indie press
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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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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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Some Damn Big News…
So Grimm Retold has been keeping me very busy the last month (or longer) and now the big news is out. Read more
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Why the Eclipse is part of MUSE
I’ve had a few people ask about the cover of Muse. Aside from “unsettling” and “weird” some people aren’t quite sure what it is. (That is totally okay, btw) Read more
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MUSE Cover Reveal
The time has finally come to share the cover I’ve been teasing for months. None of these images are entirely new. Read more
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Novella Comp Titles and Inspiration
I have gotten beta edits back, and will be sending the novella out for final edits shortly, and then I will be ready to share some more information about what it’s about, but I wanted to, in the meantime, give some hints about the themes in the story, where the ideas came from and what Read more
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Mood Board for Novella
I have been collection images for the forthcoming novella [TITLE NOT YET ANNOUNCED]. The cover is already 95% finished, but that doesn’t mean I can’t do a mood board. Most of these images come from Unsplash which is an excellent resource for professional photography. Credits below. I would love to know what these images evoke 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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