We are excited to extend an invitation to you for the inaugural Current Words One-And-Done Session—an exclusive opportunity designed for fiction and memoir writers to refine their skills within a supportive setting, and the best part is, it’s entirely free!
Hosted online by DPP founders Dianne Pearce and David Yurkovich, this session is scheduled for 9-11 AM Pacific time on select Saturdays. To ensure an intimate learning environment, each meeting is limited to five participants. This is your chance to engage with seasoned professional editors at no cost.
Registration: To secure your spot, submit a portion of your writing (between 450-550 words) for live discussion. Please email your selection to workshops@currentwords.com by January 20, 2024, to be considered for the February 3rd workshop. Include your full name, city, state, and the type of work you are developing (short stories, long-form fiction, memoir) in your application. Enrollment is on a first-come, first-served basis due to limited space. Upon confirmation of your enrollment, you will receive an email containing further instructions and the meeting URL. Participants must be willing to join a Zoom call and have their work constructively discussed in a small-group setting. Please commit to attending if you sign up, as there are very limited spaces available.
In case you do not secure a spot in the first meeting, we will provide information about our March date. We plan to select five new participants each month as long as there is interest. We eagerly anticipate sharing this enriching experience with you, learning more about you and your writing, and connecting with our fellow authors.
There is NO charge to participate. We so look forward to reading your writing!
The countdown is over! Don’t miss our latest and greatest horror collection, HALLOWEEN PARTY ’23!
Crafted by the brilliant and enigmatic Jeffrey D. Keeten, this year’s edition is a haunting masterpiece. It showcases the wickedly talented “I Love Bad Art” creator, and U.S. Army OIF Combat Veteran, Juan Cantu.
Dive deep into the eerie and captivating world of HALLOWEEN PARTY ’23, boasting 21 brand-new works that will send shivers down your spine.
🧟♂️ “Blue Zones” by Robert Lewis Heron 🐊 “Alligators” by Katharyn Howd Machan 🌸 “Under the Rhododendrons” by Morgan Golladay 👽 “Alien Nipple” by Jeffrey D. Keeten 🐺 “Werewife” by Eric Machan Howd 💆♀️ “Massage Therapy” by Liz Rosen 🏛️ “War Memorial Affair” by James Goodridge 🏞️ “Post Card Town” by Marisa Hurst, Meredith Harvey, and Esther Sharp ❄️ “Frost” by Kim DiCicco 💀 “What the Skulls Recall” by Katharyn Howd Machan 🌊 “At Sea” by Stephen Roddewig 📚 “Novel Horror” by Marc Dickerson 🌀 “Tulpa Affair” by Jessica Gleason 🏚️ “That One Room in the Old, Old House” by Katharyn Howd Machan 💀 “Dead Man’s Pond” by Sarah E. Das Gupta 🏚️ “From the Corner” by Rhonda Zimlich 💀 “Proper Substitute for a Pagan Holiday” by Kiean DeWess 🎁 “Gifts” by Eric Machan Howd 😈 “Depravity” by Michael Paige 🎃 “Gurgleplop” by I. F. Dempsey Hyatt 🧟♂️ “Frankenstein’s Creature” by Eric Machan Howd.
Due to the horrific nature of these tales, we’re offering our Devil’s Party Death Guarantee from of charge. Therefore, if you happen to die of fright while reading any of these works, we’ll cover the full cost of your coffin and will even throw in a dozen roses!
Don’t let fear hold you back! Secure your copy of HALLOWEEN PARTY ’23, a chilling 200-page softcover, for just $15.99 retail. The dark delights await, and we’re delivering them straight to your doorstep.
Buy now and claim your ticket to a nightmarish world of horror and suspense! 🌙📚👻
Prepare for an electrifying return of our spine-tingling anthology series, HALLOWEEN PARTY! 🎃
The countdown is on, and this October 2023, we’re unleashing our most hair-raising edition yet. Get ready for a heart-pounding journey into dread with HALLOWEEN PARTY ’23!
Crafted by the brilliant and enigmatic Jeffrey D. Keeten, this year’s edition is a haunting masterpiece. It showcases the wickedly talented “I Love Bad Art” creator, and U.S. Army OIF Combat Veteran, Juan Cantu.
Dive deep into the eerie and captivating world of HALLOWEEN PARTY ’23, boasting 21 brand-new works that will send shivers down your spine.
🧟♂️ “Blue Zones” by Robert Lewis Heron 🐊 “Alligators” by Katharyn Howd Machan 🌸 “Under the Rhododendrons” by Morgan Golladay 👽 “Alien Nipple” by Jeffrey D. Keeten 🐺 “Werewife” by Eric Machan Howd 💆♀️ “Massage Therapy” by Liz Rosen 🏛️ “War Memorial Affair” by James Goodridge 🏞️ “Post Card Town” by Marisa Hurst, Meredith Harvey, and Esther Sharp ❄️ “Frost” by Kim DiCicco 💀 “What the Skulls Recall” by Katharyn Howd Machan 🌊 “At Sea” by Stephen Roddewig 📚 “Novel Horror” by Marc Dickerson 🌀 “Tulpa Affair” by Jessica Gleason 🏚️ “That One Room in the Old, Old House” by Katharyn Howd Machan 💀 “Dead Man’s Pond” by Sarah E. Das Gupta 🏚️ “From the Corner” by Rhonda Zimlich 💀 “Proper Substitute for a Pagan Holiday” by Kiean DeWess 🎁 “Gifts” by Eric Machan Howd 😈 “Depravity” by Michael Paige 🎃 “Gurgleplop” by I. F. Dempsey Hyatt 🧟♂️ “Frankenstein’s Creature” by Eric Machan Howd.
Because these tales are so terrifying, we offer our Devil’s Party Death Guarantee at no extra cost: If you happen to meet your demise from fright while reading any of these stories, we’ll cover the cost of your coffin!
Don’t let fear hold you back! Secure your copy of HALLOWEEN PARTY ’23, a chilling 198-page softcover, for just $15.99 retail. The dark delights await, and we’re delivering them straight to your doorstep in October 2023.
Preorder now and claim your ticket to a nightmarish world of horror and suspense! 🌙📚👻
Brace yourself for a spine-tingling experience as we delve into the eerie world of R. David Fulcher’s masterful storytelling.
In this eagerly anticipated collection, THE PUMPKIN KING AND OTHER TALES OF TERROR, Fulcher assembles some of the finest gems from his extensive catalog of published short stories, many of which have become elusive over time. If you have an insatiable appetite for traditional horror, this volume is a must-read. And just in case you can’t get enough, stay tuned for volume 2 in 2024, which promises cosmic horror tales that will send shivers down your spine.
What Awaits You: Prepare to be captivated by 20 meticulously crafted tales by Fulcher, each one given new life through careful updates and revisions by the author himself. These stories are no longer mere words on a page; they’ve evolved into nightmares ready to haunt your dreams.
The Collection Includes:
Eulogy to E.A. Poe Marienburg Castle The Pumpkin King Heavenly Strains A Matter of Taste My Days With Mahalia A Night Out With Mr. Bones Merry Are We of the Lake The Night Flyer Pumpkin Seed Spit A Night for Animals The Man Next Door Extra! Extra! The Flight Dummy For the Children The Watcher’s Web Dreaming, The Copper City The Huntress The Faerie Lights The October Man
🎃 Perfect for Halloween or those dark, rainy nights when you crave a bone-chilling tale to send shivers down your spine. Perfect gift too, for that hard-to-please reader in your life! And you can meet David at the Frostburg Indie Lit Festival!
Looking for a terrifying horror read to get you through the weekend?
Check out the DRUMMING FOR THE DEAD series by Gabby Gilliam!
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A hot weekend full of zombies. In the words of Walter Sobchak, “If you will it, it is no dream.”
The Gravelight Press edition of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is getting terrific reviews. Sure, we can credit some of this to Stevenson’s classic tale of duality, but what really seems to be drawing the attention of readers is the introduction by Jeffrey D. Keeten. It seems like everywhere we look, it’s “Keeten this…” and “Keeten that…” It’s enough to make hard-working gravelighter feel like a second-string pallbearer at best.
The latest such review is by Will Byrnes, a name that, like Keeten’s, should be well known to anyone who reads reviews on Goodreads; based on his stats there are quite a lot of you. Mr. Byrnes provides his own insights and backgrounds on Jekyll and Hyde, so much so that that we considered nixing Keeten’s review and replacing it with Will’s. But since we know Jeffrey spent a lot of time writing a very thoughtful and well researched introduction, we’ll probably leave it intact. Which is, actually, good news for you, particularly if you’ve yet to read Stevenson’s novella. So go check out Will’s review either on Goodreads or at Coot’s Reviews, and then pick up a copy of the Gravelight edition, available on Amazon and at the online store of our parent company, Devil’s Party Press. In addition to Mr. Keeten’s introduction, it features a bonus story not found in any other edition. We think you’ll like it very much.
Autumn Country: Selected Fiction of Tim Jeffreys is a guilty pleasure of mine. I’ve read it several times just to enjoy the way Tim tells a story. Right in the first paragraph, he lets us know we are in the hands of a storyteller and the story is underway. Plot and character are inextricably bound, and the language is their servant, as it should be. This is the reason I proposed this volume, selected the stories, and wrote the introduction. You might want to read this book not as fourteen stories, but as a unified fictional work with fourteen parts, chapters if you insist. Weaving in and out of the fictional work is his peculiar inventiveness as relates to the shape-shifter. From the first story we feel the urgency of creatures who mimic the loved ones of others and eat the love they take. Tim manipulates his own theories in ways only he could have imagined, and the last time through, I just read those to feel that theme and those changes once more. Other themes run through the fictional work with great effectiveness, and one of them is the writer’s sense of humor that sometimes lurks beneath a dark surface and sometimes erupts in viscous bubbles. The mordant humor about humorists in “Here Comes Mr. Herribone” creates a sparkling metaphor for the artist, and, in particular, comedians. “Collectable” is something of an elegant joke about the writer’s love of the music we hear at times while reading the stories. But, for reasons I have stopped trying to understand, my favorite remains “Under Iron,” a story that picks up this musical theme and twists it into a ghost story that makes such sense we know what ghosts can actually do in our mortal world. I get so impatient with ghost stories where you know the writer doesn’t believe in ghosts himself; here’s one that makes perfect sense. I don’t have to imagine very hard to make the leap into meaning. At my first reading of “Black Nore,” I was surprised and just a bit shaken. It did that grand old thing: it made me stop and think about what I’d just read. That’s something I enjoy. Of course, I enjoy thinking in general a great deal. The only reason I am telling you is to suggest that if this sounds all right, you should read the book. And it’s worth it for the writer’s thoughts on the stories at the end.
three collections of stories, most recently Not a Jot or a Tittle (2022), and a book of flash fiction, Disappearing Things (2023).
His stories appear in journals, including Kenyon Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Fiction International, and anthologies, including Pushcart Prize and Dark Lane Anthology. Seven fictions appear in Fictive Dream. Robert can also be found in HARDBOILED AND LOADED WITH SIN (paperback/eBook) and Vella
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