4/10/08 Permuted Press News

From Permuted Press:

Permuted Press is working on a new imprint called Swarm Press. Permuted will remain focused on apocalyptic/zombie works while Swarm will cover a wider array of genres: speculative fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, general horror, etc. The site is bare bones at the moment, but you can check out our logo and sign up for the mailing list: http://www.swarmpress.com

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David Dunwoody--author of Permuted Press's Empire--now has his own official home on the web:
http://www.daviddunwoody.com
This will act as a hub to all of the places on the Web where you can read, interact, and purchase works by David--including the free online version of Empire and his upcoming serial novel The Harvest Cycle.

4/4/08 McFarland and Medallion To Publish Lamberson Books

Over the next seven months, Buffalo based author and filmmaker Gregory Lamberson (Slime City) will see two books released by different publishers. First up is Cheap Scares! Low Budget Horror Filmmakers Share Their Secrets, which McFarland & Company will publish in hardcover on June 29th. Then Medallion Press will publish Johnny Gruesome, his zombie novel, as a mass market trade paperback in the fall.

Cheap Scares! is a comprehensive look at low budget horror filmmaking and features in- depth interviews with filmmakers J.R. Bookwalter (The Dead Next Door), Roy Frumkes (Street Trash), Larry Fessenden (Habit), Brett Piper (Shock-O-Rama!), James Lorinz (Swirlee) and Scooter McCrae (Shatter Dead), as well as up and coming filmmakers Devi Snively (Trippin’), Justin Channell (Die and Let Live), Justin Wingenfeld (Skin Crawl) and screenwriter Robert Craig Sabin (Rex Miller’s Chaingaing).

“Cheap Scares! is a huge book,” says Lamberson. “I wanted it to be genuinely useful and inspiring to low budget filmmakers without misleading them about the reality of the current state of the marketplace for micro-budget films. There’s literally enough information in it for two books.” In addition to insights offered by Lamberson and his filmmaker subjects, the book features guidance by an entertainment attorney (Jerry Gold), a horror DVD distributor (Stephen Biro, president of Unearthed Films), and a marketing executive (Paige Davis from POP Cinema).

Lamberson’s second novel, Johnny Gruesome, about a murdered high school student who becomes a vengeance crazed zombie, is currently available as a Limited Edition hardcover from Bad Moon Books. Medallion Press will publish the novel as an affordable trade paperback which will be available in bookstores nationwide this October, with a new cover by popular tattooist Dan Plumley.

“Medallion is really behind Johnny Gruesome,” Lamberson says. “This is probably the first time that a company with a significant marketing budget has pushed one of my projects. Their art department has gone all out in creating an interior design for this book that will floor horror fans. More important, for the first time readers will be able to walk into almost any bookstore and buy one of my novels.”

Medallion will debut Johnny Gruesome at BookExpo America, held at the Los Angeles Convention Center May 29th – June 1st, and Lamberson will appear as one of the publisher’s featured authors. Medallion will also publish Lamberson’s first novel, Personal Demons, as a mass market paperback in October, 2009

4/1/08 News : New horror releases from Virgin Books

Our first press release is from Virgin Books:

The Unblemished
Conrad Williams
Published 10th April 2008, £7.99 paperback original, 978 0753513 514
An epic drama of flesh-eating monsters and hunted survivors that rivals 28 Days Later

‘This is horror literature unabashed and entire, at full imaginative stretch, beautiful and blazing’ Peter Straub

Artfully interweaving the stories of a mother determined to protect her only daughter, and a serial killer who believes he is the rightful heir to an ancient dynasty of flesh eating monsters. The fate of each of them and the survival of the whole human race depends on one man, Bo Mulvey, who possesses the ancient wisdom the monsters need to achieve their full and horrifying potential.

The author
Conrad Williams is the author of over 80 short stories, two novels and several novellas. His work has been short listed for awards by the British Fantasy Society and the International Horror Guild. The Unblemished beat a strong shortlist, which included Stephen King, to Best Novel at the International Horror Guild Awards.

The Grin of the Dark
Ramsey Campbell
Published 8th May 2008, £7.99 paperback original, 978 0753513 811
This masterpiece of sustained paranoia and entrapment is like a scream that never ends

Tubby Thackeray’s stage routines were so deranged that members of his audience were said to have died or lost their minds. When Simon Lester is commissioned to write a book about the forgotten music hall clown and his riotous silent comedies, his research plunges him into a nightmarish realm where genius, buffoonery and madness converge. In a search that leads him to a twilight circus in a London park, a derelict church in northern England and even a hardcore movie studio in Los Angeles, Simon Lester uncovers a terrifying secret about Tubby Thackeray and must finally confront the unspeakable thing he represents . . .

The author
The Oxford Companion to English Literature describes Ramsey Campbell as ‘Britain’s most respected living horror writer’. He has been given more awards than any other in the field, including the Grand Master Award of the World Horror Convention. He is the president of the British Fantasy Society.