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The ad just sneaked into my email today, from Petulant Child Press.
Halloween is Upon Us
Who doesn’t like a scary story, especially around Halloween?
For a limited time, Petulant Child Press has 12 unique horror anthologies for your Kindle on sale for ONLY 99c!
It goes on to say if you’re a Kindle Unlimited member you can get all twelve for free, but the one that interests us here is number six, titled in full, MON COEUR MORT: MY DEAD HEART (POST MORTEM PRESS: THE EARLY YEARS BOOK 6). Twenty-seven international authors bring us tales that range from humorous to horrifying, lyrical to lurid, touching to terrorizing. Regardless of tone, they all have one thing in common, they deal with the theme of otherworldly fear associated with love. In MON COEUR MORT the vampires do not sparkle and the werewolves wear shirts in public.
My tale in this is “A Cup Full of Tears,” of sweet lesbian vampire love and the need at times for it to be refreshed. But wait a minute, might there be something familiar in this, the book that is, not only the story? Let us hark back to an earlier post, on August 21 this year, “One By Me In Post Mortem Press The Early Years Offer,” about a super-reprint anthology combining the seven earliest Post Mortem Press books together, itself to be called UNKNOWN PLEASURES, and it to be just the first volume. But there was a hitch, as noted on August 25, “Unknown Pleasures, Mon Coeur Mort Re-Edition Cancelled,” having to do with contract difficulties. And that, seemingly, was that.
So this the next chapter, that apparently the book(s) can be published, or rather re-published (an out, incidentally, I’d surmised when I had re-read my own contract) simply as a series of second editions of the separate circa 2010 anthologies, dated this time (at least for MON COEUR MORT) September 15 2020. And so the saga of Asenath and Carmilla, much like the ladies in question themselves, would appear to live on.
And the bottom line then: If you’d like to check the “new” MON COEUR MORT out for yourself, with my story “A Cup Full of Tears,” you can find it here; or if you’d prefer a glance at the whole list, the place is here.
A super short note. Word came to me last night that the UNKNOWN PLEASURES Post Mortem Press mega-anthology, including its reprint of MON COUER MORT with my “A Cup Full of Tears” (see August 21), has been cancelled due to contract problems. So that’s hardly the first time a publication has been withdrawn, or cancelled, or pulled from circulation, but for something already up on Amazon it may be a record. Or at least for something with work by me in it.
So easy come, easy go, eh?
Nothing is scarier than the UNKNOWN, except maybe the PLEASURE. 80+ tales of ghosts, zombies, haunted houses, ghouls, mysterious strangers and more. (Amazon blurb)
Quoth the ad in Friday’s email: UNKNOWN PLEASURES: POST MORTEM PRESS THE EARLY YEARS/ Available NOW! Only 99c or with Kindle Unlimited/ Over 80 original terror-filled tales! UNKNOWN PLEASURE combines SEVEN volumes of spine-tingling stories from known and emerging authors. Across nearly 1500 pages you’ll find 
ghosts, ghouls, zombies, haunted houses, giant rats, mysterious strangers, and much much more./ Bloodcurdling nightmare-inducing tales to keep you up at night!
And so it continues. In late 2010 Post Mortem Press entered the small press community with a mind-blowing series of horror anthologies. Over the course of THIRTEEN classic anthologies, Post Mortem Press introduced the world to some of the most talented authors that were unknown to the reading public, and, [f]or the FIRST time Post Mortem Press and Petulant Child Press have combined the first SEVEN anthologies into a single volume.
The anthologies themselves are, well, the list can be seen for oneself on Amazon’s site by pressing here. But one seemed familiar, MON COEUR MORT, number six on the list and with, yes, a story by me. A tale of lesbian (well, okay) vampire lust titled “A Cup Full of Tears,” perhaps reprinted a couple of times since, but here for the first time. A short one too, though, out of all these pages totaling only about 1000 words. But by gosh there it is!
And, if that weren’t enough, there’s an alternative title: POST MORTEM PRESS THE EARLY YEARS BOOK 1. That is, there’ll be more.
I live near the end of a postal route which means that my mail usually arrives in late afternoon or evening — sometimes in these winter months even after dark, possibly not to be discovered until the next morning. That’s reflected here when an item often may not get posted until the next day (though of course email items can also not be received until very late) as, for instance, now.
So what Thursday’s mail brought was a fairly bulky padded package, in which was my long-awaited author’s copy of SPACE OPERA LIBRETTOS (cf. January 1, et al.), the boo
k of [d]ramatic, large-scale stories of the distant future, focused on optimism and inclusion and blowing things up. Weird mashups. Actual arias. Fat ladies singing on funeral pyres. Watery tarts distributing swords optional. So had said the guidelines and so, at last, it was here — part of the game is that authors’ copies, at least in print, often come slowly, publishers having to fulfill paid customers’ orders first — including my own tale in number three spot, “The Needle Heat Gun,” a saga of heroism and love on an uncharted planet with, if not formal singing, a lot of humming.
If interested, “The Needle Heat Gun” is one of twenty stories of music and outer-space (or thereabouts) mayhem, more on which can be found by pressing here.
Then for a quick Friday addendum (or electronic copies can come much faster), today’s email brought a PDF authors’ copy of SEVEN DEADLY SINS: LUST (see post just below) with my “A Cup Full of Tears,” a brief recounting of sweet lesbian vampire love. With it came instructions for also obtaining a paperback copy, but with a warning: that its arrival might be less quick.
May is International Short Story Month and, in celebration, the Short Mystery Fiction Society has put out the call for a story a day, if they can get ’em, from writer-members. These would be already published stories, to be sure, with the idea that links will be provided on the SMFS blog daily, and word came this morning: I’m up for Thursday. That is, this Thursday, May 11, with the story in question one actually published on DAILY SCIENCE FICTION, but nevertheless a mystery of sorts, a tale of les filles à les caissettes of N
ew Orleanian fame and the one called Lo, titled “Dead Lines” (see April 28, 21 2015, et al.). Moreover, according to coordinator Kevin R. Tipple, “I took the liberty of adding your explanation of the tale to the blog posting so that folks who are clueless don’t send me emails asking what is up 🙂 ,” this regarding the story’s also referencing, in an oblique way, Edgar Allan Poe as a founder of the detective story — and also, if he includes it, a second link to the original story “Casket Girls.”
So you get two for one on Thursday (or even more — since the story will be in DAILY SF’s archives, type “Dorr” in the search box it will provide to find three additional short shorts by me). Or, if in a hurry to see what’s what on the mystery side, the SMFS blog with today’s story can be reached by pressing here.
In other news, a lovely sunny Sunday afternoon marked this month’s “First Sunday Prose Reading & Open Mic,” co-sponsored by the Bloomington Writers Guild and local bookstore Boxcar Books, with featured readers Amy L. Cornell (who we’ve met before, cf. May 1 2016) with a poem, a short story, and a sort of essay coming back to poetry; Abegunde (cf. March 27, 6 2016, et al.) with a selection of essay
s on “what lies beneath” her recent poetry MS about a visit to Juba, South Sudan (a portion of which was also a finalist for the 2017 COG Poetry Award); and Khashayar Tonekaboni (pen name Terry Pinaud, cf. February 7 2016) with a short story based, in part, on a French Canadian play. Then after the break, there were five open mike readers with me number three, with a story of sweet lesbian, non-casket girl, vampire love titled “A Cup Full of Tears,” originally published in MON COEUR MORT (Post Mortem Press, 2011).
This also marks the last “First Sunday” gathering for this spring, with the series to resume again in early autumn.
Those who explored a bit on week four under “French Vampires” might have run across today’s entry already. It has to do with a power failure, a walk in the darkness, and reflections concerning werewolves and vampires, followed by the acceptance of a short vampire-charged romance for an anthology called MON COEUR MORT. So that’s the French part of it (or, probably every entry could be found by just using the key word “vampire,” except you wouldn’t know which one was which — and where would be the fun of that?). Be that as it may, today’s somewhat philosophical posting takes us back to June 17 2011, to be discovered by using the key phrase “A Good Night for Vampires.”
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