Through March 15th, net proceeds of all sales of Shannon Giglio’s amazing book, SHORT BUS HERO, will be donated to Achieva, a wonderful charity doing great things to help support and empower people with disabilities and their families. You can follow them on their social media pages to see all the things they’re doing ( and ).
Nightscape Press is looking for folks interested in joining our promotional team! More specifically we’re looking for the following:
Two Review Coordinators, two Social Media Managers, and one Author Event Coordinator.
Here’s more about what we’re looking for in our promotional team members:
The Nightscape Press Review Coordinators should each have experience with organizing reviews from one end or the other. Reviewers could very well excel in a position of this sort given their experience working from the other end of the gate. Excellent people skills, organizational skills, and professional etiquette is a must.
The Nightscape Press Social Media Managers will be in charge of promotion across the various social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, Tumblr, Pinterest, etc.) They will be responsible for maintaining updates on all of our social media pages as well as seeking out new forms and/or providers of social media for NSP to connect with readers and writers. Experience with graphic and layout design are not necessary but would be a definite advantage for any interested applicants.
The Nightscape Press Author Event Coordinator will have experience in setting up author events for signings, conventions, blog tours, or other author events. Like the Review Coordinator position, excellent people skills, organizational skills, and professional etiquette is a must.
Interested parties should email us at highlighting your experience in the position you are interested in. Please write your subject line as follows: “Promo App – Reviews” or “Promo App – Social Media” or “Promo App – Events” or if you’re interested in more than one position just put “Promo App.”
These positions will be open until we find the right people to fill them. So, if you think you’ll enjoy working for a premiere quality speculative fiction press and you’re up for one of these jobs, please get in touch with us! Please feel free to spread the word!
That’s right folks, for the month of February 2015 (with a slight possibility of extending into March), Nightscape Press is now officially open for submissions of both adult and young adult science fiction, fantasy, and horror novels and collections! We are also now offering advances on all book length works published in 2015 and beyond! We’re very excited about these new changes and this new short submission opening and we look forward to seeing your very best novels and collections. If you’re interested in submitting, stop by our Submissions page and check out our guidelines before submitting.
We’re excited to announce that Lisa Mannetti has signed the contract for her Bram Stoker Award-nominated novella DISSOLUTION, one half of her collection DEATHWATCH, to become a full feature film directed by Paul Leyden (the director of Come Back to Me and Cleaners)! Dissolution is a fantastic story that we’re sure will translate marvelously to film and we can’t wait to see the final product! If you don’t already own a copy, check out Lisa’s dark, horrific and richly historical two-novella collection and find out why DISSOLUTION was chosen to be adapted to the big screen!
Happy New Year, everybody! Let’s kick 2015 off with some huge announcements, shall we?
From now through the end of January 2015, Nightscape Press is looking for slush readers interested in reading for both adult and young adult science fiction, fantasy, and horror, including most subgenres of these (noir, dark fantasy, urban fantasy, grimdark, hard sf, cyberpunk, steampunk, etc.) as we will be opening for submissions in the month of February and expanding to include new Nightscape Press Fantasy and Nightscape Press Sci-Fi lines.
If you’re interested in joining our slush team just send us an email at and tell us a little bit about yourself and why you would like to join the Nightscape team.
Writers: yes, you heard us right. Not only will We be opening for subs in February for nearly all speculative genres of adult and young adult fiction but we’ll also be paying advances! We’ll be interested in book length works of at least 50,000 words or more only (40,000 for young adult) including novels, short novels, and short story/novella collections. So tidy up that novel, polish that collection in the meantime and be ready to send them to us come February! (Deadline will be the end of Feb. with the possibility of extending into March.)
And while we’re giving advance notices, here’s another! We’ll also be looking for some new folks to help us with promoting our titles very soon! So if you’re interested in working with a quality up and coming publisher of speculative fiction, this could be your big chance. We’ll announce that call when the time comes. In the meantime, we’d like to thank all of you for your interest in Nightscape Press and our quality titles. Here’s to an amazing 2015!
Our 50% Off Horror Sale is now live! All ebooks and trade paperbacks (including pre-orders) are now 50% off retail price. These prices are good now until the end of Halloween 2014. Click on the ad or on the store link above!
Since our last post, the trade paperback edition of Deathwatch by Lisa Mannetti is now available, Kindle and trade paperback editions of Fantasy For Good: A Charitable Anthology are now available for pre-order (to be released 12/9/14), and The Big Tree, Rick Hautala’s last written work, is now available in both Kindle and trade paperback. Click on the photos below for more information.
Nightscape Press is proud to announce our two newest upcoming releases! First of all, Rick Hautala’s last written work, possibly his most personal and autobiographical piece, THE BIG TREE, is now available for pre-order! Release date is October 14th for both electronic and trade paperback editions.
In this beautiful and chilling tale, Rick Hautala moves us with a coming of age story like no other. It’s 1960. A young boy and his friends spend most of their time in the treehouse they built in The Big Tree in front of Old Lady Wayrenen’s front yard.
But when Hurricane Donna comes, it leaves more than just a trail of property damage. A chain of events pushes the natural and supernatural worlds at odds with one another and a young girl’s life hangs in the balance. But is she even real?
Combined with the words and artwork of some of Mr. Hautala’s dearest friends: Christopher Golden (Foreword), Thomas F. Monteleone (Afterword), and Glenn Chadbourne (cover art); The Big Tree is one of Rick’s most autobiographical and personal stories from the heart.
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Secondly, our new young adult speculative fiction imprint Past Curfew Press has finally arrived! And we’re proud to bring you our debut release: Tim Waggoner’s new YA horror novel, DARK ART!
It began with a drawing.
High-school student Sarah Pennington is in art class one day when her desk mate, Ben Phelps, shows her a drawing he’s done of a sinister knife-wielding figure he calls Shrike.
Then came the dreams.
Sarah begins having strange dreams of Shrike in which he commits disturbing acts of vandalism. When she awakens, she discovers her dreams have come true. The destruction is real – and so is Shrike.
Now Shrike’s alive.
As Shrike grows stronger, his actions become increasingly violent, escalating to stalking, terrorizing, and ultimately, murder.
And he must be stopped.
Sarah must help Ben stop the monster he created. But how can they fight a being that was born from anger and shaped by imagination? A creature that lives halfway between dream and reality? They have to find a way – before it’s too late for them both.
They say art imitates life.
Sometimes, it imitates death.
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Pre-order the trade paperback edition directly from Nightscape Press.
Pre-order your choice of eBook format directly from Nightscape Press.
While we don’t yet have a website up for Past Curfew Press, you can keep up with the latest from Past Curfew here or on the new Facebook page at .
We’re extremely proud to be releasing both of these fine titles and very happy to finally launch our new young adult speculative fiction imprint. Keep an eye out for more updates, because there’s plenty more in store!
As promised on Friday, we have a little reveal here today! Last year we announced the launch of our new Young Adult imprint, Past Curfew Press. And then there was upheaval, and things went crazy, but that was before things got less crazy, and here we are now. And things are moving forward. Forward enough to have…a logo!
We know. It’s cool, but it’s not mind-blowing news. And for that, we will just reiterate that this shiny-brand-new line of books will begin with…Tim Waggoner‘s Dark Art.
It began with a drawing.
High-school student Sarah Pennington is in art class one day when her desk mate, Ben Phelps, shows her a drawing he’s done of a sinister knife-wielding figure he calls Shrike.
Then came the dreams.
Sarah begins having strange dreams of Shrike in which he commits disturbing acts of vandalism. When she awakens, she discovers her dreams have come true. The destruction is real – and so is Shrike.
Now, Shrike’s alive.
As Shrike grows stronger, his actions become increasingly violent, escalating to stalking, terrorizing, and ultimately, murder. And he must be stopped.
Sarah must help Ben stop the monster he created. But how can they fight a being that was born from anger and shaped by imagination? A creature that lives halfway between dream and reality? They have to find a way – before it’s too late for them both.
They say art imitates life. Sometimes, it imitates death.
Now, that’s pretty exciting, right? Yes. Yes, it is.
Although we’ve bragged all over social media, we realize that there has not been an official post over here at NSP central. We’re extremely happy to break this website-radio silence to announce that our very own Rena Mason won the 2013 Bram Stoker Award® for Superior Achievement in a First Novel with her book, .
And let’s not forget last year’s winner in the same category, L.L. Soares for his novel, , not to mention the equally-exciting 2012 nomination, Peter Dudar’s .
In other news, Stephen Graham Jones’s , previously only available on Kindle, is now available in paperback!
A moon explodes and a marriage dies. An impossible creature rises from the tall grass, watches a farmer’s circle system crawl across the field like a giant insect. That farmer watches back. His wife’s footprints are there in the dirt. The fire in the sky leaves his shadow crisp and deep. This is Texas without the cowboy hat. This is Texas with a soft rain of cosmic debris sifting down over it. This is a dark, dangerous thing hiding in the cellar, but this is also a girl threading her bangs out of her face and smiling with her eyes at a boy. This is that impossible creature, love. This is Sterling City.
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And how about next week…Monday…we’ll throw up a little reveal here for some things we’ve been working on? You likey? We likey, too. Stay tuned…