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New Author Sections: David Jack Bell, Michael Louis Calvillo, John R. Little, & Gene O’Neill
Horror Mall has just finished a quarterly store owner’s meeting and one of the things discussed in every quarterly meeting is authors’ section nominations. Each store owner has the power to nominate an author for his or her own section at Horror Mall and the nomination goes to the Horror Mall administration for review.
The criteria for granting an author a section are as follows:
- author sales at Horror Mall
- author support for Horror Mall
- author’s involvement with publishers affiliated with Horror Mall
- prolificness within the horror genre
- customer reviews & feedback on author’s body of work
I’m proud to announce the following 4 authors have received their own author categories at Horror Mall:
David Jack Bell is the author of two novels from Delirium Books: The Condemned and The Girl In The Woods. He is an Assistant Professor of English at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Michael Louis Calvillo is eighty percent blood & gristle, nineteen percent love, and one percent evil. He is the author of I Will Rise (a Stoker finalist for Superior Achievement in a First Novel), As Fate Would Have It (winner of three Black Quill awards), and the seriously screwed up short story collection, Blood & Gristle. Many more works—short stories, novellas, and novels—are festering on the near horizon. He has no intention of slowing down until the world is his. You have been warned.
John R. Little was born in London, Canada, and started writing short stories at the age of twelve. The stories he wrote at the time are not memorable.
His first novel, The Memory Tree, was published by Nocturne Press in 2007. It was nominated for the Bram Stoker award for best first novel. A novella, Placeholders, was then published by Necessary Evil Press. This book was nominated for the Black Quill award.
Gene O’Neill has written five novels, the most recent Not Fade Away, which will be released in a limited edition by BMB in 2011. His short and long fiction have been nominated three times as Stoker Award finalists. In 2010 his book from Apex Book Company, Taste Of Tenderloin won the Stoker for superior achievement in a collection. He is presently working on an expansion into a novel of his Stoker nominated novelette, The Confessions Of St. Zach.
Each of these authors now have their own mailing list through the Horror Mall Red Alert System. Please visit this page to select any of the above authors you’d like to add to your red alert list for notifications on.
The biggest perk to an author getting his or her own section at Horror Mall is that Horror Mall actively promotes and markets these authors’ new releases to its customer base and also outside of Horror Mall. Each author who has a category also has a database of sales activity and tracking to cross-promote his or her new titles to customers who have opted in to receive our mailings. Having an organization like Horror Mall pushing and marketing an author’s work is an extremely valuable asset in this market.
So please join me in welcoming David Jack Bell, Michael Louis Calvillo, John R. Little, and Gene O’Neill to the Horror Mall authors’ lists! Please help support them by buying their titles through Horror Mall, sign up for their red alert news lists, and be sure to leave your reviews of their work in the customer review sections at the storefronts.
New Digital Releases 4/26/10 (Calvillo, Kelly)
Darkside Digital has just released exclusive new story about Michael Louis Calvillo produced in both digital and audiobook edition. The audiobook edition is narrated by Mark Justice.
THERE’S NO PLACE IN A SLEEPING WORLD FOR A WAKEFUL MAN by Michael Louis Calvillo
Sleep is way overrated—just ask the narrator of the lovely, lunatic short, THERE’S NO PLACE IN A SLEEPING WORLD FOR A WAKEFUL MAN. Worried, but increasingly amazed by his inability to fall asleep, Our Man finds that life, Awake, All the Time, is the only way to live. Suddenly, just, like, that, irksome little things like work, and wishy-washy girlfriends, and Dan Brown’s THE LOST SYMBOL, do not bug him in the least. I mean, how could they? How could anything get him down while he feels so fresh and fantastic and ready? How could anything disrupt the even jitter that has turned his life from a country western song to a pop-rock burst of sugar-sweet joy?
Well, there is the slightly, probable possibility that he’s come down with Fatal Familial Insomnia, a degenerative disorder that may or may not be driving him crazy. There’s the chance that he’ll never sleep again and go insane and be dead within the year. But really, who cares? Who cares? Not Our Man. No, no, no. Not Our Man and the monster cocks dancing in his peripheral, or the assaulting shadows crowding his otherwise sunny thoughts. No, not Our Man and the beckoning butcher knives that won’t stop begging him to get out there and wake the rest of the world.
Also, Macabre Ink has just released another Ronald Kelly novel called Timber Gray with cover art by Zach McCain.
After his family is killed by a pack of rabid wolves, Jefferson Gray survives the horrid disease himself, with the aid of a Cherokee medicine man. But, unfortunately, he can not banish the hatred that dwells within him. An animosity toward dangerous game, particularly timber wolves.
Fifteen years have passed. Timber Gray is known throughout the western territories as a seasoned tracker and hunter: a man who can conquer any threat for the right price, be it grizzly, mountain lion, or, his specialty, wolves. But can Timber tackle his greatest challenge… a pack of fifty wolves led by the legendary Cripplefoot? Such insurmountable odds, combined with an approaching blizzard and a band of renegade bounty hunters, would seem to be certain death to most men. But, to Timber Gray, it is only another reason for staying alive…
LET’S GET DOWN TO THE BLOOD AND GRISTLE! NEW MICHAEL CALVILLO!
BLOOD & GRISTLE by Michael Louis Calvillo (trade paperback edition)
BLOOD & GRISTLE is a collection of twenty screwed up stories paired with twenty exquisite illustrations. It’s about detachable children, and self worth, and hungry, hungry, garbage disposals. It’s about boxes that shape destiny and Magic Eightballs that don’t. It’s about drugs and devils and everlasting, gnashing teeth. It’s about a crack addicted cardiologist looking for love and a nasty basilisk with a taste for kindergarteners. It’s about life and death, sorrow and fear, madness, faith, and all of the squishy, complicated stuff in between. So brace yourself, unplug the goopy gray of your brain, and get ready…things are about to get very, very messy.
ALL PRE-ORDERS TO BE SIGNED by CALVILLO!
CAN I GET A HELL YEEEEAH?
AS FATE WOULD HAVE IT by Michael Louis Calvillo (limited edition)
Michael Louis Calvillo’s AS FATE WOULD HAVE IT won three BLACK QUILLS sponsored by Dark Scribe Magazine! Best Small Press Chill (Reader’s Choice); Best Cover Art and Design (Peter Mihaichuk and Cesar Puch) for READER AND EDITOR! Oh, did I mention they are BAD MOON BOOKS? Also, it is ON SALE at Horror Mall as we are promoting it for the Stokers where it was in second place in the Prelims!
