Collection of Utter Speculation
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Spec Pub Kickstarter – LOADING…THE MACHINE CHILD by TT Madden
It’s a hard time to publish indie but Spec Pub is running our second ever kickstarter to fund our second novella of utter speculation. This book is fun, weird, deep and, I think, rather important. LOADING…THE MACHINE CHILD is written by a frequent contributor to Spec Pub, TT Madden. Read more
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Join us for a Vampire Weekend! VAMPIRE hUNTERS release celebration at Vampa museum
VAMPIRE HUNTERS: AN INCOMPLETE RECORD OF PERSONAL ACCOUNTS is our biggest anthology yet and so it only makes sense for us to throw the biggest release party we’ve ever attempted. With the help of the very cool people at Vampa: Vampire and Paranormal Museum in Doylestown we are vamping out for a whole day, with… Read more
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Being an Indie Publisher
Indie presses always have a bit of an uphill battle. Both lauded as fresh, new, exciting, a place for new ideas and authors and disparaged as out there, cheap, poor quality, a place for weird shit and authors. They are, of course, all those things Read more
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Yule: Tales for the Winter Solstice out today in Ebook
Available on Amazon or at the Speculation Publications Website During the cold winter months, we mirror the Earth as she lies quiet, waiting for the return of warm days. Read more
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Lots of News on the Way
They say when it rains it pours but my goodness. Read more
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The Fifth Collection of Utter Speculation is Live today
Happy Anniversary Collections of Utter Spec! Five years ago Susan, River and I were in a small workshop with two other authors and we had an idea to put out an anthology together. We had so much fun (and a few fights) doing that first book and when it was all over we knew we Read more
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Cry Baby Bridge Author Interview: Jean Jentilet
I grew up very close to an infamous cry baby bridge. Nearly every urban legend we had where I grew up involved the bridge somehow. A lot of the feelings that I had about that bridge as a child made it into my story, especially the way it seemed to have two distinct natures. Read more
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Cry Baby Bridge Author Interview: Dori Lumpkin
It isn’t really a surprise to me that this legend is so especially pervasive. I think that it makes a lot of sense that we want to explain something tragic or traumatic with the supernatural. Grief is handled in so many different and interesting ways, and the creation of urban legends like the cry baby… Read more
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Cry Baby Bridge Author Interview: Jeff Provine
In my folklore research, I’ve come across some twenty different bridges in Oklahoma all claiming to be “the real” Cry Baby Bridge. One of them, which inspired my story, is the “Ghost Boy Bridge” Read more
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