TO ALL HORROR READERS, AS WELL AS WRITERS, AND TO EVERYONE

TO ALL HORROR READERS, AS WELL AS WRITERS, AND TO EVERYONE


We’ve all got something to sell and news to tell:

BLACK BED SHEET/DIVERSE COMPENDIUM NEWSLETTER: FEB 2009
All things Grabowsky and then some.
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“Nick’s writings is smells.”

---something a serious meth abuser once told me in front of a karaoke bar, after he convinced me he had read one of my late ‘80’s horror paperbacks, and I asked him for a blurb of praise if I offered him a cigarette. I don’t know what it means, but it’s funny.

“Keep ‘em coming, Nicholas.” ---Stephen King, and I am.
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Something to sell:

RED WET DIRT, folks…..it’s brand-spanking new and kick-ass. Its price is economy-sensitive. It’s available everywhere. I’m very proud of it. Given the chance, I’d shove it all down your throats and you’d thank me for it afterwards, each of you, and shower me with wows, to which I’d respond by putting out another newsletter and thanking you for making it worth all that time of drinking and chain smoking. You should see the trailer if you haven’t yet. I’m also putting together a CD of Red Wet Dirt-inspired music performed by independent bands. This release and the upcoming special edition of The Everborn are what I’ll be pushing this year, and I’ll be spreading it on thick. Both are the best I’ve ever written. Like, in my life.

What’s RED WET DIRT? Introducing three short stories & three novellas: While on vacation, a young man's fiancé becomes a heart-collecting Yuletide Thing on Christmas Eve. Get stuck in traffic when The Freeway Reaper claims another soul. A suburban family is plagued by a horde of were-rats. Special Agent Sam Cross, mortally wounded by a Jamaican specter, journeys into a psychedelic Festival of Fallen Souls in search of a supernatural healer whose lover's touch brings in contrast instant death. A legendary flesh eater arrives on the shores of an ancient Minoan city, infecting its population, beginning with a teenage boy's father who's summoned by the pompous king to become an undead garbage disposal. In Red Afterworld, an ex juvenile preacher gets his childhood wish of becoming a vampire when he's recruited into a male-only biker fraternity and finds himself one of the few survivors of global nuclear war, discovers a time portal in the Arizona desert with the hope of saving the world, and finds true love. Including extra minor works from the author's youth and the short screenplay Cutting Edges, the basis for an upcoming film and the author's directorial debut, Red Wet Dirt is to die for and is destined to become a classic way beyond its genre!

-----so says the description that’s going around, taken from the back of the book.
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News to Tell:

BLACK BED SHEET BOOKS

I am proud to announce my small traditional publishing company, specializing in horror fiction, has taken flight. Here are some particulars, in the sort of way Writer’s Market would show it:

Black Bed Sheet Books/Diverse Media
Roseville, CA. Email: downwarden(at)earthlink.net Acquisitions: c/o Acquisitions Department. Estab. October 2008. Publishes hardcover and trade paperback originals and reprints. Publishes 10-15 titles per year. Receives 40% of books from first-time authors; 95% from unagented writers. Pays average of 12% royalty on wholesale price. Does not yet offer advance. Publishes book up to one year after acceptance, with an average of 4-5 months. Accepts simultaneous submissions. Publishes fiction and nonfiction of all types, but specializes in horror/fantasy fiction.
Recent titles: Blood Bar by Norm Applegate; Grave Whispers by Ryan B. Clark; Thoughts of Unbridled Black by Jake Istre, Flatty Kat Astray by Phyllis Haupert.
In the works: a MICHAEL MYERS anthology!
We’re accepting queries/submissions. Check out the Black Bed Sheet website at www.downwarden.com/blackbedsheet , take a look around and join the MESSAGE BOARD!
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Come to think of it, we’ve updated the Diverse Compendium at www.downwarden.com, with detailed news, specials, clips, and NICK READS & REVIEWS is catching up with that backlog of books to review. Keep an eye out for the recipe for MICHAEL MYERS PIE at Wicked Eats.

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