Five Rivers to re-issue Schnarr's horror collection

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In
an agreement reached this week between J.W. Schnarr and
Lorina Stephens,Five Rivers has acquired the publishing
rights to Schnarr's collection of 22 horror short stories, entitled Things Falling Apart.




Although
Schnarr originally self-published the collection under his imprint, Northern
Frights Publishing, work commitments became such that he was pulled in too many
directions. "It's really all about time and fatigue," he says. "I've been
finding there really isn't time enough in the day to handle all the extra work
publishers put in sending off emails, review copies, promoting multiple books
at once, etc. I finally decided enough is enough."



Schnarr
and Stephens were introduced through Five Rivers' Editor in Chief, Dr. Robert
Runté, when Schnarr and Runté met at When
Words Collide 2011.



"Having
J.W. Schnarr join Five Rivers' authors is very exciting," says Lorina Stephens.
"His work deserves an audience. He writes very much in the tradition of classic
greats such as Edgar Allan Poe and Guy de Maupassant, but of course with a
completely modern, fresh voice. With Schnarr it's not so much about gore and
splatter, as it is about sliding like a scalpel inside your head and lodging
there. His characters are very believable, ordinary people who are hurtled into
horrific situations, sometimes of their own making whether through love or
stupidity, sometimes not."



Cover
art has been assigned to Schnarr's long-time artist colleague, Gavro Krackovic,
who lives and works in Podgorica, Montenegro.



Things Falling Apart is scheduled for release
August 1, 2012 in both print and digital formats.