Sometimes the pathway that opens is unexpected and marked with surprise and eventual delight. The surprise came with the shift from Random Acts Books but the delight is in our new venture with Boulevard Press and our first book, Warp, A Speculative Trio, just published today and continuing the tradition of Muse, An Ekphrastic Trio! George Evans and I have assembled a talented artistic team to encourage the explorations of the many pathways of fiction and to provide a unique approach to Indie Publishing for the writing community.
Joan Kocak's marvelous art photographs will continue to grace our covers and our website, infused with the magic of her love of her native northeast. Steve Parolini will continue to edit our work with his keen eye for the detail and his insight into the meaning we sometimes stumble over in our zeal to complete our stories. Ben Long's cover designs have already marked our Trio Series with a unique stamp and Ben will continue to evolve our themes as we expand the series.
While we are sad to leave Random Acts Books, our goals are now clearer and we are excited to be an author-driven, collaborative publishing platform forging the best of the storytelling tradition with creative opportunities for authentic writing. We will seek great writing and publish our ongoing Trio Series of longer short stories, novelettes, and novellas, those lengths most publishers shy away from. We will focus on the art and craft of great story rather than trying to simply please the marketplace.
We couldn't be more excited to welcome our first Guest Author, Rick Cross, and showcase his story "In Organ Cave, Where Tina Danced," along with stories by George and I. In Rick's spine-chilling tale, a soldier serving in Iraq comes home to the West Virginia hills and discovers an enemy far more insidious and horrifying than those in the desert. Rick is Senior Media Writer at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and his first novel, part of the LETHBRIDGE- STEWART series for Candy Jar Books (a licensed Dr. Who spinoff) is due out this fall!
Future Trios will include Limp, A Menage a Trio, stories of the follies and perils of sex, to be published in early 2017 with Guest Author Randy Wireman, whose winning stories have appeared in Flying Island; and Caper, A Mystery Trio, our collection of whodunits with unlikely sleuths and chilling suspense, with a special Guest Author, to be released in mid 2017. Stay tuned for more announcements in our Trio Series.
I hope you'll grab a copy of Warp, buckle up, and enjoy the ride with our stories of lost time, horror in the hills, and that strange girl on the corner!
