The Stain of the Psychopomp King by Lucien E G Spelman
Heart Of Ice by Martin Livings
Neptune’s Garden by Lisa A Koosis
Dust by Naomi Bell
To Die For by S D Matley
The Franchise by Joe L Murr
Clip Notes by Marty Young
Blood on Green by Victoria Anisman-Reiner
Cargo by Aaron Polson
Nepenthe by Felicity Dowker
Yellow Water Pike by Derek Rutherford
Surveying The Land by B D Wilson
Nightwork by Robert Neilson
Hand And Cradle by Trent Roman

These stories represent an excellent selection of dark speculative fiction, including fantasy, sci-fi, horror and just plain weird. The authors are a truly international bunch. We have representatives from Australia, Canada, UK, Ireland, USA and the Netherlands.

This is going to be an excellent collection, certainly one of the must-have books of this year. We’re now getting into the editing and production phase. We’ll give you a sneak peak at cover art when we can and announce a publication date asap. It will be in the first half of 2010.

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As decisions are made a Table Of Contents will be made public.

Thanks to everyone that submitted, good luck to you all and here’s hoping we can release an excellent anthology.

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Here’s the press release for this promotion:

Publishers Provide Halloween Treat!

October 29, 2009 — Ebook lovers will be getting a special treat this Halloween. On October 31, Gryphonwood Press, along with Australian-based Blade Red Press, will be giving away their entire catalog of electronic books for free. The giveaway includes popular speculative fiction titles in a variety of sub-genres, as well as thrillers and an anthology of short fiction. “There is something here for every reader,” says Blade Red’s Alan Baxter.

Books will be available through ebook distributor Smashwords in multiple electronic formats, including Kindle-compatible. Thriller author David Wood sees this as an opportunity for authors from both publishing houses to broaden their readerships. “Ebooks are an integral part of the future of publishing, and I’m excited to be a part of this promotion.” Visit the websites at Gryphonwood Press and Blade Red Press for details.

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http://gryphonwoodpress.com
http://www.blade-red.com

To take advantage of this offer you’ll need to enter special coupon codes at Smashwords. For coupons for all the Gryphonwood titles, check this page of the Gryphonwood blog.

For our titles, use the following codes:

RealmShift by Alan Baxter – DK99C
MageSign by Alan Baxter – HH65A
Ghost Of The Black by Alan Baxter – Already free at Smashwords.

Maggots Of Heresy by Michael Fridman – Already free at Smashwords.

You can find all the books under the relevant publisher’s page at Smashwords:

Here’s the Blade Red Press page.

Here’s the Gryphonwood Press page.

So go and treat yourself to some free ebooks for Halloween. And tell your friends!

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Brenton lives in Adelaide, South Australia with his wife and two of his three kids. His oldest child allowed reality to hit him hard earlier this year with the arrival of the first grandchild. Hopefully the second is still a few years away.

While living in a quiet suburb and spending many boring hours ensuring remote connection services remain working for a government department is his daily façade, inside his head is a world of darkness and twisted depravity struggling to emerge.

With over a dozen stories of his own published through venues such as 52 Stitches, Yellow Mama and others, and with new work to be seen in Night to Dawn and in the much anticipated APEX Anthology ‘The Blackness Within’, among others, in 2010, Brenton is finding his voice as a writer. He has been reading and passing comment on works of a dark nature in renowned venues such as HorrorScope, Australia’s Dark Fiction Weblog, and Black magazine, and it is behind the scenes where he has discovered a passion of which he was unaware.

Whether reviewing titles or sifting the slush pile for Aurealis, one of Australia’s most respected venues for the publication of short stories, Brenton has found a strange sensation (a mixture of anticipation, joy and frustration) creeping through his body at the possibility of finding the next gem hidden beneath the often blurry words. After a quick mental check-up and a strong dose of antibiotics, the next logical step was to consider editing an anthology of dark fiction – enter us here at Blade Red Press.

Brenton continues to pen dark shorts and flash fiction, but has recently finished drafting something just a little different. To learn more, visit his blog Musings Of An Aussie Writer.

We’re very please to be working with Brenton and we’re confident that he will put together a stunning collection of dark fiction for our first anthology. With over 150 submissions received already, Brenton certainly has his work cut out.

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There’s also talk of Amazon rolling the Kindle reader out to other countries very soon, at least including the UK and Australia. Given that there’s no amazon.com.au, it’ll be interesting to see how they handle this situation.

You can find the Amazon Kindle editions of RealmShift here and MageSign here. Tell your friends.

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Having investigated, it turned out to be publisher error. Isn’t it always? The problem has been fixed now, so if you bought a copy or RealmShift and/or MageSign and downloaded the epub version, you can go back to Smashwords now and download the corrected book at no cost. If you have any other problems, please do let us know.

You can get the correctly formatted books on Smashwords at the following links:

RealmShift

MageSign

If you haven’t got them, why not? They’re only US$2.89 each now as ebooks. Go on, treat yourself.

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Get writing and good luck!

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Click here for the Blade Red page at Smashwords.

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Presenting GHOST OF THE BLACK: A ‘Verse Full Of Scum

by Alan Baxter

The book is available in multiple ebook formats, including the Kindle compatible .mobi format.

So head on over to Smashwords.com or DriveThruSciFi.com now and get your free copy of this exciting novella.

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The Kindle version of MageSign is still waiting for all its details to be updated by Amazon, so bookmark the page of you’d like that edition. The Smashwords versions of both books, in a further Read An E-Book Week promotion, are available half price for this week only. So that’s both novels for the price of one – both are usually US$3.50 each at Smashwords; now you can get them at US$1.75 each until the end of the week.

The Kindle editions are priced at US$3.99, but Amazon usually do an automatic discount on RRP. (RealmShift is available on Kindle for US$3.19, for example, even though its RRP is US$3.99).

Also, don’t forget that both books are available in print from your local Amazon, B&N online, Booktopia and so on, as well as direct from us here at Blade Red Press.

Two great books, so many purchase options. How can you go wrong?

So, get out there and read an e-book.

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