November 28, 2012
Green Fever Dream Gets A Lovely Review!
Here at MMP HQ, we expect certain things to be said about our authors and their work. Most of those expectations fall squarely in Hell’s half-acre, though. We expect to hear words like “twisted”, “perverted”, “horrific”, and, on occasion, even “hilarious”. Those terms are par for the course.
But “I found a human connection that captured my heart”? What? And for the work of Justine G, our resident weird pornographer? Double-whaaaat?
Yup. Guess we’ll just have to get used to hearing it.
The full r...
November 22, 2012
Seawater and Stars, Grant Morrison Mashup, and LUST LARVAE!
A recent Google hang-out with our authors turned maudlin the other night. S R Jones, a longtime fan of Grant Morrison’s seminal series of… well, it’s hardly fair to call them “comic books”, even, is it? No. Anyway, the boy loves The Invisibles and the discussion turned to that love, and how quaint the series seems now during these final tilt-a-whirl descending days before the Eschaton blows all up ins on 12/21/2012. Which quaintness (Jones claims) speaks to the underlying archetypal truths of...
November 7, 2012
The Numbers: Halloween Promo Breakdown! Also, Author Projects and MECHANICALS
This was our biggest free Kindle book promotion yet and we’ve only just now sat down to tally the results. Over the course of five days, from October 28 through to Thursday November 1, we gave away four of our current titles, to a dollar amount of $1900. Gah. It’s enough to give a body the vapours. Here’s the breakdown, homies…
Soft From All The Blood by S R Jones — 249 copies
Green Fever Dream (Book 2 BLACKSTONE Erotica) by Justine G — 242 copies
Summonings: Anicka and Kamil (a BLACKSTONE Eroti...
October 22, 2012
MMP Halloween Special! Free Kindle Books: All Treats, No Tricks!
Years ago, our author S R Jones used to run a weekly ‘Weird Tales’-style spoken word radio show, appropriately titled “Weird Tales”. Original. Anyway… he tells us that, with spooky stuff being sent out on the airwaves all year, Halloween always had an anti-climactic feel, so much so that he’d switch up genres and do an all-romance or documentary show when the dread night came round. We won’t be doing that for our Halloween special, but man, we know how he felt… because all (OK, most) of our t...
October 18, 2012
Multiple eBook Formats? Pay Options? We’re Working On It…
A quick update: we’ve had any number of requests from MMP readers for our ebooks to be made available in more than just the .mobi format, and honestly? That’s always been the plan. Well, now we’re getting on it. We’ve dipped our toes in the ebook market sufficiently to go ahead with change… though it still makes us uncomfortable! But who are we kidding? We’ve never been comfortable. It’s too crowded in here for one thing.
Anyway, within the next couple of weeks, we hope to have our Bookstore u...
September 24, 2012
NEWSCLUSTER: Blackstone Shorts, A Book of R’lyehian Spirituality and A Sorrowful Sparlock
It’s been a little while since our last update. Summer, that desolate season, tends to take it out of us here at MMP HQ and we are only just now getting back into the general swing. Also, we get it into our collective Head that somehow news-y type updates require a certain explosive quality with lots of bright and also shiny. Bundles of informational excitement. And when that combustibility isn’t right there on the surface, we tend not to bother with lighting what fuse there may be.
News is ne...
September 6, 2012
Kaiju Terror v. Intertextual Reality: James Chambers’ ‘The Engines of Sacrifice’ [review]
The Engines of Sacrifice by James Chambers (2011 Dark Regions Press)
James Chambers’ The Engines of Sacrifice is a collection of four short novellas linked through time, place, and Lovecraft. The stories (Investigation 37, The Ugly Birds, The Hidden Room and the titular Engines) move through the decades gathering nightmare fuel, from Vietnam-era dark psychedelia through to the nuclear hysteria of the 1980s and into a not-too-distant moment in the future when the stars are almost right, and man...
