Submission call: BEST NEW TALES OF THE APOCALYPSE (reprint anthology)
Category: Writing and Poetry

Best New Tales of the Apocalypse

Edited by D.L. Snell & Bobbie Metevier

Submission Guidelines

Editors D.L. Snell and Bobbie Metevier are now reading for Permuted Press' 1st volume of Best New Tales of the Apocalypse.  This is a reprint anthology exclusively for material first published in 2007.  We are interested in short stories and novellas from all genres--horror, science fiction, mystery, romance, etc.--which feature an impending apocalypse, occurrence of the apocalypse, or a post-apocalyptic setting.  If in doubt, send it.

The submission period begins immediately and will close June 1, 2008. Payment will be one contributor's copy, plus $0.01/word (USD) based on the editors' final word count from Microsoft Word (rounded to the nearest hundred words). Stories should be sent in their originally published form--do not rewrite the story before submitting.  Send as an attachment to apocalypticstories@gmail.com in either .DOC or .RTF format.  Include in the body of the email:

• The full title of the story and a brief synopsis (we're primarily interested in what makes your tale fit this anthology)
• The publication title, date of publication, and publisher of publication where story appeared (web link to publication and/or publisher information would also be helpful)
• A 50- to 100-word author bio (optional)
  

Submissions should be no more than 25,000 words by word-processor count, and must be in standard manuscript format: one-inch margins on all sides, Courier New font, underline for italics, double-spaced, etc.

Final selections will be made no later than September 2008. Do not expect a response unless your work is accepted for publication.

Questions should be addressed to apocalypticstories@gmail.com.

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THE UNDEAD: HEADSHOT QUARTET now available for pre-order!
Category: Writing and Poetry

The Undead: Headshot Quartet
Four Zombie Novellas
Pre-order Now With Free Shipping!

Join authors D.L. Snell, Ryan C. Thomas, John Sunseri, and David Dunwoody as they fire four more rounds into the growing horde of living dead…

The dead are rising in Aruba, and Vince has just made off with a couple million in mob money. As if mob hit men and rotting corpses weren't bad enough, the big trouble is the creatures in the water—the ones who only come onto shore at night...

A man with the ability to call objects into existence awakens in a zombie-swarmed alley with no memory of his past. Aided by a duo of heroes—one incredibly strong, the other psychic—he digs to uncover his identity and the source of his gift in a nightmarish landscape infested with mysterious creatures.

Three art students on a working vacation at an isolated New England college make a terrible discovery… The rustic setting seems to be perfect inspiration, but their lives are quickly consumed by the ghastly legacy of what lives beneath the nearby cemetery.

It's not the sight of the walking dead that scares CIA agent Rhonda White. It's the fact that someone is controlling them—someone whose new bio-weapon is up for bid on the black market. And if Rhonda doesn't stop it, the world will never be the same…

Pre-order now at just $14.95 and get free shipping!

"Snell, Thomas, Sunseri, and Dunwoody lay waste to the old zombie traditions and throw one hell of a party at the end of the world!"
--Christopher Webster, QuietEarth.us

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Bestsellers for October ’07
Category: Writing and Poetry

Worldwide:
1. John Dies at the End by David Wong
2. Plague of the Dead by Z.A. Recht
3. Dying to Live by Kim Paffenroth

USA:
1. John Dies at the End by David Wong
2. Plague of the Dead by Z.A. Recht
3. Dying to Live by Kim Paffenroth

UK:
1. Plague of the Dead by Z.A. Recht
2. John Dies at the End by David Wong
3. Dying to Live by Kim Paffenroth

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Happy Halloween... Read TWILIGHT OF THE DEAD for *free*!
Category: Writing and Poetry

Twilight of the Dead now a free online read!

Permuted Press and author Travis Adkins are releasing Adkins' hit zombie novel Twilight of the Dead chapter-by-chapter over the next several weeks free for reading online!  Celebrate Halloween by reading the first installment at the book's online home: http://twilightofthedead.blogspot.com

Five years after the dead rose a small band of survivors has taken refuge in the fortified town of Eastpointe. When a newcomer arrives claiming to know the location of the antidote to the zombie plague, it sends the town into an uproar. To retrieve this cure, a group of survivors must venture outside the relative safety of the compound's walls and into a world ruled and dominated by the flesh-eating undead.

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EVERY SIGH, THE END: A Schizophrenic Zombie Novel by Jason S. Hornsby (out now!)
Category: Writing and Poetry

Every Sigh, The End
A Schizophrenic Zombie Novel by Jason S. Hornsby

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Ross Orringer is feeling a little paranoid. Watchers--some in radiation suits--take notes and discreetly videotape him on the street. His apartment is bugged. His mom has a stack of family videos that weren't filmed by the family. He's having memories of things that haven't happened yet. Ross very well may be insane.

The stage is set, the living dead are in place, and the director just yelled "Action!" Ross is playing the lead role in the apocalypse, but it's like nothing anyone has ever imagined.

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Available for purchase now from many stores including:

• Permuted Press - Buy any 2 books and get free shipping!
• Amazon US
• Amazon UK
• Amazon Canada
• Amazon.de
• Barnes & Noble
• Many Others

"Jason Hornsby's Every Sigh, The End may be the best zombie novel I have read. It feels like a grand truth is peeking through the enigmatic and conspiratorial fog that suffuses the novel. It all seems to mean something…"
—Devon Kappa, None May Say

Help Spread the Word!
You can help Permuted Press and Jason S. Hornsby spread the word about Every Sigh, The End by

• Starting (or joining) a discussion about Every Sigh, The End on your favorite message board(s). But please don't spam!
• Posting a review on Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.ca, Barnes & Noble, your website, and/or your blog.
• Posting about Every Sigh, The End on your blog, MySpace page, newsletter, website, etc.
• Visiting your local library and asking them to stock Every Sigh, The End (you'll need the ISBN: 0978970780).

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THE UNDEAD: FLESH FEAST zombie anthology is now available!
Category: Writing and Poetry

Satisfy your hunger for the living dead in the third installment of the popular Undead series, The Undead: Flesh Feast. A new recruit must face the grotesque realities behind the zombie war. An ancient, tentacled horror commands the walking dead. A green mold creeps across an uncharted island, driving its mysterious inhabitants insane. A lone survivor of the zombie apocalypse wants only one thing... to be bitten. The Grim Reaper struggles to claim the souls of the deceased that won't stay dead. And in the featured novella, "The Legend of Black Betty," a small town in the Old West rots with a plague wreaked by an evil prostitute. These stories and more from Tim Curran, Andre Duza, Ryan C. Thomas, and many others.

Available for purchase now from many stores including:

• Permuted Press - Free shipping on orders over $25!
• Amazon US
• Amazon UK
• Amazon Canada
• Amazon.de
• Barnes & Noble
• Many Others

"Fantastic stories! The zombies are fresh...well, er, they're actually moldy, festering wrecks...but these stories are great takes on the zombie genre. You're gonna like The Undead: Flesh Feast... just make sure you have a toothpick handy."
—Joe McKinney, author of Dead City

Includes an introduction by Walter Greatshell (author of Xombies) and tales from:

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Pre-order HISTORY IS DEAD (zombie anthology) edited by Dr. Kim Paffenroth now!
Category: Writing and Poetry

This December join Bram Stoker Award-winner Dr. Kim Paffenroth on his journey to discover the secret history of the living dead... History Is Dead includes pre-20th century zombie tales from Bram Stoker Award-winner Jonathan Maberry, Scott Johnson, Joe McKinney, Derek Gunn, and many others.

Pre-order here for $14.95 (includes free shipping in the USA!).

"History Is Dead is a violent and bloody tour through the ages. Paffenroth has assembled a vicious timeline chronicling the rise of the undead that is simultaneously mindnumbingly savage and thought provoking."
—Michael McBride, author of the God's End trilogy and The Infected

About History Is Dead:
Our team of crack historians has uncovered the truth you never learned in school: the living dead have walked among us since the dawn of time. In this collection of gruesome tales from throughout the ages, the ravenous undead shamble through bloody battlefields, plague-ridden cities, genteel country estates, and dusty frontier towns. They emerge from foggy cemeteries, frozen barrows, loamy bogs, cursed mines, and gore-spattered operating rooms to prey on the living.

But these zombies don't just eat people. They help painters and writers save their faltering careers. They unwittingly push humankind on the quest for fire. They topple evil capitalists and their corporate empires. They fight crime. They fall in love.

Join us on a journey into our zombie-filled past... Neither history nor the living dead have ever been this interesting!

Includes excavated tales from:

• Jonathan Maberry
• Scott Johnson
• Joe McKinney
• Derek Gunn
• Christine Morgan
• David Dunwoody
• Leila Eadie
• Jenny Ashford
• James Roy Daley
• Linda Donahue
• Juleigh Howard-Hobson
• Richard D. Moore
• John Peel
• Patrick Rutigliano
• Paula Stiles
• Rebecca Brock
• Douglas Hutcheson
• Carole Lanham
• Ed Turner
• Raoul Wainscoting

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Internet sensation JOHN DIES AT THE END now available in print!
Category: Writing and Poetry

The word-of-mouth phenomenon read online by over 50,000 readers is now available in print!

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Telling the story now, I'm tempted to say something like, "Who would have thought that John would help bring about the end of the world?" I won't say that, though, because most of us who grew up with John thought he would help end the world somehow.

It's a drug that promises an out-of-body experience with each hit. On the street they call it Soy Sauce, and users drift across time and dimensions. But some who come back are no longer human. Suddenly a silent otherworldly invasion is underway, and mankind needs a hero. What it gets instead is John and David, a pair of college dropouts who can barely hold down jobs. Can these two stop the oncoming horror in time to save humanity? No. No, they can't.

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Read the entire novel online at JohnDiesattheEnd.com!

Available for purchase now from many stores including:

• Permuted Press - Free shipping on orders over $25!
• Amazon US
• Amazon UK
• Amazon Canada
• Amazon.de
• Barnes & Noble
• Many Others

"John Dies at the End is one of the funniest books I've ever read, with a joke--or jokes--on almost every one of its 358 completely-freakin'-insane pages. The whole thing feels like author David Wong is making it up as he goes along, but yet the payoffs are satisfying and there's a hilariously crazed logic throughout. Immensely entertaining and very highly recommended."
--Jeff Strand, author of The Sinister Mr. Corpse


Help Spread the Word!
You can help Permuted Press and David Wong spread the word about John Dies at the End by

• Linking to the official site (http://www.johndiesattheend.com) from your website, blog, MySpace, Facebook, etc. Point out that the book is online for free!
• Starting (or joining) a discussion about John Dies at the End on your favorite message board(s). But please don't spam!
• Posting a review on Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.ca, Barnes & Noble, your website, and/or your blog.
• Posting about John Dies at the End on your blog, MySpace page, newsletter, website, etc.
• Visiting your local library and asking them to stock John Dies at the End (you'll need the ISBN: 0978970764).

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Watch the trailer for THE OBLIVION SOCIETY (apocalyptic novel by Marcus Alexander Hart)!
Category: Writing and Poetry

View the new trailer for The Oblivion Society here .

Read the first 82 pages free at OblivionSociety.com!

Coming soon from Permuted Press.

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ROSES OF BLOOD ON BARBWIRE VINES by D.L. Snell is available now!
Category: Writing and Poetry

Hello everyone,

Permuted Press' latest zombie vs vampires novel Roses of Blood on Barbwire Vines by D.L. Snell is now officially available from many booksellers including:

• Permuted Press
• Amazon US
• Amazon UK
• Amazon Canada
• Amazon.de
• Barnes & Noble
• Shocklines (Note books ordered here are delayed for signing)
• Many Others

• Starting (or joining) a discussion about Roses of Blood on your favorite message board(s). But please don't spam!
• Posting a review on Amazon.com, your website, and/or your blog.
• Posting about Roses of Blood on your blog, MySpace page, newsletter, website, etc.
• Visiting your local library and asking them to stock Roses of Blood (you'll need the ISBN: 0978970713).

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